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05/21/09
The Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Pacific Centre (UNDP PC) and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) organized and supported the participation of representatives from Caribbean organizations leading climate change and disaster risk reduction regional strategies at the Pacific Platform meetings held in Nadi, Fiji, from May 11-15.
05/19/09
By Terrence Moore - Project Coordinator of the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS)
On Wednesday 22nd April 2009 a wide cross section of villagers from Morne Longue in the parish of St. Andrew’s were present to witness the launch of a project designed to re-open the trail to Fedon’s Camp from Morne Longue. The trail was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004 and since then has been overgrown and impassable.
05/11/09
In an attempt to advance and improve the monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and increase poverty reduction efforts in the Caribbean, the United Nations Development Programme, Barbados and the OECS hosted a three-day strategic thinking workshop recently to discuss ways in which poverty reduction and sustainable human development can be effectively monitored and achieved.
About the Barbados and the OECS Subregional 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:
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.
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