Global Island Partnership (GLISPA)

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Description

Led by the Presidents of Palau and Seychelles, the Prime Minister of Grenada and the Premier of the British Virgin Islands, the Global Island Partnership promotes action to build resilient and sustainable island communities by inspiring leadership, catalyzing commitments and facilitating collaboration. It is a partnership for all islands, regardless of size or political status, to take greater action to conserve and sustainably utilize invaluable island natural resources that support people, culture and livelihoods around the world.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

The Global Island Partnership 2030 Goals: 1. Inspire leadership and catalyze commitments to address critical island issues2. Accelerate implementation of sustainable island commitments3. Ensure a sustainable partnership to achieve the 2030 StrategyThe 2020 Priorities are: 1. Ensure GLISPA is a financially sustainable partnership to achieve its 2030 Strategy2. Launch one new high-level and visionary sustainable island commitment each year3. Accelerate implementation of sustainable island commitments launched and strengthened through GLISPA4. Kick start one high impact demonstration activity from each of: - Innovative financing for a blue/green economy in islands (Support island efforts toward innovative financing through improving connectivity/cohesive direction toward broader goals, changing the narrative around financing; Mobilize island leadership for innovative new tools including debt swaps and the Island Resilience Challenge; Identify innovative financing bright spots (including on access to financing, project pipeline, political will, project design and public private partnerships amongst others) and share these through annual meetings)- Sustainable Coastal Fisheries (Identify and catalyze national level commitments from islands; Create a menu of options for islands to adopt sustainable coastal fisheries that is innovative and which contributes to community sustainability) - Building Resilience (Ecosystem Based Adaptation/Disaster Risk Reduction): Identify early leadership, bright spots and lessons learned from islands on EBA/DRR; Support island leadership on EBA/DRR including through integrating EBA/DRR into existing commitments and mobilizing new commitments)

Capacity

The Global Island Partnership is a unique network of island leaders working to inspire each other to greater action. The Partnership showcases island commitments, such as the Aloha+ Challenge and Micronesia Challenge, as bright spots on the international stage to inspire new leadership and encourage investment to scale and replicate what works. For example, the Micronesia Challenge launched in 2006, led to similar large scale commitments being announced in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Western Indian Ocean. In 2015, Seychelles launched the world's first debt for adaptation swap to finance climate change adaptation and marine spatial planning goals as part of their Blue Economy vision. The debt swap is a high-impact initiative that was supported by The Nature Conservancy, Seychelles and GLISPA and is now being adapted by other countries through GLISPA and TNC.

Governed

The Global Island Partnership is a solution-focused and impactful partnership able to mobilize significant action through its Members and broader participant network. Review our Impact Dashboard https://impact.glispa.org. In 2016, the year GLISPA celebrates a decade of collective impact on islands, the Partnership launched its 2030 Strategy. The Strategy design and implementation is led by a dedicated and passionate Steering Committee comprised of the GLISPA Members. Each Member contributes USD5,000 annually to support a sustainable partnership capable of delivering on the 2030 Strategy. An Executive Committee, a subgroup of the Steering Committee, provides oversight on governance and sustainability matters and is convened by the Steering Committee Chair, Palau’s US Ambassador, Hersey Kyota. The Steering Committee meets bi-annually: once by web conference as well as through an annual in-person meeting in October. The Global Island Partnership is a collaborative and inclusive partnership open to any entity committed to promoting action to build resilient and sustainable island communities. Participants are generally individuals, governments, agencies and organizations that want to work together toward common goals for islands. Participants are not required to pay a member fee and are welcome to join working groups such as on innovative financing in blue and green economies, sustainable coastal fisheries as well as building resilience through ecosystem-based adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Interested individuals and entities are welcome to engage in working group and can be invited by the Chair to attend the annual Steering Committee as an observer. It is expected that observers will become members after their 2nd Steering Committee meeting. The Global Island Partnership is recognized as a mechanism for advancing the conservation of island biodiversity Decision IX/21, CBD COP9 (2008) and Decision XI/15, CBD COP11 (2012) further invites Parties to engage with GLISPA as an effective partner to support conservation of island biodiversity; as a best practice partnership by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, 2010); as a success factor in preparations for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). In 2014, the President of Palau was named Champion of the Earth for policy leadership nationally and globally as a GLISPA Leader.

Partners

GLISPA Members: Palau, Seychelles, Grenada, British Virgin Islands, Association for Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTA), Conservation International, County of Hawai’i, Municipality of Cozumel, Global Environment Facility, GEF Small Grants Programme implemented by UNDP, Hawai’i Green Growth, Indian Ocean Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Italy, Micronesia Conservation Trust, Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea, Pacifico Foundation, Pacific Island Development Forum (PIDF), PRECOVERY Labs, Rare, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Seasteading Institute, Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, State of Hawai’i, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, The Nature Conservancy and Waitt Foundation, Waitt Institute and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

GLISPA Supporters: European Commission and U.S. State Department.

GLISPA Friends: More than 30+ friends support strategy implementation including Governments, NGOs/IGO, Island Entities and private sector and philanthropists. See the GLISPA Impact Dashboard https://impact.glispa.org.

SDGS & Targets

Goal 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

17.1

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.1.1

Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source

17.1.2

Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

17.2

Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

17.2.1

Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI)

17.3

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.1

Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.2

Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

17.4

Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

17.4.1

Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services

17.5

Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

17.5.1

Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries

17.6

Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

17.6.1

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed

17.7

Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

17.7.1

Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies

17.8

Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

17.8.1

Proportion of individuals using the Internet

17.9

Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

17.9.1

Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

17.10

Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

17.10.1

Worldwide weighted tariff-average

17.11

Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

17.11.1

Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports

17.12

Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

17.12.1

Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

17.13

Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

17.13.1

Macroeconomic Dashboard

17.14

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.14.1

Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development

17.15

Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

17.15.1

Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation

17.16

Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.16.1

Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

17.17

Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

17.17.1

Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

17.18

By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

17.18.1

Statistical capacity indicators

17.18.2

Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

17.18.3

Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding

17.19

By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

17.19.1

Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries

17.19.2

Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

Goal 14

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

14.1

By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

14.1.1

(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density

14.2

By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans

14.2.1

Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas

14.3

Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels

14.3.1

Average marine acidity (pH) measured at agreed suite of representative sampling stations

14.4

By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics

14.4.1

Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels

14.5

By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information

14.5.1

Coverage of protected areas in relation to marine areas

14.6

By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation

14.6.1

Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

14.7

By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism

14.7.1

Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries

14.a

Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries

14.a.1

Proportion of total research budget allocated to research in the field of marine technology

14.b

Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets

14.b.1

Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries

14.c

Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"

14.c.1

Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources

SDG 14 targets covered

Name	Description
14.2	By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.4	By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.5	By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.7	By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
17.14	Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
14.b	Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets

Deliverables & Timeline

01 January, 1970

Micronesia Challenge