The humanitarian and civil society section of the Humanitarian Action and Development subsite serves agencies, NGOs, community organisations and anticipatory-action programmes: how needs, response, funding and trigger records are identified, exchanged and verified under data-responsibility rules, crosswalked to Sphere, the Core Humanitarian Standard, HXL, IATI and the IPC. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Humanitarian and civil society: area brief, Humanitarian Action and Development (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/humanitarian/humanitarian-sector-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The sectors and industries section of Humanitarian Action and Development. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-9, NS-10, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
adopt2
Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) 1.1HXL Working Group (OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data)register · hxl-1-1Common Alerting Protocol 1.2OASIS Emergency Management TCregister · oasis-cap-1-2crosswalk2
IATI Standard 2.03International Aid Transparency Initiativeregister · iati-standard-2-03IPC Technical Manual 3.1IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit)register · ipc-technical-manual-3-1cite3
Sphere Handbook (2018)Sphere Associationregister · sphere-handbook-2018Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (2024)CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphereregister · core-humanitarian-standard-2024IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian ActionInter-Agency Standing Committeeregister · iasc-data-responsibility-guidanceClosed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
Hazards and threats 4
Sectors 1
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
INFORM Risk Indexpending admission
European Commission JRC · annual and mid-year
CC BY 4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
IPC food insecurity classificationspending admission
IPC Global Partners · per analysis cycle
IPC terms (to be recorded by Legal/IP)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Refugee Data Finderpending admission
UNHCR · semi-annual
CC BY 4.0 (register adapter string; not verified)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
Financial Tracking Servicepending admission
UN OCHA · daily
OCHA FTS terms (reuse with attribution; to be recorded)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Humanitarian Data Exchangepending admission
UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data · continuous
Per-dataset licences (CC BY, CC BY-IGO, ODbL and others)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
IATI Datastorepending admission
International Aid Transparency Initiative · daily
Publishers' open licences as declared in the IATI Registry
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Trigger, needs and funding records with provenance and data-responsibility controls become readable as evidence for GCRI Canada, which applies its own rules.
An agency programme that publishes protocol clauses and attestations gives GRF a record trail to consider; recognition is GRF's decision.
Pre-arranged finance for anticipatory action can present verified trigger histories to GRA, which assesses capital readiness under its own rules.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Pick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Pending admissionVersion and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Profile humanitarian needs, response, funding and trigger records and crosswalk them to Sphere, CHS, HXL, IATI and IPC under data-responsibility rules.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
5 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 24 external standards · 18 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph51 nodes and 67 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| ISO/TC 292 | Geneva, Switzerland | 3 |
| OASIS Emergency Management TC | Woburn, Massachusetts, United States | 3 |
| WMO | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| HXL Working Group (UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data) | The Hague, Netherlands | 1 |
| IFRC | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Inter-Agency Standing Committee (Data Responsibility Working Group) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Aid Transparency Initiative | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit) | Rome, Italy | 1 |
| ISO/TC 34/SC 17 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-T | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Sphere Association | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| WMO and UNDRR | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| WMO, UNDRR, ITU, IFRC (co-leads) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 3 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: United Nations General Assembly; UN Human Rights Council; International Plant Protection Convention · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe15 issuing bodies with a public seat, 24 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disaster and crisis (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/disaster/ |
| Disaster risk reduction, disaster risk finance, disaster risk intelligence (DRR, DRF, DRI) | data, report, policy | NS-1, NS-3b, NS-4, proposed NS-11 | globalriskforum.com/nexus-universe/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them.
Plain links to the faculty pages of Risk Academy; no course, credential, recognition or endorsement is implied.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Humanitarian and civil society, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.