Knowledge Management
26 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 March 2012: The Equator Initiative has announced its 2012 Equator Prize winners, honoring 25 initiatives from around the globe for their role in advancing sustainable developments through innovative and pioneering projects.
After evaluating the 800 nominations received by the Equator Initiative’s Technical Advisory Committee, winners’ projects consist of initiatives on freshwater access, food security, sustainable energy and oceans, among others. A total of seven projects from...
26 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
23 March 2012: The 2012 edition of World Meteorological Day was organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) around the theme “Powering our future with weather, climate and water.” The Day commemorates the entry into force of the WMO Convention, which took place on 23 March 1950.
The 2012 World Meteorological Day focuses on the benefits of weather, climate and water information for different socioeconomic sectors. It builds on WMO’s ongoing efforts to stress the...
22 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
20 March 2012: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released its first Caribbean Human Development Report, titled “Human Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security,” which covers Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
According to the report, 12 of the 20 most violent countries in the world are in Latin America and the Caribbean. UNDP underscores that crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and...
22 Mar 2012
The first Global Human Development Forum is being co-organized by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Turkey. The Forum will examine social, economic and environmental challenges ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). [ for more information: http://sids-l.iisd.org/events/first-global-human-development-forum/ ]
20 Mar 2012
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SIDS Policy and Practice
15 March 2012: A regional meeting for the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) took place in the Pacific to provide training to national officers on the vision and strategy of the programme and SGP’s results-based management framework.
The meeting brought together national coordinators, sub-regional coordinators, and national focal points of the GEF SGP from Fiji, Tuvalu, Nauru, Samoa, Kiribati, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. During...
