Health
29 Aug 2012
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will convene a final working group session of consultants and representatives of ECLAC, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) before draft reports of the economic and social impacts on climate change on the Caribbean's agriculture, coastal and marine, energy, health, tourism and water sectors are prepared. [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/final-...
28 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
August 2012: The August issue of the Global Water Partnership Caribbean (GWP-C) newsletter includes stories on smallholder agricultural water management (AWM), rainwater harvesting (RWH), gender and sanitation, water supply improvement projects, youth involvement in water management, and integrated water resources management (IWRM) and disaster resilience.
The “Caribbean Water Insight” newsletter features articles on: innovative agriculture as a profitable and sustainable business...
02 Aug 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
6 July 2012: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) hosted an Inception Workshop for a US$5 million dollar Climate Change Adaptation Programme, which will be implemented from 2012-2017, with the guidance of the Pa Enua or outer island communities in the Cook Islands, targeting sectors such as the water, health, agriculture and marine resources.
The Inception Workshop, which took place from 2-6 July 2012, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, brought together key...
27 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
25 July 2012: The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, has called on the Government of Kiribati to urgently address safe water and sanitation, by allocating necessary human and financial resources to a Government department that would be responsible for sanitation. Kiribati has the highest child mortality rate in the Pacific region, she noted, and sanitation and hygiene must be improved in order to reduce preventable deaths of children. In order...
25 Jul 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 July 2012: The latest issue of Global Island Partnership’s (GLISPA) “Event Spotlight” features an event that was convened on 20 June 2012, on the sidelines of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), titled “Securing the island future we want: Enabling steps to achieving a green blue economy at regional scale.”
According to GLISPA, key messages emerging from the event included: for islands, issues of health, energy, land and oceans cannot be...
