Barbados Programme of Action

The United Nations Programme of Action on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, also known as the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA), was created in 1994 at the first Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which was held in Barbados. The BPOA developed specific actions and measures in support of the SIDS' sustainable development. These actions were deigned to be implemented at the national, regional and international levels. The methods for action created by the BPOA were designed to be undertaken by SIDS with the cooperation and assistance of the international community.¹

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**The 14 Priority Areas in the BPOA**
1. Climate change and sea-level rise	8. Biodiversity resources
2. Natural and environmental disasters	9. National institutions and administrative capacity
3. Management of wastes	10. Regional institutions and technical cooperation
4. Coastal and marine resources	11. Transport and communication
5. Land resources	12. Science and technology
6. Energy resources	13. Human resource development
7. Tourism resources	14. Implementation, monitoring and review

Source: Report on Barbados Programme of Action.

In 1992, Agenda 21 was adopted by the world community at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Agenda 21 "reflects a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on development and environment cooperation." The 1994 Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States held in Barbados was the first global conference on sustainable development and the implementation of Agenda 21, translating Agenda 21 into specific policies.²

Based on SIDS' vulnerability to climate change and sea-level rise, the BPOA identified 14 agreed priority areas and indicated a number of actions and policies related to environmental and development planning that should be undertaken by SIDS, with the cooperation and assistance of the international community. To implement those actions successfully, several cross-sectoral areas were identified, such as "capacity-building, including human resource development; institutional development at the national, regional and international levels; cooperation in the transfer of environmentally sound technologies; trade and economic diversification; and finance."³

In 2005, the UN held a meeting in Mauritius to review implementation of the BPOA and refine it as necessary. The meeting determined that implementation of the action plan had been less than satisfactory. The 14 priority areas where expanded and modified to 20 areas. The new, updated plan was dubbed the Mauritius Strategy.⁴

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Atlantic and Caribbean	Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; British Virgin Islands; Cape Verde; Cuba; Dominica; the Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; São Tomé and Principe; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Pacific Ocean	American Somoa; Commonwealth of Northern Marianas; Cook Islands; Federated States of Micronesia; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; Kiribati; Marshall Islands; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Timor-Lesté; Tonga; Tuvalu; and Vanuatu.
Indian Ocean	Bahrain; Comoros; the Maldives; Mauritius; the Seychelles; and Singapore.
Initiatives and Sponsors
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS); Asian Development Bank (ADB); Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA); Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC); Global Environment Facility (GEF); Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative (GSEII); Inter-American Development Bank (IADB); Organization of American States (OAS); Pacific Islands Forum (PIF); Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre (RC/RCCC); Small Island Developing States Network (SIDSNet); South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP); United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); World Bank (WB)
Related Topics
Ocean Acidification

Footnotes

1. Antigua and Barbuda. National Assessment Report for the Ten Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action. 2004. p.1.

2. United Nations General Assembly. Report on Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. October 1994. p.7.

3. United Nations General Assembly. Report on Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. October 1994. p.9-10.

4. UNESCO. UNESCO implementing Mauritius Strategy. Retrieved on: 23 July 2009.

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