Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER)

The EnGenDER project is aimed at addressing gender-based inequality, ensuring young men and women working as fisher folk and farmers are able to withstand the adverse impacts of climate change and recover quickly after disasters.

Equal opportunities in agriculture and fisheries allow more persons to participate in economic growth, build resilience to climate change and further help pull vulnerable groups out of poverty.

The EnGenDER awareness campaign implemented by the Jamaica 4-H Foundation, with support through the Jamaica 4-H Clubs took our team to St. Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon and St. Thomas, with our final stop taking us to Westmoreland.  We utilized this campaign to introduce young men and women to sustainable and proactive agricultural and fisheries practices. Sustainable practices in agriculture are critical and must be embedded in national decision-making and by participants to combat climate change.

600 youth farmers and fishers in Jamaica, across five parishes will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises, under the pilot ‘Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Farmers and Fisherfolk in Jamaica. The EnGenDER project is funded by Global Affairs Canada and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom and implemented through UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica.