Page 8 CARICAD’s Programme Implementation Officer, Trudy Waterman (left), with RESEMBID’s Associate Programme Manager, Julia Morelli, during Trudy’s mission trip to Sint Maarten in October 2022. RESEMBID for sustainable human development By Trudy Waterman Programme Implementation Officer I n May 2022, CARICAD was awarded a Grant to provide capacity building support for the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) to formulate, design and implement projects under the Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID). The Programme, which commenced on January 1st, 2019, is funded by the European Union under the Eleventh European Development Fund (11th EDF). RESEMBID supports the sustainable human development efforts of the 12 Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), namely: Anguilla, Aruba, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Montserrat, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Turks and Caicos Islands. The Programme’s core objectives are: • To increase energy efficiency of infrastructure with high impact on energy consumption. • To improve protection and sustainable management of the OCTs marine biodiversity. • To increase the resilience of Caribbean OCTs to adapt to extreme and recurrent natural events. To date, CARICAD has supported four (4) of the territories in the conversion of seven concept notes into project documents. Several of these projects are currently under implementation within the wider RESEMBID projects portfolio. As Programme implementation intensifies and then transitions towards successful completion, CARICAD will focus its capacity building efforts for the OCTs by the provision of tailored workshops in evaluation and lessons learning. The Evaluation workshop will be designed to support Implementing Partners whose projects will be subject to a mandatory terminal evaluation. aims to provide support primarily to implementing partners with a mandatory terminal evaluation in managing these evaluations. The Lessons Learned workshop aims to build capacity in documenting the lessons of experience under RESEMBID so that they can be curated and compiled in a way that enables the OCTs to make use of them when designing or implementing future initiatives. By Dr. Lois Parkes, Leadership Development and Institutional Strengthening Specialist, CARICAD I n 2013, the first cohort of the Leadership Development Programme (LDP) under the Caribbean Leadership Project (CLP), funded by the Government of Canada, was launched. At the end of the CLP in 2019, 12 cohorts with a total of 296 leaders from across 12 Caribbean public services and regional institutions were trained. The success of the CLP was ultimately to be determined by the creation of a sustainable leadership development programme for the Caribbean. This has been achieved with the transfer of the LDP to CARICAD in August 2019, and the creation of the CARICAD Leadership Development Programme (CLDP). The year 2023 mar 10th anniversary of the LDP, and in Sept 2023, the 20th Cohort was launched. The CLDP has been an overwhelming su and represents a shining example of pro sustainability in the Caribbean. Since Au 2019, a total of 1,723 leaders have bee across member states, through our sche and customised LDPs. We partnered wit number of organisations to deliver custo leadership development programmes/w aligned to their learning needs and cont Among these partners are the Eastern C Central Bank, Caribbean Court of Justice Administration and Passport, Immigratio Citizenship Agency, Jamaica, Governme Montserrat and Central Bank of Barbado Additionally, the monthly/special webina provide on-going learning and networkin opportunities for our stakeholders. Thes been largely facilitated by our Alumni, s their application of their leadership train public sector transformation initiatives w lead. We acknowledge our many partne
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