UNDP
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
22 November 2010: Participants in a subregional consultation for Smaller Island States (SIS), held from 17-19 November 2010, in Nadi, Fiji, discussed and endorsed the SIS Action Plan on Supporting Women’s Participation in Decision-making Processes, identifying priorities for the next five years.
The subregional plan is expected to be tabled at the next SIS Officials and Leaders meeting for their consideration and political endorsement.
The consultation was convened by the Pacific Islands Forum...
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
This project sought to remove barriers to Renewable Energy (RE) use in the Caribbean, through specific actions to overcome policy, finance, capacity, and awareness barriers, estimating the contribution of renewable energy sources to the Region’s energy balance to be significantly increased. It sought to further provide the opportunity to replace existing fossil fuel-based decentralized electricity generation with RE based generation plants or to provide electricity to areas not yet covered. The...
katharina
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28 Oct 2011
The Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) is a global entity working to help islands around the world conserve and sustainably utilize their invaluable natural resources.
GLISPA was created to help bridge local and global island initiatives, build upon existing networks and programmes and share knowledge among all islands. It was formed following the Mauritius International Meeting in 2005 following a request from the Presidents of Palau and the President of the Seychelles for a global partnership...
katharina
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27 Oct 2011
The rational of this initiative is to enable the exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices between SIDS in the Pacific and the Caribbean, in order to find suitable solutions and replicate best practices for addressing the various threats posed by climate change and natural disasters.
The expected outcome is to strengthen safety and resilience of Pacific and Caribbean SIDS’ communities to a range of natural hazards by facilitating and supporting a South-South cooperation...
Beth
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24 Jun 2011
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Port-au-Prince – Haiti and the Dominican Republic kicked off a joint project last month to increase vegetation cover and improve living conditions for people on both sides of the countries’ shared border.
The two neighbours, sharing the island of Hispaňola, launched a four-year project, Green Border (Frontera Verde, in Spanish), to reduce high levels of natural disaster risk for local inhabitants along the border that runs through several rivers and watersheds.
Centuries...
