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FOLLOW-UP
ON THE MAURITIUS STRATEGY ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES
Workshop
31st March-1st April, 2005
The
Centre for Documentation, Research and Training on the South West
Indian Ocean (CEDREFI) organized a two-day workshop on the follow-up
of the Mauritius Strategy on SIDS, from March 31st to 1st April
2005 at Saint Georges Hotel, Port-Louis.
This
workshop, which is being organized for its major partner groups,
aimed at developing a strategy and a plan of action for the engagement
of the major partner groups in the implementation of the Mauritius
Strategy. The major groups are trade union representatives, NGOs,
fishermen and small planters community, community based organizations,
cooperatives and other civil society groups. The programme
focused on developing strategies for the major groups represents
and also included a session on education for sustainable development.
Civil
Society Strategy for the AIMS Region
Following
the workshop, a regional strategy
has been prepared for civil society in the AIMS region that builds
on the multi-stakeholder approach and that personalizes the concept
of sustainable development into a sustainable island living approach
where everyone has an equal role to play.
A
final report on the civil society
process leading up to, and following on from, the International
Meeting in Mauritius in January 2005 has been prepared. This report
describes follow-up action at the national and regional levels
based on the concept of Sustainable Island Living. CEDREFI remains
committed to proposing alternatives to the community while trying
to influence policy formulation and implementation by Government
at national level.
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