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# National Nexus Consortium (NNC)

The National Nexus Consortium (NNC), the institutional pillar of a National Nexus programme: institutions take part through constituency councils, and membership never decides a technical conclusion o

**Where this fits.** Governance in operation › national level › participation · Universe (missions), Standards (national adoption, with the National Standards Council) · institutions, supported by GCRI and GRF · quarterly NNC and NLC alignment · canonical page.

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**Status.** No national consortium is constituted. No national programme is recorded as constituted or active, and the current service level is R0, information and enquiries ([Institutional participation](https://therisk.global/consortium/national/nnc/)).
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## In brief

"The [National Nexus](/organization/governance-in-operation/national-nexus.md) Consortium (NNC) is the institutional pillar of a National Nexus programme. Its members are institutions. They bring authorized representatives, a contribution plan and capability through constituency councils." GCRI supports the programmes as Consortium Secretariat. "Membership never decides a technical conclusion or a public authority" ([Institutional participation](https://therisk.global/consortium/national/nnc/)).

**Boundary.** Institutional membership does not create a council seat. No contribution decides a technical conclusion, a public authority or a procurement treatment. Cooperation with public bodies never depends on buying a membership tier.

## The six Helix constituency councils

Institutions bring "authorised representatives, a contribution plan and capability to the national programme through one of five Helix pathways or the Financial Institutions and Regulators pathway" (Nexus Consortium model, as published on [How Nexus Consortium works](https://therisk.global/consortium/)). Each institution takes part through the council that fits it:

| Code | Helix council                         | Who takes part                                                   |
| ---- | ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| SPC  | State and Public Authorities          | Ministries, agencies, subnational and municipal government       |
| IOC  | Industry and Operators                | Enterprises, utilities, infrastructure and service operators     |
| ARC  | Academia and Research                 | Universities, institutes, laboratories and research networks     |
| CMC  | Civil Society and Media               | Civil society, labour, professional bodies and independent media |
| CIC  | Community and Indigenous              | Communities, Indigenous and place-based institutions             |
| FIR  | Financial Institutions and Regulators | A cross-cutting pathway for finance, insurance and supervision   |

The GRF site describes the same councils for its readers in its own words ([Leadership and councils](https://globalriskforum.com/leadership/)). There, financial institutions and regulators form "a cross-cutting NNC pathway, led with GRA".

A company and a ministry never sit in the same council. The FIR pathway cuts across the other five, so that finance, insurance and supervision questions reach every constituency without making financial institutions a governing bloc. GRA's own industry councils are separate from these national councils ([Industry councils](https://globalriskalliance.com/membership/industry-councils/)).

## From enquiry to terms

"The institution is the member." Entry has five steps:

1. Institutional enquiry
2. Due diligence and authority check
3. Contribution plan
4. Terms for the applicable programme
5. Separate Council nomination where relevant

**Boundary, as the model states it:** "Institutional membership does not create a Council seat, and no contribution decides a technical conclusion, public authority or procurement treatment."

## Rules

* Cooperation with public bodies never depends on buying a membership tier.
* Precompetitive work never shares competitors' confidential information.
* A claimed identity is not representative authority until it is checked.
* No member institution can influence a report: findings are accepted on method by conflict-managed reviewers.
* No fee amounts are published until a schedule is bound with its issuer, currency, effective date and scope. Public bodies never need to buy a tier to cooperate.

These rules apply the anti-capture principle of the proposed [Nexus Standards](/organization/institutions/nexus-standards.md) working model. No stakeholder group may hold more than one third of any decision, and no organisation with its affiliates more than one quarter. "Funding never buys a seat or a vote."

## What the NNC does in the programme year

| When                 | What the NNC does                                                                                                                       |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Formation            | Named counterparts and institutions take part in the formation dossier: ownership model, first risk questions, safeguards and resources |
| Planning (Q1, G0)    | Its constituency councils bring material questions through the National Desk into the annual agenda                                     |
| Each quarter         | Quarterly alignment with the NLC on priorities and on the country edition of [Nexus Reports](/organization/programme/reports.md)        |
| Action Week (Q3, G4) | Member institutions take exercise roles within their mandates; operators remain responsible for their own systems                       |
| Renewal (Q4, G7)     | Its councils review the year's findings and the next priorities                                                                         |

See [A national mission](/organization/governance-in-operation/a-national-mission.md) for one mission across the year.

## The NNC and its standards function

The **National Standards Council (NSC)** is "the standards function of the National Nexus Consortium". It decides whether and how the Nexus Standards are adopted or adapted in the jurisdiction. "It is separate from personal [National Leadership Council](/organization/governance-in-operation/nlc.md) seats and from [National Working Groups](/organization/governance-in-operation/nwg.md); membership of one does not confer a seat in another." See [National Standards Council](/organization/governance-in-operation/national-standards-council.md).

## Earlier texts

Earlier pages of this documentation describe the NNC as the whole national coordination layer, including enterprise vehicles and a national investor council. Those structures are read under [Lawful handoffs](/organization/finance-readiness/lawful-handoffs.md) and [Councils](/organization/governance-in-operation/councils.md). The earlier consortium texts use "Helix Council" in an earlier sense, with their own council structure. That usage is mapped in [Councils](/organization/governance-in-operation/councils.md). The six Helix councils above are the current ones.

* [National Nexus Consortium (definition 2.19)](/organization/organization/architecture/ii.-definitions/xix.-national-nexus-consortium-nnc.md)
* [Consortiums model: national](/organization/cooperation/consortiums/model/vi.-national.md)
* [Helix Councils](/organization/cooperation/consortiums/pathways/helix-councils.md)

## Sources

* GCRI: the Nexus Consortium model, as published on [How Nexus Consortium works](https://therisk.global/consortium/), [Institutional participation](https://therisk.global/consortium/national/nnc/) and [National Nexus](https://therisk.global/consortium/national/).
* GRF: [Leadership and councils](https://globalriskforum.com/leadership/); [Council architecture](https://globalriskforum.com/leadership/council-model/).
* GRA: [Industry councils](https://globalriskalliance.com/membership/industry-councils/).
* Nexus Standards: [Governance](https://nexustandards.com/governance/) (working model, principle WM5, PROPOSED).
* [Sources library](/organization/reference/sources.md).


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