At the very beginning of C20 India, in November 2022, we launched a massive consultation by email, including to all Indian Non-Governmental Organisations registered on the DARPAN portal, to civil society organisations working with the UN Agencies and Embassies around the world, and to all our contacts worldwide, representing a total of more than 1.5 lakhs organisations from 35 countries. We asked all of them to participate in C20 and to indicate the top 3 areas they believed should be priorities. The goal was to better understand what areas they considered the most important so that we could take their responses into account while defining the different thematic working group under C20 India. From this initial outreach, we received more than 1,100 responses. The main themes mentioned as civil society’s priority areas were: education, health, women’s empowerment, development, environment, as per the representation below:
| Country | SUM of COUNTA of Organisation |
| Argentina | 3 |
| Australia | 1 |
| BAHRAIN | 1 |
| Baramulla | 1 |
| Belize | 1 |
| Bhutan | 1 |
| Canada | 2 |
| China | 4 |
| Deutschland | 1 |
| Germany | 3 |
| India | 1084 |
| Indonesia | 3 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Malaysia | 1 |
| Maldives | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Peru | 1 |
| Philippines | 2 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Russia | 1 |
| Spain | 2 |
| Switzreland | 1 |
| Tunisia | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 4 |
| USA | 9 |
| Vietnam | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
| Grand Total | 1140 |