The SAMOA Pathway
The SAMOA Pathway expanded the mandate of UN-OHRLLS to include small island developing states (SIDS). Sea-level rise and other adverse impacts of climate change continue to pose a significant risk to SIDS and their efforts to achieve sustainable development. For many, climate change also represents the gravest threat to their survival and viability.
The SAMOA Pathway aims to address the unique challenges faced by SIDS and to support their development via the following objectives:
- Support the coordinated follow-up of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS.
- Undertake advocacy work in favour of the small island developing States in partnership with the relevant parts of the United Nations as well as with the civil society, media, academia and foundations.
- Assist in mobilizing international support and resources for the implementation of the Programme of Action.
- Provide support to group consultations of SIDS.
- Ensure the mainstreaming of the SAMOA Pathway and SIDS-related issues in the work of the UN system and to enhance the coherence of SIDS issues in UN processes.
FINAL REPORT: A Toolkit for Monitoring and Reporting on the SAMOA Pathway
Final Report
Facilitating SIDS Reporting on the SAMOA Pathway
SIDS Member States were never able to adequately report their progress under the SP (since there was no monitoring framework of indicators to guide the process even for the high-level mid-term review held in 2019). Coupled with the absence of a framework was SIDS’ known capacity challenges, particularly for data collection, analysis (including the computation of indicators) and dissemination.
The UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN/OHRLLS) undertook this exercise to develop a set of instruments/tools intended to simplify the reporting process for SIDS. The approach has been to use the ‘Framework of Monitoring Indicators for the SAMOA Pathway’ as its the starting point to avoid duplication of effort both by the UN and SIDS Member States.
The intention has been to use the assess the Framework and propose: (a) a set of core indicators for monitoring and reporting by Member States and (b) a format for preparing reports. This report shows how using the ‘Framework of Monitoring Indicators for the SP’ and other relevant documentation these two objectives have been achieved.
There are five (5) attachments to this report that show the steps taken in deriving a core indicator framework. Attachments A and B show the results of an assessment of the existing two-part Framework with proposals made for indicators to fill remaining gaps.
Attachment C shows that further alignment has been done with the Strategic Plans of the CARICOM and the Pacific Community (PC) Secretariats to ensure further alignment between these plans and the Framework of Monitoring Indicators, therefore avoiding any additional reporting burden by the introduction of a framework with a core set of indicators.
Attachment D shows the seventy (70) indicators selected as the core or key set of indicators that capture the essence of the broad thematic areas and their priorities. It also shows the extent to which these indicators continue to be aligned to the monitoring frameworks of the two main SIDS sub-Regions.
