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Purpose and publisher

Agency is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for competence-based technical assistance, staffing and expert matching. This page sets out who owns and answers for the platform, what it is designed to do, the institutional limits that apply to every engagement and its current operating state. It is written for experts, project sponsors, institutions and programme coordinators deciding whether to engage.

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01Contents

Purpose and publisher in four parts.

In this dossier4 parts
  1. 01PurposeCompetent people, bounded work, written terms
  2. 02Publisher and ownershipWho is responsible
  3. 03Institutional limitsWhat Agency never does
  4. 04Operating stateEstablished, opening in stages
02Purpose

Competent people, bounded work, written terms.

The platform exists so that institutions with a mandate for risk and resilience work can obtain specialist support that is scoped, supervised and accountable, and so that experts can contribute under terms that protect them and the people affected by the work.

Scope

What it covers

Technical assistance, staffing of assignments, expert matching and interdisciplinary team formation across the fields of the specialist network.

Users

Who it is for

Eligible experts, project sponsors, institutions and programme coordinators.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Expert pathways, capacity maps and records of legitimate technical assistance enquiries.

03Publisher and ownership

Who is responsible.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes Agency and answers for it. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation.

  • When an assignment is contracted, the written terms name which organisation contracts, if any, and in what capacity.
  • Many assignments are designed to be contracted by the host or another named organisation rather than by GCRI.
  • Integrity concerns go to the integrity concern form; safeguarding matters to the safeguarding report form.
04Institutional limits

What Agency never does.

  • It does not regulate, license or certify experts, and a contribution record is not a professional credential.
  • It does not procure, finance or take decisions on a host’s behalf, and assistance confers no execution authority.
  • It does not place anyone in a role that sanctions, eligibility or safeguarding rules prohibit.
  • It does not act as the legal parent, treasury, employer or agent of participants unless a written contract says so.
  • Financial-sector questions belong with The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), for example Development Finance Nexus, which does not advise on or arrange transactions; governance questions with The Global Risks Forum (GRF), for example Governance Nexus.
05Operating state

Established, opening in stages.

Agency is an established platform. Information and enquiries are open today. Existing activity is confirmed against records before it is listed, and each later stage opens only when its team, terms and review capacity exist.

  1. 01

    Open now

    Enquiries from experts at the expert application form and from institutions at the contact form.

  2. 02

    R2 applications

    Formal applications with current terms and an appeal route, via open assignments.

  3. 03

    R3 commitments

    Written agreements with the correct parties, scope and supervisor.

06Questions

Questions and answers.

Is Agency a separate legal entity?
No. It is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), which publishes it.
Does registering interest create any obligation?
No. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step. It creates no membership, role, assignment or commitment on either side.
Who decides whether an assignment goes ahead?
The host decides whether to request the work and how to use it. The responsible programme team checks mandate, scope, safeguarding and resources before any assignment is published.
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Information and enquiries are open today. 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.

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