Somalia

Excellencies,

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

Somalia today faces profound systemic challenges:
Prolonged armed conflict, climate-induced droughts and floods, food and water insecurity, widespread displacement, biodiversity loss, and digital infrastructure gaps.
These interlinked risks mirror the critical challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, demanding anticipatory, inclusive, and innovation-driven governance solutions.

While Somalia continues efforts toward peacebuilding, humanitarian assistance, and stabilization, there is an urgent need to embed disaster foresight systems, anticipatory governance frameworks, and sovereign digital infrastructures into national resilience strategies.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and policy innovation frameworks across national, regional, and local institutions;

• Strengthening early warning capacities, scenario simulation environments, and anticipatory decision-making infrastructures aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise from ministries, humanitarian-development actors, indigenous communities, innovation hubs, scientific research institutions, and diaspora organizations;

• Institutionalizing future generations protection and resilience-building frameworks consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Somalia’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, open, interoperable digital public goods platform that:

• Provides disaster risk intelligence systems, anticipatory policy simulation capacities, innovation mapping platforms, and resilience monitoring infrastructures;

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

• Supports the establishment of new sustainability and resilience indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, fostering peacebuilding, systemic foresight, and sustainable development monitoring.

Together, NWG–Somalia and NE provide Somalia with a sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure to operationalize systemic foresight, peacebuilding resilience, responsible innovation ecosystems, and sustainable recovery governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Somalia as a national platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory peacebuilding governance, sovereign innovation development, and future generations stewardship under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Somalia’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory foresight systems, and sovereign digital public goods initiatives;

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

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

The systemic resilience challenges facing Somalia require sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign solutions.
NWG–Somalia and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational pathway for securing systemic foresight, resilient governance, and sustainable development futures for Somalia’s present 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 resilience-building, responsible innovation, and sustainable peacebuilding for Somalia.

Respectfully submitted,