Annex I e. Caribbean Regional Investment Plan 6 country (Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) and 1 Regional programme profiles 2019-2023 June 2020 Contents Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 5 1. Context ................................................................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Sector and Regional Contexts and Thematic Areas ...................................................................... 8 1.1.1 Thematic and Geographic Priorities for Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls ........... 8 1.1.2 Public Policy Assessment and EU Policy Framework ..................................................................... 11 1.1.3 Stakeholders .................................................................................................................................. 12 1.1.4 Priority Areas for Support/Problem Analysis ............................................................................. 15 Gender Inequality in The Caribbean .................................................................................................... 15 2. Risks and Assumptions ........................................................................................................................... 38 3. Lessons Learnt, Complementarity and Cross-Cutting Issues ................................................................ 45 3.1 Lessons learnt ................................................................................................................................... 45 3.2 Complementarity, Synergy, and Donor Coordination ...................................................................... 51 3.3 Cross-Cutting Issues .......................................................................................................................... 53 4. Description of Action .............................................................................................................................. 55 4.1 Objectives/Results ............................................................................................................................ 55 4.1.1 Global Theory of Change ............................................................................................................ 55 4.2 Intervention Logic ............................................................................................................................. 56 4.3 Regional Theory of Change ............................................................................................................... 58 5. Implementation ...................................................................................................................................... 72 6. Country Selection Criteria and Methodology for Country Shortlisting for the Caribbean .................. 77 7. Regional Programme .............................................................................................................................. 79 8. Communication and Visibility ................................................................................................................ 81 9. Monitoring and Evaluation .................................................................................................................... 81 10. Financial Allocation ........................................................................................................................ 83 11. Country Programme Profiles.......................................................................................................... 88 2 Executive Summary The Spotlight Initiative (SI) is a partnership between the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG), including harmful practices. The Spotlight Initiative is backed by an unprecedented EUR 500M investment from the EU and aims at achieving transformational change. Based on evidence, the Initiative will focus on particular forms of VAWG that are prevalent or prominently emerge in specific regions: femicide in Latin America; trafficking in human beings and sexual and economic (forced labor) exploitation in Asia; sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), including harmful practices (HPs), and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Sub-Saharan Africa; domestic/intimate partner violence (IPV) in the Pacific; and family violence in the Caribbean. Other donors and partners are being approached to broaden the Initiative’s regional, thematic and geographical coverage. Six pillars of work comprise the Initiative, which is premised on implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 5.2 calls for the elimination of all forms of VAWG. The Spotlight Initiative also aligns with the European Consensus on Development which identifies gender equality and women’s empowerment as a critical cross-cutting issue of EU development cooperation and the EU Gender Action Plan II (2016-2020)1, a practical tool guiding all EU cooperation with partner countries on how to take gender equality on-board. The EU Gender Action Plan centers physical and psychological integrity of women and girls as core to its three main thematic priorities. The Spotlight Initiative strongly reaffirms the EU's commitment to effective multilateralism and will enable the EU and UN to showcase their strong partnership in action, leading on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This document outlines the programmatic framework of the Spotlight Initiative’s investments for the Caribbean region, starting in 2019. For the purposes of the Investment Plan, the eligible countries include the following; Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, The Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago. British Overseas Territories as well as the Dutch Antilles are not included. This investment plan guides the Regional and country programme design, which is based on the global and regional results framework and theory of change. Regional context, progress, opportunities, and gaps will inform priority areas of focus, while forthcoming country programmes will define specific actions, clearly defined budget allocations, to be undertaken at the country level. In the Caribbean region, the Spotlight Initiative will focus on Family violence. Family violence covers physical, social, sexual, economic and emotional abuse and acts of aggression within relationships that are considered as family connections or akin to family connections. Family violence in the Caribbean region can be located within broader “cultures of violence” within the region which inform high levels of crime and violence as well as corporal punishment and the use of violent discipline. A definition of family violence for the purpose of the Spotlight initiative 1 https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sites/devco/files/eu_gap_2017.pdf 3 in the Caribbean takes into account the reality of various family forms present in the Caribbean region and the broader context of unequal gender-power relations in which these various family forms are situated. Taking unequal gender-power relations into account, family violence will be viewed as gender-based with the most prevalent form of violence within the family being violence against women and girls. Notably, a definition of family violence in the Caribbean context incorporates a focus on economic violence as well as psychological/ emotional violence, partner and non-partner sexual violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, Intimate partner violence as well as female intimate partner or family related homicide. Through a comprehensive approach, the Spotlight Initiative will focus its work on family violence through six key pillars: developing and implementing relevant legislation and policies, strengthening national and sub-national institutions, preventing violence through evidence- based programmes and campaigns, establishing and strengthening essential services for victims and survivors, ensuring the collection and use of prevalence and incidence data, and partnering directly with women’s movements and civil society. Initially, the Spotlight Initiative in the Caribbean will focus on family violence in Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada. These countries were selected on the basis of agreed primary criteria including the prevalence of intimate partner violence, rate of female Intimate partner/ family related homicide and indicators making up the gender inequality index, and secondary criteria which assessed government commitment to the issue, enabling environment including for civil society, national and partner capacities, among other considerations. An assessment of primary criteria in the Caribbean region revealed that there are significant gaps in data making it impossible to determine any indication of prevalence for some countries of the Caribbean region. It was also significant that most countries of the Eastern Caribbean had no data based on prevalence and gender inequality indicators used which would support a ranking of these countries in terms of prevalence. All countries will programme on the six pillars of Spotlight Initiative’s Theory of Change as outlined above. There will also be a regional