Caribbean Regional: USAID Program Profile
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Budget |
FY 2005
Actual
|
FY 2006
Current
|
FY 2007
Requested
|
|
Total Program Funds
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$61,940,000* |
$14,296,000 |
$14,640,000 |
*Caribbean FY 2005 includes $42,287,000 for Hurricane Relief
The United States Agency for International Development’s
(USAID) new five-year strategy, which began in 2005, for the
Caribbean Regional Program focuses on the two most daunting
challenges facing the region—the challenge to compete
in open markets and the challenge to control HIV/AIDS. The
target area of the regional program continues to be the English-speaking
members of the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM).
Changes in the new strategy include a sharpening of the program
focus by streamlining its previous four strategic objectives
into two.
Trade: To help the region to succeed in an open trade
environment, USAID is leading economic growth, trade and competitiveness
programs aimed at helping the region meet requirements to
participate in open trade regimes, reduce business constraints
and leverage market opportunities, as well as strengthen the
legal and environmental frameworks related to open trade.
The program also focuses on reducing the region’s vulnerability
to natural hazards such as hurricanes.
HIV/AIDS: USAID is also helping the region to better
respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Through targeted activities
across the region USAID is focusing on expanding access to
quality HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services, improving
the availability and use of accurate and reliable information
to better target the pandemic, and targeting HIV prevention
interventions to most at risk populations to reduce further
transmission.
The Caribbean Center for Excellence in Teaching Training
(CETT): To complement the two objectives of the regional
program, USAID is also funding the Caribbean Center of Excellence
for Teacher Training (CETT), one of three educational centers
established by a U.S. presidential initiative in October 2002.
An alliance among the public and private sectors, CETT is
improving reading instruction in grades 1-3 and upgrading
the knowledge and pedagogical skills of teachers. The Caribbean
CETT, based in Jamaica, serves the English-speaking islands
of the Caribbean by targeting rural and urban poor communities,
especially those in remote areas.
Global Development Alliances: USAID also works through
public/private alliances in the region to leverage private
sector resources and support to further development goals
across our programs.
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