Global shocks like pandemics, conflicts, and recessions threaten the durability of local innovation. However, community-led development efforts in the Global South and North often operate in silos, understandably treating global governance as an abstract “in the clouds” concept shaped by top-down mandates and political settlements that do not always reflect local realities.

Meanwhile, communities with deep contextual knowledge, especially at the hyper local level, lack meaningful access to global markets or the decision-makers shaping the global norms and commitments that impact them directly.

Common Sovereignty breaks through these silos, helping communities define solutions that ground global norm-setting in real-world evidence of what works locally.