CSD Mandate on SIDS
Mandate of the Commission on Sustainable Development With Respect to Small
Island Developing States
In the Barbados Programme of Action, it was agreed that:
The Commission on Sustainable Development, in carrying
out its functions in accordance with General Assembly resolution and its multi-year thematic programme of work, should include in its
consideration matters related to the implementation of the outcome of
the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island
Developing States. To that effect, the Commission on Sustainable
Development should, inter alia:
- Make arrangements for monitoring and reviewing, in a
distinct and identifiable manner, in the context of its multi-year
thematic programme of work and the annual consideration of
cross-sectoral issues, the implementation of the provisions agreed
upon in the Programme of Action;
- Carry out an initial review of the progress achieved
and steps taken to implement the Programme of Action, to be
undertaken by the Commission on Sustainable Development in 1996 in
accordance with its multi-year thematic programme of work.
Furthermore, in 1997, when the Commission will carry out the overall
review of Agenda 21 with a view to preparing for the 1997 special
session of the General Assembly, the Commission should recommend
specific modalities for the full review of the Programme of Action
in 1999. That full review would include the question of the
convening of a second global conference in accordance with chapter
17, section G of Agenda 21.
[Reference , A/CONF.167/9 of October
1994, Chapter XV, section D, sub-section 1]