Background
The Global Multi-Stakeholder Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Partnership Dialogue (the “Global Dialogue”) is a UN General Assembly (UNGA) mandated event, organized under the auspices of the UNGA’s SIDS Partnership Framework.
The Third International Conference on SIDS (2014) with the overarching theme of "The sustainable development of small island developing States through genuine and durable partnership”, resulted in the adoption of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway. The Conference also saw the announcement of 300 multi-stakeholder partnerships devoted to the sustainable development of SIDS. The SIDS Partnership Framework, requested through the SAMOA Pathway and formally established in December 2015 by General Assembly resolution 70/202[1], is a broad multi-stakeholder platform that provides opportunities for reviewing progress made by existing partnerships, sharing of good practices, lessons learned and challenges and solutions from SIDS partnerships in the implementation of sustainable development agendas including the SAMOA Pathway. The SIDS Partnership Framework includes a member States driven Steering Committee on partnerships for SIDS - currently chaired by Permanent Representatives of Portugal and Samoa to the United Nations - and the organization of an annual action-oriented and results-focused Global Multi-stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue.
In 2023, the Global Dialogue will be held on 11 July 2023 from 10am -1pm at Conference Room 3, UNHQ in New York, co-organized by the co-chairs of the Steering Committee on partnerships for SIDS, UN DESA and OHRLLS in the margins of the 2023 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
The concept note and the programme
[1] General Assembly resolution 70/202 Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, available from undocs.org/en/A/RES/70/202
Watch the Global Dialogue from here
Remarks by Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General, UNDESA
