THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES (SIDS Conference) will be held from 1 to 4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, with the overarching theme as “The sustainable development of small island developing States through genuine and durable partnerships”.

The SIDS Conference will include six multi-stakeholder partnership dialogues (Partnership Dialogues) that will serve as a forum to build on existing successful partnerships as well as to launch innovative and concrete new ones, to advance the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The current Partnership Brief will look at the priority area of 'Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management”, and highlights illustrative examples of existing partnerships based on
information available in the SIDS 2014 Partnerships Platform and as indicated through consultations with the Secretariat of the SIDS Conference.