Second Global Online Stakeholder Consultation for the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States

Summary Report is now available! Access it here!

The 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) will be held from 27 - 30 May 2024 in Antigua and Barbuda, under the theme “Charting the course toward resilient prosperity”. It will aim to assess the ability of small island developing States (SIDS) to achieve sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals. The SIDS4 Conference will bring together leaders to agree on a new programme of action for SIDS with a focus on practical and impactful solutions and to forge new partnerships and cooperation at all levels.

Member States have reiterated the importance of multi-stakeholder engagement and General Assembly resolution A/RES/77/245 "stresses the need for the effective participation of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and other major groups, particularly from small island developing States," in the Conference itself and its preparatory process. Additional modalities (A/CONF.223/2024/PC/L.1) and the format of the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States were adopted on 30 May 2023, during the meeting of the Preparatory Committee for SIDS4.

As part of its formal programme, the SIDS4 Conference will feature five interactive and multi-stakeholder dialogues that will focus on addressing existing and emerging challenges and opportunities for the sustainable development of SIDS and ways and means to address them, including through the strengthening of collaborative partnerships. To ensure an in-depth discussion, background notes will be prepared by the UN secretariat to inform each theme listed below:

• Making Climate Finance work for SIDS: Building on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP 28 

• Enhancing Critical Forms of Financing and Aid Effectiveness through collaborative Partnerships: A Conversation 

• Levering Data and Digital Technologies and Building effective Institutions for a Resilient Future in SIDS 

• Investing in human capital: addressing health crisis in SIDS and building the potential of youth in SIDS 

• Revitalizing SIDS Economies for accelerated and sustainable growth 

Built on the success of the first global online stakeholder consultation, UN DESA organized a second global online stakeholder consultation to solicit inputs from stakeholders from different sectors as informal inputs for the elaboration of the background notes for the SIDS4 interactive dialogues. 

Deadline for submission of inputs was 19 January 2024.

All responses can be accessed here.

The Summary report is now available! Please, check here for details.

The Secretariat reserves the right to take down any submissions that are not in compliance with the UN Charter or the theme of the SIDS4 Conference.