KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Five CARICOM States make-up a select list from the World Food Programme (WFP) to serve as a model for the Caribbean in disaster response coordination includes Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Lucia and Jamaica.
The announcement was made by Regis Chapman, Head of the WFP’s Barbados-based Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme Office for the Caribbean, addressing shock-responsive social protection at the regional symposium in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, on June 27.
Chapman said that the WFP, along with international development consulting firm Oxford Policy Management “is developing five case studies in the Caribbean region… as part of our efforts to build evidence of shock-responsive social protection in the Caribbean.”
Speaking with JIS news, Chapman explained that the countries were selected “based on their level of linking social protection with disaster management,” adding that Jamaica “is one of the more unique cases because of the history of linking social protection with humanitarian assistance. We actually chose Jamaica to serve as a model, particularly in the areas around coordination.”
Fieldwork for the case studies has been conducted and entailed interviews with government counterparts along with other stakeholders in the areas of social protection and disaster management; visits to communities; and meetings with beneficiaries of…
