President Mahama to Launch ‘The Accra Reset’ at UNGA 2025,Championing New Global Governance for Health and Development
President John Dramani Mahama, the African Union Champion for African Financial Institutions,
will host a landmark high-level event on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly to formally launch “The Accra Reset: Reimagining Global Governance for Health and Development.”
This pivotal initiative will introduce a bold and actionable framework designed to fundamentally
transform the global governance architecture, ensuring it is fit-for-purpose in a turbulent, post-SDG era.
The event will convene an influential assembly of Heads of State, leaders of multilateral institutions, philanthropic organizations, business innovators, and civil society representatives from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and global institutions.
Key Announcements & Impact At this event, President Mahama will formally announce the establishment of a Global Presidential Council, which is a pioneering body comprising Heads of State and Government from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and other key regions.
The Council will provide political leadership to drive The Accra Reset’s agenda. It will subsequently constitute a High-Level Advisory Panel, bringing together renowned leaders from health, finance, innovation, and business, ensuring both political will and intellectual rigour in forging new models for global cooperation.
Why This Matters Now?
The MDGs and SDGs have served as critical guiding stars, lifting millions out of poverty and
fostering unprecedented cooperation.
However, the UN’s 2023 review highlighted that fewer than half of the 169 SDG targets are on
track, with global health, inequality, and fiscal resilience in particularly dire straits.
As 2030 approaches, the world needs more than another list of promises.
The Accra Reset asserts that the era of “development-as-usual” is over. What is required now is a fundamental re-engineering, a Reset of the very logic of global cooperation.
Building on the August 2025 Africa Health Sovereignty Summit held in Accra, this initiative proposes a new operating logic: one that prioritises resilient coalitions, syndicates, and agile platforms capable of delivering concrete results amidst global polycrises.
The health sector, acutely exposed to global shocks and an unsustainable aid paradigm, serves as the initial focus for demonstrating this new thinking and inspiring systemic action across all development sectors.