PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

  Date (from - to)
Country
Name and Brief Description of Project and Tasks Carried out
  Client
Output
​Jan-Mar 2020
St Lucia
​Diplomacy and Sustainable Development Virtual Lecture Series:
Delivered a set of lectures on trade, development, and climate change to Caribbean Diplomatic Officers and beyond
Ministry of External Affairs & The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
  • Delivered 13 lectures, and a final panel discussion with high level experts
Sept 2018- Mar 2019
London
Renewable Energy Research for the Pre-Implementation of a Finance Catalyst Program for the Caribbean:
  • Identification of bankable projects in the renewable energy (RE) sector.
  • Data collection and analysis- country surveys and interviews.
Recommendations on project development, project structuring and accessing green finance.
Sub-contracted by International Trade & Communication Consulting Ltd for joint exercise of the EU, OECS, GIZ.
  • ​Report with primary and secondary data findings and recommendations made.
​Mar-Nov 2017
St Lucia
​Review of the Political and Economic Department to inform and enable its upgrading, modernisation and enhanced efficiency and effectiveness
​Ministry of External Affairs
​●        Institutional review and detailed 52-page report
​Jan-Feb 2017
London
Analysis of the impact of Brexit on third countries:
  • Data collection and analysis which included convening high level round tables and data collection workshops
  • Identified opportunities and challenges posed by Brexit to third countries
ACP
  • Report, and High-Level Symposium 
​Dec 2014 - 2017
Cariforum
EDF Contract nº FED/2014/352-781
“Capacity Building within Member States of the Caribbean Forum for ACP States (CARIFORUM) in the areas of Competition, Procurement and Customs and Trade Facilitation for the implementation of the EPA”
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Internal monitoring and quality assurance including:
  • Quality checks on training experts, schedules, materials and manuals
  • Auditing and checking on quality of actual delivery in the training room
Auditing trainee evaluations and recommending corrective action as appropriate4- Checking on post-training impact with CARIFORUM 
​CARIFORUM EPA    Implementation Unit
  • Provided quality assurance in compliance with ToR and the needs of CARIFORUM
Apr-May 2016
CARICOM and UK
Study of The Caribbean’s External Trade Partnerships:
  • Opportunities and Challenges, to explore how the countries can harness external trade partnerships to support the region’s growth, development and integration objectives.
  • Specific reference to the EPA, CBI, Canada-CARICOM, TTIP and relations with China​
​CARICOM
  • ​A 16-page paper that brought the diverse trade policy issues into a single coherent briefing document suitable for senior policy makers
2014 - Oct 2015
​Jamaica, Haiti, 
St Lucia
​Caribbean Green Economy Initiative:
  • Advise national teams and providing substantive, technical and methodological guidance Participating in drafting and editing Green Economy assessment reports and strengthening their economic foundation.
  • Support dissemination of the findings and recommendations  
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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  • Participated in the green economy capacity needs assessment for the Caribbean region
  • 2 reports on green economy as economic diversification strategy for St Lucia and for Jamaica
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Publications

  • Survival of Small Island States - Will COP26 Deliver? iDERA 2021
  • Upgrading Political and Economic Representation:  Review of Saint Luca’s Ministry of External Affairs’ Political and Economic Department. Restricted. Submitted to the Saint Lucia Government October 2017  
  • Harnessing The Caribbean’s External Trade Partnerships: Opportunities and Challenges. Commonwealth Secretariat Awaiting publication in the Economic Series.
  • Climate Change and SIDS – A Voice at COP21 for Small Farmers. Issues Paper. Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, the Netherlands November 2015.
  • OCTA Vision 20/20:  Background Paper for post 2015 Strategic Plan May 2015. OCTA Brussels May 2015
  • Securing East Africa’s Agriculture Interests in the WTO’s Doha negotiations. CUTS International Geneva April 2015
  • A New Economic Paradigm: Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Chapter in Beyond Aid: Labour’s Ambition for a radical development agenda. Edited by Glenys Kinnock and Stephen Doughty. January 2015.
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