Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Sids Accelerated Modalities of Action (Samoa) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

A/RES/70/202View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20b Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2016–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/203

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/203	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	2,538	20%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/232	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	4,845	44%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/245	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	4,808	45%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/203	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	3,647	63%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/215	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States	2,555	76%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

11 reports · 2017–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/79	Follow-up to and implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States: A Renewed Declaration for Resilient Prosperity report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/203
2025	A/80/411	Follow-up to and implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States : A Renewed Declaration for Resilient Prosperity report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/203
2024	A/79/527	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/232
2023	A/78/222	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/245
2022	A/77/218	Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/203

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Climate Change Development Strategies Food Security Partnership Programme Implementation Small Island Developing States Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;¹⁰

¹⁰A/70/269.

Reaffirms the outcome document of the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway,5 and urges its speedy and effective implementation, as well as effective monitoring, follow-up and review;

Welcomes the renewed commitment of the international community to take urgent and concrete action to address the vulnerabilities of small island developing States and to continue to seek solutions, including additional ones, to the major challenges facing them in a concerted manner in order to support the implementation of the Samoa Pathway;

Recalls the sustainable development priorities for small island developing States identified in the Samoa Pathway, and set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,¹¹ and the outcome documents of all related United Nations conferences and processes;

¹¹Resolution 70/1.

Acknowledges in this regard that small island developing States are committed to the implementation of the Samoa Pathway and are mobilizing resources at the national and regional levels to that effect, despite their limited resource base, and calls upon the international community to assist and support small island developing States in the implementation of the Samoa Pathway, including by integrating its provisions into their national and regional policies and development frameworks;

Urges all partners to integrate the Samoa Pathway into their respective cooperation frameworks, programmes and activities, as appropriate, to ensure its effective follow-up and implementation;

Recalls the need to fully mainstream a gender perspective into all United Nations summits, conferences and special sessions and their follow-up processes;

Calls upon the United Nations system, international and regional financial institutions and other multilateral development partners to continue to support small island developing States in their efforts to implement national sustainable development strategies and programmes by incorporating the priorities and activities of small island developing States into their relevant strategic and programmatic frameworks, including through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework process, at both the national and regional levels, in line with their mandates and overall priorities;

Urges the full and effective implementation of the commitments and partnerships announced at the Conference and the fulfilment of the provisions on all means of implementation, as contained in the Samoa Pathway;

Welcomes the convening of the Ministerial Meeting on Food Security and Climate Adaptation in Small Island Developing States, held in Milan, Italy, from 14 to 16 October 2015, takes note of the Milan Declaration on Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation in Small Island Developing States, in the framework of the Samoa Pathway, and looks forward to the development of an action programme on food and nutrition challenges in small island developing States, as requested in the Samoa Pathway and reiterated in the Milan Declaration;

Decides, in accordance with paragraph 101 of the Samoa Pathway and in line with the priorities of small island developing States, to establish the Small Island Developing States Partnership Framework, to monitor and ensure the full implementation of pledges and commitments through partnerships for small island developing States in order to promote the effective and efficient follow-up to the existing partnerships, in particular new partnerships launched at the third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, and to encourage new, genuine and durable partnerships for the sustainable development of small island developing States, and in this regard:

To form a steering committee on partnerships for small island developing States that shall be open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies, chaired by one Member State that is a small island developing State and one Member State that is not a small island developing State, to be appointed by the President of the General Assembly, which shall meet on a regular basis, with interpretation services provided on an as-available basis, to support the follow-up of existing and promote and advocate the launching of new small island developing States partnerships; entities of the United Nations system, international and regional organizations, major groups and other stakeholders will be invited to contribute, as appropriate; the Secretariat, in particular the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, will provide a supporting role to the steering committee; the first meeting of the committee should be held as soon as possible, and no later than February 2016, when it will discuss, inter alia, the working methods of the committee;

To request the Secretariat, in consultation with the steering committee, to organize, on an annual basis, an action-oriented, results-focused, global multi-stakeholder small island developing States partnership dialogue, with interpretation services provided on an as-available basis, which will provide opportunities for reviewing progress made by existing partnerships, including, where applicable, inputs from regional and national partnership dialogues, and for the sharing of good practices, lessons learned and challenges and solutions from small island developing States partnerships, and encourage the launch of new partnerships for small island developing States, in line with their priorities;

To request the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to finalize a standardized partnership reporting template and process, in consultation with the steering committee, which takes into account existing reporting mechanisms and the need to minimize the reporting burden and ensures reporting coherence;

To encourage regional multi-stakeholder small island developing States partnership dialogues through existing forums and meetings, where applicable, and notably through the regional commissions, in close collaboration with small island developing States and partners, for reviewing and providing policy recommendations at the regional level;

To encourage small island developing States to organize national multi-stakeholder small island developing States partnership dialogues, which could contribute to the regional and global dialogues outlined above, on a voluntary basis, according to their needs, priorities and circumstances, and to invite the United Nations system and the international community, upon request, to support the efforts of small island developing States in this regard;

To encourage small island developing States partnerships to share experiences, including through the established partnership reporting template and process, and to participate on a voluntary basis in national, regional and global multi-stakeholder small island developing States partnership dialogues;

Requests the Joint Inspection Unit to submit the complete results of the comprehensive review of United Nations system support for small island developing States as an addendum to the report of the Secretary-General10 before the end of the seventieth session, in accordance with its resolution 69/288;

Underlines the need to give due consideration to the issues and concerns of small island developing States in all relevant major United Nations conferences and processes;

Recalls paragraph 11 of its resolution 67/290, paragraph 123 of the Samoa Pathway and paragraph 16 of its resolution 69/217, notes that the high-level political forum shall devote adequate time at its 2016 meeting and at its future meetings to continuing to address the sustainable development challenges facing small island developing States and the follow-up to and implementation of the Samoa Pathway, and encourages the high-level political forum to devote sufficient attention to these discussions, bearing in mind that small island developing States are a special case for sustainable development, as well as lessons learned from the follow-up and review processes of previous conferences on small island developing States and their outcome documents;

Urges that effective linkages be made between the follow-up and review arrangements for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and those of all relevant United Nations conferences and processes, including the Samoa Pathway, in line with the 2030 Agenda;

Decides to consider, during its seventy-first session, the conduct of a midterm review, in 2019, on the progress made in addressing the priorities of small island developing States through the implementation of the Samoa Pathway;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, and decides to include, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States” in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session, unless otherwise agreed in the discussions on the revitalization of the Second Committee.

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