Transcript Significant Developments Since WSSD

Significant Developments
Since WSSD
C.Pasisi – Sustainable Development Officer SPREP
Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for BPoA+10, Samoa 2003.
Significant Developments
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Nadi Regional Consultation on WSSD,
Type II’s and BPoA+10 Preparations,
March 2003
 CSD 11, April – May 2003
 ComSec and IGO Technical Meeting,
London, June 2003.
Aims of Nadi Consultation,
March 2003
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Update on developments since Johannesburg and
other significant International Agreements
 Engage PIC’s in Pacific Umbrella Initiatives, and
proposed process for their coordination,
management and monitoring
 Country Reflections on the WSSD Process
 Receive feedback on BPoA+10 Preparatory
Process.
Country Reflections on the
WSSD Process
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Obligations from international commitments >
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
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?
Outcomes/Recommendations
of Nadi Consultation
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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.
NAR’s as the basis for developing NSDS’s
The BPoA+10 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.
CSD 11
 Modalities for CSD 12 as prepcom for BPoA+10 (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 II’s
– UN PIF Missions (Roadmap)
– International partner interest. (e.g. Singapore, capacity building)
IGO Technical Meeting,
London, June 2003
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ComSec funded a meeting of 3
representative regional IGO’s focusing on
inter-regional coordination
 expectations for the BPoA+10
 Developed a strategy and work plan to
support coordination between IGO’s of
different SIDS regions to support AOSIS in
the BPoA+10 process.
Summary
 The regional IGO’s 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.