Grants and Contributions

The project supports community resilience in the face of natural disasters by undertaking demonstration projects that help determine which prevention or mitigation measures are most effective. In order to produce tangible risk reduction results in pilot communities to be disseminated across the region, these demonstration projects take lessons learned from other disaster risk reduction projects and test innovative ideas to improve or expand on them. The project also addresses the knowledge gap in the region about effective measures by putting together a mechanism for better tracking disaster risk management lessons learned, and measuring results.

The project is implementing demonstration projects in fifteen to seventeen communities across the Caribbean, with a focus on high-risk, low-income communities. The Caribbean Development Bank is also using regional specialists to train and inform government agencies, local officials, community workers and community-based organizations on the resources and the approaches available for reducing natural hazard impacts at the community level.

This project aims to create expanded economic opportunities for poor rural women and men, including ethnic minority populations by providing funding to the province of Soc Trang for the development and implementation of a five-year Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Development Plan. The initiative uses provincial systems and institutions, and contributes to the province's broader socio-economic development objectives. The project has three interrelated components:

1. Development and implementation of a five-year SME Plan, including provisions to: simplify business registration; improve business development services; facilitate access to finance, land and markets; and strengthen human resource development to meet SME labour force requirements.

2. Support to priority small-scale infrastructure work promoting SME development in 18 communes of five districts.

3. Strengthening the capacity of participating partners at provincial, district and commune levels in SME development: planning, budgeting, financial management, procurement, and monitoring.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) improved small and medium enterprise (SME) competitiveness in an established favorable business environment for men, women and ethnic minority-owned SMEs in selected sectors; (2) an improved infrastructure system facilitating sustainable and gender-sensitive SME development in selected communes; and (3) improved public governance to support sustainable and gender-sensitive SME development in Soc Trang Province.

Jordan-Canada Partnership for Youth Employment

The objective of the Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation (JUST) program is to foster an improved sense of security for Jamaicans. Specifically, it aims to contribute to strengthening the justice system in Jamaica. The program works on three complementary fronts: (i) order in institutions - strengthening justice institutions so that they are better able to contribute to order; (ii) order in legislation - promoting legislative and policy reforms that better position the state to ensure security; and (iii) order in society - encouraging communities to provide input into justice system reform, which leads to improved personal security.

Project activities include: assessment of the managerial, financial, and organizational capabilities of justice-related institutions; strengthening government departments through expert advice, research, tailored training programs, workshops, mentoring, and coaching; supporting the review of selected existing legislation, regulations, and policies; and supporting the creation and operation of neighbourhood resource centres that give poor urban communities better access to justice services.

This is one of two parts of a project valued at $17.8 million.

This project aims to increase food security by improving the profitability of Haiti's agriculture sector. It supports an agricultural credit financing and insurance system that encourages commercial and co-operative banks to lend to viable agricultural enterprises and help farmers manage risk and uncertainty. It also helps the Government of Haiti and Haitian financial institutions build the legislative and regulatory framework needed to manage a system of credit and insurance services for small and medium agricultural producers.

The project is implemented by a consortium led by Développement international Desjardins that includes the Financière agricole du Québec (Développement international) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.

Courthouses Construction Project

Support the proposals of professors from University of Western Ontario for a teaching and/or research project to create or expand partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean institutions.

Supporting the implementation of Sierra Leone’s 2022 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act by educating women and community members in rural communities of the Koinadugu and Falaba Districts of Sierra Leone.