GPF Europe’s core mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations. This includes thematic areas such as sustainable development, human rights, and financing for development as well as global governance, multilateralism, and the funding and reform of the United Nations system.
The UN is the most inclusive international organization with nearly universal membership and commitments to peace, sustainable development and human rights. GPF Europe has a two-pronged approach - to advocate for values espoused by the UN and its agreements, while monitoring and exposing impediments that challenge proper UN operations. These include increasing corporate capture of policy-making at the UN, inadequate funding from the Member States and disregard of their UN agreements.
In this section we post information, analyses, documents, and background material related to multilateralism, the state of the United Nations and its reform, the financing of international organizations, the role of various international “clubs” (like the G20), new forms of public-private interactions, like multi-stakeholder initiatives and global partnerships, the modi operandi of global institutions and their subsidiary bodies, and the role of civil society organizations and social movements. Additional material such as tables and charts on UN Finance is available in our archive.
From 4-6 November 2025, the United Nations (UN) will hold the second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) in Doha, Qatar. The first summit on social development took place 30 years ago in Copenhagen. The initiative for a new World Social Summit came from UN Secretary-General António Guterres. He had already spoken out in favour of a global summit in his 2021 Our Common Agenda report. At the time, he took up an initiative from the Club de Madrid. This [...]
