UN SIDS Partnerships Awards 2024-Apply by 1 March 2024

Does your partnership contribute to sustainable development

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Application for 2024 is open:

 https://sdgs.un.org/SIDSPartnershipsAwards#awards_2024

 

Deadline: 1 March 2024

Background:

The United Nations (UN) Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Partnerships Awards was established by the Member States of the United Nations in 2021 to recognize and reward the efforts of the best and most noteworthy, genuine and durable partnerships in the implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA Pathway). The Awards provide an opportunity to reward the most successful SIDS partnerships, highlight best practices, increase the visibility of the SIDS Partnership Framework, motivate the creation of new SIDS partnerships and incentivize the registrations of new partnerships for SIDS.

This initiative stems from the Third International Conference on SIDS held in 2014 that resulted in announcement of more than 300 multi-stakeholder partnerships. As a follow up mechanism to the partnerships, Member States established the SIDS Partnership Framework and its Steering Committee through the General Assembly resolution (A/RES/70/202). Currently, the Steering Committee is co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Fatumanava-o-Upolu III Pa'olelei Luteru, Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations and H.E. Ms. Ana Paula Zacarias, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the United Nations.  The Awards are supported and managed collaboratively, by the SIDS Unit of the UN DESA and SIDS Sub-Programme of the UN OHRLLS within their respective mandates.

The SIDS Partnerships Awards are given in each of the three dimensions of sustainable development: 1) economic, 2) social and 3) environment as stipulated in the Article 2 sub-paragraph 1 of the Annex of the resolution 76/203.

Contact: The SIDS Partnerships Awards secretariat: infounpartnershipsawards@un.org