Multi-Country Office – Caribbean
Covering the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean, the UN Women Multi-Country Office – Caribbean, works with governments, civil-society organisations and regional inter-governmental bodies, such as the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in the development and implementation of innovative approaches aimed at achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment and national growth and development.
The MCO – Caribbean supports the CARICOM member states, Dutch Caribbean Islands and British Overseas Territories as follows:
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UN Country Team Coordination – In partnership with the UN Country Teams for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Belize and Guyana, UN Women programmes under six UNDAFs, all of which have a focus on gender-based violence given its prevalence in the Caribbean. UN Women MCO chairs a number of inter-agency bodies in the Caribbean.
🏛️ Representation
Isiuwa Iyahen
Deputy Representative and Head of Office ad interim of UN Women MCO Caribbean
✉️ Contact
- General email: [ Click to reveal ]
- Press contact: Sharon Carter-Burke, UN Women MCO Caribbean Communications and Advocacy Analyst,
[ Click to reveal ] - Phone: 1-246-836-6124
🌐 Official website
📍 Physical address
UN House, Marine Gardens
Hastings, Christ Church, Barbados
📑 Strategic Note
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💙 Priority areas of work
Build Back Equal Project: Funded in part by the Government of Canada, Build Back Equal Project focuses on ensuring that barriers to women’s economic empowerment are reduced. The project takes a comprehensive approach to addressing these barriers by (i) strengthening capacity and access to financing to women and youth-owned businesses; (ii) fit for purpose social protection programmes, including childcare services to reduce women’s care responsibilities and to ensure no one is left behind; (iii) sexual and reproductive health services that are more effective and that survivors of gender-based violence can have easier access to the services they need including through the establishment of multi-stakeholder GBV Referral pathways. UN Women Multi-Country Office- Caribbean is the lead implementing Agency, in conjunction with UNFPA Caribbean Office in four Eastern Caribbean Countries: Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Beneficiaries:
- Care Economy components - approximately 147,503 women ages 18-69, across all countries
- Increased access to financial resources, expanding export capacities and access to markets - at least 14,000 women and youth entrepreneurs in Dominica, Grenada and Saint Lucia indirectly impacting at least 56,000 families through responsive procurement policies.
- Gender responsive social protection policies and interventions for 13,154 women and men displaced by the La Soufriere Volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Craft and Produce vendors - at least 1000 women in Dominica, Grenada and Saint Lucia
- Quality SRH services - 64,208 women of reproductive age, 36,542 adolescents (10-19) will be reached for SRH services and information, of these, 18,271 are girls. 28,785 sexually active men will benefit from project interventions.
Government Departments: Gender Bureaus in all countries; Ministry of Health, Wellness and Social Services – Commonwealth of Dominica; Ministry of Social and Community Development, Housing and Gender Affairs – Grenada; Ministry of Labour, Gender Affairs and the Public Service – Saint Lucia and Ministry of National Mobilisation, Social Development, Family, Gender Affairs and Persons with Disabilities – St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
Joint SDG Fund Optimizing Innovative Finance for Underserved Groups to Build Resilience and Accelerate the Achievement of the SDGs in Antigua and Barbuda and St Lucia Joint Programme: being implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP – lead), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) under the framework of the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office.
Beneficiaries: Women and youth entrepreneurs, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and other underserved groups.
Government Departments: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Trade and Barbuda Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda and Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Youth Economy), Saint Lucia.