The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
How Water Nexus organizes work into programmes: global priorities, regional applications and country work, each shown with its actual status.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Water Nexus programmes organize its work on water, climate and hazards, and critical infrastructure at three levels: global priorities, regional applications and country work. Each programme shows its recorded status, from exploring and forming to active, paused or archived, and a plan is never presented as an activity. Countries take part through their national programmes and the Consortium Secretariat.
Rivers, lakes and how far each division sits from mapped surface water, shown for the Zambezi Basin as an example geography for this subject.
Global agreements set indicators and principles, basin organisations allocate and coordinate, and national agencies license abstractions and run warning services. Work in this field is organised at the same three levels, with the basin as the natural unit of analysis even when the client is a single country.
A programme is shown as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived, according to its record. A plan is never presented as an activity.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Programme | A group of related projects and activities managed together to obtain benefits that managing them separately would not, in the sense the Project Management Institute's programme standard uses. |
| Programme status | The recorded state of a programme on Nexus pages: exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. A plan is never presented as an activity. |
| Country ownership | The principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. |
| Transboundary basin | A river, lake or aquifer basin shared by two or more countries, where use upstream changes the water, sediment and risk that arrive downstream. |
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