Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina today faces interconnected and accelerating systemic risks:
Flooding and drought cycles, landslides and seismic vulnerabilities, biodiversity degradation in forests, rivers, and wetlands, food and energy security pressures, and governance and institutional resilience challenges.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s commitment to sustainable development, environmental conservation, and resilience-building offers a strategic foundation. However, the evolving complexity of systemic risks demands strengthened systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance capacities, and sovereign digital public goods.

The National Working Group for Bosnia and Herzegovina (NWG–Bosnia and Herzegovina) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Bosnia and Herzegovina’s frameworks for climate adaptation, sustainable resource management, food and energy security, urban and rural resilience, and biodiversity conservation;

• 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 ministries, scientific and technical institutions, agricultural and energy agencies, digital governance authorities, private sector actors, and civil society networks;

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

NWG–Bosnia and Herzegovina’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 Bosnia and Herzegovina’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Bosnia and Herzegovina 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–Bosnia and Herzegovina 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–Bosnia and Herzegovina’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 Bosnia and Herzegovina’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina and the broader Southeast Europe and Western Balkans region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Respectfully submitted,