Our Common Agenda

This synthesis paper brings together the ample research produced by researchers that are part of Southern Voice. It Informs on how to advance Our Common Agenda. After a thorough review of the knowledge produced, the author from CEPA-Sri Lanka, proposes a key goal to increase resilience. To do so, it is proposed that special emphasis be placed on increasing the legitimacy of national governments and of the multilateral system. In his call for global solidarity within societies and in the multilateral system, the Secretary-General of the United Nations acknowledged the reality of resilience in the world: no single individual, household, community, or country can hope to adequately respond to global shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic; conversely, the multilateral system cannot support resilience unless its constituent units–especially states–are able to contribute to the provision of global public goods and the protection of the global commons.

http://southernvoice.org/our-common-agenda-building-legitimacy-for-resilient-futures-in-the-global-south/