National and regional enabling environments: extract from the Mauritius Strategy - Chapter XVI, para 74

74. Further action is required by small island developing States, with the necessary support of the international community, to: (a) Formulate and implement national sustainable development strategies by 2005, as agreed to in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation; (b) Incorporate guiding principles of sustainable development into nationally owned poverty reduction strategies and all sectoral policies and strategies; (c) Develop appropriate national targets and indicators for sustainable development that can be incorporated into existing national data-collection and reporting systems in order to, inter alia, respond to the requirements of the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration and other relevant global and regional targets; (d) Improve legislative, administrative and institutional structures in order to develop and implement sustainable development strategies, policies and plans, mainstream sustainable development concerns into overall policy development and implementation, and facilitate the participation of civil society in all sustainable development initiatives; (e) Create and empower sustainable development task forces, or their equivalent, to function as interdisciplinary and communally representative advisory bodies; (f) Rationalize legislation that affects sustainable development at the national level, where appropriate, improve coordination between legislative frameworks and develop guidelines for those who must carry out legislative objectives; (g) Develop and implement integrated planning systems and processes; (h) Involve youth in envisioning sustainable island living.