Infrastructure resilience in Small Island Developing States

The 2025 GIR SIDS Working Paper by CDRI analyzes infrastructure resilience in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) using the Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI). It highlights SIDS' vulnerability to climate and geological hazards due to limited land, economic size, and coastal infrastructure concentration.

According to the papaer, strengthening the capacity of infrastructure assets and systems requires: •

• Transparent financial allocations from the Ministry of Finance to infrastructure agencies are needed to retrofit existing assets.
• Additional resources should be included as part of allocations to new projects to ensure that hard resilience measures are incorporated in the design.
• Clear and transparent resilience criteria should be incorporated in the bidding documents of infrastructure assets to be built and/or operated by private partners under a publicprivate partnership contract