The Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will be held in Doha, Qatar from 4 - 6 November 2025.
REV1 - Draft of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development - 18 June 2025
Zero Draft of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development - 25 April 2025
Food for Thought Paper - 7 March 2025
Modalities of the “World Social Summit” under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development” - 1 September 2024
Resolution to convene the "Second World Summit for Social Development" in 2025
10 Commitments. Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PREPARATORY PROCESS
Achieving Global Social Justice. Key messages and recommended policies to achieve universal social protection and its financing. February 2025
Contribution of the GCSPF to the outcome document of the WSSD2
GCSPF position on REV1, June 2025. Letter and annotaded REV1.
OFiP Civil Society reaction on REV1, June 24, 2025.
Trade Union Position on the REV 1, ITUC, June 23, 2025.
OFiP Reaction to the Zero Draft of the Declaration for the WSSD2, May 2025
NGO Committee for Social Development - NGO, May 2025
Complement to the 10 Commitments: Suggested Themes for Review under the Second World Summit for Social Development to Reinforce and Advance the Implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action
A working paper by the NGO Committee for Social Development as a contribution to the development of inputs to the Food for Thought paper. December 3, 2024
Side Events - Guidelines - Key Dates Applications open: 14 July 2025 |
Advocacy at national level for Political Declaration of the World Social Summit (List of countries, contacts, etc)
Civil Society inputs into Political Declaration of the WSSD2, GCAP
Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors - GCSPF Working Group Advocacy - UN Engagement.
Achieving Global Social Justice - Resources
NGO Committee for Social Development - NGO CSocD
Cecilia Schirmeister (Chair of the WSSD2 Subcommittee for the NGO CSocD). Resources
Our Future is Public - OFIP. Anjela, Sylvain
Global Public Investment Network – GPI Network
(Poverty and Social Protection: Pathway to the World Social Summit, HLPF side event)
Global Campaign for Education (GCE). Giovanna Mode (Policy and Advocacy Advisor).
FfD4. Civil Society Finaning for Development. Barry, Isabel
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Mr. Amine Lamrabat (Information Officer)
ILO: Claire Courteille-Mulder - Senior Adviser, World Social Summit, ILO
Global Coalition for Social Justice / OXFAM as representative of the CSO at ILO
UNRISD. Ensuring an Inclusive, Participatory and Actionable Second World Summit for Social Development. Magdalena Sepúlveda and Katja Hujo
UNRISD is organizing a platform on what we can expect from the WSSD2
UN WOMEN
UN Resident Coordinators have been asked to promote country-level debates on renewing social contracts.
See more on the role of ECLAC position here: ECLAC Advocates for Forging a Global Pact for Inclusive Social Development at Summit to be Held in Qatar (April 2025)
And also at Social Inequality is a Trap for Latin America and the Caribbean’s Development and Inhibits the Exercise of Rights (October 2024)
UN
Resolution III Resolution concerning the Second World Summit for Social Development, 2025 ILO, 9 June 2025. International Labour Conference – 113th Session, Geneva, 2025
Recording: The Second World Summit for Social Development: What is at stake? ILO, 9 June 2025
WSSD2 Policy Brief: From commitment to action - The Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. ILO, May 2025
United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force (UN IATF) released synthesis briefs on the “three pillars of social development”. 24 April 2025
USP2030 Joint Statement. Key messages on Social Protection for the World Social Summit 2025
ECLAC. The road to the 2025 Second World Summit for Social Development: towards a pact for inclusive social development (April 2025)
ECLAC. Latin America and the Caribbean looking ahead to the Second World Summit for Social Development: proposals for inclusive social development (April 2025)
UN DESA World Social Report A New Policy Consensus to Accelerate Social Progress (April 2025)
ILO Policy Briefs for the WSSD2 – February 2025
Social Inequality is a Trap for Latin America and the Caribbean’s Development and Inhibits the Exercise of Rights (October 2024)
ILO. Social Protection Report (September 2024)
UN DESA: Social Development in Times of Converging Crises: A Call for Global Action -World Social Report 2024
High-level Seminar, “Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development: Enhancing global efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda” (30 April 2024, UN-ECLAC)
62nd Session of The Commission for Social Development - CSocD62, (5 - 14 February 2024)
ILO: Strategic Dialogue with Co-Facilitators of the World Summit for Social Development (7 June 2024)
“Financing gap for universal social protection: Global, regional and national estimates and strategies for creating fiscal space”. ILO Working paper 113, April 2024
Ten-year review of the first Summit, UN DESA 2005
CSOs – TU PUBLICATIONS
Briefing for Political Declaration of the World Social Summit 2025 Global Call to Action Against Poverty - GCAP. June 2025.
Briefing “The second United Nations World Social Summit 2025. A milestone in the struggle for global social rights?” By Jens Martens. Global Policiy Forum Europe. June 2025
The Briefing is available in German and English.
Social Welfare and Social Development for the New Era
ICSW Manifesto for Submission to the WSSD2 – April 2025
The Manifesto is available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.
Key priorities for the 2nd World Summit on Social Development. Political Declaration. ITUC.
Volume II. Bridging vision to Action. NGO Committee for Social Development. May 2025.
ARTICLES
The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity. IPS. Isabel Ortiz, Odile Frank and Gabriele Koehler. May 30, 2025.
Global Policy UN Watch 2025 | WSSD2 Alert. January 2025.
GCSPF position on REV1, June 2025. Letter and annotaded REV1.
The GCSPF contribution to the Informal Hearing for Stakeholders on the Food for Thought paper for the WSSD2. April 2025.
Achieving Global Social Justice. Key messages and recommended policies to achieve universal social protection and its financing. February 2025.
Grabación videoconferencia “Justicia social: de la Cumbre del Futuro a la Cumbre Social Mundial 2025”, Octubre 2024.
The Statement submitted by the GCSPF at the consultation Engagement of Major Groups and other Stakeholders and Civil Society held on 31 July 2024.
Letter to the Co-facilitators of the preparatory process of the Summit of the Future, 31 July 2024
The Statement submitted by the GCSPF at the consultation the Road to the Summit Discussion Series, Meeting 15 Summary took place on 25 July 2024.
Letter sent to the Co-Facilitators (Morocco and Belgium) of the Second WSS, 9 July 2024
Recording of the Side Event on Social Protection at the 2024UNCS, Kenya, May 2024
The GCSPF inputs to the Global Digital Compact, March 2024
The GCSPF inputs to the Summit of the Future, December 2023
The GCSPF contribution to the Informal consultation with stakeholders on the Summit of the Future, December 2023
