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.
This
website will links UNICEF Eastern Caribbean and Pacific Islands Small Island
Developing
States(SIDS)
in an effort to support and foster information sharing on critical issues
affecting the of
rights the child. Go to the SIDS Forum
Welcome
to UNICEF's SIDS Fit for Children Network! 
