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How Diplomacy Nexus organizes work into programmes: global priorities, regional applications and country work, each shown with its actual status.
Shared basin dialogue · Programmes and projects · Cycle 4 of 4
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Diplomacy Nexus · Programme boardProgramme board, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Diplomacy Nexus programmes organize its work on diplomacy and cooperation, water, and climate and hazards 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.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for the Zambezi Basin as an example geography for this subject.
| Line | Live process to follow |
|---|---|
| High seas and ocean governance | First Conference of the Parties to the BBNJ Agreement, due within a year of entry into force on 17 January 2026 |
| Transboundary water | Accessions to the UNECE Water Convention, open globally since 2016 |
| Disaster law | The diplomatic conference convened for 2027 on protection of persons in the event of disasters |
| Plastics | The INC on plastic pollution, which elected a new chair in February 2026 after INC-5.2 ended without agreement |
Each line follows a process run by states; the platform prepares institutions to engage with it.
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. |
| Global commons | Areas and resources beyond national jurisdiction or shared by all, such as the high seas, the atmosphere, Antarctica and outer space. |
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.