The governments pioneering progress on global public investment.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ghana

We pledge our full support and commitment to this process. With a fractured global order, the time has come to collaborate and address the challenges that confront us collectively which we cannot solve unilaterally. We are not looking for sympathy. What we want is an equal partnership. The Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment aligns clearly with the Accra Reset. It represents a new development paradigm — and is long overdue.”

Alva Baptiste

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Saint Lucia

There is absolutely no doubt that it global public investment is needed at this point in time. A great deal of intellectual effort has been made over more than a decade to ensure that an appropriate model was brought forward. Now we are mandated to get airborne. Long live the Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment. For the sake of future generations, we have no alternative but to make it work.”

Javier Eduardo Martínez-Acha Vásquez

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Panama

The concept of global public investment is not simply a technical innovation — it is, in essence, a political and ethical proposal, based on co-responsibility, mutual interest, and the dignity of all countries as equal actors in defining global priorities. Do we want to be the generation that managed a crisis — or the generation that transformed the course of global cooperation? Global public investment can enable us not only to transform international cooperation but to transform the future of humanity.”

Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope

Chair of the G20 Development Working Group

South Africa

Global public investment is about interconnectedness, mutuality and voice. It moves the world beyond charity by enabling collective action to address collective global problems. It addresses the participation gap in international cooperation, and the need for new financing instruments to ensure the provision of public goods. The need for global public investment is a no-brainer.”

David Comissiong

Ambassador to the Caribbean Community and the Association of Caribbean States

Barbados

What the Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment is seeking to do is very complementary to the Bridgetown Initiative: to change the rules of international finance and development, to shock-proof our economies, and to dramatically increase financing. The coalition is very powerful institutional structure for helping revamp our international economic and political order. It is an idea whose time has come.”

Mireya Agüero

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Honduras

Global public investment recognises the limitations of the current model, and enables us to advance towards more inclusive, effective, and representative international cooperation placing people at the centre. It measures success not only in terms of disbursements, but in terms of the true impact generated in reducing poverty, increasing productivity, creating employment opportunities, and building climate resilience.”

Korir Singoei

Principal Secretary of the Department for Foreign Affairs

Kenya

Development finance can no longer be understood solely through traditional donor-recipient frameworks. The Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment’s emphasis on shared responsibility, mutual benefit, more inclusive governance and long-term investment resonates strongly with Africa’s aspirations for a more balanced and equitable global system. Many countries, particularly across Africa, continue to face significant constraints in accessing affordable and predictable financing for development and resilience. These realities underscore the urgent need for a renewed international financial architecture that is more inclusive, more representative and better aligned with contemporary global realities.”

Limpho Tau

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Lesotho

The current international financial architecture is not adequately responding to the realities and priorities of developing countries. At the same time, the world faces challenges that are fundamentally global in nature. This means that the future of international cooperation must evolve toward approaches that better reflect shared responsibility and collective interest. The Coalition of Governments on Global Public Investment encourages us to move beyond outdated assumptions and toward a more inclusive and partnership-based framework. It is showing that countries of the Global South have the experience and the political responsibility to help shape the future direction of international cooperation.”

Martín Clavijo

Director, Agency for International Cooperation

Uruguay

The traditional language of development finance — built largely around the notion of aid flowing in one direction — no longer reflects the realities of an interconnected world. Our challenges are shared; our risks are shared; and increasingly, our solutions must also be shared. Global public investment is as an evolution in how we understand cooperation towards a framework in which all countries contribute according to their capacities, all benefit according to their needs, and all participate as equals in decisions about the use of resources.”