Our latest policy platform

• 1 for 8 Billion Policy Platform (September 2024) - ENGLISH

• 1 for 8 Billion Policy Platform (September 2024) - SPANISH

• 1 for 8 Billion Policy Platform (September 2024) - PORTUGUESE

Briefings, Reports and Explainers

• Candidate Policy Profiles

• Report: What happens if the SC cannot recommend a candidate

• Report: Backroom deals

• Campaign Partner Policy briefs

• Explainer: nominations

• Explainer: financial disclosures

• Explainer: General Assembly views on candidates

• Ultimate Guide to the Selection Process

• Supporter NGO briefing for 2026 (contains timetable and suggested actions)

• Discussion paper for Member States: Opportunities for reform during the General Assembly’s 79th Session (Feb 2025) - SUMMARY 2-PAGER

• Discussion paper for Member States: Opportunities for reform during the General Assembly’s 79th Session (Feb 2025) - FULL BRIEFING

• Briefing for the General Assembly's 75th Session (June 2021)

• Chart showing state support for a single term of office (June 2021)

• Chart comparing country positions on the proposal that the Security Council nominate multiple candidates

• Briefing on the proposal for the appointment of the Secretary-General for a longer single term

• Briefing on backroom deals and monopolies on senior appointments: The Secretary-General’s ability to make senior UN appointments on merit

• Discussion Paper for Member States: Unsettled Elements and Opportunities for Strengthening (April 2021)

• Partner report: UNA-UK report: Arrangements for interruptions to a Secretary-General’s term of office (July 2024)

• Partner report: UNA-UK report: 10 ways to strengthen the UN Secretary-General selection process (June 2023)

Southern Voice partnership - policy briefs

• Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC, Argentina)

  • The Next UN Secretary-General from a Global South Perspective: Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and a Historic Opportunity for Gender Equity

• Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD, Bangladesh)

  • Rethinking UN Leadership in a Fragmented World: A Bangladesh-Centred Perspective

• Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF, Tanzania)

  • Eighty Years Without a Woman Secretary-General: Gender, Geography, and UN Leadership Legitimacy

• Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI, Pakistan)

  • Advancing Transparency, Independence, and Gender-Inclusive Leadership in the 1 for 8 Billion Campaign for UN Secretary-General Selection

• Solidar Tunisie, Tunisia

  • From Electoral Representation to Global Executive Leadership: Advocacy lessons from Tunisia for supporting the election of a woman Secretary-General

Letters

• Letter to all candidates, 13 April 2026

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (docx format) - ENGLISH

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (docx format) - SPANISH

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (docx format) - PORTUGUESE

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (docx format) - GERMAN

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (docx format) - ARABIC

• TEMPLATE - woman SG letter to send to your Government (pdf format) - SWAHILI

• Letter to all Permanent Representatives signed by over 50 NGOs asking for them to commit to only nominating women candidates, March 2024

• Letter to President of the General Assembly, January 2021

• Letter to Experts on Revitalization of the GA, 10 April 2018

• Letter to General Assembly Ad Hoc Working Group, March 2018

• Letter to Secretary-General advocating fair, open, inclusive senior appointments, February 2018

• Letter to General Assembly Ad Hoc Working Group, February 2018

• Letter to General Assembly Ad Hoc Working Group, March 2017

• Letter to P5 members on veto transparency, October 2016

• Letter to UNSC permanent members on UNSG selection process, October 2016

• Letter to candidates asking them to commit to serving a single term

• Letter to Foreign Ministers, February 2015

• Open NGO letter to world leaders, November 2014

Campaign governance

• Code of Conduct for the 1 for 8 Billion coalition

• Campaign structure and how to get involved

ARCHIVE: 1 for 7 Billion - campaign materials

• Policy Platform

• Principles and recommendations – a commentary

• Chart comparing different UN appointment processes

• Guide for parliamentarians

• 2016 chart comparing country positions on the proposal for the Secretary-General to serve a single term