Voluntary Partnership Initiatives from the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States

This paper considers the potential contributions of the voluntary Partnerships initiatives emanating from the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) to the sustainable development of SIDS, and specifically examines the extent to which and how the Partnership initiatives support the targets and timetables agreed in the WSSD Plan of Implementation, the main action agenda produced at the World Summit.