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Women, Gender & Poverty in the Windward Islands

(2001-ongoing)

Objective: To create an enabling and sustainable environment to ensure economic growth with equity and justice and the advancement and improved living standards of women and men, primarily those displaced from the banana industry, and alleviate extreme poverty in the Windward Islands.

 

Main elements:

 

• National and community consultative meetings held in the four Windwards; participating communities identified; and National Advisory Committees (NAC) responsible for overseeing project implementation in-country, established.

 

• In collaboration with CAFRA, popular economic literacy manual produced and tested; research into vegetable production as an alternative completed in St. Vincent/Grenada and research into alternatives to banana production carried out in Dominica and St. Lucia; and CAFRA/CGTN position paper on gender and trade prepared for WTO Ministerial Meeting, Qatar.

 

• Two NGOs, one each in Grenada and St. Lucia, selected to start mobilisation of the selected communities.

 

• Implementing NGO, GRENCODA, convenes workshops on gender analysis/planning and economic literacy (using CAFRA manual) for government planners and key stakeholders from rural communities in Grenada.

 

 




 

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