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Project Concept Paper
- Within the last two decades or more, the special needs of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been recognized through various international discussions and conferences. SIDS have some specific issues in relation to sustainable development and environment that are not appropriate, or of such a high priority, to larger countries on the continental landmasses. These include a limited resource base (human and natural); a limited land area for development; a limited set of economic options; consequent intense competition between development priorities, the environment and associated biodiversity; and vulnerability to extreme events in the face of restricted movement and limited settlement options.
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SIDS-Project document
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have particular needs and specific issues in relation to sustainable development and environment that are not appropriate, or of such a high priority, to larger countries on the continental landmasses. Water resource and wastewater management and water quality are now critical issues to nearly all SIDS throughout the world. This has been recognized through various formal statements and commitments at a number of globally significant conferences and high-level international meetings including the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro – 1992) and a Conference of SIDS in Barbados in 1994 which adopted the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA), the Mauritius SIDS Strategy in 2005. In 2002, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), in Johannesburg South Africa, a number of statements related to SIDS that identified priorities, and requested that global resources be targeted to address these priorities were issued.
