TheGlobal Crisis Centre Network (GCCN) provides a community of practice for national and regional crisis centres as well as other international actors (e.g. scientific organisations, NGOs, humanitarian agencies) that deal with disaster information analysis and disaster response after major sudden-onset disasters. The objective of the GCCN is to improve international coordination in the immediate aftermath of sudden-onset natural disasters. To achieve this, the GCCN has developed procedures for alerting its members, and to establish an initial coordination process.

The GCCN is an informal coordination mechanism to support information exchange and information analysis among international actors. As such, the GCCN aims at leveraging the collective knowledge, expertise and experience of its members, which include (but are not limited to) disaster managers, logisticians, scientists (e.g. meteorological services), humanitarian agencies, as well as specialized organisations and NGOs. The GCCN coordination process is expected to contribute to the development of a Common Operational Picture (COP) and to enable comprehensive information analysis in support of decision making in the Affected State and among responders with regard to international assistance and international response coordination.