With funding from Global Affairs Canada, UN Women is leading the implementation of the “Build Back Equal” project with UNFPA in Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
This 4-year joint project will contribute to women’s economic resilience in the Eastern Caribbean by taking a comprehensive approach to addressing the barriers women face to economic empowerment and providing increased sustainable opportunities for women’s economic growth.
- Advertisement -
A post on the Facebook page of the High Commission of Canada in Barbados said:
Canada is delighted to support #BuildBackEqual in Dominica!
Last week, the High Commission of Canada in Barbados and the OECS participated virtually in the stakeholder session for the Build Back Equal Project, where Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made a strong commitment to the initiative and to #GenderEquality and social inclusion in Dominica.
Implemented by UN Women Caribbean and UNFPA Caribbean, Build Back Equal utilizes a comprehensive human rights-based approach that aims to increase women and girls’ ability to participate in the formal economy, in education, in health, and in public life across four Eastern Caribbean countries: Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Through Build Back Equal, we have an opportunity to do more than build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent climate-related shocks, but to Build Back Equal for women and girls and other vulnerable and marginalized groups.
The project focuses on ensuring women and youth-owned businesses have access to affordable and adequate financing, fit-for-purpose social protection programs that provide no one is left behind, sexual and reproductive health services that are more effective, and that survivors of gender-based violence can easier access to the services they need.
Prime Minister Skerrit said the Build Back Equal Project “takes place in Dominica at a time when we have been concerned, as a people and Government, with strengthening our systems against the threat of climate change and other external shocks; and empowering our women to be major players in creating a stronger society. And so I welcome the start of this project here, which is focused on tearing down barriers for women to access sustainable economic opportunities. ”
