Significant Developments Since WSSD

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Significant Developments Since WSSD

• C.Pasisi Sustainable Development Officer SPREP
• Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for BPoA10,
  Samoa 2003.

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Significant Developments

• Nadi Regional Consultation on WSSD, Type IIs and
  BPoA10 Preparations, March 2003
• CSD 11, April May 2003
• ComSec and IGO Technical Meeting, London, June
  2003.

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Aims of Nadi Consultation, March 2003

• Update on developments since Johannesburg and
  other significant International Agreements
• Engage PICs in Pacific Umbrella Initiatives, and
  proposed process for their coordination,
  management and monitoring
• Country Reflections on the WSSD Process
• Receive feedback on BPoA10 Preparatory Process.

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Country Reflections on the WSSD Process

• Obligations from international commitments gt
  address through budgetary and planning processes
  
• Needs analysis for activities that can not be
  funded from domestic sources
• severely limited capacities, especially in
  planning units, for undertaking integration
  quickly
• engender political commitment beyond the event
• multi-stakeholder consultation approach extremely
  valuable
• Severe lack of awareness

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Country Reflections Continued

• loss of momentum since WSSD, need to reactivate
  WSSD taskforces
• consultation is an expensive process with
  insufficient resources available
• Lack of good data covering all three pillars of
  sustainable development (indicators)
• Positive outcomes are
• better partnerships (National, Regional and
  International)
• effective prioritisation of issues
• stronger linkage between national assessment
  report and NSDSs
• How to harness pledges made during WSSD?

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Outcomes/Recommendations of Nadi Consultation

• Focus on national planning process as a means to
  prioritise issues
• Secure an enabling environment (Strategy, policy
  and mechanism) supportive of long term integrated
  decision making and reporting.
• NARs as the basis for developing NSDSs
• The BPoA10 process, direct Regional and
  International resources and efforts to the
  priorities of Countries
• Pacific Umbrella Initiatives need to be
  supportive of the above processes and facilitate
  better partnerships and coordination at all
  levels.

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CSD 11

• Modalities for CSD 12 as prepcom for BPoA10 (3
  days)
• Set dates and secured support for preparatory
  meetings
• The SG will prepare a synthesis report combining
  all inputs from national, regional,
  inter-regional, and expert thematic groups
• The I-R-Meeting will be at the Ministerial level
  
• Reiterating the need for the full and effective
  participation of all SIDS
• The new work programme of CSD, Sustainable
  Development of SIDS will be considered in all the
  cycles from 2004-2-2017.
• Showcase on development of Pacfic Type IIs
• UN PIF Missions (Roadmap)
• International partner interest. (e.g. Singapore,
  capacity building)

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IGO Technical Meeting, London, June 2003

• ComSec funded a meeting of 3 representative
  regional IGOs focusing on inter-regional
  coordination
• expectations for the BPoA10
• Developed a strategy and work plan to support
  coordination between IGOs of different SIDS
  regions to support AOSIS in the BPoA10 process.

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Summary

• The regional IGOs now have a plan to better
  assist AOSIS and share regional experiences.
• CSD has galvanized a medium for SIDS SD issues to
  be reviewed an monitored
• Nadi Consultation
• highlighted some important lessons learnt
• And established some priorities
• At this meeting we would hope to take those
  priorities and lessons learnt, build on them and
  create a clear picture of how we plan to ensure
  SD is effectively implemented.
• Look at establishing target dates
• Sustainable Development indicators to measure
  success
• This picture should guide the efforts of our
  international partners to where we need it most.