Regional Conference on the SDGs (June 28-30, 2017)
The Caribbean Action 2030: Regional Conference on the SDGs took place at the University of the West Indies in Kingston Jamaica, 28 to 30 June 2017. It was designed to advance and accelerate regional action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Over the period 2017-2021, the UN Multi-Country Sustainable Development Framework (MSDF) will guide the programme activities of the United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Barbados and the member States of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), as well as in Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Derived from the traditional United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), the multi-country approach reflects the acknowledgment that, in order to maximize development impact in the region, an integrated sustainable development approach requires addressing common and inter-related issues at both regional and national levels, in support of the SDGs.
In order to ensure effective engagement with the primary partners on research, evidence, measurements and data, clear and deliberate paths must be created to engage academia. This conference was therefore conceptualized as a significant opportunity to forge partnerships with the academic community of the Caribbean and contribute to the accumulation of data, research based policy and measures of development across the Caribbean society.
