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1 Mauritius Strategy8bis.Indd Responding to the Freshwater resources Building capacities Participation Programme Indian Ocean tsunami UNESCO’s contribution to the development of integrated SIDS have a special role in the Decade of Education for Sustainable UNESCO’s Participation Programme provides direct assistance approaches for sound water management in SIDS is primarily Development, as outlined in one of a series of information briefs. (including for emergencies) to initiatives undertaken by Member In the mid-1960s, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic through the International Hydrological Programme, with This role includes the contribution that SIDS can make to the global States and Associate Members, in line with priorities determined by Commission (IOC) was centrally involved in the setting-up of the particular emphasis on fi eld research and training operations. In community in demonstrating sustainable island living – ways of the countries themselves. Though the levels of funds for individual International Tsunami Information Center, located in Hawaii, with the Pacifi c, in close partnership with regional bodies and donor living in a manner consistent with the notion of sustainability. projects are modest in international terms, they prove important a view to improving tsunami preparedness for all Pacifi c Ocean agencies, activities through the UNESCO Offi ce in Apia (Samoa) An Education for Sustainable Development strategy has been and useful in small countries. During the 2004-2005 biennium, over nations. Experience gained in the Pacifi c has helped shape the are focused on engaging local and indigenous communities in elaborated for the Asia-Pacifi c region, with a situational analysis US$3.7 million has been made available to more than 200 projects plans for a somewhat similar mechanism for the Indian Ocean, water resources management and monitoring partnerships and for 15 Pacifi c SIDS, released by the UNESCO Offi ce in Bangkok in SIDS. As an ensemble, Participation Programme projects touch on after the catastrophic impacts of the tsunami that occurred on on contributing to a three-year regional training programme for (Thailand) in June. A consultation and conference for the Caribbean many topics addressed in the SIDS Programme of Action. It can be 26 December 2004. water resource managers. Information on progress and plans is region will take place in October, organized by the Kingston Offi ce expected that many future proposals from small island countries within Following informal and formal discussions in 2005 among given in a periodic newsletter (‘Pacifi c Partnership Initiative on along with other partners. the Participation Programme will relate to actions in support of the countries of the region, regional and international organizations Sustainable Water Management’) produced by the South Pacifi c Mauritius Strategy. Other contributions to building capacities in SIDS regions include and other partners, the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC). For instance, the August 2005 issue reports on a three-week training course for initiatives such as Education for All, cooperation with the recently SAMPLING OF PROJECTS UNDERWAY IN SIDS IN 2005 Mitigation System was formally initiated in June with the . ‘Buki di Referencia’ series of reference books for children hydrological technicians from 13 Pacifi c island countries held in Fiji launched SIDS University Consortium, and the Associated Schools Aruba establishment of an Intergovernmental Coordination Group by Bahamas. Exhibitions at Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation Project Network (ASPNet) and its Slave Trade Education, Sandwatch the 23rd IOC Assembly. In August, the technical and scientifi c in April, on surface and groundwater hydrology. The Third Inter- Bahrain. Teaching and training policies in commercial education American Dialogue on Integrated Water Management will take and ‘All Equal in Diversity’ projects. Sandwatch is an ASPNet/Small Barbados. Training in the monitoring and management of coral reefs requirements were discussed at the Group’s fi rst meeting, held British Virgin Islands. Education in law certifi cation place in Montego Bay (Jamaica) in October, with UNESCO inputs Islands Voice initiative that was started some years ago in the in Perth (Australia). There, technical plans were assessed for Cape Verde. Digitizing radio transmission Caribbean region. It encourages school students in the islands, with Comoros. Travelling heritage exhibit such aspects as the collection and exchange of seismic data, channelled through the Offi ce in Montevideo (Uruguay). the help of teachers and local communities, to critically evaluate Cook Islands. Oral heritage preservation project measurements of sea level and deep-sea pressure, tsunami Cuba. Creation of multi-media unit for applying new information technologies the problems and confl icts facing their beach environments and modelling and prediction, scenario development, warnings and Cyprus. Establishment and operation of Open University to develop sustainable approaches to address these issues. With Dominica. Youth mobilization in disaster management and water security alerts, technology transfer and sustainability. The Coordination Dominican Republic. Interactive game on Planet Earth for children’s museum a strong fi eld measuring and monitoring component, Sandwatch Group will further examine the national capacity of Indian Ocean East Timor. Training programme in radio documentary production aims to ‘make science live’, yet remains interdisciplinary with Fiji. Capacity building for science teachers countries to deal with tsunamis at its second meeting in Hyderabad applications ranging from biology to woodwork and from poetry to Grenada. Development of Duquesne beach and surrounding heritage sites (India) in December. The System, which is expected to be fully Haiti. Emergency assistance for educational infrastructures after fl ooding mathematics. ‘Introduction to Sandwatch: an educational tool for . Skills training for high-school drop-outs and slow learners operational by July 2006, will consist of a coordinated network of Jamaica sustainable development’ was published in September. Malta. Roman Domus conservation project national systems, whose assets will be owned and operated by the Marshall Islands. Vocational skills training for at-risk youth In January 2005, Mauritius. Foundation course for trade certifi cation Member States hosting or otherwise taking responsibility for them. A programme for building capacities for statistics collection and Micronesia (Federated States of). Publication of ‘Mehj, Mehj: The Mwoakilloa Book’ a high-level United reporting in the Pacifi c region has been launched by the UNESCO Netherlands Antilles. Social skills and personal development for teenagers At a brbroaderoader geographic . Enhancement of culture and language resources Institute of Statistics. The work of the Organization’s Educational Niue Nations (UN) meeting was scale, the 23r23rdd IOC Assembly Palau. Establishing the Palau Herbarium Institutes and Centres includes intensive group training, such as Papua New Guinea. South Simbu community radio station adopted resolutions for that in St Lucia in September on the reform and governance of Samoa. Bilingual books for Samoan schools convened in Mauritius to establishing somewhat Seychelles. Emergency assistance for reconstruction work at Mahé technical and vocational education and training, under the aegis of analogous warning systems Solomon Islands. Language revitalization project © Gillian Cambers, UNESCO-SIV. review the implementation Measuring water quality the International Institute for Educational Planning. St Kitts & Nevis. Fostering responsible citizenship among children for tsunamis and other within the Sandwatch project. St Lucia. Training workshop for Caribbean documentalists coastal hazards for the St Vincent & the Grenadines. Promoting life-long learning of and refi ne the 1994 Tokelau. Feasibility study on internet connectivity and distance education Caribbean and adjacent Tonga. Natural disaster preparedness for primary school children Programme of Action for the regions as well as the Trinidad & Tobago. Assessment of watershed aquifer systems Tuvalu. Development of cultural policy North-Eastern Atlantic, Front-cover: iodiversity resources Vanuatu. Documentation of indigenous languages. Sustainable Development of the Mediterranean and B Portrait of Cuban poet connected seas. and liberator José Martí The fi rst two biosphere reserves in Pacifi c island countries Pérez (1853-1895), whose Small Island Developing States were approved in June 2005 by the Bureau of the Man and For further information, contact: legacy of writings and papers was added to the the Biosphere Programme: Utwe in the Federated States (SIDS). Together with governments, © NOAA Cover of a 48-page Focal Point for SIDS / Mauritius Strategy Implementation Memory of the World Tsunami detection of Micronesia and Ngaremeduu in Palau. In both sites, the Coastal Regions and Small Islands (CSI) Platform Register in June 2005. instrumentation. booklet prepared for the civil society, regional bodies and emphasis is on community-level approaches to conservation and International Meeting UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cédex 15, France Canoe silhouette, in Mauritius, designed [email protected] Vanuatu. © Francis Hickey. sustainable development of coastal-marine ecosystems as well to provide glimpses of http://www.unesco.org/en/sids other international organizations, as land areas. With these
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