Organize
Organizing is how the people who hold the knowledge, the data and the mandate are brought into the work: specialist groups, national working groups and councils, each with a defined scope and no authority beyond it.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Fig.The Nexus cycle, from question to renewal. Design, not a record of a run.
The short answer.
Organize is step four of the eight-step Nexus cycle: the step at which communities, chapters, councils and national cells are organized around the work. It is owned by the communities, chapters, councils and national cells of the Nexus Ecosystem. At this step GCRI organizes the specialist communities and the national working groups, and the decision at the end of the cycle stays with the competent authority.
Systemic exposure in East Africa.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for East Africa as an example geography for this subject.
Systemic questions need people who rarely sit together.
A drought question needs hydrologists, agronomists, grid operators, public health officers and the ministry that allocates water. Each holds part of the causal chain and part of the data. The organize step assembles them around one question with a workplan, so that the dependencies one discipline assumes away are named by the discipline that lives with them.
- Specialist communities on the platforms, such as Water Nexus and Health Nexus.
- National working groups under the national working group model.
- Guilds for professional practice that crosses fields.
Contribution without capture.
Declared interests come before work starts. Taking part in a group gives no say over findings, which are reviewed by people outside the group. Data shared into a working group keeps the terms its owner set; an aggregated product is released only where those terms allow.
Community participation also changes what counts as evidence: local and indigenous knowledge enters as its own evidence type, with consent and attribution, rather than as anecdote beside the model.
Then: test.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Community of practice | A group of people who share a concern or a craft and learn to do it better by interacting regularly; the term comes from Lave and Wenger's work on situated learning. |
| Working group | A team adopted to deliver a defined piece of work under terms of reference, with a workplan, a supervisor and an end date; it has no public authority beyond its workplan. |
| Terms of reference | The document that defines an assignment's objectives, scope, deliverables, counterpart, acceptance criteria and reserved decisions. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
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.