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77th UNGA Session
Contributed by the Global Governance Innovation Network
Posted 10 October 2022
The 77th UNGA Session, the first fully in person UNGA since 2019, was a statement that High-Level Week was back, renewed, re-energized, and reborn in hybrid format. The following overviews highlight a few key moments and outcomes of events co-organized by GGIN and partners from September 2022 to connect you to several new initiatives that were kicked off as a result of the action-packed week, not least of which the upcoming Global Futures Forum planned for 20-22 in March.
UNGA High-Level discussion on “Making the Most of the 2024 Summit of the Future”
Thursday, 22 September: In the UNGA77 High-Level Week side event, “Making the Most of the 2024 Summit of the Future,” the moderators Maria Fernanda Espinosa (President of the 73rd General Assembly and Co-Chair of the Coalition for the UN We Need) and Danilo Türk (President of the Club of Rome and Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Effective Multilateralism, along with panelists Prince Albert II (Sovereign Prince of Monaco), Ibrahim Gambari (former Nigerian Foreign Minister and Co-Chair of the Albright-Gambari Commission), Christopher Lu (Representative of the United States to the United Nations for UN Management and Reform), and Natalie Samarasinghe (Global Director for Advocacy at the Open Society Foundations), sought to address how the international community can effectively address current crises and improve upon the global tools and innovative solutions put forth in the UN Secretary-General’s seminal Our Common Agenda to make the most of the once-in-a-generation September 2024 Summit of the Future. The discussion centered around ambitious and forward-thinking global governance innovations for resolving or, at the very least, better managing today’s most pressing global challenges...ENJOY the session's photos and substantive highlights.
Report Launch: Rethinking Global Cooperation – Three New Frameworks for Collective Action in an Age of Uncertainty
Wednesday, 28 September: To address pressing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for, one year ago in his Our Common Agenda report, a Summit of the Future to improve collective action worldwide. Among the summit’s anticipated outcomes are a Declaration on Future Generations, a Global Digital Compact, and a New Agenda for Peace. This report elaborates on the challenges, proposed major elements, and potential spoilers to be overcome for each of these global policy frameworks. It further argues that meaningful civil society engagement in the summit’s preparations can reassure all stakeholders that decisions taken are well-informed, enjoy broad social ownership, and generate a sense of co-responsibility in supporting their implementation. The report will serve as an important resource for the Doha Forum community, the Global Governance Innovation Network, and policymakers, researchers, and advocates supporting the Summit of the Future preparations...READ the report and WATCH the recording.
UNGA Side Event: Global Women Leaders (GWL) Voices on UN reform and Our Common Agenda
This side event featured Helen Clark (37th Prime Minister of New Zealand, former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, co-founder of GWL Voices), Susana Malcorra (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Worship of Argentina, former Chief of Staff of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and member and co-founder of GWL Voices), Danilo Turk (President of Slovenia and President of Club de Madrid), and Soon Young Yoon (United Nations Representative of the International Alliance of Women and Chair of the Board, Women’s Environment and Development Organization), moderated by Nudhara Yusuf (Facilitator of the Global Governance Innovation Network and Global Youth Coordinator, Coalition for the UN We Need), and opened by Dan Perell (United Nations Representative at Baha’i International Community, and Co-Chair of the Coaltiion for the UN We Need). It sought to contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the need to put gender equality and women’s rights at the center of UN reform and the implementation of Our Common Agenda…CONTINUE the discussion by viewing the hybrid event.
Global People’s Assembly & Preparing for the Year Ahead: The 2023 SDG Summit & 2024 Summit of the Future
Thursday, 22 September: As part of the Global People's Assembly (GPA), this hybrid session introduced the proposed Global Futures Forum (planned for 20-22 March in New York) as a major civil society event in early 2023, and launched the collective drafting process of a civil society “People’s Pact for the Future,” to set out a range of ambitious proposals for strengthening global governance structures to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, further develop some of the best ideas featured in the Our Common Agenda report, and give special consideration to empowering civil society in international decision-making. The Global Futures Forum and closely related Regional Futures Forums will also aim to feed diverse, intergenerational perspectives into the Summit of the Future, and support CSO advocacy and effective engagement in the Summit’s preparations...SHAPE the process and learn more.
Food Security and Conflict: The Hidden Threat to Global Security
Tuesday, 13 September: The Alliance for Peacebuilding and the Stimson Center convened a conversation surfacing key issues surrounding food insecurity as a driver and consequence of conflict, particularly amidst the war in Ukraine. This hybrid event identified solutions governments, the private sector, and the NGO community can deploy to effectively address the current crisis...WATCH the recording.
Youth Futures Series: A call to young authors towards the Summit of the Future
Organized in collaboration with UN University Centre for Policy Research, the Global Governance Innovation Network, Coalition for the UN We Need, and Global Women Leaders: Voices for change and Inclusion, and aimed to support the work of the High-Level Advisory Board, the Youth Futures Series (YFS) is an initiative to champion the written contributions of young researchers, activists, and writers on thematic areas, or operational tracks, of the Summit of the Future. Importantly, the YFS hopes to begin to elevate youth voices beyond global youth-focused agendas, and to encourage the contribution of youth perspectives across other thematic areas such as global finance, the environment, peace and security, and digital cooperation...ENGAGE with the series.
UNGA77 Summit of the Future Tracker
Throughout this UNGA season, we have been following closely the main operational tracks feeding into the Summit of the Future in 2024...BOOKMARK this page for the latest on relevant resolutions, meetings, elements papers, and more.
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