SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway
A/RES/69/15
117. In this regard, we call upon the United Nations system to provide support:
(a) To ensure that United Nations entities take fully into account the issues
of small island developing States and include support for those States and the
development of their capacities in their programmes at the appropriate levels;
(b) To continue to enhance, through national and regional initiatives, the
voice and participation of small island developing States in the decision-making and
norm-setting processes of international financial institutions;
(c) To improve interregional and intraregional cooperation and collaboration
among small island developing States, including, where required, through
institutional mechanisms and capacity-building;
(d) To ensure that the issues of small island developing States are adequately
addressed by the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, as well as
the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under their
auspices.
118. We call upon the Committee for Development Policy of the Economic and
Social Council to continue to give due consideration to the unique and particular
vulnerabilities of small island developing States and to continue to monitor
regularly, together with their Governments, the progress of small island developing
States that have graduated from least developed country status.
119. We request that the Secretary-General conduct a comprehensive review of United
Nations system support for small island developing States with a view to enhancing the
overall effectiveness of such support and the respective roles in supporting the
sustainable development of small island developing States, and we invite the General
Assembly, at its sixty-ninth session, to determine the parameters of the review. We
request the Secretary-General, building on previous reports, to provide to the Assembly
at its seventieth session the findings of the review and his recommendations thereon in
his regular report entitled “Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy
for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable
Development of Small Island Developing States”.
120. We request the Secretary-General to ensure that the Small Island Developing
States Unit of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat
continues, pursuant to its support and advisory services mandate, its analysis and
reporting on the situation of small island developing States, including in the
implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action, the Mauritius Strategy and
the Samoa Pathway, and that the Office of the High Representative for the Least
Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island
Developing States, pursuant to its advocacy mandate, ensure the mainstreaming of
the Samoa Pathway and issues related to small island developing States in the work
of the United Nations system and enhance the coherence of the issues of those
States in United Nations processes, including at the national, regional and global
levels, and continue to mobilize international support and resources to support the
implementation of the Samoa Pathway by small island developing States.
Priorities of the small island developing States for the post-2015
development agenda
121. Recalling that the small island developing States have identified their priorities
for the post-2015 development agenda in the outcome document of the interregional
preparatory meeting for the third International Conference on Small Island
Developing States, as further refined in the present outcome document, we
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