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Small Island Developing States

Disaster risk management, disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness and long-term recovery in the context of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Τhis theme covers the unique and particular vulnerabilities of SIDS as well as SIDS’ exposure to climate hazards and sea-level rise.

Latest Small Island Developing States additions in the Knowledge Base

Promoting South-South Cooperation: Building Bridges between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean
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Promoting South-South cooperation: Building bridges between the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean

The Caribbean and the Indian Ocean Island States are among the most disaster-prone regions globally, facing hurricanes, cyclones, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Their size, limited resources, and geographical isolation amplify these challenges.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
Barbados - government
University of the West Indies - St. Augustine, the
SIDS4: Ensuring a Multi-hazard approach in the implementation of the Early Warning for All Initiative (EW4ALL)
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Four things you should know: Climate change & Small Island Developing States—by the numbers

SIDS rank amongst some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, highly exposed to external shocks, global warming-induced rising sea levels and other risks due to climate change.
World Bank, the
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Policies and plans

Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States

The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Antigua and Barbuda addressed the ongoing challenges and achievements of SIDS.
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Documents and publications

Climate change vulnerability, adaptation and public debt sustainability in Small Island Developing States

This paper evaluates the climate change-related vulnerabilities of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The paper reviews the limited studies conducted so far, on the potential long-term costs of effective adaptation investment programs.
Indigenous Fijian girl walking on flooded land in Fiji
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A climate crisis is a gender equality crisis: Life on small island states in the Pacific

Each and every climate-related disaster poses a risk to people's lives, livelihoods, homes, safety and access to services. This risk is not gender-neutral.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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World must step up support for SIDS as ‘expression of responsibility’

The developed world must increase support for small island developing States “not as an expression of generosity but of responsibility”, the UN’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction has said.
United Nations - Headquarters
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Documents and publications

Climate change-induced community relocation in Fiji: Challenges and ways forward

This report addresses the challenges of planned relocation, looking at cases in Fiji, and it presents a specific promising community engagement approach that is pursued by the peacebuilding NGO Transcend Oceania in its work with Fijian communities.
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WFP rallies support for vulnerable small island states as worst Atlantic Hurricane season in decades kicks off

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) called for urgent global support for small island nations disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, with many bracing for what is expected to be an intense and destructive Atlantic hurricane season.
World Food Programme
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