UNDESA
16 Jan 2012
Three regional meetings and one inter-regional meeting will take place in preparation for the international meeting to review implementation of the BPOA on sustainable development of SIDS. The Pacific SIDS meeting will take place in Apia, Samoa, from 4-8 August 2003, the Caribbean SIDS meeting will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 18-22 August, and the AIMS SIDS meeting will convene in Praia, Cape Verde, from 1-5 September. An Inter-regional preparatory meeting for all SIDS...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
1 December 2010: In meetings on 30 November and 1 December 2010, the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial) concluded its 65th Session, taking action on a draft titled “Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.”
In total, the Committee adopted 40 draft resolutions and three draft decisions during the present session. If adopted,...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
January 2010: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit has released the eighth issue of its “SIDS Newsletter.”
The newsletter elaborates follow-up activities to the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation (MSI+5) meeting which concluded in September 2010, and notes that Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang has initiated follow-up consultations with member States, principals of UN agencies, funds and programmes, and heads of...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2011: The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), has announced the “complete redesign and revitalization” of SIDSnet, its online platform for linking islands on issues related to sustainable development.
SIDSNet was established in 1997 as an information system and networking mechanism, to provide the technology platform that enabled public and private networking around the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA). The...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2011: The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit has issued a timeline of SIDS-related events taking place prior to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio 2012).
The timeline is divided into “official CSD/UNCSD activities” and “other activities.” The official activities include: both the formal and informal intersessional meetings of the UNCSD Preparatory Committee; Pacific, Latin...
