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Inter-Regional Preparatory Meeting
for the 10-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA)
Nassau,
Bahamas | 26-30 January 2004
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Highlights
from Wednesday, 28 January
 Photo:Dr.
Marcus Bethel, Minister of Health and Environment, Bahamas, and Ricardo Sanchez
Sosa, Director, UNEP, Regional Office, Latin America and the Caribbean, during
a Press Briefing and signing of a Global Environment Outlook Bahamas Memorandum
of Understanding
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On Wednesday morning, 28 January, delegates met in Plenary to
hear statements by Ministers and Heads of Delegation, observer States and membets
of Organizations. In the morning and afternoon, delegates engaged in panel discussions
on building capacity for more effective application of science and technology
in SIDS, and on strategies for overcoming risk, uncertainty and vulnerability
in SIDS. Delegates then concluded with a wrap-up session on the panel discussions.
The drafting group met throughout the day to continue its work on the draft Strategy
for the Further Implementation of the BPOA.
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Statements
by Ministers and Heads of Delegations
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Hazri
Hassan, Head of Delegation, Singapore, Ann David-Antoine, Grenada, and Richard
Ryan, Permanent
Representative of Ireland to the UN, speaking on behalf of the EU
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from donor countries during the morning Plenary |
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Panel
Discussion V: Towards Knowledge based societies: building capacity for more effective
application of science and technology in SIDS
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(in no particular order)): Kanayathu C. Koshy, University of the South Pacific
(koshy_k@usd.ac.fj), Leonard Nurse, Ministry
of Housing, Lands and the Environment, Barbados (meenr@sunbeach.net;
permanent@meenr.gov.bb; www.environment.gov.bb),
Al Binger (Moderator), Director, University of the West Indies Center for Environment
and Development (albert.binger@uwimona.edu.jm),
Eng Tiang Sing, Singapore Environment Institute, National Environment Agency,
Singapore (eng_tiang_sing@nea.gov.sg
; www.nea.gov.sg/sei), Fabio Fajardo
Moros, Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, Cuba (fabio@ceniai.inf.cu),
Kenrick R. Leslie, Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, University of Belize
(k.leslie@sbcglobal.net), Tuuu Taulealo,
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Samoa (tuuu.ieti@yahoo.com),
Irene Freudenschuss-Reichl, UNIDO (freudenschuss-reichl@un.org) |
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Panel
Discussion VI: Building resilience: strategies for overcoming risk, uncertainty
and vulnerability
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Panel (left to right):
Bikenibela
Paeniu, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Tuvalu (minfpi@tuvalu.tv),
Lino
Briguglio, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malta (lino.briguglio@un.edu.int),
Moderator Alvaro Umano, UNDP,
Rafael Olaya, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
(rafael.olaya@ifrc.org), and Albert
Binger, Director, University of the West Indies Center for Environment and Development
(albert.binger@uwimona.edu.jm)
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The
Institute@Small Island Developing States:
Training for a Sustainable Future (Jointly organized by UNDP and the Smithsonian
Institution)
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The
Institute@ ... was
jointly organized through a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution and
UNDP soon after the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The
Institute@ ... is
committed to translating sustainable development policies into practice. By providing
practical, high quality training to participants of key UN and other international
meetings and supporting course participants long-term through its website, The
Institute@ ... raises the capacity of individuals and, ultimately,
society to change things for the better. The first collaborative programme was
held at CSD-11 (The Institute@CSD-11)
and another, The
Institute@World Summit on the Information Society, was
held in December 2003.
For
more information, visit www.undp.org/ohr/sids
For information on how to teach or participate in a training course, become an
institutional partner, or sponsor the work of The
Institute@ ..., contact,
Leonard Hirsch, Smithsonian Institution (lhirsch@si.edu),
Alison Drayton, UNDP (alison.drayton@undp.org),
or Varsha Redkar-Palepu (varsha.redkar@undp.org)
(Alison Drayton and Varsha Redkar-Palepu are pictured
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During this conference, The
Institute@ SIDS is
holding the following five seminars for conference participants: How to Build
Effective Partnerships-Strategies and Techniques; Principles and Practices of
Microfinance; How to Identify and Develop Entrepreneurial Skills; How to Build
Capacity to the Meet the Millennium Development Goals; and How to Design a Project
for Implementation.
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 | | Omar
Rahaman, Business Development Advisor (left) during the seminar on how to identifying
and develop entrepreneurial skills Roberta
Wendy Ouant, Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission, speaks on
building confidence for people who are developing their own businesses |
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Seminar
on Building Capacity to Meet the MDGs Gary
Wiseman, UNDP Pacific Capacity Development Adviser |
Press
Briefing and Signing of GEO Bahamas Memorandum |
Caribbean
Launch of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Latin America and the Caribbean
2003, and the Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Bahamas for the Preparation of a
GEO National Assessment of the Bahamas Above
Photo: Dr. Marcus Bethel, Minister of Health and Environment, Bahamas, and Ricardo
Sanchez Sosa, Director, UNEP, Regional Office, Latin America and the Caribbean
sign the MOU For
more information, contact: Kakuko Nagatani-Yoshida, Division of Early Warning
and Assessment, UNEP/ROLAC (Kakuku.nagatani@pnuma.org);
or dewa;ac@pnuma.org
www.pnuma.org/dewalac |
Relevant
Links:
 The
Barbados Plan of Action
The
SIDS+5 report
The
Earth Negotiations Bulletin summary and analysis of the 1994 Barbados meeting
The
ENB summary of the SIDS+5 meeting
The
2002 GA resolution calling for the 10-year review
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List
of SIDS Pacific
Regional Meeting, Samoa, 4-8 August 2003
Atlantic,
Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and the South China Sea (AIMS) Regional Meeting,
Cape Verde, 1-5 September, 2003
Caribbean
Regional Meeting, Trinidad, 6-10 October 2003
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