Gambia

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

The Gambia today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Sea-level rise and coastal erosion, prolonged droughts, flooding, biodiversity loss in coastal and mangrove ecosystems, food and water security vulnerabilities, and energy transition challenges.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While The Gambia demonstrates leadership in coastal management, sustainable tourism development, and climate resilience initiatives, there remain critical opportunities to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods platforms.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national climate adaptation, food security, coastal sustainability, and biodiversity conservation frameworks;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, research institutions, environmental and agricultural sectors, energy and tourism industries, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

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

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing The Gambia and the broader West African and coastal regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Gambia 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 Gambia.

Respectfully submitted,