Caribbean Territories have obtained robust backing from Governments throughout the Caribbean to deepen collaboration with the United Nations (UN) system on sustainable improvement forward of the fortieth Session of the UN Financial Fee of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Lima, Peru the place representatives of the international locations and territories of the area will collect from October Sep 11 to debate their priorities and assess progress and improvement made since their final session in 2022.
In preparation for the upcoming assembly, the Caribbean Growth and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), a subsidiary physique of ECLAC for the Caribbean, permitted the institution of an official ECLAC Affiliate Members Working Group on Sustainable Growth to facilitate engagement with the UN system on better entry to help by the Affiliate Members below the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Growing States (ABAS).
The representatives of Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Curacao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Monserrat and Sint Maarten who participated within the current thirtieth Session of the CDCC in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago highlighted their challenges and the significance of UN help as they try to attain the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs).
Through the high-level panel on the sustainable improvement challenges confronted by the Affiliate Members, shows have been made by the representatives of Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Martinque and Montserrat who identified Affiliate Members’ want for entry to improvement and local weather finance; capability constructing help; know-how switch; and technical experience in essential sectors.
The Affiliate Members additionally held a caucus assembly within the margins of the CDCC the place they agreed to:
- proceed working collectively throughout the scope of their constitutional preparations;
- coordinate advocacy efforts regionally and internationally for Affiliate Members’ entry to improvement and local weather finance;
- encourage Affiliate Members’ involvement within the wider regional cooperation of Latin America and the Caribbean; and
- collaborate with ECLAC on organising the twond Excessive-Stage Assembly of the Affiliate Members of ECLAC on Sustainable Growth in 2025.
It was additionally agreed that the British Virgin Islands would function Affiliate Member lead within the operationalisation of the ECLAC Affiliate Members Working Group.
In response to the Affiliate Members name for better UN help to help their sustainable improvement, the Chair of the CDCC Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, Minister of Planning and Growth of Trinidad and Tobago; the Govt Secretary of ECLAC Jose Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs; and the Director of the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain Diane Quarless, reaffirmed the CDCC’s and ECLAC’s dedication to go away no behind within the area’s pursuit of sustainable improvement and local weather resilience.
The thirtieth Session of the CDCC was held Sept. Sep 11.
