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Global Week

GSTLW Global Week of Summits™

GSTLW owns one master convening brand. Every summit, forum, congress and awards ceremony in the ecosystem is a track, sub-summit or regional forum of the Global Week — never a standalone event.

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Architecture

How the week is built

Opening Global Plenary
Heads of institution, ministerial dialogue and the release of the GSLI and the Annual Evidence Suite.
Seven tracks (A–G)
Parallel working programmes, each with a chair, a written agenda and required outputs.
Global Skills and Talent Diplomacy Forum
The diplomatic backbone — not an eighth track. It runs across the Opening Plenary and Track G.
APLIS regional and national ladder
Regional forums and NPMTI country sessions feeding evidence upward into the Plenary.
Allocation Ceremony
Public allocation moment for the Global Skills Endowment Fund commitments.
Global Excellence Awards
One awards night for the whole ecosystem. There is no second awards brand.
Doctrine

One platform, no standalone events

Year-round activations use the lockup “[Track Name] — on the Road to GSTLW Global Week”. Legacy standalone event URLs redirect permanently into their track pages.
Programme

Week at a glance

  • Day 1 — Opening Global Plenary, ministerial dialogue, GSLI and Evidence Suite release.
  • Days 2–4 — Track programmes A–G, working-group sessions and the Diplomacy Forum dialogues.
  • Day 4 — Regional Seat of Honour forum, hosted by the APLIS host region.
  • Day 5 — Compact signing, the Allocation Ceremony and the Global Excellence Awards.

Year 1 runs Tracks A, B, D and G, the Diplomacy Forum core dialogues, the Allocation Ceremony and the Awards. Tracks C, E and F open on the Years 2–3 activation gates.

Host

Regional Seat of Honour

The Seat of Honour rotates between APLIS regions so that no region becomes the permanent centre of the convening. The first Seat of Honour is the CEMAC region, coordinated by APLIS Africa Foundation.

Attend

Registration, delegations and sponsorship

  • Institutional delegations: by invitation and through the partnership pathway.
  • Individual delegates: registration opens with the dates announcement.
  • Media accreditation: through the Newsroom.
  • Sponsorship: track sponsorship, Allocation Ceremony and Awards packages via Partnerships.
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Four-entity mandate model
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA)
Power Up Futures Foundation (PUFF-USA) is the U.S.-incorporated, IRS-recognised Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation providing governance, philanthropy and public-benefit oversight for the ecosystem.
GSTLW
Global convening, partnerships, policy, research and publisher of record; institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy.
APLIS Africa Foundation (NGO)
Continental institutional implementation partner: continental programme ownership, public-sector transformation and regional coordination of APLIS Forums.
NPMTI — National Project Maturity & Transformation Initiative
Country-level execution framework (maturity methodology, government engagement model, assessment and reporting mechanism). Never a separate brand, entity or event.

Fund governance: the Global Skills Endowment Fund is governed under PUFF-USA (public benefit). The Global Skills Enterprise Fund is governed through PCA Group or an appropriately authorised investment vehicle — never through the Secretariat. Accelera 1000 is a platform brand only; contracts issue through approved legal entities. Commercial services are delivered separately through approved ecosystem partners (Paraklete Institute / PCA Group). All references to UN and multilateral participation are aspirational and subject to those institutions' own priorities and approval processes.

GSTLW is the institutional home of Skills and Talent Diplomacy. GSLI supplies the evidence, the GSEF Twin Funds align capital, the Global Week creates the compacts, APLIS coordinates regional implementation, and NPMTI translates cooperation into national project maturity and transformation.