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As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework comes to a close in 2015, the Caribbean Region is advocating for a comprehensive and transformative Post 2015 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) development agenda. The goal of advocacy efforts will be to ensure that Caribbean specific priorities for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment are advanced. The emerging global development frameworks must address the structural foundations of gender-based inequality, including the recognition that inequalities are a consequence of the unequal relations of power.
The Caribbean Community, hereafter referred to as CARICOM, came into being on 1973, July 04, with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas as the successor to the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). CARICOM was expected to extend the free trade area that had obtained in CARIFTA to include the free movement of labour and capital and the coordination of agricultural, industrial and foreign policies. The Common Market is an integral platform of CARICOM.
As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework comes to a close in 2015, the Caribbean Region is advocating for a comprehensive and transformative Post 2015 and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) development agenda. The goal of advocacy efforts will be to ensure that Caribbean specific priorities for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment are advanced. The emerging global development frameworks must address the structural foundations of gender-based inequality, including the recognition that inequalities are a consequence of the unequal relations of power.
This Plan of Action (PoA) provides a framework for establishing a more constructive approach to mainstreaming gender in CARICOM’s work programme, the conduct of research, and the design and implementation of policies and programmes by governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which share responsibility for working towards gender equality in CARICOM member states.
These guidelines have been prepared to help integrate and mainstream the concerns and issues related to older persons into disaster risk management programmes and processes. They outline difficulties faced by older persons in disasters and present actions that should be considered and implemented at different operational levels, from the national policy level through sub-national, facility and individual levels.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Heather Johnson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development says, young people who are constantly exposed to violence invariably develop complex psychosomatic illnesses which very often lead to other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, mental illnesses and heart diseases.