Afghanistan

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

Afghanistan today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Severe drought cycles, flood-related humanitarian crises, high earthquake vulnerability, water scarcity, widespread food insecurity, biodiversity and land degradation, and critical energy access challenges.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Afghanistan’s urgent need for systemic disaster resilience, sustainable recovery pathways, and risk-informed development demands strengthened systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance mechanisms, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Afghanistan’s humanitarian, climate resilience, water management, food security, and sustainable recovery frameworks;

• 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 humanitarian and technical networks, agricultural and water management bodies, environmental and energy transition actors, academic and innovation communities, and civil society organizations;

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

NWG–Afghanistan’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 recovery 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 humanitarian well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Afghanistan’s leadership potential in systemic foresight and sustainable recovery.

Together, NWG–Afghanistan and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Afghanistan with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, humanitarian resilience, and disaster risk governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

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

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

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Afghanistan and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, humanitarian and resilience platforms, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring mechanisms.

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing Afghanistan and the broader South-Central Asia and fragile contexts demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Afghanistan and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, humanitarian resilience, and sustainable 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 humanitarian governance for Afghanistan.

Respectfully submitted,