Public
Participation
Inter-American
Strategy for the Promotion of Public Participation in Decision-Making
for Sustainable Development - ISP
The ISP is a response to the mandate of the Heads of State
and Governments of the hemisphere, as contained in the December 1996
Bolivia Summit on Sustainable Development, which states that: "In
order to support the specific initiatives on public participation
contained in the Plan of Action, entrust the OAS with assigning
priority to the formulation of an inter-american strategy for the
promotion of public participation in decision-making for sustainable
development."
Information for Decision-Making for Sustainable
Development for Caribbean Small Island Developing States - IDSD
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have long expressed a concern
regarding the lack of readily available data and information on the
environment and the human impact on it, and the challenge this
provides in charting a path to development which is sustainable.
Countries in the Caribbean still require support in creating
mechanisms for the long-term management of sustainable development and
environment information and in defining ways to harness this
information for decision-making purposes. The
General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS)
and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
implemented this project as a step towards
addressing these issues,
Presentation "Towards
a Right to Participation in the Americas" (Power
Point)
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