Strategic Foresight

This report by the UK Government investigates how different governments have developed their foresight ecosystems over time and maps the features that can support integration of long-term thinking into policy-making at the most strategic level. It aims to provide a guiding framework to build and sustain foresight in policy-making and to do so in a way that creates long-term impact from futures work.

The Global Report presents the work carried out by UNHCR in 2021 to protect and improve the lives of tens of millions of people of concern—refugees, returnees, internally displaced people, stateless persons, and others of concern. It highlights the year’s achievements, as well as challenges faced by the organization and its partners, in attempting to respond to multiple life-threatening crises and ever-growing humanitarian needs.

This report identifies six Macro Forces that impact societies, markets and people.

This is the 7th edition of the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report, which, every four years since 1997, assesses the key trends and uncertainties that will shape the strategic environment for the United States during the next two decades. The goal is not to offer a specific prediction of the world in 2040, but to help policymakers and citizens see what may lie beyond the horizon and prepare for an array of possible futures. The first section explores structural forces in four core areas: demographics, environment, economics, and technology. The second section examines how these structural forces interact and intersect with other factors to affect emerging dynamics at three levels of analysis: individuals and society, states, and the international system. Finally, the third section identifies several key uncertainties and uses these to create five future scenarios for the world in 2040.

- Futures toolkit: A set of tools and techniques to help government officials use long-term strategic thinking in policymaking:
- Trend Deck: Trend Deck sets out an evidence base of long-term chang;
- A brief guide to futures thinking and foresight: tips, advice and guidance to help policymakers embed long-term thinking;
A guide to using foresight in policy making: maps different foresight approaches and futures tools onto the Policy Cycle;
- Report and case studies on features of effective systemic foresight in governments around the world.