This Forum will be held as a side event during the International Meeting (IM) on the 10 Year Review of the Barbados Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS. In addition to contributing to the IM, this event seeks to mobilize the scientific community to engage in research, policy analysis, and design programs of action to solve major problems faced by SIDS on continuous basis, and to raise global public awareness on SIDS issues through research, education, and dissemination of new knowledge. Deadline for registration is 20 October 2004. Submissions for papers on key issues and challenges are also being sought and the deadline for submitting a presentation title and abstract is 20 October.  

dates: 10-14 January 2005  
location: Port Louis, Mauritius  
contact: International Research Foundation for Development  
e-mail: sids@irfd.org  
www: http://irfd.org/events/wfsids/