AWARDS
From left: Dr. Halimah DeShong , Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS): Nita Barrow Unit; Emerita Professor, the Most Honourable Eudine Barriteau , feminist activist and former Principal, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus; and Dr. Tonya Haynes , Lecturer, IGDS
Professor Barriteau Honoured by Gender Unit
Retired educator Emerita Professor the Most Honourable V. Eudine Barriteau has added to her list of stellar accomplishments when the unit through which she became renowned honoured her for her pioneering activism. T he feminist scholar, activist and regionalist who served as principal of two University of the West Indies campuses – Cave Hill and The Open Campus (now The UWI Global Campus) - received the accolade from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit (IGDS: NBU) which celebrated her last June. Professor Barriteau headed the Centre for Gender and Development Studies that transitioned into the IGDS: NBU from
1993 to 2008. She was instrumental in institutionalising the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development (CIGAD) , which she also chaired for several years. CIGAD is the unit’s flagship outreach programme. Current Head and Senior Lecturer of the IGDS: NBU Dr. Halimah DeShong presented the former principal with her award during the opening ceremony of the 15 th CIGAD held on 30 June 2023. Dr. DeShong credited the feminist activist with steering the institute on a path that has seen it become the premier regional training programme for gender and development and gender analysis. “Your insistence that such training should be grounded in feminist analysis, a Caribbean feminist intellectual tradition, and in experiential learning has stood the test of time so much so that for many professionals working in the field of gender and development in the Caribbean, a single gender analysis qualification is the CIGAD certification and the rigour it provides.” Although the former principal has
received numerous awards and honours, among them the Order of Freedom of Barbados and The Order of Grenada Gold Award for Excellence , she said this latest award was special as the IGDS: NBU had served as her intellectual, scholarly, and activist home for 15 years. “I am overjoyed that all the planning we undertook in 1993 to establish this intensive training programme has paid off so abundantly. I am also so very pleased and proud of the leadership over the years which has taken us to today.” Dr. Halimah DeShong Head, Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit
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