The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Country work linked to national programmes and the national source register. Country pages show only work that a programme record supports.
Water Nexus country applications are the national parts of its work on water, each linked to a national programme and the national source register. A country page shows only work that a programme record supports, and the national institutions own the question, the data and the decision.
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 the Lake Chad Basin 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.
| Instrument | Holder | Evidence it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Abstraction licensing and allocation plans | Water regulator or ministry | Water balance, environmental flows, drought rules |
| Drought management plans | Basin authority or ministry | Drought indicators, triggers, stages of restriction |
| Flood warning and flood risk maps | Hydrological and meteorological services | Forecasts, inundation mapping, exposure |
| Utility investment plans | Utilities and their regulator | Demand, supply reliability, climate scenarios |
| National adaptation plans (water chapter) | Environment or planning ministry | Climate projections translated to basin hydrology |
Country work is listed only where a national programme record supports it; enquiries go through government enquiries.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| National portfolio | The set of programmes, projects and evidence a country maintains in the Nexus network, each with its owner, status and records. |
| Country systems | A government's own budget, procurement, financial management and reporting systems, used by donors when they deliver through them. |
| Water stress | Freshwater withdrawn by all sectors as a share of the renewable freshwater available once environmental flow requirements are met; SDG indicator 6.4.2 measures it. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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.