Niue Nukututaha A solitary island

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Niue NukututahaA solitary island

• NIUE NAR
• Provides for Niue
• baseline information from all sectors of
  government and civil society.
• Literature review of all cross sect oral
  documents since 1992
• National constraints to sustainable development
• Priorities
• Suggests for each sector the way forward
• Stakeholder consultation process
• Based on success of WSSD prep consultatve process
  a tailored taskforce including the rep of 3
  pillars of SD
• Prep process will review and coordinate existing
  priorities with the added value of new
  priorities.

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Post Summit developments

• There has been renewed political commitment to
• Establish a mechanism for an integrated approach
  to decision making through
• Approving Environment Bill
• that will establish a statutory sustainable
  council to advise government (composition
  including govt, NGO private sector
  representation. (Negotiations ending July)
• A five year Integrated Strategic Plan that
  addresses the three pillars of sustainable
  development which is realistic. (completed July)

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Public Awareness

• Post Summit awareness
• Government level
• Sub-national
• Civil Society (limited ownership and
  understanding post summit)
• Awareness has been limited to national TV, radio
  news bulletins Environmental awareness
  campaigns.
• What needs to be done!
• Give back ownership to all stakeholders. that
  their opinion and needs helped formed the basis
  of the sub-regional position which fed into the
  regional .resulting in summit outcomes
• Ownership of the BPoA preparatory process which
  will lead to outcomes and a document which is
  more relevant to the stakeholders.

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Desired level of ownership

• Action Plan to
• Reinvigorate the significance of SD and outcomes
  of the WSSD by involving stakeholders from the
  three pillars on to the task force
• Reinvigorate national stakeholder ownership by
  consultation process that will
• Relay outcomes of WSSD and expectations for BPoA
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• Ensure ownership for Type II initiatives
  (fundamentals and access..dance rules)
• Ensure multi-stakeholder engagement in BPOA by
  further additions to the NAR that will add value
  to the existing document and make it user
  friendly by all.

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General Reflections

• The BPoA has not influenced national operations
  or activities as it should have.
• Some reasons being
• Lack of profile and momentum
• Lack of tangible financial resources for
  implementation
• Lack of capacity for implementation
• National priorities responsive to available
  resources
• However, some national activities and priorities
  reflect components of the BPoA mainly due to
  financial resources that have been made available
  bilaterally and / or by national commitments to
  Multilateral agreements. (egsNBSAP,Climate
  Change National Report, Biosafety Framework,
  CEDAW reporting, CRC national reporting and
  priorities)

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CONCLUSIONS

• To consolidate NARs into a matrixfor ease of
  understanding.
• Reinvigorate national process for sustainable
  development
• Use BPoA preparatory process to raise the profile
  of sustainable development (rather than just for
  the Mauritius meeting)
• Clearly needing strong support from CROP and to
  that end know what CROP functions are and where
  you can help us.
• How to maximise BPOA as a document to capture
  resources that are responsive to Niues needs.
• Optimize on the type two initiatives.