> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.therisk.global/organization/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.therisk.global/organization/use-by/un-agencies.md). # UN agencies and programmes How UN entities, country teams, regional commissions and humanitarian partners can use the Nexus programme: coupled-risk evidence for the Sendai Framework, Early Warnings for All and systemic-risk wor **Where this fits.** Audience: UN entities, UN country teams, regional commissions and humanitarian partners. Sectors: all six. Pillars: Universe (exercises), Reports (country and regional profiles), Standards (shared records), Academy (public-authority learning). Offerings: O01, O05, O06, O10, with O09 for missions. Kind: audience guide. ## In brief UN entities are asked to help countries reduce disaster risk across sectors, warn everyone in time, and respond to shocks that cross borders and mandates. The programme offers a shared model of how risks couple across water, energy, infrastructure, food, health and biodiversity, a controlled annual exercise environment, country and regional evidence profiles with stated limits, open standards for records that different agencies can exchange, and open learning. A UN entity uses the programme within its own authorised instruments. Participation creates no UN endorsement, gives the programme no UN status, and transfers no authority. ## What UN entities are trying to do | Task | Framework | What it asks for | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Reduce disaster risk and losses across sectors | Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 ([UN General Assembly, 2015](https://www.undrr.org/publication/sendai-framework-disaster-risk-reduction-2015-2030)) and its midterm review ([UN General Assembly, 2023](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4011748)) | Understanding risk in all its dimensions (Priority 1); strengthening risk governance (Priority 2); targets on damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services (target d) and on access to multi-hazard early warning (target g) | | Address systemic risk, not hazard by hazard | UNDRR Global Assessment Reports ([UNDRR, 2019](https://www.undrr.org/publication/global-assessment-report-disaster-risk-reduction-2019); [UNDRR, 2022](https://www.undrr.org/gar2022-our-world-risk); [UNDRR, 2025](https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar2025)) | Governance that sees how risks cascade through interconnected systems, and investment that pays for resilience before the loss | | Warn everyone in time | Early Warnings for All ([United Nations, 2022](https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/early-warnings-for-all)) | Risk knowledge, detection and forecasting, warning dissemination, and preparedness to respond, as four pillars that must work together | | Respond to complex global shocks | Our Common Agenda, Policy Brief 2 on an Emergency Platform ([United Nations, 2023](https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-emergency-platform-en.pdf)) | A shared picture of shocks whose effects cross sectors and borders | | Coordinate the water, energy, food and ecosystem nexus | FAO ([2014](https://www.fao.org/4/bl496e/bl496e.pdf)); IPBES nexus assessment ([IPBES, 2024](https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment)); One Health ([OHHLEP, 2022](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010537)) | Decisions in one sector that account for their effects in the others | ## What the programme offers | Need | What the programme provides | Where in the programme | | -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | A shared model of coupled risk | Six sectors and their relations, eight teaching scenarios, and the amplification a coupling adds; teaching values, labelled as such | [The Model](/organization/model.md) | | Country and regional evidence | Country profiles each quarter within a scope the country agrees before Q1; regional profiles in Q2 and Q4; profiles never rank countries and are never an official risk register | [Nexus Reports](/organization/programme/reports.md), O01 and O10 | | Controlled exercises across mandates | The annual [Nexus Universe](/organization/programme/universe.md) programme: missions admitted at gate G1, a controlled Action Week with ten tracks (public-authority learning among them), stand-down, after-action review | Nexus Universe, O05 and O09 | | Cross-border and shared-system work | Compatible data and method interfaces, joint evidence briefs, findings kept separately attributable | O06; [Cross-border risk systems](https://therisk.global/consortium/regions/shared-systems/) | | Records that different agencies can exchange | Open standards for identifiers, metadata and records, adopted or adapted by each jurisdiction | [Nexus Standards](/organization/institutions/nexus-standards.md) | | Learning for public authorities | Free courses and labs on real data | [Risk Academy](/organization/institutions/risk-academy.md) | The first outcome of a cooperation enquiry is "a concept note, results and evidence plan, roles, data and rights schedule and a reviewed instrument pathway". ## Routes that apply The Nexus Consortium model sets a route for each kind of participant: the action that opens it, the first outcome, the offerings that apply, and a boundary, quoted here as published ([How Nexus Consortium works](https://therisk.global/consortium/)). | Participant | Action | First outcome | Offerings | Boundary | | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | UN entities, country teams and regional commissions | Propose programme cooperation | A concept note, results and evidence plan, roles, data and rights schedule and a reviewed instrument pathway. | O01 National Risk, Innovation and Portfolio Baseline; O05 Multi-Hazard and Anticipatory-Action Preparedness; O06 Cross-Border and Shared-System Missions; O10 Research, Publications and Evidence Services | "Agencies use their own authorised instruments; participation creates no UN endorsement." | | Humanitarian organisations and preparedness teams | Scope preparedness, an exercise or authorised support | An approved scope, evidence package, improvement plan and the correct receiver. | O05 Multi-Hazard and Anticipatory-Action Preparedness; O06 Cross-Border and Shared-System Missions; O09 Annual Universe Missions and Contributed Infrastructure | "Simulation messages are never delivered as official warnings." | | Regional organisations and basin or corridor bodies | Define a shared-system mission | A relationship map, joint question, compatible methods plan and separately attributable findings. | O06 Cross-Border and Shared-System Missions; O02 Sector and Critical-Infrastructure Resilience | "No regional body binds a country, and withdrawal never erases other parties' lawful work." | ## Entry route * [How Nexus Consortium works](https://therisk.global/consortium/) and the [Global programme](https://therisk.global/consortium/global/) on the GCRI site * [Six programme regions](https://therisk.global/consortium/regions/) for regional commissions * [Nexus Universe at GRF](https://globalriskforum.com/nexus-universe/) for the annual exercise programme * [Early warning and anticipatory action](https://therisk.global/programmes/early-warning/) on the GCRI site ## What the programme does not do Agencies use their own authorised instruments; participation creates no UN endorsement. The programme is not a UN body, holds no UN status of its own, and claims none for its participants. GCRI's own consultative status with ECOSOC belongs to GCRI alone and does not extend to the programme ([Affiliations and credentials](https://therisk.global/about/institutional-status/)). Simulation messages are never delivered as official warnings, and the programme is not an emergency-dispatch service. ## Status today The programme is in formation, at service level R0: information and enquiries. No national programme is recorded as constituted or active ([Programme status](https://therisk.global/consortium/programme-status/)). ## Sources * FAO (2014). *The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A new approach in support of food security and sustainable agriculture*. Rome: FAO. * IPBES (2024). *Summary for Policymakers of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health (Nexus Assessment)*. Bonn: IPBES. * One Health High-Level Expert Panel, Adisasmito, W. B. et al. (2022). One Health: A new definition for a sustainable and healthy future. *PLoS Pathogens* 18(6): e1010537. * UN General Assembly (2015). *Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030*. A/RES/69/283. * UN General Assembly (2023). *Political declaration of the high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework*. A/RES/77/289. * UNDRR (2019, 2022, 2025). *Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction*. Geneva: UNDRR. * United Nations (2022). *Early Warnings for All*. New York: United Nations. * United Nations (2023). *Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 2: Strengthening the International Response to Complex Global Shocks – An Emergency Platform*. New York: United Nations. * GCRI (2026). *How Nexus Consortium works*: the Nexus Consortium model, stakeholder routes and programme offerings. 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