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BARBADOS,SAINT LUCIA & Theoecs Joint SDG Fund | Leave No one Behind through Social Protection in BARBADOS,SAINT LUCIA & theOECS April 2020 THE JOINT PROGRAMME IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN – ENSURING PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION © UNDP © Leave No One Behind Social protection refers to policies and programmes aimed at preventing and Current situation The Caribbean is the most indebted protecting people against poverty, region in the world and highly vulnerable vulnerability and social exclusion over to large-scale shocks including economic the course of their lives. These include a crises, public health emergencies, wide range of interventions, such as 1 million displacement and climate-related social assistance, social insurance as well people highly vulnerable disasters. In the last four decades, as supporting people’s skills and access to impact of shocks Eastern Caribbean countries have to jobs. suffered USD22 billion in damages as a US$3 billion direct result of natural disasters. The United Nations Children’s Fund est. losses due to (UNICEF), the World Food Programme disasters annually In a region where one in four people (WFP), the International Labour (24%) live in poverty, with a poverty rate Organization (ILO), the United Nations that is even higher among children Development Programme (UNDP) and 1 in 4 (33%), no one should be left behind and UN Women have come together under people live in poverty face such events without adequate the Joint Programme “Enhancing and 1 in 3 children social protection. Resilience and Acceleration of the _________________________________ Sustainable Development Goals in the Eastern Caribbean: Universal Adaptive 4 countries People are more vulnerable to Social Protection”. This joint effort, have a Social Protection the impact of crises, when they supported by the UN Resident Policy, 5 pending/planned live in poverty and lack assets to Coordinator’s Office for Barbados and prepare for, withstand and the Eastern Caribbean, aims to: 2 examples recover from such events. ✓ Make social protection more of emergency cash _________________________________ adaptive, – linking it to disaster risk response through existing management and adapting to climate national programme Even those with adequate means may change – to ensure people have the require support at some point in their means to prepare and can access All countries support during and after crises; lives. For example, in 2017, Hurricane have at least one public Maria affected 90% of the population of ✓ Expand social protection towards assistance programme Dominica in one way or another. universal access for people. Joint SDG Fund | Leave No one Behind through Social Protection in BARBADOS,SAINT LUCIA & theOECS This map is stylized and not to scale. It does not reflect a position by UNICEF on the legal status of any country or area or the delimitation of any frontier. In Barbados and Saint Lucia, programme At regional level, it will support: A Joint Programme interventions will contribute to ✓ legal and policy coherence through strengthening social protection systems inter-institutional engagement and at the national level: 4.75 million South-South cooperation in the US$3mn by SDG Fund ✓ for integrated service delivery by Eastern Caribbean. plus agency contributions improving institutional capacities; ✓ through the collection of evidence to Accelerating the SDGs inform governments’ social and This is the first joint UN initiative to be 3 SDGs disaster risk management policies implemented in the region, supported by Poverty reduction, gender and legislation; equality, climate action the Joint SDG Fund. The Joint SDG Fund ✓ through support to improve manage- supports countries globally to accelerate ment and operational tools; and their progress towards the Sustainable 5 agencies ✓ through the development of Development Goals (SDGs). The UN of the United Nations innovative financing strategies to Secretary-General considers the Fund an coordinating their efforts ensure fiscal sustainability and essential part of the recent UN Reform: expanded coverage. supporting collaboration amongst UN agencies and other development The Joint Programme will be At community level, the Joint partners and promoting a whole-of- implemented from January 2020 to Programme will: government approach. Its first focus is on January 2022, with Governments of ✓ pilot the use of social protection to social protection, considered one of the Barbados and Saint Lucia, as well as the respond to the needs of vulnerable most effective instruments to reach Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States men, women, boys and girls in those left behind – across many SDGs. (OECS) Commission. emergencies. For more information see jointsdgfund.org or contact: SDG Fund Joint Programme Team United Nations House, Barbados [email protected].
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