If the recent events that unfolded in Kenya starting in June 2024 are anything to go by, the questions on how to engage, participate and call for accountability will be the crux of the African post-modern revolution. The youth are demanding a different future from the current crisis in governance and contemporary capitalism has ravaged to their nation and this starts taking shape towards a state of civil unrest.

The 2nd edition of the dialogue featured discussion on locating Africa’s engagement and input in the Summit of the Future and Pact for the Future. The need to understand the convergence of thought and expectations from the Pact and the chapters therein, with the session paying particular attention to the fourth chapter on Youth & Futures Generations.

On the 26th of April 2024, the first dialogue session was held themed “Who Ideates Africa’s Future?”. This session was first and foremost a reactivation of the NGFP African network around a potentially viable subject that would allow them to participate in shaping their continental future by applying foresight to not just ideate that future for Africa in theory, but to produce a treatise of their own that would help the member states of the Africa Union (AU) first, and later the UN, understand the necessity of building this theory of change from local and regional standpoint to realise an ideal future for Africa.

Dubbed as a ‘Finance COP’, this year’s conference was platformed to be the centre-stage of the governments establishing a new climate finance goal and mobilizing finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, the situation was not entirely as straight-forward at the close of the extensive two weeks in Baku, it was apparent that the outcomes was extensively invoking a poignant precedence. 

November 27th – Today, countries at the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt the mandate for the new global tax rules, the Terms of Reference for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention).

The article explores the catastrophic impact of ongoing wars (in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine...), highlighting their role in exacerbating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through human and environmental destruction and the collapse of health infrastructure.

On World Food Day, over 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations from across the globe have come together to release the Peoples’ Manifesto on the Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition. The Manifesto calls for urgent political action to end the use of starvation as a weapon of war, address food insecurity, combat inequality, and transform global food systems.

On September 24, the Civil Society Financing for Development (FfD) Mechanism issued a communique condemning the failure of UN member states to advance international financial architecture (IFA) reforms during the UN Summit of the Future.