GCRF Compass+: Comprehensive Capacity-Building in Central Eurasia Tackling sustainability challenges through the lens of resilience GCRF COMPASS+ Research Impact Forum on 26th Jan 2023 brought together global development experts from policy, practice and academia to examine the new challenges faced by the ODA countries of Central Eurasia, and seek policy solutions to the unjust, fragile and geopolitically unstable world of today.
Discussions were centred around three key challenges: Local perspectives on resilience. Regional challenges to sustainable governance and how to tackle them. Rethinking international support and global governance.
Communities could become more adaptable by: developing a coherent vision (a ‘sense of the good life’) and emergency scenarios for the future; accessing resources that could help them achieve this vision and mobilising their voice to shape policy decisions.
Regional sustainable governance issues can be tackled by accepting diversity, and engaging with local traditions, as well as developing new institutions grounded firmly in empathetic leadership and bottom-up decision making rather than top-down decision making.
Embed resilience in global governance institutions by reconciling diversity; and building inclusive, internationally balanced and responsive, goal-orientated institutions and governance structures collectively responding to challenges and developing cooperative futures.
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This brief expands on these key messages and goes through the core policy and governance recommendations that came out of our discussions.