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The Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century held the 5-6 of March in the Red Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel. The meeting focused on development goals, global and regional governance and the discussion, from a regional perspective, of agreements adopted in order to inform the ongoing global processes.
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Documents of the Forum
- Preliminary Programme
- Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to Address the Caribbean Reality in the Twenty-First Century (LC/CAR/L.400)
- Conclusions from the Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to Address the Caribbean Reality in the Twenty-first Century
- Draft Report of the Caribbean Development Forum
Interventions & Proposals by Delegations
Session 1: Overview of progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda within the framework of sustainable development in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Session 2: Consideration of the Millennium Development Goals, the post-2015 development agenda and Rio+20 follow-up initiatives
- Report on the national consultations held on the Millennium Development Goals - Alva Baptiste, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of Saint Lucia
- Critical issues for the Caribbean in preparation for the Third Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States - Garfield Barnwell, Director, Sustainable Development, CARICOM Secretariat
- Implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development - Janice Miller, Under-Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica
Session 3: Advancing development in addressing the vulnerability of Caribbean SIDS through resilience building
- Theme 1: Promoting human development, citizen security and human rights in Caribbean SIDS
- Theme 2: Promoting inclusive growth through diversification, creativity and innovation in Caribbean SIDS
- Theme 3: Building resilience and social cohesion by leveraging cultural capital and community empowerment in Caribbean SIDS
- Comments on Theme 3 Building Resilience, Garfield Barnwell, Director, Sustainable Development, CARICOM Secretariat
Session 4: Strengthening governance and financial infrastructure in support of sustainable development in Caribbean SIDS
- Theme 4: Enhancing institutional infrastructure and governance for sustainable development in Caribbean SIDS
- Theme 5: Financing for sustainable development in small, middle-income Caribbean countries
Background Documents
Sustainable Development
- The Future We Want
- Structural Change for Equality: An Integrated Approach to Development
- Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, gaps and strategic guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Time for equality: closing gaps, opening trails
Millennium Development Goals
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals with equality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress and challenges
- The Millennium Development Goals: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective
- Milleniun Development Goals: Advances in Environmentally Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Millennium Development Goals. Progress towards the right to health in Latin America and the Caribbean (spanish)
- Millennium Development Goals 2006: a look at Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (spanish)
Financing for Sustainable Development
Principle 10
- Declaration
- Report of the first meeting of the Focal Points and Roadmap
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 in the Monserrate Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel in Bógota, Colombia on 7-9 of March 2013.
Attachments:
- Programa preliminar del Foro
- Preliminary programme Forum
- Conclusiones del Foro
- Summary conclusions
- Shaping a sustainable development agenda to address the caribbean reality in the Twenty-First Century
- Draft Report Forum (For participants only)
- The MDGs, Rio+20, The SDGs, Post-2015 Barbados +20 & Caribbean SIDS
- Report on the national consultations held on the Millennium Development Goals
- Critical issues for the Caribbean in preparation for the Third Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
- Implementation of principle 10 of the Rio Declaration of the United Nations Conference on environment and development
- Promoting human development, citizen security and human rigths in the Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS)
- Promoting inclusive growth through diversification, creativity and innovation
- Building Resilience and Social Cohesion by Leveraging Cultural Capital and Community Empowerment
- Comment on Theme 3 Building Resilience
- Enhancing Institutional Infrastructure and Governance for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean
- Financing for sustainable development in small, middle income Caribbean countries