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Taking the Summit of the Future Agenda Forward: Facilitating Implementation through Dialogue, Research & Monitoring

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On September 26, 2024, the Stimson Center, in collaboration with the Global Governance Innovation Network, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy, and Development, Plataforma CIPÓ, Global Challenges Foundation, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, brought together former states persons, senior government representatives and UN officials, civil society leaders, and diverse scholars…

26 September 2024@

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Global Challenges Foundation, Global Governance Innovation Network, Kingdom of Netherlands, Plataforma CIPÓ, Stimson Center, The Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development

On September 26, 2024, the Stimson Center, in collaboration with the Global Governance Innovation Network, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy, and Development, Plataforma CIPÓ, Global Challenges Foundation, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, brought together former states persons, senior government representatives and UN officials, civil society leaders, and diverse scholars and policy researchers to explore the role of policy research, policy dialogues, and monitoring in supporting champion governments’ and multi-stakeholder ImPact Coalitions’ efforts to implement the recently agreed Summit of the Future (SOTF) outcomes. As the roundtable discussion operated under the Chatham House Rule, this brief report synthesizes chief insights and recommendations generated on a not-for-personal attribution basis.

The session considered the role of: (1) Track 1.5 policy dialogues, (2) policy research products from diverse scholars worldwide, and (3) rigorous Summit of the Future (SOTF) monitoring in supporting champion governments and twenty multi-stakeholder ImPact Coalitions on SOTF Actions & Commitments follow-through.

Welcome: Daniel Perell, United Nations Representative at Baha’i International Community and Co-Chair, Coalition for the UN We Need
Moderator: Dr. Richard Ponzio, Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program, Stimson Center, and Co-Director, Global Governance Innovation Network

Lead-Off Remarks (focusing on specific dialogue, research, and monitoring needs for the Pact for the Future, Global Digital Compact, and Declaration on Future Generations):

H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa (President of the 73rd General Assembly; Former Foreign and Defense Minister of Ecuador; Executive-Director, GWL)
H.E. Prof. Ibrahim Gambari (Former Nigerian Foreign Minister, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Co-Chair, Albright-Gambari Commission; Founder, Savannah Center)
Maiara Folly (Executive-Director, Plataforma CIPÓ)
Maja Groff Esq. (Convenor, Climate Governance Commission)

Dialogue: (focusing on SOTF follow-through dialogue, research, and monitoring needs tailored to more than a dozen intergovernmental tracks in the run-up to the official Sept. 2028 review)
Government Representatives:
H.E. Jocelyne Croes, Director General Foreign Affairs Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands
H.E. Carlos Marcio Cozendey, Ambassador, Vice-Minister for Multilateral Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Brazil
H.E. Florian Laudi, Director, United Nations and Counterterrorism, Federal Foreign Office, Government of Germany
H.E. Freya Jackson, Director, Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, Government of the United Kingdom
H.E. Syndoph Endoni, Chargé d’Affaires, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations
H.E. Nerissa Cook, Deputy Assistant-Secretary of State, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
H.E. David Fawcett, Deputy Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, The Commonwealth of Australia
H.E. Osamu Yamanaka, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
H.E. Hedda Samson, Ambassador and Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Audrey Gantana, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of The Republic of Namibia to the UN
Mari Johnsrud Hauge, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations


UN Representative: H.E. Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary-General for Policy, United Nations
Summing-up & Concluding Remarks: Nudhara Yusuf (Executive Coordinator, Global Governance Innovation Network and Co-Chair, 2024 UN Civil Society Conference)

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