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Source: Small Island Developing States The Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Forum for Sustainable Development 2021 will take place in March 2021. The Regional Forum will be held in a hybrid format that will provide for both in-person and virtual participation. To receive SDG event notices, news and analysis in your inbox, subscribe. dates: 15-18 March 2021

10 global health issues to track in 2021 Format 2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care. In another blow, the pandemic threatens to set back hard-won global health progress achieved over the past two decades - in fighting infectious dis...

Investing in Women is Simply Smart Economics Publication 21 December 2020 By Hilary Barry, Founder & Secretary General of LadyAgri My name is Hilary Barry and I am founder and Secretary General of the LadyAgri Impact Investment Hub, a non-profit association focused on supporting women in agriculture in Africa and Small Island Developing States. Originally from Cork and living in Brussels for fifteen years, I am an Irish-European but I have an African heart. Why? Ever since m...

Disaster risk and readiness for insurance solutions in Small Island Developing States Format New InsuRisk report analyzes disaster risk and readiness for insurance solutions in Small Island Developing States The InsuResilience Global Partnership is the world premier global coordination forum on disaster finance and climate risk insurance. The annual Partnership Forum acts as a convening space for decision makers, implementing organizations, private sector, academia and civil society to reflect,...

by Bajan Reporter / December 10th, 2020 Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM) and the Republic of Cuba, gathered via video-conference on 8 December, 2020, on the occasion of the 7 th CARICOM-Cuba Summit held in commemoration of the 48 th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the four CARICOM independent States and Cuba and the 18 th anniversary of CARICOM-Cuba Day; Proud of our shared Caribbean identity and the progress of our political and cooperative r...