Call for Applications: Apply Now for the 2025 Global South Study Week in Beirut, Lebanon

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Are you a young civil society activist from the Global South working on development, macroeconomic issues, multilateralism, governance, gender, climate, digital justice? 

“You're on your own, kid ….
Yeah, you can face this ….
You're on your own, kid ….
You always have been ….”
—Taylor Swift

At the closing ceremony of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, last July 3 in Sevilla, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered a sobering statement:

« …For decades, the mission of sustainable development has united countries. Yet today, development and its great enabler — international cooperation — are facing massive headwinds.

Bridging the gap between what is said and discussed at the UN headquarters and how that is translated into policy at the national and local levels remains a persistent challenge. Attention and querying at the national level on how concerns are being represented at the UN are integral to democratic global governance and accountability.

On the eve of the Summit of the Future to be held on September 22-23 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Global Policy Watch has launched today the Report “Future of Global Governance: Perspectives from Global South” on views from developing countries on the key issue of the Summit, the reform of global governance, its rules and institutions.