Officers from the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Secretariat and the United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP) met from March 4-6 on the Group’s Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana, to finalise a joint motion plan for his or her cooperation.
The officers fleshed out a 2024 Motion Plan to operationalise the CARICOM-UNDP Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which articulates their intention to work towards the event of Small Island Growth States (SIDS) of the Caribbean.
Signed in September 2022, the MOU, underscores cooperation on governance; local weather and catastrophe resilience, sustainable power, and pure useful resource administration; citizen security and safety; financial improvement together with the Blue Economic system; innovation and digital inclusion of youth; financing for improvement, and institutional strengthening.
Assembly discussions had been led by CARICOM Deputy Secretary-Basic, Dr. Armstrong Alexis, and the UNDP’s Deputy Regional Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLA), Linda Maguire.
Dr. Armstrong expressed the Secretariat’s appreciation of UNDP’s cooperation with CARICOM on three priorities – renewable power, sustainable improvement, and citizen safety. He referred to as for a “concrete understanding” of actions which the organisations will pursue in these areas, on the finish of the three-day engagement. Endorsing this method, Maguire stated, “The 2 organisations are highly effective on their very own, but it surely is sensible to do extra collectively.”
Assistant Secretary-Basic for Financial Integration, Innovation and Growth, Joseph Cox; Assistant Secretary-Basic for Human and Social Growth, Alison Drayton; and Assistant Secretary-Basic for Overseas and Group Relations, Elisabeth Solomon additionally participated within the discussions.
They highlighted CARICOM’s curiosity in an AI regulatory framework to guard the artistic industries, to take care of moral points, upskilling and reskilling of the workforce, and public schooling. The officers additionally drew consideration to the necessity to replace the CARICOM Vitality Coverage given the brand new and rising oil producers within the Group and updating the Electrical Automobiles Technique to make sure sufficient safeguard and laws in respect of exterior insurance policies equivalent to Europe’s new emission requirements.
A research on the discount of extended pre-trial detention was one other intervention put ahead for the CARICOM-UNDP 2024 Motion Plan.
Nation Programme Specialist inside the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Richard Kelly, and UNDP’s Resident Consultant in Guyana and Suriname, Gerardo Noto, joined Maguire for the discussions on the primary day.
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