The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Humanitarian Risk and Displacement is a chapter of Society and Human Development: a specialist sub-community with its own group, editor and research agenda. Humanitarian risks within human development and disaster readiness.
Humanitarian Risk and Displacement is a chapter of Society and Human Development: a specialist sub-community with its own group, editor and research agenda. Its work starts from the cornerstone topic, humanitarian risk. Humanitarian risk is the likelihood that a crisis will overwhelm people's capacity to cope and require outside assistance. A chapter becomes a platform of its own only by meeting the graduation rule.
Fig.The path from an enquiry to a credited contribution. Design, not a record; no step creates membership.
For humanitarian risk and displacement, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on Latin America and the Caribbean; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For humanitarian risk and displacement, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density and true-colour imagery with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on Latin America and the Caribbean; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Specialists who work on the chapter's questions.
A moderated group, opened when its hosting and terms are in place.
A named editor responsible for the chapter's pages.
Questions the chapter works on, starting from its cornerstone topic.
The chapter covers humanitarian risk analysis and displacement: who is displaced by disasters and conflict, for how long, and what protection and assistance standards apply.
| Instrument or body | Why it matters here |
|---|---|
| Sphere standards | Minimum standards |
| UNHCR and IDMC data | Displacement statistics |
| INFORM Risk Index | Humanitarian risk |
Write to contact@therisk.global. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| People in need | The estimated number of people whose wellbeing is threatened and who require humanitarian assistance. |
| Complex emergency | A crisis combining conflict, breakdown of authority and large-scale humanitarian need. |
| IPC phase | A level on the five-phase scale of acute food insecurity severity. |
| Chapter | In the Nexus network, a specialist sub-community inside a platform with its own group, editor and research agenda; it can become its own platform only by meeting the published graduation rule. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.