Crown Prince Haakon of Norway will go to Jamaica from November 18-20 in his function as world Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP).
Since embarking on this function in 2003, the Crown Prince has been devoted to selling the UN’s Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs), notably Purpose 1, which goals to eradicate poverty, and Purpose 14, targeted on the conservation of life beneath water.
Jamaica’s marine and coastal communities are dealing with rising ranges of vulnerability, owing to local weather change and different drivers of change, threatening each the resilience of ecosystems and nature-based livelihoods on which communities rely together with tourism and fisheries.
Crown Prince Haakon will acquire firsthand perception into how Jamaica, with help from Norway and UNDP, is working to strengthen its ocean economic system and enhance resilience in susceptible communities. This consists of efforts to deal with unlawful fishing by means of UNDP’s Blue Resilience Programme, which goals to reinforce the administration of marine sources and safeguard towards transnational crime within the fisheries sector.
Whereas in Jamaica, Crown Prince Haakon will meet with native authorities, youth, and representatives from numerous communities to debate challenges and options associated to oceans, local weather change, and poverty. He’ll go to the coastal group of Rocky Level to be taught extra about how the Norwegian-supported Blue Resilience Programme helps safe the way forward for fishing communities.
Moreover, the Crown Prince will go to Mount Ethereal, the place water assortment methods have been rehabilitated as a part of UNDP’s work to reinforce local weather adaptation and human safety. He may even take part in a dialogue with youth leaders at The College of the West Indies (UWI), discussing how younger individuals can contribute to nature-based options, local weather motion and the battle towards poverty of their communities.
UNDP has been current in Jamaica since 1976 and for near fifty years has partnered with authorities and communities to fight poverty and inequality, advance gender equality and advance insurance policies and outcomes for a extra resilient, sustainable future.
Below UNDPs present Nation Programme (2022-2026), UNDP helps communities handle threat and construct resilience by means of improvement initiatives that improve Social Resilience and Inclusion, Citizen Security, Safety and Rule of Regulation; Local weather Change Resilience; and Sustainable Pure Useful resource Administration, all emphasizing susceptible communities, so nobody is left behind. The UNDP Multi Nation Workplace additionally serves The Bahamas, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos and Cayman Islands the place UNDP’s partnerships with authorities have additionally superior objectives of sustainable and resilient improvement pathways.
