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Introduction
One of the key aspects to achieving sustainable development is open access to sufficiently reliable and accurate data. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have long expressed a concern regarding the lack of readily available data and information on the environment and the human impact on it, and the challenge this provides in charting a path to development which is sustainable. Countries in the Caribbean still require support in creating mechanisms for the long-term management of sustainable development and environment information and in defining ways to harness this information for decision-making purposes.
As a step towards addressing the issue, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS) and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) are collaborating on a one-year project to be implemented in the English-speaking Caribbean entitled " Capacity-Building in Creating Information Management Systems to Improve Decision-making for Sustainable Development for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)".
The project aims to:
(i) identify and assess regional and country needs in information management systems for sustainable development; (ii) develop core curriculum and materials for training of local human resources; and (iii) create a regional electronic site for accessing information on information management systems and techniques. The project was executed between November 2002 and December 2003.
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