About the SIDS Unit
The
SIDS Unit was created in 1995 within the Division for Sustainable
Development to facilitate the follow-up and implementation of the Barbados
Programme of Action. The SIDS Unit fulfills the following functions:
- Provide substantive secretariat support to
intergovernmental and inter-agency processes
related to the monitoring, review and
coordination of the implementation of the
Programme of Action;
- Act as a liaison and focal point for
Governments, organs, programmes and agencies of
the United Nations system, as well as other
relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations, on matters related to the
follow-up to the conference and the
implementation of the Programme of Action;
- Prepare reports to be submitted to the
Commission on Sustainable Development, and other
relevant bodies, on the implementation of the
Programme of Action, drawing on the inputs from
all appropriate sources;
- Provide support, as appropriate, to other
activities emanating from the Programme of
Action;
- Follow-up with the WSSD Plan of
Implementation related to SIDS;
- Provide support for the preparations of the
international meeting to be held in 2004 in
Mauritius for a comprehensive review of the
implementation of the Programme of Action for
the sustainable development of Small Island
developing States.
For further information please contact Ms.
Diane Quarless, Chief, Small Island Developing
States Unit
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