Expert meeting on disaster warning and response systems in Small Island Developing States regions

In this report, the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth resolves to:
(a) develop inventories of the advance warning resources and systems available in each of the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific Ocean regions; and through this, to
(b) identify aspects of these systems which need strengthening, including the human and institutional capacity and information systems that underpin effective disaster warning and response.

This report has been prepared at the request of the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth, Caribbean Community, Indian Ocean Commission and the Pacific Islands Forum in follow up to their informal meeting of 13 January 2005, held in Mauritius in the wings of the United Nation’s International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).