Uzbekistan

Excellencies,

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

Uzbekistan today faces a complex convergence of systemic risks:
Water scarcity driven by the collapse of the Aral Sea ecosystem, desertification, seismic hazards, agricultural stress, energy transition vulnerabilities, and regional environmental tensions.
These risks mirror the challenges identified in the Pact for the Future and demand urgent, foresight-driven, innovation-enabled national responses.

While Uzbekistan is making strategic advancements in sustainable development and innovation policy, significant gaps remain in national disaster risk foresight systems, anticipatory governance architectures, and resilience-centered innovation infrastructures.

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

• Embedding systemic risk foresight, anticipatory disaster risk reduction, and innovation governance frameworks into national development systems;

• Strengthening early warning capabilities, seismic resilience modeling, and anticipatory governance aligned with the Emergency Platform principles;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across government agencies, research institutions, civil society organizations, private sector innovators, and diaspora networks;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational stewardship and resilience strategies aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

The operational foundation of NWG-Uzbekistan is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, interoperable, open-access digital public goods infrastructure that:

• Provides disaster risk modeling, foresight-based innovation management, treaty simulation capabilities, and ecosystem health monitoring;

• Embeds responsible digital cooperation principles aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the development of Beyond GDP-aligned metrics measuring resilience, innovation diffusion, environmental security, and well-being.

Together, NWG-Uzbekistan and NE enable the Government of Uzbekistan and its partners to translate the ambitions of the Pact for the Future into operational, systemic resilience infrastructures at national and regional levels.

Accordingly, we respectfully urge:

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

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG-Uzbekistan to access multilateral resilience funds, anticipatory action financing, and regional digital cooperation partnerships;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for Uzbekistan’s disaster intelligence, foresight innovation, treaty simulation, and sustainable resilience monitoring;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring that NWG-Uzbekistan and NE outputs are systematically incorporated into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance architectures, and Pact for the Future resilience monitoring platforms.

Uzbekistan’s resilience future demands systemic, integrated, and foresight-enabled solutions.
NWG-Uzbekistan and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a scalable and sovereign model to strengthen national risk governance, foster responsible innovation, and secure sustainable prosperity for current and future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the commitments outlined in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our collective commitment to collaborative action, responsible innovation, and inclusive risk governance.

Respectfully submitted,