Outcome BRB_D_2.2

People in the Caribbean equitably access and utilize universal, quality and shock-responsive, social protection, education, health and care services. (Outcome 4)

The results of an evaluation of the UN Joint Programme on Adaptive Social Protection in the Eastern Caribbean (Co-Led by WFP and UNICEF, with UN Women, FAO and ILO as PUNOs) with confirmed that social protection can be adapted to be shock-responsive in both ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ dimensions – as well as over time (for example, through supporting childcare services that enabled women to access job/skills training and access the labour market in St. Lucia. UN Women successfully led the component of this project on reducing unpaid care work through supporting access by women beneficiaries of public assistance through providing stipends from 2020 to 2021. In 2022, UN Women built on the results of these experiences by successfully mobilizing further resources from the Government of Canada to continue this pilot and St. Lucia and extend it to 4 more countries (Dominica, Grenada, and St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Institutional arrangement to support this initiative were initiated in 2022 and it is expected that there will be further progress towards this outcome in 2023, the result of which should lead to increased access by women to shock and gender-responsive social protection services.

People in the Caribbean equitably access and utilize universal, quality and shock-responsive, social protection, education, health and care services. (Outcome 4)

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People in the Caribbean equitably access and utilize universal, quality and shock-responsive, social protection, education, health and care services. (Outcome 4)

In Dominica, St. Lucia and Grenada, Care Systems are being strengthened. In Grenada and St. Lucia, UN Women is providing technical support for revisions of laws and social benefits for child and elder care. Also, a pilot programme is being designed to provide women in three countries (Dominica, Grenada, St. Luca and Dominica) with the high care responsibilities (in this case women with children 5 years old and younger) who are existing beneficairies of public assistance with piriority access to childcare services to allow for time to uptake job and skills training and health services (including reproductive health services) in 2026. Multisectoral and interministerial coordination across various ministries (social services, health, education, gender affairs, labour) will be a central focus of this pilot.

People in the Caribbean equitably access and utilize universal, quality and shock-responsive, social protection, education, health and care services. (Outcome 4)

The results of the a gender gap analysis of social protection policy and legal frameworks 4 countries: Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines) have identified inequalities throughout the life course in this sector. The results of this research are now available to inform the development of multi-sector interventions, policies and programmes, across the life course to narrow inequalities by women and women in this sector.