As an
intergovernmental organisation with a UN General
Assembly mandate for
children's
rights,
UNICEF has
developed an extensive experience working with
SIDS countries (UNICEF,
2004).
UNICEF has an
Office
for the
Eastern
Caribbean based in
Barbados which covers 10 SIDS in the
Caribbean: Antigua and
Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and
Nevis,
Saint
Lucia, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Turks and Caicos
Islands. The UNICEF
Pacific
Office, based in Suva, Fiji with three field
offices in
Kiribati, Vanuatu
and Solomon Islands
covers
14
Pacific Island States
(PICS)
Cook Islands,
Fiji,
Federated
States
of
Micronesia
(FSM), Kiribati,
Nauru, Niue, Palau, Republic of
Marshall Islands (RMI), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga,
Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Both country programmes have a
similar focus
on
social
policy,
child
protection
and youth
development.
In coordination with their respective regional offices, the UNICEF ECO and Pacific offices have
started exploring how to learn from and build on each other's experience to improve their mission
for children's rights in their respective SIDS countries.
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