Philippines

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders dedicated to systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for the Philippines (NWG–Philippines) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

The Philippines faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Climate-driven typhoons, flooding, and sea-level rise, earthquake and tsunami exposure, biodiversity degradation, food and water security vulnerabilities, urban-rural development disparities, and emerging digital governance needs.
These systemic risks directly align with the foresight priorities articulated in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While the Philippines continues advancing global leadership in disaster preparedness, sustainable development, and climate diplomacy, critical opportunities remain to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance capacities, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

The National Working Group for the Philippines (NWG–Philippines) addresses these strategic needs by:

• Embedding disaster foresight, systemic risk governance, and anticipatory innovation into national, regional, and community frameworks;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic scenario simulations, and anticipatory governance architectures aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing expertise from ministries, scientific research institutions, indigenous communities, private sector innovation hubs, and diaspora networks;

• Institutionalizing future generations sustainability frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Philippines’ operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, open, cloud-agnostic digital public goods platform that:

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem foresight dashboards, and sustainability resilience monitoring systems;

• Embeds responsible digital governance principles, cybersecurity resilience frameworks, sovereign data protections, and AI ethics standards aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the evolution of holistic resilience, well-being, and sustainability indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing the Philippines’ leadership in systemic sustainable development.

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

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

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

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

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Philippines and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance hubs, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring frameworks.

The systemic resilience challenges confronting the Philippines and Small Island and Archipelagic Developing States globally demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Philippines and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational objectives articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance leadership for the Philippines.

Respectfully submitted,