Building the Case for Action

Advocating for multilateral solutions to global challenges

The urgency of maintaining international unity has never been clearer. Conflicts, climate change, and economic crises—intensified by opposing political currents—are straining the foundations of multilateral cooperation. Building the case for action and offering practical solutions is vital to re-establishing faith in multilateralism and driving necessary reforms. Among the most pressing needs is addressing global financing gaps, particularly for developing economies and the Global South, where systemic challenges like rising debt, inequality, and the lack of effective funding mechanisms threaten long-term stability and progress.

Through high-level convenings and cross-regional dialogues, this workstream supports the creation of coalitions advocating for shared global solutions. CIC’s focus is to align multilateral reforms with the realities of today’s geopolitical and economic landscape, looking to find ways to bolster the system’s ability to respond to the ongoing polycrisis, financing shortfalls, and double standards.

Key Initiatives

• Convening cross-regional dialogues with member states, and global leaders to discuss financing for development, fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) challenges, and other issues.
• Advancing policy conversations on how to strengthen multilateralism and multilateral institutions.
• Providing research and analysis to track shifts in global politics and propose pragmatic solutions to maintain multilateral coherence in the face of rising tensions.
• Publishing CIC Perspectives, a series of publications and reports that provide in-depth analysis on key multilateral issues, offering insights on global policy shifts and challenges.