Hot SourcePresident John Dramani Mahama, in his capacity as the African Union Champion for African Financial Institutions, is set to host a landmark high-level event on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York to launch “The Accra Reset: Reimagining Global Governance for Health and Development.”
A statement signed by the President’s spokesperson and Minister of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, described the initiative as a bold framework aimed at fundamentally transforming global governance systems to meet the challenges of a turbulent post-SDG era.
It stated that the event will bring together Heads of State, leaders of multilateral institutions, philanthropic organisations, business innovators, and civil society actors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond.
The statement said at the gathering, President Mahama will announce the creation of a Global Presidential Council, an unprecedented body of leaders from across the developing world to provide political direction for The Accra Reset.
The statement added that the Council will also establish a High-Level Advisory Panel of renowned experts in health, finance, innovation, and business to combine political will with intellectual rigour in shaping new models of cooperation.
It said that while the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have advanced global progress, the UN’s 2023 review revealed that less than half of the 169 SDG targets remain on track, with health, inequality, and fiscal resilience in crisis.
The Accra Reset, therefore, calls for a break from “development-as-usual” and demands a complete re-engineering of how global cooperation is organised.
The statement, concluded that building on the August 2025 Africa Health Sovereignty Summit in Accra, the initiative prioritises the creation of resilient coalitions and agile platforms to drive results, starting with the health sector. Organisers say this will serve as a model for broader systemic change across all areas of development.
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