The Guardians’ Circle of the Accra Reset, representing the first Presidential Council of the Club of Accra and the South African Presidency of the G20, today released a joint statement celebrating the strong partnership formed during the 2025 G20 Leaders’ Summit and confirmed their shared commitment to promoting better sovereignty, structural change, and fair development for the Global South.
The Guardians are distinguished former heads of state, governments, and international organizations who serve as public champions and moral guardians of the Accra Reset.
The partnership represents a strong coming together of the Accra Reset Agenda and South Africa’s leadership of the G20, using the global stage to promote a new way of working together on development that focuses on countries taking charge, making big changes, and getting everyone involved in funding.
The Guardians’ Circle commended the South African Presidency of the G20. This was for its outstanding stewardship of the G20 process. The subject is placed at its center: the priorities of Africa and other emerging regions. They were especially minded to celebrate the recalibration of the global financial architecture, the strengthening of health sovereignty, the deepening of digital public infrastructure, and the rethinking of inclusive transformation-driven outcomes.
This year’s G20 outcomes strongly reinforce the ambitions of the Accra Reset, including:
Renewed global consensus on strengthening national policy space & sovereign decision-making;
Endorsement of innovative approaches to blended finance and development capital mobilization;
A call to advance an equitable global debt and capital regime, aligned with G20 commitments, would enable lowering financing costs besides enabling responsible debt sustainability. It would expand fiscal space to support transformative investment in developing countries, without undermining their sovereignty.
A new lens for envisaging critical
- Emphasis on resilient supply chains and local manufacturing capacity in strategic sectors;
- A new lens for envisaging critical minerals. This enables geostrategic value chain integrations with Global South hubs.
- Prioritization of digital public infrastructure as an engine for social and economic inclusion:
- A forward-looking commitment to reshaping multilateral institutions to reflect contemporary global realities.
