Mali

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 Mali (NWG–Mali) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Mali today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Desertification and droughts, flood vulnerability, water scarcity, food insecurity pressures, biodiversity loss, and socioeconomic and governance challenges.
These vulnerabilities are fully aligned with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, demanding sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Mali continues to advance national initiatives on disaster risk management, food security, rural development, and sustainable energy, critical opportunities remain to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance capabilities, and sovereign digital public goods platforms.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, regional, and community resilience strategies;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, indigenous and rural development networks, scientific research centers, private sector innovators, and diaspora communities;

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

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

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

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

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

Together, NWG–Mali and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Mali 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–Mali 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–Mali’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods programs;

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Mali 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 Mali and the broader Sahel region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Mali 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 Mali.

Respectfully submitted,