Zambia

Excellencies,

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

Zambia faces escalating systemic risks:
Prolonged droughts, seasonal floods, heavy reliance on hydropower vulnerable to climate variability, agricultural disruptions, biodiversity loss, and economic shocks converge to threaten national development trajectories and human security.
These risks align with the systemic threats identified in the Pact for the Future and necessitate urgent, anticipatory, innovation-enabled action.

Despite ongoing resilience initiatives, significant gaps persist in Zambia’s disaster risk governance, foresight systems, and innovation infrastructure.

The National Working Group for Zambia (NWG-Zambia) directly addresses these gaps by:

• Embedding foresight, anticipatory action, and inclusive disaster risk governance at national and subnational levels;

• Strengthening early warning systems, risk monitoring, and scenario simulation capacities in alignment with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across government, academia, private sector, indigenous knowledge systems, diaspora communities, and civil society;

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

The operational backbone of NWG-Zambia is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE)—a sovereign-grade, cloud-agnostic digital public goods platform that:

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, innovation mapping, treaty simulation, and resilience monitoring capabilities;

• Advances responsible data governance, transparent risk intelligence, and inclusive innovation ecosystems consistent with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports development of resilience metrics beyond GDP to integrate well-being, environmental stewardship, and innovation capacity, in line with the Beyond GDP Initiative.

Together, NWG-Zambia and NE enable the Government of Zambia, its partners, and its communities to bridge global resilience mandates with national action.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Zambia as a national mechanism advancing systemic disaster risk reduction, innovation governance, and intergenerational resilience under the Pact for the Future framework;

2. Institutional and Financial Support to scale NWG-Zambia operations, securing access to multilateral resilience funds, anticipatory action financing, and digital cooperation initiatives;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for Zambia’s disaster intelligence, resilience-building, and innovation foresight systems;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring that NWG-Zambia and NE outputs contribute systematically to global early warning platforms, resilience dashboards, treaty simulation environments, and Pact for the Future implementation frameworks.

The convergence of systemic risks demands integrated, foresight-driven, and innovation-enabled solutions.
NWG-Zambia and NE offer a tangible, scalable infrastructure to secure a resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future for Zambia’s people and ecosystems.

In the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and in full alignment with the transformational ambitions of the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, responsible innovation, and systemic risk governance.

Respectfully submitted,