Suriname
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
24 September 2008: Marcus Stephen, President of Nauru, and
Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan, President of Suriname, used their opening statements
at the sixty-third session of the UN
General Assembly (UNGA) to call for assistance in, respectively, adapting to
and mitigating climate change.
Nauru, a Pacific small-island developing State,
faces dramatic pressure from the forecasted sea-level rise. Stephen called for
UNGA assistance in rehabilitating land denigrated by phosphate mining to enable...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
5 October 2010: The general debate of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) for the 65th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened on 4 October 2010, in New York, US.
Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, noted the success of the recent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit and the supplementary side events on small island developing States (SIDS) and biodiversity, but underscored that many persistent challenges demand global attention. ...
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
The Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP) is Singapore’s umbrella technical assistance programme to developing countries. In 1999, the Small Island Developing States Technical Cooperation Programme (SIDSTEC) was set up under the SCP as part of Singapore’s efforts towards assisting Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to achieve sustainable development. Through close collaborations with development partners and recipient countries, it aims to foster mutual learning, cooperation and friendship...
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
The Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM) is one of the main institutional responses by the Caribbean SIDS Member States with respect to land resources. Led by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), it is an expression of the translation of the aims of the UNCCD and the Land Resources Chapter of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) into tangible deliverables.
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
This workshop was one of the culminating activities of the inter-regional project on the Measurement of the Informal Sector and Informal Employment. The project involved three United Nations commissions, namely, ESCAP, ESCWA and ECLAC. It was supported by the Development Account of the United Nations and the ECLAC component was conducted in the Caribbean subregion beginning in 2007. The project country in this subregion was Saint Lucia and this culminating workshop was aimed primarily at...
