INSTITUTES, CENTRES & FACULTIES IN FOCUS
INSTITUTES, CENTRES & FACULTIES IN FOCUS
MU: Spotlight Initiative Activity: Review and update VAWG Awareness in the training curriculum for pre-service and in-service teachers and school leaders/administrators. NBU: Building Climate-smart Livelihoods through Opportunity, Outreach and Membership (BLOOM) project, funded by the British High Commission. RCO: UNDP Spotlight Initiative Project: Legislative Reform to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls and Family Violence in Jamaica. SAU: Bankers Association of T&T and Pan American Development Foundation Break the Silence: End Child Sexual Abuse (BTS:ECSA): evidence-based advocacy to end gender-based violence and a train-the-trainers programme to build capacity of persons to use the bilingual toolkits in Spanish migrant communities. CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH (CAIHR) LANCET COUNTDOWN ON HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE On December 7, 2022 CAIHR’s oldest institute, the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (TMRU), launched the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Regional Centre for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that include the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, as well as SIDS from the African and Indian Ocean. The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change is a team of global experts tracking the impact of climate change on human health and providing evidence for action.
INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
PROMOTING GREATER ACTIVISM AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY
The Faculty organised several activities to promote greater activism and public advocacy. The Regional Coordinating Office (RCO) hosted three seminars/panel discussions to commemorate International Women’s Day and International Women’s History Month. Panellists included women from the Caribbean, Iran, Nepal, India, and South Africa. In addition, a Vice-Chancellor’s online forum was focused on “Men Fostering Gender Justice” to commemorate International Men’s Day. Other activities included collaboration with the Centre for Reparations Research, National Reparations Council, the United Maroon Indigenous Peoples and the Yamaye Council of Indigenous Leaders (YCOIL), to host the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples (IPs) Rights, Mr. José Fransisco Cali Tzay, in Jamaica and at The UWI from March 25 – April 2, 2023. RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSALS In a bid to increase and improve academic/industry research partnerships, the Units submitted several research grant proposals, advancing and concluding existing funded projects while commencing new ones. The following is a sampling of these projects:
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