Zimbabwe

Excellencies,

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

Zimbabwe today faces profound and compounding systemic risks: intensifying climate variability, recurrent droughts and floods, biodiversity loss, economic vulnerability, and displacement pressures.
These risks mirror the global systemic challenges identified in the Pact for the Future and demand urgent, foresight-driven, innovation-enabled responses.

Despite notable national efforts, existing disaster risk management and sustainable innovation mechanisms remain fragmented, reactive, and constrained by limited digital and anticipatory governance capacities.

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

• Embedding disaster risk foresight, early warning capabilities, and systemic resilience into national and local governance systems;

• Strengthening anticipatory action mechanisms consistent with the Emergency Platform operational principles of the Pact for the Future;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across Zimbabwe’s government sectors, research institutions, civil society networks, diaspora communities, and indigenous custodians;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational risk stewardship in line with the Declaration on Future Generations.

Critically, NWG-Zimbabwe’s operational backbone is powered by the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign-grade, cloud-agnostic, open digital public goods infrastructure.
NE provides Zimbabwe with an interoperable platform for:

• Real-time disaster risk modeling and early warning integration;

• Innovation mapping and resilience tracking;

• Data transparency, blockchain-based smart governance, and treaty simulation capabilities;

• Inclusive, risk-informed digital transformation aligned with the goals of the Global Digital Compact.

NWG-Zimbabwe and NE together offer a concrete, future-ready mechanism to bridge the aspirations of the Pact for the Future with the operational realities of disaster risk governance and systemic resilience in Zimbabwe.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-Zimbabwe as a national infrastructure advancing the implementation of the Pact for the Future’s systemic risk reduction, innovation governance, and future generation protection mandates;

2. Institutional and Financial Support to scale NWG-Zimbabwe’s operations through integration with multilateral resilience funds, digital cooperation programs, and anticipatory action initiatives;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good, critical to building inclusive disaster risk intelligence, anticipatory governance, treaty simulation, and sustainability monitoring systems;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring that NWG-Zimbabwe and NE outputs are systematically incorporated into global disaster risk dashboards, emergency response coordination platforms, and multilateral anticipatory governance architectures.

The risks facing Zimbabwe are systemic and accelerating.
The Nexus Ecosystem and the National Working Group for Zimbabwe together provide a tangible, scalable pathway to ensure risk-resilient development, digital sovereignty, and the protection of future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational commitments of the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our collective commitment to collaborative action, inclusive governance, and responsible innovation for Zimbabwe’s sustainable and resilient future.

Respectfully submitted,