On 6 June 2009 a team of authors presented the Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance project at the annual conference of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

The meeting took place at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. The audience included ACUNS members from around the world as well as academics, government officials and civil society actors from the Caribbean.

In the panel Jan Aart Scholte presented the conceptual framework of the CS-AGG project, Tim Shaw presented the Commonwealth study, and Heidi Ullrich presented findings regarding the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO). 

In a lively discussion the audience raised challenging questions regarding general patterns that might be discerned across the case studies. However, it was emphasised that much depended on the particular global governance institution, the sector of civil society, and the issue area. 

Some participants urged that civil society contributions to democratically accountable global governance could be enhanced if more systematic formal mechanisms of engagement were developed. In contrast, others argued for the continuation of less structured arrangements. There was general concern from this audience in the Caribbean that civil society actors from smaller and poorer countries had insufficient opportunities to be heard in global governance quarters.