We are inspired by a powerful lesson: we’re stronger when we invest in shared global challenges together
The Global Public Investment Network brings communities and countries together to build a future that is safe, fair, and sustainable — for everyone.
Our shared global challenges include the threat of resurgent killer infectious diseases, the risk of major disasters, and the need for cheap renewable energy technology.
No country can face them alone, and no few countries should monopolize the response.
Global public investment is how such shared challenges can be overcome. Working together is the way we can tackle shared risks and maximize shared rewards.
Global public investment is rooted in three main principles:
For the global challenges we face, building a new international architecture based around global public investment is necessary, urgent, feasible, and widely supported. The call is supported by a wide range of civil society organisations, experts, and governments from across the world.
World leaders need to make public purpose a design principle of financing, and translate the common good into concrete missions where we work together to improve all of our lives. Global public investment would enable them to do that.”
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor at University College London and Co-chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water
Global public investment serves the international community with an alternative way of confronting crisis and taking action.Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary General of the UN
Global public investment is the direction that international cooperation needs to go in. It is not a question of giving resources away for others, it is about investing together in shared needs. Solving our problems together is more effective than trying to solve them on our own.Bård Vegar Solhjell. Director General, Norad
When you have a global public good like public health, failing to invest what is needed is frankly sheer stupidity. We will all be gainers from global public investment.Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
The needs of this world cannot be met through private finance alone, and cannot be met through isolated national action. Global public investment is how countries can remake international finance to deliver for people for the twenty-first century.Jonathan Glennie, Founder and Director, Global Cooperation Institute
As President of the G20, South Africa sees the need to fix the participation gap in international cooperation, and the need for new financing instruments to ensure the provision of global public goods. The need for global public investment is a no-brainer.Josephilda Hlope, Chair, Development Working Group of G20 South Africa
The world needs a coherent, ambitious and effective system of international public finance to respond to the challenges we face. Chile supports the development of global public investment.Paula Narvaez, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the UN
Momentum is growing for global public investment. More and more governments see it is the solution to the pressing challenges we are all facing that no country can tackle alone.Harpinder Collacott, Executive Director, Global Public Investment Network
We need a comprehensive and balanced approach to international cooperation, for the benefit of the entire world. Colombia is very much aligned with global public investment.Eleonora Betancur González, Director, Presidential Agency for International Cooperation of Colombia
The countries of the world face challenges that can only be overcome together. Global public investment - with shared resourcing, and shared power - is key to secure our shared future.Andrea Vignolo, Director of International Cooperation, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay
