Expert Preparatory Roundtable: Global Governance Innovation

This expert roundtable – organized with the Stimson Center with the support of the UN Foundation and Global Challenges Foundation – offered an opportunity to offer proposals and recommendations for the consideration of the HLAB and the Secretary-General’s implementation of the Our Common Agenda report. It was organized around three sets of questions:

• What are the major challenges the multilateral system faces today in developing effective regimes to govern/ensure equitable distribution of the environment, financial systems, health, and security? Are there common issues across these areas that could be considered as endemic to today’s international order?
• What models and approaches to global governance have proven most effective at overcoming these challenges? Are there experiences/examples that have helped to address the problems of jurisdiction, participation, incentives, and/or information? What are the concepts and innovations that could help the HLAB produce new proposals?
• What specific recommendations and proposals should the HLAB consider as it develops its report? What pathways should these proposals take to maximize their chances of taking hold in the system?