On the eve of the Summit of the Future to be held on September 22-23 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Global Policy Watch has launched today the Report “Future of Global Governance: Perspectives from Global South” on views from developing countries on the key issue of the Summit, the reform of global governance, its rules and institutions.

Bridging the gap between what is said and discussed at the UN headquarters and how that is translated into policy at the national and local levels remains a persistent challenge. Attention and querying at the national level on how concerns are being represented at the UN are integral to democratic global governance and accountability.

The second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will take place in November 2025 in Qatar tasked with advancing social development and justice, and the implementation of and successor to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. This Summit together with the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) are central in the follow-up of the Summit of the Future (SOTF) in September 2024. Member State priorities and concerns on achieving social development and justice.

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The Pact for the Future, the proposed outcome of the Summit of the Future, will address Security Council reform in Chapter 5, on global governance. The Pact’s draft and process have a placeholder for input from the Intergovernmental Negotiations (IGN), which is due by the end of June 2024.

The linkage of on-going and decades-long Security Council reform with the September 2024 deadline for adopting the Pact for the Future has contributed to the intensity of engagement from all Member States and shaped alignments and alliances that criss-cross a number of Member State groupings and alliances within and outside the United Nations.

The 2024 Global South Study Week on Sustainable Human Development was coorganized by the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Third World Network (TWN), Global Policy Forum and Social Watch and took place in Beirut, Lebanon in May 2024.


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