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

• 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 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, 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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