13th June 2024, Belmopan, Belize: Hon. Dr. Vince Henderson, LPD, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy, Commonwealth of Dominica and Patron for the Island Women Open Network (IWON) and The Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Economic Development, International Trade, Investment Industry & Commerce, St. Kitts and Nevis were recognized for their important contributions to the establishment of SIDS DOCK. Between 2012 to 2015, Minister Henderson served as Chair of the SIDS DOCK Steering Committee in his then position as Permanent Representative of Dominica to the United Nations, and along with an eminent group of SIDS Permanent Representatives to the UN, developed the Statute Establishing the SIDS DOCK that opened for signature at the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS3), in Samoa, in 2014. The Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, as the then Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, was the first leader to sign the Statute on 1st September 2014, and was promptly followed by 19 other SIDS leaders, leading to the ratification of the Statute in September 2015.
The two Ministers, hailing from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) were recognised during a High-Level IWON Reception and Awards and Signing Ceremony hosted by Hon. Dr. Vince Henderson, LPD, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy, Commonwealth of Dominica and Patron for the Island Women Open Network (IWON), on 28th May 2024, at Avec Amour, Buckley’s, St John’s, Antigua, in the margins of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua & Barbuda. In photo (from left to right): Mr. Gerd Müller, Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); Hon. Dr. Vince Henderson, LPD, MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy, Commonwealth of Dominica and Patron for the Island Women Open Network (IWON); The Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Economic Development, International Trade, Investment Industry & Commerce, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Mr. Stein Hansen, Director of Special Operations, Global Partnerships & External Relations, UNIDO.
SIDS DOCK is a United Nations (UN)-recognised international organisation established in 2015, with all the rights and privileges for addressing climate change, resilience, and energy security in small islands. SIDS DOCK represents 32 small islands and low-lying developing states across the globe, and is so named because it is designed as a “DOCKing station,” to connect the energy sector in SIDS with the global markets for finance and sustainable energy technologies. The organisation’s work is coordinated by the Secretariat, in Belmopan, Belize.
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