Executive Director of the UNFPA Dr. Natalia Kanem recently went to Antigua and Barbuda for the “Wadadli Action Platform” in Antigua from 8 to 9 August 2022. The Government of Antigua and Barbuda in its capacity as Chair of Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) convened the meeting which aimed to transform ambition and commitments for enhancing resilience in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) into urgent and conc...

In this issue, we say farewell to Former Deputy Director of the UNFPA Sub-regional Office of the Caribbean Seth Broekman. Seth came to the SROC from the UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) where he had been providing oversight and quality assurance support to 21 Country Offices, 22 UNCTs and the Regional Office on strategic planning, programme management and UN Reform since 2013. Before joining the...

Harold Robinson, Regional Director for UNFPA Latin America and the Caribbean, conducted some field visits across Jamaica with a team from UNFPA SROC while on his mission in the country in July. The first visit was to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Domestic Violence Intervention Centre (DVIC) in St. Catherine on Thursday, July 14. The conversation facilitated by the JCF team focused on the organization's pr...