Second World Summit for Social Development - Resources

The Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) will be held in Doha, Qatar from 4 - 6 November 2025.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

References to Social Protection in the Drafts of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development.

• Agreed text Doha Political Declaration of the “World Social Summit” under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development”  - 5 September 2025

  (26 references to social protection)

• Final version of the intergovernmental negotiations of the political declaration of the “World Social Summit” in 2025, under the title “the Second World Summit for Social Development” (silence procedure) and the letter on behalf of the Co-Facilitators - 28 August 2025

  (26 references to social protection)

• Message on behalf of the Co-Facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations of the political declaration - 1 August 2025

• REV2 - Draft of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development - 15 July 2025

  (24 references to social protection)

• REV1 - Draft of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development - 18 June 2025

  (20 references to social protection)

• Zero Draft of the Political Declaration of the Second World Summit for Social Development - 25 April 2025

  (12 references to social protection)

• Food for Thought Paper - 7 March 2025

  (8 references to social protection)

• 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

• Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development. 1995

  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

• Contributions to REV2 – July 2025

• Trade Union Position on the REV 2, ITUC, July 17, 2025.

• Contributions to REV1 – June 2025

• 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.

• Contributions to the Zero Draft – Outcome document – May 2025

• OFiP Reaction to the Zero Draft of the Declaration for the WSSD2, May 2025

• NGO Committee for Social Development - NGO, May 2025

• Contributions to the Food for Thought Paper – March 2025

• Informal Hearing for Stakeholders on the Food for Thought paper, UNHQ, 22 April 2025.

  GCSPF contribution to the Informal Hearing.

• 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

Informational Sessions by the NGO Committee for Social Development (NGO CSocD)

• First Informational Session: July 29, 2025. The recording will be available here.
• Second Informational Session: September 17, 2025. Register The recording will be available here.
• Third Informational Session: October 15, 2025. Register here.

NATIONAL LEVEL

• 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 (French and Spanish versions), GCAP

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

• 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 Coalition to End Child Poverty

• Global Campaign for Education (GCE). Giovanna Mode (Policy and Advocacy Advisor).

• Club the Madrid

• FfD4. Civil Society Finaning for Development. Barry, Isabel

UN AGENCIES

• Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA)
  Ms Masumi Ono (Chief Social Inclusion and Participation, DISD, 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)

RESOURCES

UN

• Resources. Additional Background Information. Official website.

• Sixth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Brasilia, Brazil, 2 - 4 September 2025. Organized by ECLAC, UNDP.

• Webinar Discussion on the role of Social Protection in Social Development in the run-up to the World Social Summit Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, USP2030, 28 August 2025.
  Odile Frank and Anjela Taneja, members of the GCSPF, were speakers in this webinar.

• 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

• Social Inclusion
• Eradicating Poverty
• Full Employment and Decent Work for All
• Synthesis of mandates outlining follow-up to implementation and review from selected United Nations summits and conferences

• Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD) 14 - 16 April 2025, Beirut, Lebanon. ESCWA.

• Eleventh Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development - 11th ARFSD 9 - 11 April 2025, Kampala, Uganda. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Government of the Republic of Uganda in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the United Nations system organisations

• 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)

• UNRISD - Consultation Outputs: Regional Dialogues

• Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives: Paving the Road to the Second World Summit for Social Development - 6 Feb 2025, Geneva.
• African Perspectives: Paving the road to the Second World Summit for Social Development - 7 Feb 2025, Geneva.
• Asian Perspectives: Paving the Road to the Second World Summit for Social Development - 8 Feb 2025, Geneva.
• Perspectives from Civil Society in the Nordic Countries: Paving the Road to the Second World Summit for Social Development - 19 Mar 2025, Geneva.
• Central Asian Perspectives: Paving the Road to the Second World Summit for Social Development - 17 Jul 2025, Geneva.
• De Sevilla a Qatar: Rumbo a la segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social - 31 Jul 2025, Ginebra.

• ILO Policy Briefs for the WSSD2 – February 2025

• Universal social protection A precondition for accelerating social development
• Preventing and reducing inequalities within and between countries A call for decisive multilateral action

• 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

• The welfare state is under pressure: What to expect from the World Social Summit in Doha By Celia Sudhoff. Global Policy Forum Europe. September 2025.

• 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 AT THE SotF, WSSD2

• 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.

• Statement at the 2025 Civil Society Forum on behalf of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), Gray Panthers, Stakeholder Group on Ageing, GCAP. February 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.

• Briefing note on the Rev. 2 of the Pact for the Future

• 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