Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Future Forum 2024

Date 04 Mar - 05 Mar 2024

Description

Ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in May, the SIDS Future Forum 2024 gathered policymakers, researchers, development partners and community leaders for a collaborative effort to build a 10-year roadmap for SIDS.

The Forum addressed urgent issues facing SIDS, including debt, declining productivity, climate threats and access to climate finance. Underpinning these discussions were 12 draft research papers – commissioned by the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) – exploring five key themes: resilient economies; safe societies; secure futures; environmental integrity; and data and implementation.

All 12 papers will be finalised and published on the RESI website ahead of SIDS4, when they will contribute as supporting material/annexes to the next 10-year roadmap for SIDS – the Antigua and Barbua Accord for SIDS. An outcome document, summarising the solutions developed at the Forum, will also provide recommendations to SIDS4.

Recordings of all sessions are available on the Island Innovation website!

Visit the official SIDS Future Forum webpage to watch the keynote speech, presentations and Q&As from Day 1, as well as the invitation-only 'Civil Society Roundtables' from Day 2.

Speakers

Emily Wilkinson (Session Chair)

Senior Research Fellow, ODI | Director, Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)
Matthew Bishop (Session Chair)

Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Sheffield | Director, RESI
Courtney Lindsay (Session Chair)

Senior Research Officer, ODI
Rachid Bouhia (Session Chair)

Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | Director, RESI
Gail Hurley (Session Chair and Panellist)

Independent Finance Expert
Simona Marinescu (Session Chair)

Senior Advisor Small Island Developing States, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Jack Corbett (Keynote Speaker)

Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia | Director, RESI
Carl-Ann Blackman (Panellist)

International Trade Policy Consultant
Tumasie Blair (Speaker)

Government of Antigua & Barbuda
Gareth Byatt (Panellist)

Risk Insight Consulting, Australia
Denyse S. Dookie (Panellist)

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment
Rebecca Fabrizi (Panellist)

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Rabab Fatima (Panellist)

United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)
Dan Hammett (Panellist)

Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Li Junhua (Panellist)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Viliame Kasanawaqa (Panellist)

Shipwrecked Lab, Fiji
José Lopes (Panellist)

Institute of Economic and Business Sciences, Cape Verde
Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Dr Pa’olelei Luteru (Speaker)

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Preeya Mohan (Panellist)

University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Sarah Peck (Panellist)

Northumbria University UK
Karuna Rana (Panellist)

Big Ocean States Initiative (BOSI), Mauritius
Kalim Shah (Panellist)

Island Policy Lab, Biden School of Public Policy, University of Delaware
Margot St John-Sebastian

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
William Waqavakatoga (Panellist)

University of Adelaide, Australia
Walton Webson (Panellist)

Government of Antigua & Barbuda