News and Events

Youth Activities in Suriname and Dominica

On December 6, 2011 USAID, in partnership with Partners of the Americas and in collaboration with Embassy Paramaribo, launched the A Ganar program that will provide training to over 500 vulnerable youth requiring a second-chance to become employed or to set up a business. Read more...

Grant to UNDP to Support Citizen Security

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 USAID made a grant of $100,000 to the United Nations Development Program for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean to support the region-wide public release and "conversation" about the findings and recommendations of UN Human Development Report on Citizens Security. Read more...

CERMES Signing Ceremony

On October 19, 2011 in Barbados, USAID and University of the West Indies Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (UWI CERMES) officially signed a US$767,350 cooperative agreement which runs from July 2011 to December 31, 2013. Read more...

Success Stories

A Workshop with Althea

Althea is a Community Animator with the Caribbean HIV & AIDS Alliance (CHAA). A former dancer herself, Althea has worked with CHAA for four years reaching out to migrant sex workers in Antigua and helping them to make safer sex choices through one on one and group behaviour change interventions. Read more...

Building the Capacity of Young Women in St. Kitts

The Caribbean HIV & AIDS Alliance (CHAA), under the Eastern Caribbean Community Action Project (ECCAP) funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is developing a project for women working in the industrial site in St Kitts. CHAA is partnering with the Department of Gender Affairs and several Government ministries including Health and Education to effectively roll out this project. Read more...

Evidence Based Research Prompts Faith Leader into Action Against Stigma and Discrimination

Mobilizing community groups, including faith-based communities, is a key approach in the Eastern Caribbean-Community Action Project (EC-CAP) which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In March 2009, the Caribbean HIV & AIDS Alliance (CHAA) conducted a three day EC-CAP training activity in behaviour change communication (BCC) for community leaders, including faith leaders, focused on HIV and related stigma and discrimination. Read more...