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Second Annual Meeting of ANUMDI: The African Research Network on Regional and Global Governance Innovation

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NAIROBI, KENYA 22 – 23 JUNE, 2025

Contributed by Global Governance Innovation Network, The Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development

Posted 21 August 2025

In connection with the Academic Council on the UN System Annual Meeting, partners convened a Second Annual Meeting of ANUMDI on 22 and 23 June 2025 on the theme of “Advancing the Summit of the Future, G20, and AU’s 2063 Agendas: The Role of African Scholars and Policy Advocates.”

   

From 4-6 March 2024, a group of scholars and policy advocates from across Africa and the world gathered in Abuja, Nigeria, to discuss the future of Africa and African perspectives for the UN Summit of the Future, held from 22-24 September 2024 in New York. The Africa Summit of the Future Dialogue (click here for the final report), organized by the Abuja-based Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) with the support of the Washington DC-based Stimson Center and eighteen other African and global partner institutions, drew together scholars and practitioners from Africa and friends across the globe to discuss and consider regional and global governance innovation proposals for the benefit of Africa and other regions.

At the close of the Africa Summit of the Future Dialogue, the Abuja Declaration was adopted by participants with recommendations on the future of Africa-wide and global governance. The conference further initiated a network of African Researchers to pursue the implementation of its recommendations and encourage research on the development and advocacy of new African policy perspectives to advance regional and global innovation. During a follow-on strategy session at the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Support of the Summit of the Future (held from 9-10 May 2024 at the UN Centre in Nairobi), the group was subsequently named“ANUMDI,” a unique and evocative acronym combining words in the Swahili (from East/South Africa), Hausa (from West Africa), and English to denote “African Research Network for Regional and Global Governance Innovation.”

In connection with the Academic Council on the UN System Annual Meeting in Nairobi, partners convened a Second Annual Meeting of ANUMDI on 22 and 23 June 2025 on the theme of “Advancing the Summit of the Future, G20, and AU’s 2063 Agendas: The Role of African Scholars and Policy Advocates”(To read the meeting's findings and recommendations, please click here). Besides leveraging the ACUNS Annual Meeting 2025, ANUMDI engaged closely with both the South African-led Think Tank 20 (T20) network in support of the South African-chaired G20 in 2025, as well as His Excellency Philemon Yunji Yang of Cameroon, Seventy-Ninth President of the General Assembly (September 2024 – September 2025).

Objectives:

  • To convene leading policy researchers, practitioners, and advocates from Africa and around the world to debate and recommend specific regional and global institutional, policy, legal, normative, and operational innovations that could inform the agenda—and help to raise the ambition—of the G20 South Africa Summit (22-23 November 2025) and follow-through to the September 2024 Summit of the Future and African Union’s 2063 agenda, giving special attention to African perspectives and innovation priorities.
  • To further develop the new ANUMDI platform for African policy researchers, scholars, and advocates to critically discuss and advance policy research on “What Africa Wants” and the type of relationship the Continent needs to have with the United Nations, G20, and international financial institutions.
  • To strengthen the African Union, African Regional Economic Communities, G20, and UN system collaboration, including through the Pact for the Future, Global Digital Compact, Declaration on Future Generations, and New Agenda for Peace.

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