NEMO Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and UNDP Barbados and the OECS collaborate to review national damage assessment process

UNDP in collaboration with NEMO St Vincent and the Grenadines, recently concluded a capacity building workshop on the Damage and Loss Assessment (DALA) methodology developed by UNECLAC. This training has provided participants with tools for assessing macro, socioeconomic and environmental impacts of natural and man-made hazards.

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21 Dec 2011

UNDP continues to support the Annual Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM)

UNDP provided US$170,000 to support the 6^th Annual Comprehensive Disaster Management Conference (CDM) from 5-9 December in Trinidad and Tobago. It was an opportunity to continue to reiterate the importance of disaster risk reduction as a means of building economic and social resilience in the Caribbean and reducing environmental degradation, as well as learn from the small island states in the Pacific how they cope with natural and man-made events to prevent disasters.

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21 Dec 2011

Port of Spain Declaration of the Making Caribbean Cities More Resilient Workshop

At the closing of the 6^th annual Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Conference, participants unanimously adopted the Port of Spain Declaration of the Making Caribbean Cities More Resilient Workshop, reaffirming their commitment to further advancing comprehensive disaster management in the region.

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About the Barbados and the OECS Subregional Office

UNDP Barbados and the OECS Multi-Country Office

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Welcome to the website for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office for Barbados and the OECS; nine (9) Member States make up the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). UNDP Barbados is a subregional, multi-country office.

It serves a total of 10 territories that include both independent countries and British Overseas Territories in the Eastern Caribbean. These are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis (also called St. Kitts and Nevis), Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

What We Do

Our mandate for Barbados and the nine Member States of the OECS is to support their individual and collective development goals as well as achieve results and outcomes that support sustainable people-centered development. The Subregional Cooperation Framework (2005-2007) for Barbados and the OECS, which is based on regional and national priorities, provides assistance within the scope of UNDP’s Five Practice Areas:

	Democratic Governance		Energy & Environment
	Poverty Reduction		HIV/AIDS
	Crisis Prevention and Recovery

giving priority to the relevant region-specific programme areas.

To learn more about how we fit into the larger UN and UNDP system, and how we coordinate our efforts with partner organizations, see the page on "The UNDP and the UN".

Subregional Programme Document

The second Subregional Programme Document (SPD), for the period 2005-2009, is the product of extensive subregional consultations and takes into account the priorities identified by individual governments of Member States of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Government of Barbados, the Sub-Regional Organization - the OECS Secretariat.

The identified areas of thematic focus – poverty reduction, democratic governance, energy & environment, disaster risk reduction and disaster management – are integral priorities within the regional cooperation framework being implemented by Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and is a part of the wider Caribbean development agenda and its supporting functional cooperation programme.