GCRI · Agency
Technical assistance
In the Nexus Consortium, technical assistance means bounded capacity-building under a defined scope. Agency, a platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), scopes and staffs that assistance for institutions that hold a mandate for the work. This page sets out the types of assistance the programme is designed to provide, what a host mandate must contain and the limits that apply to every engagement. Information and enquiries are open today.
The workspace for technical assistance.
Assignment and team board
Technical assistance · Assignment pool · Quarter 1 · Example interface, not a record
Assignments
Team record
| Team lead | Disaster risk management | None declared | Confirmed |
| Hydrologist | Flood modelling | Declared, managed | Confirmed |
| Data engineer | Pipelines | None declared | Invited |
| Reviewer | Independent | None declared | Confirmed |
Scope
- Requester
- Requesting institution
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Authority
- stays with the requester
- Fee
- no fee stated
Agency · Assignment and team board. Assignment and team board: example names and illustrative values, not a record.
Ten programme offerings shape the assistance.
Assistance follows the offerings of the Consortium’s programme described on GCRI technical assistance. Each states its question, its deliverables and its limit.
| Offering | Typical deliverable | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| National risk, innovation and portfolio baseline | Baseline country profile and evidence-gap register | National adoption is a separate decision of the competent authority |
| Sector and critical-infrastructure resilience | Sector dependency atlas and continuity options | No control of operational technology |
| Sovereign data, compute and AI capability | Estate assessment and portability package | A blueprint is not an installed environment |
| Responsible innovation and interoperability testbeds | Test protocol and measured evaluation | Testing is not certification or procurement status |
| Multi-hazard and anticipatory-action preparedness | Preparedness gap analysis and improvement plan | Not an emergency-dispatch service |
| Cross-border and shared-system missions | Shared-system profile and joint evidence brief | Federation creates no right to move data |
| Finance, insurance and development readiness | Readiness dossier, led through the Global Risks Alliance (GRA) | Readiness evidence is not a financing decision |
| Leadership, academy and workforce formation | Capability baseline and learning plan | A learning record is not a licence |
| Annual Universe missions | Mission contract and exercise evidence | Membership never secures a compute allocation |
| Research, publications and evidence services | Reports, methods papers and corrections | No paid favourable editorial position |
Assistance starts from a mandate, not from a sale.
A host is the institution that asks for help and answers for how the work is used. Before any assistance is scoped, the host mandate is designed to record:
- the legal authority or institutional remit under which the host acts;
- the question, the intended use of the results and who receives them;
- the data, sites and people the work may touch, with the permissions for each;
- the person accountable on the host side and the escalation route;
- the closeout point at which the assistance ends.
What technical assistance does not do.
No decisions on your behalf
Assistance informs decisions; the competent authority takes them under its own rules.
No procurement or finance
Assistance is never procurement, financing or execution authority, and it creates no preference in any tender.
No approval
GCRI does not regulate, certify, license or approve. Findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
How to request assistance.
Describe the need, the mandate and the timeframe to the contact form. National programme questions can also go to the contact form. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step; it does not commit either side to an engagement.
Questions and answers.
Who can request technical assistance?
Is assistance free?
Can GCRI deliver assistance in my country?
How does finance-readiness assistance differ?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
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.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.