The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
The questions a programme in development Finance Nexus should be able to answer before a competent institution reviews it.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
The Development Finance Nexus readiness checklist is a working aid of seven questions a programme should answer before a competent institution reviews it: purpose, evidence, ownership, governance, data, risks and monitoring. It is not a standard; reviewers apply their own rules, and decision holders such as finance and planning ministries keep their authority.
For reader questions and safeguards, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Southern Africa; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For reader questions and safeguards, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on night lights and population density with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Southern Africa; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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What problem does the programme address, and for whom?
What hazard, exposure and vulnerability evidence supports it, with what uncertainty?
Who owns the programme and answers for it?
How are decisions taken, recorded and challenged?
Which data is used, on what terms, and how is it protected?
What could go wrong, and how is it managed?
How will results be measured and reported?
Where concessional and commercial money combine, the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles and the DFI enhanced principles on minimum concessionality ask whether concessional resources are needed and used only as much as necessary. The dossier states the rationale; the lenders decide. Evidence continues at GCRI regional economic development.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Due diligence | The independent investigation a lender or investor carries out before committing finance. |
| Risk owner | The person or entity with the accountability and authority to manage a risk. |
| Data lineage | A record of where data came from and how it was transformed before use. |
| Theory of change | A stated chain of causes from a programme's activities to its intended outcomes, used to plan evaluation. |
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.