Towards a new knowledge architecture for SIDS - Data and evidence from the Resilient and

If these countries are to stay above water (literally), they must be able to invest in the building blocks of sustainable growth and development: people, infrastructure, energy, and food security.” Emily Wilkinson, Director of RESI, and Kanni Wignaraja, United Nations Assistant Secretary- General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, ‘Credit Ratings and Climate Chaos’, Project Syndi. [...] We need in particular to develop an international financial system which can meet the most pressing challenges of the future.” Rebecca Reeves, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to a letter coordinated by RESI and signed by Prime Ministers of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Grenada (July 2024) 5 Composite MVI A new knowledge architecture for  SIDS RESI will support. [...] This has four components: a SIDS Future Forum, a State of SIDS report, training and technical assistance for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and SIDS negotiators, and creative communications products. [...] Encouraged by the success of its first SIDS Future Forum held in New York in March 2024, RESI will institutionalise the SIDS Future Forum as a biennial conference: a 2-day retreat for SIDS policymakers and development partners. [...] Our Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development would be supportive of a State of SIDS report.” Claudia Mansfield de LaRue, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations RESI will deliver a comprehensive training programme and technical assistance for SIDS policymakers to support their engagement in international agendas.