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Will the Fourth UN International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) generate ‘resilient prosperity’?
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- Small Islands Big Picture
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- Feb 29, 2024
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- 2471
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Summary
Each decade since the mid-1990s, the United Nations has convened a high-level international summit – bringing together small-island governments, large-state donor partners, international organisations and representatives from civil society – to agree the next ten-year agenda for Small Island Developing States’ (SIDS) development diplomacy. The fourth of these conferences ( SIDS4 ) will take place in Antigua-Barbuda in May 2024, under the theme ‘ Charting the Course Toward Resilient Prosperity’ . SIDS4 is the most important of these decennial conferences so far, taking place at a critical juncture in the global context and at an especially challenging time for small island states. Consequently, Emily and Matt devote the entirety of this episode to a roundtable discussion with three key protagonists in the SIDS4 process: Tumasie Blair, Antigua-Barbuda’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa'olelei Luteru of Samoa, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and Permanent Representative of Samoa (the 2014 host state) Dr Simona Marinescu, Senior Advisor on SIDS at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) The episode explores what will happen at SIDS4, how the agenda has been developed, and in which policy areas SIDS will make the biggest demands of the international community. Looking ahead to the new 10-year agenda that will replace The SAMOA Pathway, Emily and Matt ask 'What can we expect from the Antigua-Barbuda Accord for SIDS (ABAS) 2024-34?' and, crucially, 'How will it deliver genuinely “resilient prosperity"?'. Featuring: Emily Wilkinson (host) | RESI Director and Senior Research Fellow at ODI Matthew Bishop (host) | RESI Director and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa'o…