Voices for Shared Prosperity
Advocacy Campaign 20 September 2026Noboprobhaat Foundation has launched Voices for Shared Prosperity, a digital advocacy campaign bringing community-informed priorities from Bangladesh into the advocacy and policy conversations surrounding the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2026.
Running from 20 September to 4 November 2026, the campaign combines public digital advocacy with targeted engagement with Commonwealth networks, international civil society organisations, youth networks, development partners and other actors connected with CHOGM 2026.
It responds to a practical advocacy gap. Marginalised young people and community-led organisations have experiences, evidence and recommendations that can contribute to national and international policy discussions — but limited resources, institutional networks and opportunities for direct international participation can prevent those priorities from reaching relevant international spaces. CHOGM 2026 provides an important opportunity to connect locally documented experiences with wider discussions on inclusion, youth agency and shared prosperity, even where community representatives themselves may have limited opportunities to participate directly.
Grounded in a community-informed brief
The campaign builds on the CHOGM 2026 Advocacy Brief, developed following a consultation held on 29 March 2026 with 18 representatives from 16 civil society and community-led organisations. The Brief brings together community experiences, documented concerns and policy recommendations across five interconnected areas:
- 1Civic space and freedom of association
- 2Inclusive democracy, political participation and legal identity
- 3Economic inclusion and decent work
- 4Youth agency, education, health and digital inclusion
- 5Climate justice and disaster resilience
How the campaign works
Through the campaign, the Foundation translates key findings, community experiences and recommendations from the Advocacy Brief into accessible digital advocacy content — on freedom of association and safe civic space, legal identity and political participation, decent work, safe and inclusive education, dignified and confidential healthcare, digital safety, meaningful youth decision-making, inclusive disaster response, and climate justice. Rather than presenting these issues in isolation, the content connects community experiences with the specific policy and institutional changes identified through the Brief.
Alongside public advocacy, the campaign undertakes targeted outreach to organisations and networks engaging around CHOGM 2026. Commonwealth networks, international civil society and youth organisations, human rights and democracy actors, gender and climate justice organisations, development partners and other stakeholders are approached with recommendations connected to their respective mandates. The Advocacy Brief and selected campaign materials are shared through direct communication, with organisations encouraged to consider and, where relevant, reference or amplify these recommendations through their own CHOGM-related advocacy.
Community ownership at the centre
The campaign is not asking international organisations to define priorities or speak in place of marginalised communities in Bangladesh. These priorities have already been articulated through a community-informed consultation process and documented in the CHOGM 2026 Advocacy Brief. The purpose of Voices for Shared Prosperity is to create an additional pathway for those priorities to reach spaces where communities themselves have limited direct access.
Noboprobhaat Foundation invites the following to follow the campaign, engage with the Advocacy Brief, and amplify the community-informed recommendations relevant to their work:
Where opportunities exist, we encourage these priorities to be carried into CHOGM-related policy dialogues, civil society engagements, advocacy initiatives and other spaces where decisions and commitments around inclusion and shared prosperity are being shaped.
Voices for Shared Prosperity continues through 4 November 2026 with a clear purpose: to help ensure that limited access to international advocacy spaces does not result in the absence of community voices from the conversations taking place within them. By connecting locally articulated priorities with actors and networks engaging around CHOGM 2026, the campaign seeks to contribute to a vision of shared prosperity in which access to rights, resources, protection and decision-making is genuinely shared.