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Friday, July 25, 2025

T&T hosts symposium on sustainable development goals

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The Eco­nom­ic Com­mis­sion for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (Eclac) Sub­re­gion­al Head­quar­ters for the Caribbean will con­vene a Sym­po­sium on Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean with­in the post-2015 De­vel­op­ment Agen­da in Port-of-Spain on Wednes­day and Thurs­day.

This meet­ing, sup­port­ed by the Caribbean De­vel­op­ment Bank, brings to­geth­er min­is­ters and se­nior pol­i­cy mak­ers in the fields of plan­ning and de­vel­op­ment, the en­vi­ron­ment, and so­cial af­fairs, to con­sid­er among the SDGs those goals that are cen­tral to the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment needs of the Caribbean.

Specif­i­cal­ly, the meet­ing will high­light and raise aware­ness of the chal­lenges faced by Caribbean coun­tries in pur­su­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, and pro­vide a ra­tio­nale for the se­lec­tion of these pri­or­i­ty goals.

Pan­el dis­cus­sions will pro­vide a fo­rum for pol­i­cy mak­ers and ex­perts to de­lib­er­ate on the re­gion's de­vel­op­ment strat­e­gy as it tran­si­tions from the mil­len­ni­um de­vel­op­ment goals (MDGs) to the SDGs. Dis­cus­sions will take in­to con­sid­er­a­tion the im­me­di­ate and medi­um term con­straints fac­ing the re­gion and the re­source gaps that need to be filled from both do­mes­tic and in­ter­na­tion­al sources.

Strate­gies and op­por­tu­ni­ties for Caribbean Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States (SIDS) to im­ple­ment the SDGs in­clud­ing fi­nanc­ing for de­vel­op­ment, as well as da­ta and in­sti­tu­tion­al ca­pac­i­ty needs will al­so be tak­en in­to con­sid­er­a­tion.

Of­fi­cials of the Unit­ed Na­tions sys­tem, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of re­gion­al civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions, acad­e­mia, re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment in­sti­tu­tions and in­ter­na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment part­ners will al­so be in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate and con­tribute to the dis­cus­sions.


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