Mauritania

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

Mauritania today faces deep and interconnected systemic risks:
Desertification, droughts, coastal erosion, climate-driven floods, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, and energy transition pressures.
These vulnerabilities closely align with the foresight challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Mauritania has taken important steps in building climate resilience, promoting sustainable land and coastal management, and expanding renewable energy initiatives, critical opportunities remain to further strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance mechanisms, and sovereign digital public goods platforms.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, rural, and coastal development strategies;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, coastal and rural communities, scientific institutions, innovation hubs, and diaspora networks;

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

NWG–Mauritania’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 environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainable governance monitoring systems;

• Embeds responsible digital governance frameworks, 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 Mauritania’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Mauritania 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 Mauritania and the broader Sahel and West African region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Mauritania and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational goals 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 Mauritania.

Respectfully submitted,