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Commonwealth Secretariat Strategic Plan 2025–2030

Our Strategic Plan for 2025–2030 sets out a clear and practical vision of how our work will lead to impact. It brings together three main areas of focus – democratic, economic, and environmental resilience – all underpinned by core values including youth empowerment, gender equality, and support for small and vulnerable states. It also draws on what makes the Commonwealth unique: our ability to bring people together, build consensus, offer trusted technical advice, and open doors through strong political relationships.
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Young climate justice campaigner calls on leaders to address “survival” for vulnerable states

Chevening scholar, Mandela Washington Fellow alum, and Namibian climate and social justice leader Eunice Shapange has packed a lot into her first three decades. She is currently studying for her second Master’s, in Climate and Energy at Sussex University in the UK. Eunice is also a Commonwealth alum, having undergone the Secretariat’s inaugural Youth Climate Negotiations Training.

Secretary-General's Opening Speech for CHOGM 2024

Your Grace, Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Honorable Ministers, partners, colleagues, friends, fellow citizens of our beloved Commonwealth.

As the torch passes from the land of a thousand hills and the tender and, I must say, loving care of our outgoing Chair-in-Office, President Paul Kagame, to the guardianship of the Big Blue Pacific, I want to take this opportunity to thank him, on behalf of our whole family, for his skillful stewardship and the generosity of his government and the people of Rwanda.
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