Tunisia

Excellencies,

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

Tunisia today faces intersecting systemic risks:
Climate-driven droughts, water scarcity, land degradation, urban fragility, agricultural vulnerabilities, and migration pressures.
These challenges are reflected in the systemic threats identified in the Pact for the Future, demanding foresight-driven, anticipatory, and innovation-centered responses to secure sustainable national development.

While Tunisia is advancing critical initiatives for climate resilience and sustainable urban and rural development, there is a strategic need to deepen disaster foresight capabilities, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital infrastructure capacities.

The National Working Group for Tunisia (NWG-Tunisia) directly addresses these needs by:

• Embedding systemic disaster risk foresight, early warning systems, and policy innovation infrastructures into national, regional, and community development pathways;

• Strengthening real-time risk intelligence, dynamic policy simulation environments, and anticipatory governance aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed capacities across government ministries, research institutions, innovation hubs, diaspora communities, and indigenous knowledge holders;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational resilience stewardship frameworks consistent with the Declaration on Future Generations.

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

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, policy simulation capabilities, innovation ecosystem mapping, and sustainability resilience performance monitoring;

• Advances responsible digital governance frameworks aligned with the Global Digital Compact, including transparency, cybersecurity, ethical AI, and data sovereignty;

• Supports the establishment of resilience and well-being metrics aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, ensuring that ecological health, innovation, and social inclusion are reflected in national development planning.

Together, NWG-Tunisia and NE offer Tunisia a sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure for systemic resilience, responsible innovation, and sustainable policy development.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Tunisia as a critical national infrastructure advancing systemic disaster risk governance, anticipatory innovation governance, and future generations safeguarding under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, facilitating NWG-Tunisia’s integration into resilience financing mechanisms, anticipatory governance initiatives, and sovereign digital innovation partnerships;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential for Tunisia’s disaster intelligence, policy simulation capacity, and systemic foresight innovation frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic incorporation of NWG-Tunisia and NE outputs into global risk dashboards, early warning architectures, policy innovation platforms, and Pact for the Future monitoring and governance frameworks.

The systemic risks facing Tunisia require integrated, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign solutions.
NWG-Tunisia and the Nexus Ecosystem provide a tangible, scalable pathway for fostering systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance for the benefit of current and future generations.

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 resilience, responsible digital innovation, and inclusive policy governance for Tunisia’s future.

Respectfully submitted,