Mozambique

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

Mozambique today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Cyclone-driven floods and droughts, coastal erosion, food and water insecurity, energy transition imperatives, biodiversity loss, and growing digital governance challenges.
These systemic vulnerabilities align closely with the foresight challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Mozambique continues advancing national frameworks for climate resilience, disaster risk management, rural development, and sustainable innovation, critical opportunities exist to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

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

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, scientific institutions, rural and coastal development agencies, indigenous knowledge networks, and diaspora communities;

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

NWG–Mozambique’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 resilience monitoring systems;

• Embeds responsible digital governance standards, cybersecurity resilience frameworks, 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 Mozambique’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable development governance.

Together, NWG–Mozambique and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Mozambique with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance leadership.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Mozambique 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–Mozambique’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods platforms;

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Mozambique 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 Mozambique and the Southern African region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Mozambique 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 Mozambique.

Respectfully submitted,