Saint Lucia
07 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
3 September 2012: The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has announced the list of members as of 1 September 2012. IPBES has currently 92 members, including eight small island developing States (SIDS).
SIDS members of IPBES are: from Africa, Guinea-Bissau; from Asia and the Pacific, Fiji; and from the Caribbean, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
IPBES also has members from Eastern Europe, Latin...
07 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
July 2012: The Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis, with the support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is developing a national trust fund and conservation finance mechanism for the sustainable financing of protected areas in St. Kitts and Nevis.
A meeting held from 17-19 July 2012 gathered stakeholders to discuss the development of a sustainable financing architecture in the country. This effort is part of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative, under which the Governments of Bahamas, the...
05 Sep 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
29 August 2012: A new report from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) discusses the role of UNDP programmes - including Millennium Development Goal (MDG) GoAL WASH, Cap-Net, the Community Water Initiative, Every Drop Matters, the MDG Spanish Fund, and the Millennium Acceleration Framework – in achieving water and sanitation targets of the MDGs. The report underscores challenges and notes that sanitation is one of the two MDG targets that remain most off-track.
The report, titled “UNDP...
09 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 August 2012: The UN Development Group (UNDG) has released guidelines for national-level, multi-stakeholder consultations to help define the post-2015 development agenda. The consultations are to be held in at least 50 countries. UN agencies, funds and programs are invited to submit concept notes for consultations by 17 August 2012. The consultations are expected to be held by 31 March 2013.
The country-level consultations are intended to complement the intergovernmental process on the post-...
02 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
July 2012: The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) has released the first issue of its quarterly newsletter for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Caribbean islands, titled “Capacité.” The newsletter provides information on CANARI’s work in the region, and shares lessons learned and best practices from CEPF-supported projects and related initiatives.
The newsletter includes articles on: the role of the CEPF in participating countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas,...
