Barbados 10 Mauritius 05

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Barbados10Mauritius 05

• http//portal.unesco.org/islandsBplus10

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UNESCOs contributions to MIM

• Plenary Panel on Culture
• Youth Visioning special event
• Small Islands Voice side event
• Ocean and Coastal Management partnership event
• Civil Society Forum support
• Lest We Forget exhibition
• Media coverage
• Information materials

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Plenary PanelRole of Culture in the Sustainable
Development of SIDS

• To examine broad, holistic definition of culture
  embraced by UNESCO review its importance for
  sustainable development of SIDS
  
• Strong support for recognition of culture as
  essential and all-pervading dimension of human
  living and development
  
• Culture identified as fourth pillar of
  sustainable (island) development
  
• Areas for priority action include
• - Involving communities in policy-making and
  safe guarding cultural heritage
  
• - Improving management of natural and cultural
  heritage sites
  
• - Invest in cultural industries to generate new
  and indigenous forms of employment and
  exports
  
• - Teach and transmit traditional community
  values and associated local and indigenous
  knowledge in basic education
  
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Youth Visioning for Island Living

• 96 young people from 31 SIDS and six island
  territories with other affiliations
  
• Discussing their perceptions and aspirations for
  the future of their islands
  
• Supported by various host country, regional and
  international partners, besides UNESCO
  
• video on CD web

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Youth commitments for follow-up work

• Life and Love in Islands island lifestyles and
  cultures (17 projects)
  
• My Island Home safeguarding island environments
  (15 projects)
  
• Money in my pocket economic and employment
  opportunities (11 projects)

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Small Islands Voice (SIV) Side Events

• Island memories - Preserving and promoting island
  cultures
  
• Connecting islands via the internet
• Eco-friendly practices for sustainable living in
  small islands
  
• Community visioning in small islands

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Outcomes of Mauritius MeetingMauritius
Declaration Mauritius Strategy (MS) - reaffirm
Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA) remains blue
print, and call for action in

• Original priority areas of BPOA
• - Climate change and sea-level rise
• - Natural environmental disasters
• - Management of wastes
• - Coastal marine resources
• - Freshwater, Land, Energy res.
• - Tourism, Biodiversity resources
• - Transport communication
• - Science technology

• New Emerging Issues
• - Sust. capacity dev. ESD
• - Sust. production consumption
• - Health (HIV/AIDS)
• - Culture
• - Trade globalization liberalization
• - National and regional enabling env.
• - Knowledge management information for decision
  making
  

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UN-NY follow-up

• Resolution on the MIM to be adopted by UN Gen.
  Assembly, Sept.2005
  
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• Main elements include
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• Articulate plan for implementing MS by relevant
  UN bodies, specialised agencies, regional
  commissions and other UN system organisations
  
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• Support regional SIDS meetings in 2005-06 with
  relevant regional organisations and stakeholders
  for follow-up MS implementation
  
• Encourage Member States to contribute to SIDS
  Trust Fund
  
• Strengthen SIDS Unit in Dept. Economic Social
  Affairs (DESA)
  
• Relevant UN agencies to further mainstream the MS
  in their programmes and establish SIDS focal
  point
  

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UNESCO FOLLOW-UP

• Intersectoral Information meeting for Perm.
  Delegations (16 March) - with Group of SIDS
  Ambassadors led by Mauritius Ambassador
  
• Preliminary indications on proposed follow-up by
  Programme Sectors and through Youth Visioning
  process
  
• Six-part approach with Mauritius Strategy as
  essential reference
  

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UNESCO follow-up

• 1. Generating relevant inputs from Natural
  Sciences Sector
  
• 2. Generating Inputs from other Programme
  Sectors
  
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• 3. Taking into account Participation Programme
  activities in SIDS
  
• 4. Dedicated Web Section on UNESCO response to
  the MS
  
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• 5. Elaboration of new activities as specific
  responses to the MS
  
• - SIV planning meeting
• - Documenting Pacific Island responses to SD
  challenges UNESCO role in furthering SD in
  Pacific Islands  
  
• - Input UN operationalization plan, e.g. Culture,
  Youth Visioning
  
• 6. House-wide follow-up via SIDS Working Group
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• Work ongoing with respect to above items
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UNESCO follow-upSelected activity areas in the
Mauritius Strategy

• Climate Change Sea-level rise
• Ocean Carbon Programme monitoring and assessing
  oceans role as carbon sink
  
• Global ocean observations to monitor climate
  variability and change (IOC/GOOS)
  
• Impact of climate change on rainfall, snowfall
  and glaciers (IHP/WCP)
  

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Knowledge Management and Information for Decision
Making

• 150 media development projects since the 1980s
  through International Programme for Development
  of Communications (IPDC)
  
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• In 2004-05, 19 new media projects approved for
  SIDS, totalling US497,000.
  
• Some examples
• Tonga Contributing to alleviation of poverty
  through media for outlying islands
  
• Fiji Community broadcasting development project
• Fiji Women speaking to women in Fiji
• Solomon Islands Media training for peace and
  reconciliation
  
• Mauritius Post-production and professional
  training centre in East Africa
  
• Cape Verde Media law reform
• Bahamas Building community media capacity
  environmental stewardship
  

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Freshwater resources

• World Water Assessment Programme
• Freshwater management issues in small islands
  addressed in the second interagency World Water
  Development Report
  
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• Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy
  (HELP) programme of the International
  Hydrological Programme (IHP) established in the
  Pacific
• Regional training programme for hydrology
  scientists and technicians and regional hydrology
  networking in the Pacific
  
• Trinidad Tobago. Assessing the human watershed
  aquifer through the establishment of an
  experimental catchment
  
• Discussion on SIVglobal forum conservation and
  sustainable management of water
  
• UN wide 2005-2015 International Decade
  'Water for Life'
  

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Health

• Focusing Resources on Effective School Health
  (FRESH) initiative - UNESCO other strategic
  partners
  
• Areas School health policies Water, sanitation
  the environment Skills-based health education
  School health services HIV/AIDS Food and
  nutrition hygiene MalariaViolenceDrugs,
  alcohol tobacco
• Projects (Caribbean)
• - assessment of implications of HIV/AIDS for
  early childhood schooling
  
• - developing methodology for estimating and
  projecting the prevalence of HIV/AIDS within the
  national educational sector
  
• - reinforcing cultural and communication
  dimensions in combating HIV/AIDS
  
• - handbook for use by health workers
• In the framework of Youth Visioning
• Cape Verde Youth children against HIV/AIDS
• St. Lucia Raising awareness through youth and
  for youth about HIV/AIDS
  
• UNAIDS - joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS

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Coastal and Marine Resources

• Development of Global Ocean Observation System
  in SIDS regions
  
• Coastal zone management workshop, Barbados April
  05
  
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•  Support to Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts
  Islands 
  
• Coral Reef Monitoring, Research Capacity
  Building
  
• Training course for young specialists Coastal,
  island and wetland biosphere reserves Comoros,
  Mauritius, Seychelles, Zanzibar
  
• Capacity building for mitigating coastal erosion
  in Cuba
  
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• Sandwatch activities in many SIDS
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Natural and Environmental disasters

• Scientific study and mitigation of natural
  hazards earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions,
  tsunamis, landslides and drought
  
• Launching of Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and
  Mitigation System (June 2005)
  
• Inventory and assessment of biosphere reserves
  damaged or destroyed during the earthquake
  disaster
  
• Groundwater for Emergency Situations project
• Conservation and sustainable rehabilitation of
  coastal ecosystems following the tsunami of
  Dec.04
  

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Culture

• Intangible Heritage SIDS to ratify the 2003
  Convention (of 12 Member States that ratified
  sofar, 2 are SIDS)
  
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• Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of
  Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions, to be
  submitted to General Conference Oct.05
  
• Cultural industries (cinema, music, publishing,
  etc.) through the Global Alliance for Cultural
  Diversity, e.g. poverty reduction project planned
  in Fiji and Trinidad Tobago, related projects
  in Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica.
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• Assistance to develop cultural policies in SIDS
  Comoros, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau
  
• Establishment of cultural diversity observatory
  for Indian Ocean region based in Mauritius.
  
• Biodiversity - Cultural Diversity, Tourism and
  Local Population seminar in Solomon Islands
  
• Museum partnerships in Indian Ocean SIDS
• Support to national World Heritage (WH) strategy
  workshops in SIDS regions
  
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Sustainable Capacity Development Education for
Sustainable Development

• UNESCO in ESD
• 1. Lead agency in the promotion of the Decade
  on Education for Sustainable Development
  (2005-2014)
  
• 2. Implementer of ESD - accelerating education
  reforms and coordinating activities of multiple
  stakeholders to implement ESD at international,
  regional, and country levels
• Developing public understanding and awareness of
  sustainability inter-regional internet forum
  with more than 20,000 individuals connected in
  SIDS
• Re-orientating existing education at all levels
  to address sustainable development Sandwatch
  
• Incorporating local and indigenous knowledge into
  ESD through formal and informal education
  system, e.g. LINKS activities in Solomon Islands,
  Vanuatu, Palau
• learning by doing, SIV support for sustainable
  development activities
  
• Support cooperation between small island national
  and regional universities for combined
  inter-regional training courses SIDS University
  Consortium start-up through UNITWIN

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• UNESCO will
• Continue to mainstream the special needs of SIDS
  in the Organizations programmes
  
• Continue holistic, integrated approaches to
  sustainable living and development in SIDS
  
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• Through nurturing intersectoral cooperation, with
  intergenerational dimension, at interregional
  level via proven platform approach and internet
  forums
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• Continue interagency cooperation and partnerships
  with IGOs and NGOs in the island regions
  
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