Republic of the Congo

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

The Republic of the Congo today faces significant and interlinked systemic risks:
Severe flooding events, periodic droughts, extreme weather phenomena, loss of critical biodiversity in forests, wetlands, and river ecosystems, food and water security vulnerabilities, and urban-rural infrastructure fragility.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Congo’s vital ecosystems, including portions of the Congo Basin—the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest—represent a globally critical natural asset for climate stability and biodiversity. Protecting these ecosystems, while addressing systemic disaster risks, requires sovereign foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and open digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Congo’s national climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, food and water security, and sustainable development frameworks;

• 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 scientific research institutions, water and agriculture agencies, renewable energy initiatives, private sector actors, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted,