Bangladesh

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable resilience governance, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for Bangladesh (NWG–Bangladesh) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Bangladesh today faces profound and interdependent systemic risks:
Sea-level rise and coastal erosion, increasing cyclone intensity and frequency, urban and riverine flooding, droughts and water insecurity, biodiversity degradation in ecosystems like the Sundarbans, and pressures from rapid urbanization and energy transition demands.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Bangladesh’s global leadership in climate diplomacy, adaptation initiatives, and sustainable development provides a strong foundation. However, the escalating complexity of systemic risks demands enhanced systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance mechanisms, and sovereign digital public goods.

The National Working Group for Bangladesh (NWG–Bangladesh) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Bangladesh’s frameworks for climate resilience, food and water security, coastal and riverine system management, urban sustainability, and clean energy transition;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulation infrastructures, and systemic foresight platforms aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across government ministries, academic and technical institutions, water management authorities, renewable energy sectors, private sector leaders, and civil society networks;

• Institutionalizing sustainability and systemic foresight governance frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Bangladesh’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, cloud-agnostic, open-access digital public goods platform that:

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainable development governance monitoring systems;

• Embeds responsible digital governance standards, cybersecurity resilience protocols, sovereign data protections, and AI ethics aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the development of holistic resilience, sustainability, and well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Bangladesh’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Bangladesh and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Bangladesh with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Bangladesh as a national and international platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory governance innovation, sovereign digital resilience, and sustainable development leadership under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Bangladesh’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods initiatives;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential for Bangladesh’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Bangladesh and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance hubs, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring mechanisms.

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing Bangladesh and the broader South Asian coastal and deltaic regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Bangladesh and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational ambitions articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance for Bangladesh.

Respectfully submitted,