UN General Assembly
2010

we have created development categories to facilitate access for those most in need of the appropriate resources. Resources are always stretched, and, as we move beyond 2015, we must make sure that development categories truly facilitate development. Such categories must not become a way to punish those that succeed in development. And we must not allow small island developing States to fall through the cracks between the categories. Middle-income SIDS face special problems that the international development architecture does not currently make provision for. The funding that is available to SIDS is fragmented. There is no reliable funding to them. Even on issues where SIDS are most affected, such as climate change, there are many barriers to our ability to access funding, not least the use of gross domestic product per capita criteria to define eligibility for funding. The question that will come up increasingly as we try to answer the question of how to fund development beyond 2015 is where SIDS can go to finance their development. The answer is that we need to define a