The summit’s theme was: ‘Towards a common future’ and focused on building on the strengths of the Commonwealth to ensure the organisation is responsive to global challenges and delivers a more prosperous, secure, sustainable and fair future for all its citizens, particularly its young people.
The future of the Commonwealth depends on its one billion young people and the summit had a strong youth focus.The summit built links between countries to offer young people access to knowledge and skills; and give them a voice on key issues such as democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Across the 53 countries, member states face common challenges: weak global trade and investment flows; new cross-border security threats; the effects of climate change on small and other vulnerable states; threats to our shared values of democracy, good governance and inclusivity as set out in the Commonwealth Charter.