UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica

#ThrowbackThursday💡 | It’s 2020, a year after cat 5 hurricane Dorian tore through Bahamas inflicting catastrophic damage to many homes on Abaco and Grand Bahama. Enter the mobile Technical Assistance Centers, a build back better service on wheels offering technical advice and small home-repair grants to homeowners. Partnering with DRM Authority and Rotary Club of BAH, our mobile service deployed to affected communities, serving hundreds of homeowners. The TAC concept is making a comeback, this time in Jamaica under UNDP’s #ResilientRecovery package. See how the TACs could help residents in western Jamaica secure their homes to withstand future hurricanes. When Crisis strikes, #UNDP is on the ground with practical and innovative solutions for a resilient recovery. #ResilientRecovery #ResilientJamaica

Good friend betta than pocket money‼️ — a great Jamaican saying, which means, Partnerships matter when life unravels. In the aftermath of #HurricaneMelissa, UNDP is grateful for friends like these — our #PartnersAtCore — who along with European Commission and CARICOM: Caribbean Community are making it possible to support a #ResilientRecovery in Jamaica🇯🇲. Their investments in #UNDP are being put to good use — helping to restore the heartbeat of community life and livelihoods, and supporting Jamaica’s national vision for building forward better. Because of you, and countless other well thinking nations and NGOs across the world, a nation traumatized by a cat 5 hurricane can hope again. 🫡Thank you🇧🇪🇨🇦🇨🇳🇮🇳🇮🇪🇩🇪🇯🇵🇳🇴🇨🇭🇸🇪🇬🇧 #Germany #Belgium #Canada #China #India #Ireland #Japan #Norway #Sweden #Switzerland #UnitedKingdom #ResilientRecovery #ResilientJamaica Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN | Mission permanente du Canada auprès de l’ONU Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations - New York Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in Geneva

🇯🇲🇺🇳 UNDP has allocated an initial USD 2 million in #ResilientRecovery grants to Jamaica’s hurricane recovery effort to stabilize communities, restore livelihoods & support 🇯🇲’s ‘build⏩ forward better’ vision. 🎯UNDP’s community stabilization support includes: 🚜Clean up and management of debris including recycling opportunities through cash for work 📊Recovery of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and community livelihoods including fishers (pictured). ☀️Support for solar power, resilient re-roofing and other critical community infrastructure needs. 🚐 Mobile and community-based Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) to provide on-the-spot advice to affected communities. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲At the national level UNDP will also support Jamaica’s resilient planning process including research and resilient re development of key sectors. 🙏Thanks to #UNDP🌎funds CARICOM: Caribbean Community & European Commission 🔗 go.undp.org/i7X | #ResilientRecovery #ResilientJamaica

This is Olivene, enterprising poultry and pig farmer and Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers member — 1 of thousands who lost their livelihood to #HurricaneMelissa. Her chicken stock is wiped out; roof gone, now covered in tarp. Rural women like Olivene are the backbone of Jamaica’s poultry industry. Their recovery is part and parcel of national recovery. It’s why UNDP is helping this vulnerable group with grants, inputs & training to support #ResilientRecovery & food security. 💪 But Olivene’s is more than a story of loss; its’s also a remarkable story of how vulnerable groups can make a start in building resilience: Although hurricane Melissa destroyed her small scale poultry farm, she is not without hope. Leaning on the advice she received in @undpjamaica’s business continuity workshop for rural women #MSMEs, she accumulated contingency savings — enough, she says to partly finance her recovery. This proactive move, though a small step, can reap big returns for livelihoods in the crosshairs of #climatechange. It is possible to strengthen local capacity to withstand and overcome crises like hurricane Melissa with tailored support. @undp intends to not only support recovery of vulnerable #MSMEs, but support their #resilientrecovery. #resilientJamaica

The full power of @UNDP’s global crisis recovery system has been activated to support Jamaica 🇯🇲 in the aftermath of hurricane Melissa. #UNDP Resident Representative, Dr Kishan Khoday and head of UNDP’s Disaster Risk Reduction Recovery and Resilience unit, Ronald Jackson herald the importance of this powerful resource and mark a significant milestone in our plans to help advance Jamaica’s Resilient Recovery from hurricane Melissa. We are on one team, working together — on location in affected communities, talking with the people, conducting assessments and meeting with partners from government, private sector, and civil society. When crisis strikes, UNDP deploys the globe’s top experts from its Crisis Bureau to the field to support a resilient recovery that strengthens nations to withstand future shocks. UNDP is here to stay and deliver from start to finish in partnership with the Government and people of Jamaica.

🌎♻️🌳Greater levels of youth inclusion and leadership in #ClimateAction is a timely and urgent call, even more so as Small Island Developing States reel from the effects of #ClimateChange. It will require the facilitation of adult leaders — to open doors, create project interventions, spaces and advocacy opportunities. It will take leaders who understand youth must be trained and mentored to lead — not just as advocates — but as co implementers of climate projects, including those targeting young people. UNDP and the Multi Country Office’s Resident Representative Dr Kishan Khoday lead on this principle from the front, championing the youth leadership platform #ReadySetGreat and disbursing grants to youth led climate projects. These interventions are an investment in the future leadership of a world contending with the accelerating impacts of climate change. Tomorrow’s leaders must be ready. To this end, @UNDPJamaica’s youth advocacy platform #ReadySetGreat went regional for the 1st time, through our collab with the @BueiBermuda / UNDP Youth Climate Summit. As Jamaica contends with the aftermath of hurricane Melissa, calls for greater youth inclusion and leadership in #ClimateAction came from UNDP Resident Representative, Dr Kishan Khoday and Ready Set youth leaders @shari.wb and @jvstinn, building on the climate-focused Goal 4 of the Ready Set Call to Action Dr Khoday urged Caribbean youth to step into their leadership destiny as earth’s 🌎 guardians and to create their own tables when seats have been denied. He shared opportunities available through UNDP locally and globally and highlighted best practices in youth climate action. Shari and Justin’s climate activities in recycling and tree planting were shared, receiving thumbs up and positive comments from delegates. Tomorrow, the UNDP-hosted Green Jobs of the Future masterclass shows youth how they can get involved in green careers that will save our planet. Caribbean youth can still register at readysetgreatja.com

‼️ANNOUNCEMENT‼️🇺🇳Today, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Alexander De Croo as our new UNDP Administrator. We look forward to working together to help eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and build resilience. Join us in wishing him a warm welcome! ➡️ https://go.undp.org/iWq