International agencies and development partners discuss the future of SIDS at Thailand meeting

March 1, 2024

International agencies and development partners discuss the future of SIDS at Thailand meeting

NEW YORK – 28^th February, 2024…The current and looming challenges being faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are getting the attention of major international agencies and development partners as Antigua and Barbuda prepares to host the May 27-30 SIDS4 Conference.

In Thailand, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the UK Government and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific hosted a workshop type session under the specific theme of “Co-creating solutions for enhancing capacity strengthening in Small Island Developing States.”

Some 60 participants to include representatives from SIDS, development partners, stakeholders and regional bodies from over 30 countries around the globe participated in the engaging two-day meeting at the UN Conference Centre in Bankok last week. The attendees explored ways that development partners can improve working in SIDS for more sustainable, impactful, and contextualised capacity strengthening support.

In attendance was Antigua and Barbuda’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Tumasie Blair, who noted the opportunity was a fruitful and productive exercise in building support for SIDS and for bringing focussed attention on the need for the SIDS4 Conference to deliver the strongest possible outcome.

Delivering remarks as the featured speaker in the opening session of the workshop, Blair informed attendees on the preparations for the Fourth SIDS Conference and the anticipated outcomes of the Conference.

“SIDS4, must be seen as a reset, a rethinking and a reinvigorated approach of the relationship between SIDS and the international community,” Blair stressed.

“When we leave St. John’s, there must be a sense of relief that we, the international community, got it right, and the next 10 year framework for SIDS, will be less about promises but more about action,” he further emphasised.

The Fourth SIDS Conference is ramping up to be quite a high profile international gathering as stakeholders are now strategizing in meetings all over the globe on how they can assist SIDS in Charting the Course Towards Resilient Prosperity.

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