The Dialogue offers a unique platform for urgently required action-oriented conversations, gathering a carefully curated list of 40 participants, including democratic former Heads of State and Government, thought leaders, policy experts and representatives of governments, multilateral organisations, business and academia with the experience, expertise and access necessary to inform and inspire change. Force for Good was honoured and pleased to be invited to contribute at the event.

According to the United Nations Task Team for Global Crisis Response, 1.7 billion people worldwide will be severely affected by at least one of the three global transmission channels of this Megacrisis –food, energy prices, and financial conditions. Given the high levels of social and economic stress in the wake of COVID-19 and the increasing impacts of climate change, just one of these channels is enough to trigger collapse – debt defaults, food shortages, or blackouts.
This year’s Club de Madrid Policy Dialogue aimed to facilitate, promote and support a set of recommendations that will prove effective for governments and multilateral organisations to address the Megacrisis of 2022 and effectively respond to these multiple needs in a coordinated manner.

Club de Madrid seeks to take advantage of its unique position to mobilise a critical mass of support to strengthen the multilateral system. Leveraging the political experience and agency of our Members – more than 115 democratic former Heads of State and Government from over 70 countries – to promote a conversation that generates concrete proposals to help governments and international institutions respond in a coordinated manner to the megacrisis of 2022. Its concluding report gives a high-level view of the dialogue.