FROM WORDS TO ACTION:
A Networked Approach to Upholding Commitments from the Summit of the Future
Taking place at the 2024 UN Summit of the Future, this hybrid event explored how the Pact of the Future can be made real (including Action 55 “strengthen our partnerships to deliver on existing commitments and to address new and emerging challenges”). This Summit took us several steps forward to renewing global governance. However, as with international agreements before it, maximizing the impact of outcomes will require an intentional, networked, and sustained effort from member states and civil society in its wake.
We are a loose coalition of think tanks and NGOs who have been following issue areas within the Pact and the Declaration on Future Generations and Global Digital Compact and care deeply about the trajectory of global cooperation.
We identified the main outcomes or seeds that have been planted in the Summit of the Future that can be carried forth and harvested in the months and years to come.
We announced our commitment to a monitoring and review process that brings together UN and stakeholders from the Global South and North, working with champion member states, to help ensure the commitments made will endure.
We showcased innovative ways that think tanks and civil society stakeholders can work together, and with multilateral institutions, to enhance global governance.
Speakers (quick interventions):
Hiba Siddiki, Princeton student
Carmen Sanguinetti, Senator, Uruguay
Anne-Marie Slaughter, President & CEO, New America and former member of the UN High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism
Richard Gowan, United Nations Director, International Crisis Group
H.E. Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations
Betty Wainaina, Head of Multilateral Initiatives, NYU Center on International Cooperation
Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, Oxfam International
Philipp Schönrock, Executive Director, Cepei
Gordon LaForge, New America
Alicia Richins, Next Generation Leader
Sophie Howe, former Wales Commissioner for Future Generations; School of International Futures
Thomas Hale, Future of Climate Cooperation
David Passarelli, Executive Director, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
Maiara Folly, Plataforma CIPÓ
Daniel Perell, Baha’i International and Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN)
Stewart Patrick, Director, Global Order and Institutions, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Marianne Beisheim, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Giovanna Marques Kuele, Instituto Igarapé
Tracy Mamoun, Southern Voice
Ms. Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President & CEO, The ONE Campaign
Mr. Luc Bagur, Director for the Directorate-General for International Partnerships on Sustainable Development Policy and Coordination, European Union
Those part of the effort but could not participate in the event:
Solomon Ayele Dersso, Founding Director, Amani Africa
Philani Mthembu, Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogue
Jonathan Glennie, Co-founder, Global Nation
The main messages of the event were:
The Pact for the Future’s outcomes are worth recognizing and making real;
Inclusive and networked multilateralism – cooperation between stakeholders and governments – is the future of global cooperation and – if done well – can help us better deliver for people;
Bringing together UN and Global South and North stakeholders to review and assess outcomes from the member state-led Pact will bring greater trust to the multilateral system, enhance accountability for the commitments made, and increase the likelihood that other multilateral efforts will build off the Pact.
Our ambition is that in one year’s time, the outcomes from the Summit will help renew global collaboration. The NGOs and think tanks in this coalition will support this progress by:
Socializing the Summit’s outcomes to governments and civil society organizations in their region or reach,
Identifying actions, pathways, and processes or decision-making forums for advancing the key outcomes.
Assessing progress on Actions from the Pact, Declaration on Future Generations, and Global Digital Compact, based on their areas of expertise (the coalition includes experts in issue areas covered in the outcomes)
Co-sponsors and partners in this coalition:
