Seychelles
14 Feb 2013
This Special Session of the Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Current membership includes: Comoros, France, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Yemen. More information on the SWIOFC: http://www.fao.org/fishery/rfb/swiofc/en [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/special-session-of-the-southwest-...
08 Feb 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2013: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Global Mechanism (GM) has launched a revamped web-based platform titled “Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – Finance.” The site will support the exchange of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, many of which are also small island developing States (SIDS).
The platform, which is part of the EU-funded Scope|ACP project, a South...
10 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
21 December 2012: Panama and Mauritius have become the 10th and 11th countries respectively to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Panama ratified the Protocol on 12 December and Mauritius on 17 December of 2012. Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Mexico, Rwanda and the Seychelles have already ratified. The Nagoya Protocol will...
09 Jan 2013
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: Commonwealth education ministers have agreed on a set of core recommendations for a framework to succeed Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in education.
Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries, including the education ministers from six, met in London, UK from 12-13 December 2012, to conclude their recommendations on the post-2015 development agenda for education. The Ministerial meeting was chaired by the Minister of Education and Human...
20 Dec 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2012: The international symposium titled ”Adaptation to climate change in the South-West Indian Ocean islands – Evaluation and Prospects” took place from 12-14 December 2012, in Saint-Denis, La Réunion. During the event, member States of the the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) called for enhancing regional cooperation in the field of climate change adaptation.
The event was jointly organized by the Regional Council of La Réunion and IOC, with the suport of the EU,...
