Complementarities & synergies
The Partnership Initiative is designed to foster complementarities between various Multilateral Environment Agreements, particularly the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and with other regional initiatives such as the UNDP GEF LDC-SIDS project and the Youth & Environment project supported by the Governments of Venezuela, China and Cuba, in collaboration with the UNCCD Secretariat.
To further consolidate such synergies, the Partnership Initiative is being developed as an integral part of the Technical Programme of the Caribbean SIDS Programme adopted by the 14th Forum of Ministers of the Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean (Panama, November 2003), to support the sustainable development of the Caribbean SIDS.
The Initiative has already been successfully mainstreamed into the package of partnerships recognized by the Mauritius Summit (January 2005), as one of the main elements of the sustainable land management component of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of the SIDS.
A Sub-regional Task Force has been established to provide policy guidance on the further elaboration of the Partnership Initiative, comprising: St. Lucia (Chair), Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize Jamaica, the Global Mechanism, FAO, UNEP, GTZ, University of the West Indies, Civil Society including the Caribbean Network for Rural Development (CNIRD) and the CARICOM Secretariat.