About us / Our strategy, 2027–2029
Our strategy, 2027–2029.
How we will equip our partners to shape the next era of international cooperation, step by step.
The moment.
The rules of international cooperation are being rewritten, and the window for the Global South to shape them is wide open.
The aid model is breaking down
Official development assistance fell by an estimated 23% in 2025. Whoever offers credible answers to what replaces aid will shape it.
The UN is at its weakest in a generation
Its 2026 budget was cut and a new Secretary-General takes office in January 2027, needing a story of cooperation people will repeat.
The North is retreating
The US has stepped back from multilateral finance and said it would leave 66 international organisations.
The South is coordinating
Four Southern G20 presidencies in a row, an expanded BRICS, and a G77+China representing more than 80% of humanity.
Our task is neither to defend an old order nor to join those demolishing it. It is to build what comes next.
Three thresholds, three principles.
Humanity has crossed three thresholds from which there is no turning back. Our work rests on three principles that respond to them.
Mutuality
Our destiny is shared. Cooperation based on shared responsibilities and shared benefits.
Sustainability
Our power is planetary. Strengthening public systems, reforming unjust rules, investing in planetary wellbeing.
Dignity
Human equality is recognised. The experience of being heard and valued, at the centre of all cooperation.
Two questions, two goals.
Every system of cooperation rests on two questions. The answers given in the 1940s no longer fit the 2020s.
Making multilateralism effective
How cooperation is organised: giving every country a real say, strengthening Southern coalitions and making the public case for working together.
Rebuilding international finance
How cooperation is financed: international public finance that is permanent, predictable and fairly governed.
How we make change.
We equip governments, civil society, international organisations and the media with expertise, narrative and strategy. We convene them where the rules are decided, and accompany them over time.
What we bring
- Expertiseevidence, analysis and policy proposals
- Narrativestories and arguments that build support
- Strategycoalitions, timing and winning the argument
How we work
- Conveningin the platforms where the rules of cooperation are decided
- Advising and accompanyingpartners over time
Who we equip
- Governments
- Civil society
- International organisations
- Media
What changes
- Proposing and implementing reforms, at home and internationally
- Building coalitions across regions and political divides
- Making the public case for working together
Our two goals
- How the ecosystem is organisedMaking multilateralism effective
- How the ecosystem is financedRebuilding international finance
Our visionA system of international cooperation fit for the 21st century, built on mutuality, sustainability and dignity.
Built onOur five Signature Concepts: Global Public Investment · Circular Cooperation · Model Power · Public Good narrative · From development to dignity
We listen, equip and connect.
Four Impact Platforms.
Platforms are where we act. Each is a long-term coalition around a political process with a clear calendar, so trust and influence build over time.
Under consideration for 2027: Humanitarian Renewal (with ODI Global), After USAID, and Southern perspectives on the post-2030 agenda (with Cepei). A platform focused on Asia could follow.
Five Signature Concepts.
Concepts are what we bring. Original ideas, co-created over more than a decade, that partners can take up and use. Platforms without concepts would be convening without content; concepts without platforms would be ideas on a shelf.
Global Public Investment
All benefit, all contribute, all decide.
Circular Cooperation
Partners as equals, beyond donor and recipient.
Model Power
Leadership through credibility, not size.
The Public Good narrative
A winning story for ambitious public action.
From development to dignity
Dignity as the purpose cooperation must serve.
What we want by 2029.
By the end of 2029, we want to have helped bring about six changes.
A fairer way of financing global challenges
Significant reforms of international public finance reflect Global Public Investment: all benefit, all contribute, all decide.
A stronger Southern voice
Southern governments set the agenda in the key processes of the period, from the post-2030 agenda to UN and financial reform.
New alliances across regions
Lasting cooperation between Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, backed by coalitions that outlast any one government.
A winning public case for cooperation
Leaders make the case for cooperation in ways that resonate with their publics.
Our ideas in wide use
Our Signature Concepts shape policies and strategies across regions.
A stronger GCI
A larger team, with more diverse income.
Year by year.
Three years, each building on the last.
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2027
Building momentum
- Expand the GPI Coalition and launch its first workstreams
- Support Uruguay's leadership of the G77 and CELAC
- Take LAC Leads forward with regional dialogues
- Follow up the Santa Marta conference on fossil fuels
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2028
Scaling influence
- Concrete government proposals on Global Public Investment
- Joint Afri–LAC processes on green industrial policy
- New initiatives in Asia and Latin America
- Narrative tools and training for partners
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2029
Embedding change
- An established GPI Coalition and public campaign
- Stronger cooperation between Africa and Latin America
- Practical reforms to international public finance
- A new generation of leaders equipped for modern multilateralism
How we will grow.
We do not want to grow for its own sake, but in the ways that make us more useful to our partners.
A stronger team
A communications officer and a policy officer join the core team of eight.
A wider footprint
New platforms from 2027 and a stronger voice in Spanish.
More ideas in use
Flagship reports, starting with dignity, and tools such as the GPI Accountability Index.
A more resilient institute
A broader funding base, stronger governance, lean operations.
Support our work.
Funders can back the whole strategy, or the part that fits their priorities. Flexible support goes furthest; every contribution reports against one strategy and one results framework.
- The whole organisation
- An Impact Platform
- A Signature Concept
- A region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia
- An issue: from development bank reform to gender equality or climate
We would be glad to talk.