Caribbean Forum: Shaping a Sustainable Development Agenda to address the Caribbean Reality in the 21st Century

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) 

• Presentation of Elizabeth Thompson, Former Executive Coordinator of Rio+20 and High Level Consultant for the post-2015 Development Agenda

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

• Middle-income countries: a structural gap approach

Principle 10 

• Declaration
• Report of the first meeting of the Focal Points and Roadmap

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