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Civil20 (C20) Policy Pack 2025 is now available
Civil20 (C20), one of official engagement groups of G20, has published the Policy Pack 2025. The C20 Summit, held in 12-14 November 2025, is now live-streamed.
Download the full report here.
C20 POLITICAL DECLARATION/ COMMUNIQUÈ
6 November 2025
As South Africa ends it Presidency at the helm of the G20 since taking charge from December 2024, we are reminded of our shared past—one defined by exploitation, colonialism, and systemic exclusion—but also of our enduring hope in solidarity, equality, and sustainability.
The recommendations contained herein reflect the urgent demands and pragmatic solutions of 14 Working Groups that constitute the C20, rooted in the lived expertise of over 3000 organisations across the world. They are shaped by feminist, LGBTQI+, people who share traditional values; disability, Indigenous, and youth-led perspectives, and grounded in the realities of communities most affected by inequality, exclusion, and crisis.
Read together with the 14 Policy Briefs and 2 Statements of Intent, this C20 Political Declaration/ Communiquè outline a blueprint for transformative, people-centred development rooted in justice, dignity, and planetary care.
Civil society voices have insisted that:
-the future is political;
-justice delayed is justice denied.
This Political Declaration/ Communiquè is a mandate to reform global financial systems; to anchor climate action in justice; to democratise technology and data governance; to protect civic space; and to recognise that without reparative action, sustainability remains a fiction.
We assert that the wellbeing of people and the health of the planet must be at the centre of the global economic agenda. This requires infrastructure investment, community-led health pathways, education and energy initiatives. It rejects extractive models that concentrate wealth and erode local resources harming communities, degrading ecosystems, and further entrenching inequalities.
We call for a new social contract—one that recognises Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems as strategic, living economic assets. Rooted in centuries of ecological stewardship and innovation, they are not relics of the past but engines of cultural, climate, and economic resilience.
The time for incrementalism has passed. The path ahead must be grounded in participation, redistribution, and environmental justice. We present this declaration not just to G20 governments—but to the people of the world— as a manifesto for just futures.
Let this be the year civil society was not simply heard, but heeded.