PROJECTS & PUBLICATIONS

Date (from - to)
Country
Name and Brief Description of Project and Tasks Carried out
Client
Output
March -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
April to 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.
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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
​Dec 2014 to 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:
1- Quality checks on training experts, schedules, materials and manuals
2- Auditing and checking on quality of actual delivery in the training room
3- 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
2014 to 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.
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Support dissemination of the findings and recommendations  
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
​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

Publications

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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