UNDESA
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
July 2007: The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2-27 July 2007, for its annual substantive session.
This year marked the launch of two new elements: the Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) and the Development Cooperation Forum. During the first AMR, ministers from Bangladesh, Barbados, Ethiopia, Ghana, Cambodia and Cape Verde presented national voluntary presentations, following which participants responded.
On the final day, ECOSOC delegates suspended the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
27 February 2009: The Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) for the 17th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD17) took place from 23-27 February 2009, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. The IPM’s role was to provide a forum to discuss policy options and possible actions to enable the implementation of measures and policies concerning agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa – the thematic issues under consideration during the CSD16/...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
May 2010: The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Unit of the Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) has published the sixth issue of SIDS Newsletter. This issue contains updates on preparations for the high-level meeting, to be convened on 24-25 September 2010, to carry out a five-year review of progress in addressing the vulnerabilities of SIDS through the Mauritius Strategy for Implementation (MSI+5).
In an update on informal consultations on the draft political declaration, the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 September 2010: The Vice-President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has transmitted a summary of the 20-21 July 2010 ECOSOC debate on the review of UN support for small island developing States (SIDS) to the President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). The summary was circulated prior to the High-Level Review of the 65th session of the GA (24-25 September) to assess progress made in addressing the vulnerabilities of SIDS through the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
17 September 2010: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has referred the draft Resolution and outcome document of the High-level Review Meeting on the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI+5) to the High-level event, which will convene in New York, US, from 24-25 September 2010.
The Resolution (A/65/L.2) includes a political declaration in which heads of State and...
