Commonwealth Foundation
Commonwealth Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh leads a creative exercise exploring your ancestral ‘thread’. She guides you through a simple process to help turn your ideas into a poem, song, or o...
In a time of rising geopolitical tensions and global uncertainty, what role can the Commonwealth play in strengthening international cooperation?
In this Critical Conversation, the Commonwealth Fo...
Vepaiamele Grace Trief is a 16-year-old Ni-Vanuatu writer and climate advocate. She originally wrote My Testimony for the People’s Museum for Climate Change in The Hague, during wider discussions a...
In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark advisory opinion.
Unanimously, they ruled that countries have a legal obligation to prevent harm to the climate and to p...
Art can change the world.
The arts have long been instrumental in amplifying the least heard, challenging injustices by presenting alternative narratives, and fostering solidarity.
This event exp...
'We are the equality-and-equity, empowerment, not charity: We are the people.'
Do you share the values of the Commonwealth Charter?
Celebrate #CommonwealthDay 2025 by co-signing the Charter: http...
The Commonwealth Foundation’s creative grants stream supports civil society organisations across the Commonwealth, using the arts to amplify voices and drive social change.
In collaboration with Se...
Find out more about what the people of the Commonwealth need in 2024 and beyond: https://commonwealthfoundation.com/resource/what-do-the-people-of-the-commonwealth-need/
The People’s Forum 2024 f...
The People’s Forum 2024 focused on the challenges and opportunities in delivering people-centred governance across the Commonwealth. It explored some of the most urgent issues of our time—climate j...
The People’s Forum 2024 focused on the challenges and opportunities in delivering people-centred governance across the Commonwealth. It explored some of the most urgent issues of our time—climate j...
The People’s Forum 2024 will focus on the challenges and opportunities in delivering people-centered governance across the Commonwealth, exploring some of the most urgent issues of our time—climat...
The People’s Forum 2024 focused on the challenges and opportunities in delivering people-centred governance across the Commonwealth. It explored some of the most urgent issues of our time—climate j...
The People’s Forum 2024 focused on the challenges and opportunities in delivering people-centred governance across the Commonwealth. It explored some of the most urgent issues of our time—climate j...
Over three thousand civil society activists and experts from right across the Commonwealth participated in our online consultation. Hundreds more joined our in-person and online events in Africa, A...
Our Regional Conversations—taking place across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific—are part of a wider effort to influence the proceedings at the Heads of Government Meeting. The f...
Our Regional Conversations—taking place across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific—are part of a wider effort to influence the proceedings at the Heads of Government Meeting. The f...
Our Regional Conversations—taking place across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific—are part of a wider effort to influence the proceedings at the Heads of Government Meeting. The f...
Our Regional Conversations—taking place across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific—are part of a wider effort to influence the proceedings at the Heads of Government Meeting. The f...
The Commonwealth Foundation convened civil society leaders and activists working in the health space across the Commonwealth to develop a set of Recommendations for advancing Universal Health Cover...