Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor – News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

As the Fourth In­ter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence of Small Is­land De­vel­op­ment States (SIDS4) start­ed in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da on Mon­day, over 40 civ­il so­ci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tives from 14 Caribbean states and over­seas ter­ri­to­ries called for trans­for­ma­tive and in­clu­sive path­ways to sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

The call was made at a Civ­il So­ci­ety Sum­mit which was co-host­ed by the Caribbean Nat­ur­al Re­sources In­sti­tute (CA­NARI) and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Aware­ness Group (EAG) that pre­ceed­ed SIDS4.

The aim was to mo­bilise and pre­pare Caribbean civ­il so­ci­ety to ef­fec­tive­ly en­gage in di­a­logue on the new 10-year sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment agen­da and its im­ple­men­ta­tion at SIDS4.

At the Con­fer­ence in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, the civ­il so­ci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tives are aim­ing to en­gage with na­tion­al gov­ern­ments, re­gion­al agen­cies and de­vel­op­ment part­ners to en­sure re­al trans­for­ma­tion to­wards in­clu­sive, re­silient and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment in Caribbean and oth­er SIDS.