Building Effective Resilience for Human Security in the Caribbean Countries: The Imperative of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in a Strengthened Agriculture (and Related Small Agri-Fisheries Business) Sector

This project innovates by purposely placing gender equality at the top of resilience and Human Security strategies. It innovates in aiming to demonstrate clearly that addressing this gender inequality comprehensively and investing in women empowerment is a first-choice enabler of substantial and sustained improvements in human security. The project will generate evidence-based proof that gender equality and the women empowerment objectives need to be placed at the forefront of every Human Security strategy. And that building an inclusive, equitable, prosperous, healthy, cohesive, safe, just, sustainable and thus resilient Caribbean - the priority goals of the ‘One UN’ Strategy for the Caribbean - cannot be achieved without fully achieving gender equality and women empowerment. A comprehensive, participatory and context-specific approach will be followed. The project’s comprehensiveness will be specifically geared towards addressing multiple issues of gender equality and women empowerment in one – for the Caribbean critically important – sector: agriculture, including fisheries and related small business. This sector, also directly linked to the tourism sector (the main contributor to the Caribbean countries’ economy), is key for long-term human security in the Caribbean. The comprehensiveness of the approach will be in that the project will address the multi-dimensionality of gender equality issues in this sector: unequal access to land and land/business ownership; discrimination in access to resources, extension services, finance and insurance; neglected disaster and climate change proofing of women livelihoods in this sector; and gender-blindness, in varying degrees, of public policy and of existing or planned structural adjustment programmes.

Project symbol

RLA/19/01/HSF

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Port-of-Spain

Start date

01/10/2019

End date

31/12/2023

Total allocation

168525

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

161815

Development Partners

United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

Country/Countries

Caribbean Islands

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work