Transcript PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING …

BARBADOS PROGRAMME OF
ACTION [BPOA]
HOW IT HAS BEEN USED AT GLOBAL LEVEL TO
ASSIST THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA OF
SIDS?
Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting
for the IM 2004, Apia, Samoa.
Mr. Amena V Yauvoli
Fiji Mission to the U.N
BPOA: GLOBAL PROGRAMME OF
ACTION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT OF SIDS
1. AGENDA 21- CHAPTER 17
2. BPOA- 1994
3. BPOA+5 (1999)
4. WSSD (2002)
5. IM- BPOA+10
1. AGENDA 21: Chapter 17-G
Highlighted the following:
- “Special Case” of SIDS both for environment
and development.
- Ecologically fragile, vulnerable, smallness,
geographic dispersion, isolation from markets,
preventing economies of scale.
- Considered vulnerable to global warming and
sea level rise and experiencing frequent natural
disasters such as cyclones, floods, hurricanes.
- These are special challenges to planning for and
implementing sustainable development.
1. Agenda 21…contd.
- Recognition must be given to the “special
development requirement of SIDS” and
accorded adequate priority in the provision
of assistance w.r.t the development and
implementation of s.d plans.
- Estimated cost of about $130million
(1993-2000); $50m (grants or
concessional terms) from international
community.
2. BPOA
• First Global Conference on Sustainable
development and the implementation of Agenda
21. Held from 25/4-6/5 1994.
• Translates Agenda 21 into specific policies,
actions and measures to be taken at the
national, regional and international levels to
enable SIDS achieve sustainable development.
• Seen as the first test of the global partnership by
which rich and poor countries agreed to work
together for sustainable development.
2. BPOA….Affirmation
- Survival firmly rooted in HR and cultural heritage. People
must be the central position in the process of s.d.
- Have sovereign rights over natural resources.
- Vulnerable to natural as well as environmental disasters
and have limited capacity to respond and recover from it.
- Critical interest in the protection of coastal zones and
oceans against the effects of land-based pollution.
- Limited freshwater resources.
- Increasing amounts of waste and hazardous substances.
- Limited facilities for waste disposal.
- Waste management.
- Transboundary movement of hazardous materials.
2. BPOA….Affirmation….contd.
- Limited in size, vulnerable economies,
dependent upon narrow resource bases and on
international trade (price-takers).
- National capacities and self-reliance ought to be
enhanced (HRD, institutional & administrative
capacities, legislations) to enable SIDS
implement the BPOA.
- Urgent need to address the constraints to
sustainable development.
- Special roles of NGOs, importance of
partnerships between Govts, IGOs & other major
groups.
2. BPOA….Affirmation…contd.
- International Community should cooperate
with SIDS in the implementation of the
BPOA by providing effective means,
including adequate, predictable and
additional financial resources in
accordance with Chapter 33 of Ag21.
3. BPOA+5
- 5 Year review of BPOA held in 1999.
- Undertook a comprehensive review of the
BPOA & called for concerted efforts to
support its implementations.
4. WSSD- Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation (JPOI)
- Reaffirmed the “special case of SIDS”.
- Highlighted a series of SIDS-specific
issues and concerns.
- Chapter VII devoted to SIDS.
5. International Meeting: BPOA +10
- UN General Assembly Resolution 57/262
mandated the convening on an
International Meeting, including a summit
segment, to undertake a comprehensive
review of the BPOA.
- Showcasing our success?
Challenges?
- The success of the global POA for SIDS is
contingent upon our preparations at the
national and regional level…this is the
time and forum to do it.
- The importance of NARs is a critical
platform to our success, measured by
progress in sustainable development
agenda at the national level in the Pacific
sub-region.