Policy Nexus

Shared risks outrun the institutions built to manage them.

Policy tracker.

The screen a team would use to follow this field: its measures, states and decisions. Names are examples and values are illustrative.

The questions this field works on.

Compare instruments: rules, incentives and information.

Three families of instruments side by side against the baseline, each with its own lag and adoption speed, under the coverage and compliance you set; effect sizes are teaching values to replace with evidence. Scenario: named assumptions about the future, not a forecast. The map on this page shows Africa; the model itself is not tied to a place.

What the work is read against.

The platform does not set standards. It reads its evidence against the frameworks that competent bodies have adopted, so a finding can be placed where a decision-maker already works.

From mandate to evaluation, by pillar.

The steps an instrument takes from mandate to evaluation, each with the pillar that runs it, and the decisions that stay with the authority. Teaching model with stated illustrative values, not a prediction. The map on this page shows Africa; the model itself is not tied to a place.

What Policy Nexus does.

Risk-informed public policy is policy that brings evidence about hazards, exposure, vulnerability and systemic interdependence into budgets, regulation, investment and planning, with clear ownership in government. Policy Nexus, Global Risks Forum’s platform for it, covers disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, technology, health and social protection, cross-border cooperation, implementation and inclusive development.

Exercise a cascade in Policy Nexus with the people who decide.

Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Political and governance risk standards: the hazards it names, the systems and communities that carry the loss, the controls and institutions that dampen it and the data that observe it. Pick an initiating event and step through the cascade to see where mandates meet and which decisions fall to whom. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every weight is a stated assumption. An exercise for dialogue, not a forecast, an assessment or a position. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.

Comparison, options and dialogue.

Policy Nexus produces policy primers, comparative institutional briefs and dialogue records. Its methods are policy comparison, public consultation and option analysis. It serves the people who advise on and implement policy, and the researchers who study public institutions, by providing a neutral place to compare approaches and test options.

How Policy Nexus is governed: instruments, mandates and commitments.

The instruments, mandates, actors and accountability arrangements a policymaker, diplomat or development agency works with, citing the agreements that set them. Structures follow the frameworks named. Any state or progress drawn is illustrative, not a record.

Steward of policy science, connected across three institutions.

Policy Nexus stewards policy, institutional and decision science and game theory and mechanism design in the STEM Commons, and applies causal inference and impact evaluation and decision analysis under uncertainty; see the STEM foundation. Two chapters develop specialist lines: geoeconomic and trade governance and inclusive development governance.

The areas of policy this platform takes on.

Policy Nexus studies how public institutions decide about shared and consequential risks: how mandates are assigned, how rules are made and assessed, how agreements across borders are negotiated and kept, and how policy designs become monitored outcomes. Its pages set out the governance mechanisms through which policy risk develops and spreads, the measures of policy capacity and regulatory quality, the public records behind them, and the institutions that hold each decision, with every measure labelled by its evidence.

Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Every claim on Policy Nexus rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons, so readers can see what a finding depends on and where its limits lie.

How work moves in this field.

A question becomes evidence, a governed build, an organised community, a controlled test, a reviewed publication and, finally, a decision taken by the competent authority under its own rules.

How this works across the six pillars.

Policy Nexus works through six pillars of one annual programme, led by the Nexus Consortium, with the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), GRF and the Global Risks Alliance (GRA) each contributing in its role: explore, experiment and prototype in Labs, build, simulate and prepare in Foundry, convene and test in Universe, codify, correct and apply in Nexus Standards, publish in every format in Reports, teach in the open in Risk Academy.

The same field, seen three ways.

GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Policy Nexus links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.

Pages in Policy Nexus.

Where this page leads across the Consortium.

Questions and answers.