The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Shared scientific and institutional priorities that cut across countries, and the methods used to compare them. A global programme is a shared agenda, not a claim of global offices.
Basin A · Global subject programme · Cycle 1 of 4
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Water Nexus · Programme boardProgramme board, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The Water Nexus global programme is the shared agenda of priorities in the water field that cut across countries, such as catchment hydrology and water, food and ecosystem links, with the methods used to compare them. It is an agenda, not a claim of global offices, and each element shows its status from the programme record.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Rivers, lakes and how far each division sits from mapped surface water, shown for Bangladesh as an example geography for this subject.
Catchment hydrology and the complete water balance.
Groundwater depletion, recharge, contamination and rights.
Compound water extremes, forecasts and limits.
Treatment, safety, infrastructure and equity.
Utility asset condition and continuity during outages.
Transboundary evidence and institutions.
| Process or body | What it sets |
|---|---|
| SDG 6 and the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative | Indicator methods for water stress, efficiency, integrated management and transboundary cooperation |
| UN Watercourses Convention and UNECE Water Convention | Equitable and reasonable use, no significant harm, cooperation |
| WMO Unified Data Policy | International exchange of hydrological data |
| Sendai Framework | Reporting of flood and drought losses |
| IPBES Nexus Assessment | Interactions between water, biodiversity, food, health and climate |
A global programme compares methods and indicators across basins so that national work can be benchmarked. It does not publish rankings of countries.
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
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. |
| Results-based management | A management approach in which everyone contributing to a set of results makes sure their processes, products and services serve those results, and measures progress against them, as the UN Development Group handbook sets out. |
| Theory of change | A stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation. |
| Water security | A population's capacity to keep reliable access to enough water of acceptable quality for health, livelihoods and production, and to be protected from water-related disasters and pollution. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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