Central African Republic

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

The Central African Republic today faces profound and interwoven systemic risks:
Severe flooding and drought events, loss of forest and riverine biodiversity, extreme food and water insecurity, conflict-driven disaster vulnerabilities, energy access deficiencies, and governance fragilities.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

CAR’s essential ecological role in protecting regional biodiversity, its efforts toward peacebuilding, and its natural resource base underscore the urgent need for systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance, and sovereign digital public goods.

The National Working Group for the Central African Republic (NWG–Central African Republic) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into CAR’s frameworks for climate adaptation, sustainable land and forest management, food and water security, biodiversity conservation, and post-conflict resilience building;

• 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, environmental and humanitarian organizations, agricultural development institutions, renewable energy developers, private sector contributors, and civil society stakeholders;

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

NWG–Central African Republic’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 CAR’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Central African Republic 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 the Central African Republic and the broader Sahel and Congo Basin regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Central African Republic 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 the Central African Republic.

Respectfully submitted,