Sierra Leone

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

Sierra Leone today faces profound systemic risks:
Climate-driven floods and coastal erosion, food and water insecurity, health system vulnerabilities, urban sustainability challenges, infrastructure fragility, and growing digital divides.
These interconnected risks reflect the systemic challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-driven governance frameworks.

While Sierra Leone is advancing national efforts in disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, sustainable recovery, and inclusive governance, critical opportunities remain to strengthen disaster foresight infrastructures, anticipatory policy systems, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

The National Working Group for Sierra Leone (NWG–Sierra Leone) addresses these strategic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk reduction, and anticipatory innovation frameworks across national and community governance structures;

• Strengthening early warning platforms, dynamic risk scenario simulations, and resilience foresight systems aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing expertise from ministries, academic research institutions, innovation hubs, indigenous communities, humanitarian-development actors, and diaspora networks;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational resilience protection and systemic sustainability frameworks consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

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

• Provides real-time disaster risk intelligence, policy simulation capacities, innovation ecosystem mapping, and systemic resilience monitoring tools;

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

• Supports the advancement of Beyond GDP-aligned resilience, well-being, peacebuilding, and ecological sustainability indicators for Sierra Leone’s future development strategies.

Together, NWG–Sierra Leone and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Sierra Leone with a sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure to operationalize systemic foresight, peacebuilding resilience, and sustainable governance futures.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Sierra Leone as a national platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory peacebuilding governance, sovereign digital innovation resilience, and intergenerational sustainability under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Sierra Leone’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing architectures, anticipatory governance frameworks, and sovereign digital infrastructure programs;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for Sierra Leone’s disaster risk intelligence platforms, anticipatory policy simulation systems, innovation ecosystem resilience, and sustainable development monitoring systems;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Sierra Leone and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance systems, policy innovation hubs, and Pact for the Future foresight and sustainability frameworks.

The systemic challenges facing Sierra Leone require sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally resilient infrastructures.
NWG–Sierra Leone and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, practical, and scalable pathway for systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance futures for current and future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational mandates articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our collective commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation, and sustainable future-building for Sierra Leone.

Respectfully submitted,