The SIDS Future Forum is a biennial event, run by RESI at ODI Global. It brings SIDS stakeholders together to collectively reflect on common challenges and propose pathways that will help to advance sustainable development and resilient prosperity in SIDS.
Discussions were based on the latest scientific and policy research, compiled in a draft flagship ‘State of SIDS Report’, which will provide a baseline understanding of common challenges—identified 30 years ago — that are still present in SIDS; emerging issues affecting SIDS due to geopolitical shifts, accelerating climate change and other global and regional trends; advances and lessons from progress in sustaining development across SIDS regions; and opportunities for SIDS created by new technologies and institutions.
During the SIDS Future Forum, stakeholders sought to identify actionable next steps and critical points for engagement over the next two years, including to align support from development partners with SIDS priorities.