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Country Gender Assessment (CGA) CGA CGA, CGA and Ms. Miselle O’Brien – - Debique, CDB’s Gender Advisor, has brought immense value to the myself.

We have had fruitful exchanges under Rawwida’s open and affirming leadership on our shared he Stakeholders’ Workshop.

Finally we offer thanks to Aleah Ranjitsingh and Asha i i | .
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M a r c e l l a L i b u r d , M i n i s t e r o f H e a l t h , S o c i a l S e r v i c e s , , .

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L o r r a i n e A r c h i b a l d , N e v i s G e n d e r C o o r d i n a t o r , .

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S h a r o n R a t t a n , P e r m a n e n t S e c r e t a r y i n t h e S t .
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Ministerial Committee and deeper civil society’s development and delivery.
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CGA Undertakes an assessment of SKN’s national capacity to institutionalize gender equality in force to women’s empowerment, CGA 4 | P a g e 2 .

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to “provide targeted, high level support to micro, small and medium enterprises”.

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practical measures to strengthen women’s leadership and - making at all levels is the need for women’s capacity of women’s organizations to address this issue and increase women’s and among women’s  P  Q  S  I  I  D National Report: St. Kitts and Nevis.

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p d f of women are anchored in the nation’s independence Constitution of September 1983 as well as in international treaties and related protocols to which the country is signatory.

GOSKN’s co Women (CEDAW).


SKN’s subsequently signed the Opt indication of the State’s commitment to recognize and allow the CEDAW Committee to “receive and consider complaints from individuals or groups within its jurisdiction”.

SKN submitted its combined “Initial, Second, Third and Fourth report” to the CEDAW Committee Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (the “Belem Do Para” of States Parties on performance under the Convention concluded that, “St.
Kitts and Nevis a national action plan is in conception stages and/or if steps are being taken to formulate one”.

against women within the state ….

No indication has been given as to whether – Women, l Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against “Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes up St. Kitts and Nevis: n’s Rights”.

Accessed at: w –s Saint Kitts and Nevis Country Report, M 3 6 | P a g e P A R T I I I 6 .
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States has “localized” their implementation in the context of an MDG review conducted in 2006.
3 reflected in national policy instruments such as the GOSKN’s 2005 Adaptation Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime 2006-2013, National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) 2011- 2015. also shaped by the Government’s wider national, regional and international commitments on gender Goals, UNDP - A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development 3 7 | , f o r e x a m p l e , .
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3 3 H e n s l e y D a n i e l ( 2 0 0 6 ) .

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and according to an ECLAC analysis, this implies that “all consistency with sex equality”.3 women’s rights: .
Domestic Violence Act (2000) Education Act (2005) (Amendment) Act (No.

17 of 2007) Education include developing “an understanding of the equality as defined in the Constitution”.3 country’s Constitution as well as international legal  S  A  C  S Offenses Against the Person Act (Rev.

2002) Infant Life (Preservation) Act will save the woman’s life, 1938 Rex vs. Bourne preserve the woman’s mental Advancing Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Legislative Approaches to Sex Discrimination.
A Gender Analysis of the Domestic Violence Act of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis).

Policy 2009-2019.

Ministry of Education White Paper on Education Development and 3 8 | P a g e 6 .

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the measure”,3 now regarded as ‘best practice’ by  Align St Kitts and Nevis’s (1983) “legitimizes” children born outside of wedlock, Status of Children Act Maintenance of Children Act (2012) Guardian, Custody and Access to Children Act (2012), “each parent of a child ha provide reasonably for the child’s maintenance, whether or not the child is in that parent’s custody”.

3 - 62 years; Survivors’ Labour Organisation (ILO)”.1 Education Act (2005) Education (Amendment) Act (No.
17 of 2007) “an in the Constitution”1  F  D  C  R  M  M NPRS “mandatory teenage girls pregnant”.

Antigua Observer (2009).

“Antiguan Benefits from St. Kitts & Nevis Programme for Pregnant Teens”, 17 Maintenance of Children Act, 3 9 | .

i v .
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a n t i g u a o b s e r v e r .

c o m / a n t i g u a n - b e n e f i t s - f r o m - s t - k i t t s - n e v i s - p r o g r a m m e - f o r - p r e g n a n t - t e e n s 3 8 S e c t i o n 4 ( 1 ) .

R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S 6 .

2 .


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e v e l o p a N a t i o n a l G e n d e r P o l i c y ( N G P ) .
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Advice Clinic in 2005, which “targets m modest financial means”.

3  I Domestic Violence Act (2004) the perpetrator “compensates expenses”.1  A  Address the finding that “St.

married or unmarried”.1  U  R Legal Aid Centre now operational.

4 0 | P a g e 6 5 .
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, a s f a r a s p o s s i b l e .

6 6 .

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t h e s t k i t t s n e v i s o b s e r v e r .


c o m / 2 0 0 5 / 1 1 / 0 4 / n e w s 6 a .

h t m R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S 6 .

2 .
, f o r e x a m p l e , ( s u c h a s c o u s i n , a u n t a n d s t e p f a t h e r ) , , , l o s s o f i n c o m e , , , , e d u c a t i o n a l i n s t i t u t i o n s , e t c .
, .

Advancing Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Legislative Approaches to Sex Discrimination.
Antigua Observer Antiguan Benefits from St. Kitts & Nevis Programme for Pregnant Teens, 1 “Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes up St. Kitts and Nevis: Praises National Machinery Established to Protect Women’s Rights”.

UNDP-A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, –s 2009-2019.
Ministry of Education White Paper on Education Development and Policy Saint Kitts and Nevis Country Report, M Final Report on St. Kitts and Nevis: Analysis of the response of the government of St. Kitts and Nevis to the questionnaire for evaluation of the implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belem Do Para”.
A Gender Analysis of the Domestic Violence Act of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis), Women, l Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against (UNICEF) (2002).

“Family Law Reform in the Caribbean”, In Children in FOCUS, 4 1 | P a g e R E F E R E N C E S A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

e c l a c .

o r g / p u b l i c a c i o n e s / x m l / 8 / 9 8 9 8 / c a r g 0 6 7 0 .

p d f ( 2 0 0 9 ) .

7 S e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 9 .


A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

a n t i g u a o b s e r v e r .

c o m / a n t i g u a n - b e n e f i t s - f r o m - s t - k i t t s - n e v i s - p r o g r a m m e - f o r - p r e g n a n t - , T w e n t y e v e n t h S e s s i o n .

P r e s s R e l e a s e W O M / 1 3 4 0 , A c c e s s e d a t : w w w .

u n .
u n .

o r g / N e w s / P r e s s / d o c s / w o m 1 3 4 0 .

d o c .

h t m H e n s l e y D a n i e l ( 2 0 0 6 ) , O E C S .

G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( 2 0 0 9 ) .

M i n i s t r y o f E d u c a t i o n , S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s , M a r c h 2 0 0 9 .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

g o v .

k n / s i t e s / d e f a u l t / f i l e s / d o c s / E d u c a t i o n % 2 0 W h i t e % 2 0 P a p e r .
p d f M e c h a n i s m o f t h e F o l l o w - u p o f C o n v e n t i o n B e l e m D o P a r a ( M E S E C V I ) , , 1 6 A p r i l 2 0 1 1 .

a r c h 2 0 1 2 .

O r g a n i s a t i o n o f A m e r i c a n S t a t e s ( 2 0 1 2 ) .

O A S , 2 6 M a r c h 2 0 1 2 .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

o a s .

o r g / e n / m e s e c v i / d o c s / F i n a l R e p o r t 2 0 1 2 - S t .

K i t t s N e v i s .


d o c R i c h a r d W i l l i a m s ( 2 0 1 0 ) .

 , B a r b a d o s , J u n e 2 0 1 0 .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

o p e n .

u w i .

e d u / s i t e s / d e f a u l t / f i l e s / w a n d d o m e s t i c 5 .

p d f U n i t e d N a t i o n s , a s t m o d i f i e d 2 1 D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 0 .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

i w r a w - a p .
i w r a w - a p .

o r g / p r o t o c o l / l i s t _ s i g n a t o r i e s .

h t m U n i t e d N a t i o n s C h i l d r e n ’ s F u n d v o l .

1 5 , n o .

1 .

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u n i c e f .

o r g / b a r b a d o s .

c a o _ p u b l i c a t i o n s - c i f r e f o r m .
p d f CGA to “an incomplete gender analysis”, which emerges from dominant theme is to polarize “men/boys at risk”, on the one hand, with women’s struggle for argument is presented as though the challenges that men/boys are facing are ‘caused by’ or ‘result from’ the advances being ‘back- lash’ against women’s human rights advocacy and the struggle for gender equality and equity, which is expressed in terms of men/boys being ‘marginalized’.4 - making and this needs to be addressed, “the focus secondary school”.4 CGA (and not all) boys in education, or why some men/boys (and not all) are at risk, or why there are “still too many men who are threatened by the upward mobility of women”, means that the analysis of have not been explored beyond the assertion of the need to “overcome ingrained male chauvinism that informs relationships between males and females”.4 most at risk” is perhaps reflected in the need to pursue “the pacification of the youth”, 4 hat leads to the conclusion that “youth and young men are the group large number of men as “being concerned exclusively with women’s issues”.
4 This position is based on a misreading of Errol Miller’s Men at Risk that posed challenges to men functioning within the norms of ‘manhood’ as required by patriarchy.

Op.

Cit., Ibid, Op.

Cit., Op.

Cit., NPRS, NPRS, 4 2 | P a g e 7 .

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“introduce incentives to encourage youth disabled, elderly and women in entrepreneurial involvement”.

The government’s Medium Term Economic Strategy Paper 2005-2007, Women’s Machinery (NWM) had been put in place “as the control policy coordinating unit inside and girls in the country”.
4 hich had been established in 1984 as the Bureau of Women’s Affairs; (ii) a National The National Women’s Council, the civil society ‘arm’ of the gender machinery, - Ministerial Committee and Gender Focal Points have evaporated.

The Bureau of Women’s (GRB) through the Ministries of Finance and Agriculture.
The GRB training itself did not “take off”, because as one public official explained, “people felt that the existing budget framework was eady] impacting on women disproportionately”, meaning more favourably.

Other factors .

– Adaptation Strategy, A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 4 3 | P a g e 4 5 7 .

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: ( i ) t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f G e n d e r A f f a i r s ( D G A ) , ; ( i i i ) a n I n t e r - M i n i s t e r i a l C o m m i t t e e o n G e n d e r ; a n d ( i v ) G e n d e r F o c a l P o i n t s .
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T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f G e n d e r A f f a i r s , , C u l t u r e a n d G e n d e r A f f a i r s , , .
H o w e v e r , t h e D G A i n S t .

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S t a t i s t i c s D e p a r t m e n t , , S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( 2 0 1 1 ) .

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M i n i s t r y o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l T r a d e , I n d u s t r y , C o m m e r c e a n d C o n s u m e r A f f a i r s , S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( 2 0 0 9 ) .

M i n i s t r y o f E d u c a t i o n , S t .

K i t t s & N e v i s .

A c c e s s e d a t h t t p : / / p l a n i p o l i s .

i i e p .

u n e s c o .


o r g / u p l o a d / S a i n t % 2 0 K i t t s % 2 0 a n d % 2 0 N e v i s / - 2 0 1 9 .

p d f G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( 2 0 0 6 ) .

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K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( n .

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A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

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k n / G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

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M i n i s t r y o f F i n a n c e , S t .

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A c c e s s e d a t : w w w .

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A c c e s s e d a t : ( 2 0 1 1 ) .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

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o r g / w c m s p 5 / g r o u p s / p u b l i c / - - - e d _ p r o t e c t / - - - p r o t r a v / - - - i l o _ a i d s / d o c u m e n t s / l e g a l d o c u m e n t / w c m s _ 2 3 2 1 6 3 .

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I n t e r n a t i o n a l M o n e t a r y F u n d ( 2 0 1 3 ) .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

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o r g / e x t e r n a l / p u b s / c a t / l o n g r e s .

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J a n s e n , M .

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W o r l d T r a d e O r g a n i s a t i o n , O r g a n i s a t i o n f o r E c o n o m i c C o - o p e r a t i o n a n d D e v e l o p m e n t , .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

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o r g / e n g l i s h / t r a t o p _ e / d e v e l _ e / a 4 t _ e / g l o b a l _ r e v i e w 1 3 p r o g _ e / t o u r i s m _ 2 8 j u n e .

p d f J u l i e n , M .

( 2 0 0 9 ) .


 , G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

K i n g , W .

( 2 0 1 3 ) .

C u r r i c u l u m D e v e l o p m e n t U n i t , M i n i s t r y o f E d u c a t i o n .

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K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

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C Biennial Social Development Report (2010): An Overview of the Social Sector within The Human Development Report 2013 – The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World.

Country Gender Assessment – Belize.

OECS Protected Areas and Associated Livelihoods Project: Gender Perspective of Livelihoods Sub- Projects.

Robeyns, I.

(2003).

“Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality: Selecting Relevant Capabilities”.

Feminist Economics, Seguino, S. (2003).


“Why Are women So Much more Likely than Men to be Unemployed”.

FOCUS ON GENDER 2 St. Kitts & Nevis Labour Party: Committed to Women.

For the Good We Can Do.

document Eastern Caribbean Multi-country Programme: Country Programme 2012-2016.

United Nations Children’s Fund (2009).

Social Safety Net Assessment.

Review of Education Plans and Policies in the Eastern Caribbean area.

and the shift to better Citizen Security.

Pathways to Human Development.


Caribbean Human Development Report 2012: Human Development Human Development Report 2010; The Real Wealth of Nations: Assessment of Development Results: Evaluation of UNDP Contribution Countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States & Barbados.

Accessed at: Gap Index.


Measuring and Monitoring Gender Equality: Malaysia's Gender Social Implications of the Global Economic Crisis in Caribbean small island developing states (sids):2008/2009; synthesis of seven country studies.

A Workers.

St. Kitts and Nevis: Social Audit of the Sugar Industry-Social Survey of Sugar 5 8 | P a g e L a r a i a , L .

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a r i b b e a n D e v e l o p m e n t B a n k .

M a l i k , K .

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P e e b l e s , D .

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C a r i b b e a n D e v e l o p m e n t B a n k .

P o p o , D .

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A c c e s s e d a t : w w w .

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K i t t s & N e v i s L a b o u r P a r t y ( 2 0 1 0 ) .

S t .

K i t t s & N e v i s , 5 2 ( 4 ) : 8 3 - 1 2 0 .

T i l l e y , K .

( 2 0 1 3 ) .

B a s s e t e r r e , S t .

K i t t s & N e v i s : S t .

K i t t s - N e v i s L a b o u r P a r t y .


U n i t e d N a t i o n s C h i l d r e n ’ s F u n d ( 2 0 1 1 ) .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

u n i c e f .

o r g / a b o u t / e x e c b o a r d / f i l e s / - 2 0 1 6 _ 2 0 _ O c t _ 2 0 1 2 .

p d f A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

u n i c e f .

o r g / b a r b a d o s / S S N A _ S t .

K i t t s _ B o o k l e t .


p d f U n i t e d N a t i o n s C h i l d r e n ’ s F u n d , , ( 2 0 1 3 ) .

 ( 2 0 1 2 ) .

P a n a m a : A l f a O m e g a I m p r e s o r e s .

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( 2 0 t h A n n i v e r s a r y E d i t i o n e d . )

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K u a l a L u m p u r : M i n i s t r y o f W o m e n , F a m i l y a n d C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t .

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c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

u n d p .
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o r g / c o n t e n t / d a m / a p l a w s / p u b l i c a t i o n / e n / p u b l i c a t i o n s / p o v e r t y - r e d u c t i o n / p o v e r t y - w e b s i t e / p s i a / c r i s i s - p r o j e c t / c a r i b b e a n - s y n t h e s i s - r e p o r t / S I D S % 2 0 P S I A % 2 0 S y n t h e s i s % 2 0 R e p o r t % 2 0 L R .
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UNFPA (2013).

“Motherhood in Childhood – Facing the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy”, State of the World Population 2013.

The Way forward for Skills Development in St. Kitts and Nevis.

M Island Developing States: Lessons learned from the Caribbean.
Tailoring Social Protection to Small Gender Mainstreaming in the Multilateral Trading System.

The Macro Economy and Gender: The IMF goes some way but not quite enough.

World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development.

St. Kitts & Nevis Country Profile 2010.

Strategy for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States for the Period of 2010-2014.

Regional Partnership 5 9 | P a g e W i l k i n , F .

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i n i s t r y o f E d u c a t i o n , G o v e r n m e n t o f S t .
K i t t s a n d N e v i s .

W i l l i a m s , A .

, C h e s t o n , T .

, C o u d o u e l , A .

, & S u b r a n , L .

T h e W o r l d B a n k , ( 2 0 1 3 ) .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / d o c u m e n t s .

w o r l d b a n k .

o r g / c u r a t e d / e n / 2 0 1 3 / 0 8 / 1 8 0 8 6 8 6 8 / t a i l o r i n g - s o c i a l - p r o t e c t i o n - s m a l l - i s l a n d - d e v e l o p i n g - s t a t e s - l e s s o n s - l e a r n e d - c a r i b b e a n W i l l i a m s , M .

( 2 0 0 3 ) .
( 2 0 0 3 ) .

L o n d o n : G e n d e r S e c t i o n , , M .

( 2 0 1 3 , S e p t e m b e r ) .

W o r l d B a n k ( 2 0 1 2 ) , W o r l d B a n k ( 2 0 1 0 ) .

E n t e r p r i s e S u r v e y s .

 , W o r l d B a n k .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

e n t e r p r i s e s u r v e y s .


o r g / ~ / m e d i a / F P D K M / E n t e r p r i s e S u r v e y s / D o c u m e n t s / P r o f i l e s / E n g l i s h / s t - k i t t s - a n d - n e v i s - 2 0 1 0 .

p d f W o r l d B a n k ; ; ( 2 0 1 0 ) .

A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / d o c u m e n t s .

w o r l d b a n k .
w o r l d b a n k .

o r g / c u r a t e d / e n / 2 0 1 0 / 0 5 / 1 2 2 9 8 4 6 6 / o r g a n i z a t i o n - e a s t e r n - c a r i b b e a n - s t a t e s - o e c s - r e g i o n a l - p a r t n e r s h i p - s t r a t e g y - p e r i o d - 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 4 Country Gender Assessment (CGA) CGA CGA, CGA and Ms. Miselle O’Brien – - Debique, CDB’s Gender Advisor, has brought immense value to the myself.
We have had fruitful exchanges under Rawwida’s open and affirming leadership on our shared he Stakeholders’ Workshop.

Finally we offer thanks to Aleah Ranjitsingh and Asha i i | .
K i t t s a n d N e v i s , ( C D B ) , - i s l a n d s t a t e , t o w h o m w e o f f e r h e a r t f e l t t h a n k s .

H o n .
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M a r c e l l a L i b u r d , M i n i s t e r o f H e a l t h , S o c i a l S e r v i c e s , , .

K i t t s a n d N e v i s ( G O S K N ) , .

S o t o o w a s H o n .


H a z e l B r a n d y - W i l l i a m s , , w h o w i t h M s .

L o r r a i n e A r c h i b a l d , N e v i s G e n d e r C o o r d i n a t o r , .

M s .

S h a r o n R a t t a n , P e r m a n e n t S e c r e t a r y i n t h e S t .
, ( D G A ) , M r s .

E t s u B r a d s h a w - C a i n e s t o h e r p o s t .
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M s .

B e v e r l e y H a r r i s , .
T h e p u b l i c s e c t o r , .
T h e S t a k e h o l d e r s W o r k s h o p , h e l d i n J a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 , .
A f o u r - .

R a t t a n , M s .

A r c h i b a l d , D r .


E v a D o n e l l y B o w r i n , , A t t o r n e y - a t - , a t t e n d e d t h e C D B - .
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W i t h i n t h e C D B , D r .


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1 Research Findings, Enterprise Surveys – St. Kitts and Nevis Country Profile 2010.

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to “provide targeted, high level support to micro, small and medium enterprises”.

Table 3 represents a breakdown of the T3: A Source: NEDD, 4 October 2013.

 T  A  T  D – Corporation (NHC) receives Government or ‘crown lands’ expanding women’s role in CPA.
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such as the “Caribbean Aid Integration Project”.


 U  T  M  I  U  C CGA, ( “Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Project” prepare an EPA roadmap, and the second involves “creating about the CSME, EPA and gender and trade issues”.1 NEDD PEP.

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C ountry Poverty Assessment St. Kitts and Nevis 2007/2008: Living conditions in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State, Appendix to Volume II – Technical and Statistical Appendices.
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(EPA) Implementation Unit in St. Kitts and Nevis.

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 A  T – girls’ education.

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courses for men and women”.2 cited as an opportunity to “improve gender equity”, but no  E TVET (CFBC) to foster “a culture of lifelong learning, self- a professional attitude to training and work”.
2 CSP envisages that “A TVET Enhancement Project” relation to the country’s Eastern Caribbean Area, A Review of Education Plans and Policies in the White Paper on Education Development and Policy, 2009- 2019. al for “Redesigning and Expansion of Technical and Vocational Education and Management Services Programmes and Facilities for Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College”.
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I. St. Kitts and Nevis.

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White Paper on Education Development and Policy 2009 – 2019: Raising Education and Management Services Programmes and Facilities for Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College”.
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p d f however, women’s leadership in the political arena has Ex officio.

the Opposition party, the People’s Action Movement (PAM) are held by women.

Recently PAM, the People’s itizens’ Movement ‘Team Unity”.
practical measures to strengthen women’s leadership and - making at all levels is the need for women’s capacity of women’s organizations to address this issue and increase women’s and among women’s  P  Q  S  I  I  D National Report: St. Kitts and Nevis.

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National Report: St. Kitts and Nevis.

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p d f of women are anchored in the nation’s independence Constitution of September 1983 as well as in international treaties and related protocols to which the country is signatory.

GOSKN’s co Women (CEDAW).


SKN’s subsequently signed the Opt indication of the State’s commitment to recognize and allow the CEDAW Committee to “receive and consider complaints from individuals or groups within its jurisdiction”.

SKN submitted its combined “Initial, Second, Third and Fourth report” to the CEDAW Committee Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (the “Belem Do Para” of States Parties on performance under the Convention concluded that, “St.
Kitts and Nevis a national action plan is in conception stages and/or if steps are being taken to formulate one”.

against women within the state ….

No indication has been given as to whether – Women, l Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against “Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes up St. Kitts and Nevis: n’s Rights”.

Accessed at: w –s Saint Kitts and Nevis Country Report, M 3 6 | P a g e P A R T I I I 6 .
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States has “localized” their implementation in the context of an MDG review conducted in 2006.
3 reflected in national policy instruments such as the GOSKN’s 2005 Adaptation Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime 2006-2013, National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) 2011- 2015. also shaped by the Government’s wider national, regional and international commitments on gender Goals, UNDP - A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development 3 7 | , f o r e x a m p l e , .
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and according to an ECLAC analysis, this implies that “all consistency with sex equality”.3 women’s rights: .
Domestic Violence Act (2000) Education Act (2005) (Amendment) Act (No.

17 of 2007) Education include developing “an understanding of the equality as defined in the Constitution”.3 country’s Constitution as well as international legal  S  A  C  S Offenses Against the Person Act (Rev.

2002) Infant Life (Preservation) Act will save the woman’s life, 1938 Rex vs. Bourne preserve the woman’s mental Advancing Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Legislative Approaches to Sex Discrimination.
A Gender Analysis of the Domestic Violence Act of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis).

Policy 2009-2019.

Ministry of Education White Paper on Education Development and 3 8 | P a g e 6 .

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the measure”,3 now regarded as ‘best practice’ by  Align St Kitts and Nevis’s (1983) “legitimizes” children born outside of wedlock, Status of Children Act Maintenance of Children Act (2012) Guardian, Custody and Access to Children Act (2012), “each parent of a child ha provide reasonably for the child’s maintenance, whether or not the child is in that parent’s custody”.

3 - 62 years; Survivors’ Labour Organisation (ILO)”.1 Education Act (2005) Education (Amendment) Act (No.
17 of 2007) “an in the Constitution”1  F  D  C  R  M  M NPRS “mandatory teenage girls pregnant”.

Antigua Observer (2009).

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Advancing Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Legislative Approaches to Sex Discrimination.
Antigua Observer Antiguan Benefits from St. Kitts & Nevis Programme for Pregnant Teens, 1 “Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes up St. Kitts and Nevis: Praises National Machinery Established to Protect Women’s Rights”.

UNDP-A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, –s 2009-2019.
Ministry of Education White Paper on Education Development and Policy Saint Kitts and Nevis Country Report, M Final Report on St. Kitts and Nevis: Analysis of the response of the government of St. Kitts and Nevis to the questionnaire for evaluation of the implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belem Do Para”.
A Gender Analysis of the Domestic Violence Act of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis), Women, l Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against (UNICEF) (2002).

“Family Law Reform in the Caribbean”, In Children in FOCUS, 4 1 | P a g e R E F E R E N C E S A c c e s s e d a t : h t t p : / / w w w .

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p d f CGA to “an incomplete gender analysis”, which emerges from dominant theme is to polarize “men/boys at risk”, on the one hand, with women’s struggle for argument is presented as though the challenges that men/boys are facing are ‘caused by’ or ‘result from’ the advances being ‘back- lash’ against women’s human rights advocacy and the struggle for gender equality and equity, which is expressed in terms of men/boys being ‘marginalized’.4 - making and this needs to be addressed, “the focus secondary school”.4 CGA (and not all) boys in education, or why some men/boys (and not all) are at risk, or why there are “still too many men who are threatened by the upward mobility of women”, means that the analysis of have not been explored beyond the assertion of the need to “overcome ingrained male chauvinism that informs relationships between males and females”.4 most at risk” is perhaps reflected in the need to pursue “the pacification of the youth”, 4 hat leads to the conclusion that “youth and young men are the group large number of men as “being concerned exclusively with women’s issues”.
4 This position is based on a misreading of Errol Miller’s Men at Risk that posed challenges to men functioning within the norms of ‘manhood’ as required by patriarchy.

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“introduce incentives to encourage youth disabled, elderly and women in entrepreneurial involvement”.

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4 hich had been established in 1984 as the Bureau of Women’s Affairs; (ii) a National The National Women’s Council, the civil society ‘arm’ of the gender machinery, - Ministerial Committee and Gender Focal Points have evaporated.

The Bureau of Women’s (GRB) through the Ministries of Finance and Agriculture.
The GRB training itself did not “take off”, because as one public official explained, “people felt that the existing budget framework was eady] impacting on women disproportionately”, meaning more favourably.

Other factors .

– Adaptation Strategy, A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 4 3 | P a g e 4 5 7 .

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equality and women’s empowerment issues.

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CDB’s Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), adopted in 2008, affirmed the organization’s goal of being a “leading catalyst” for promoting in the region and among its BMCs, “gender equality as a means to support vulnerability”.4 Draft Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy, 4 4 | P a g e 7 .

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 F  I  F  S points to GEPOS insufficient recognition “that women are social, economic and political structures”.4 is reflected in CDB’s current Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2013-2016 CSP .

Building staff and other stakeholders’ capacity; and mandate on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

OECS assessed that “neither gender nor HIV/AIDS has 4 5 | P a g e 7 7 .
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A larger challenge rests with SKN’s capacity to absorb and to provide the level of resources, human t agenda and how to make gender equality and women’s empowerment a Equality Policy Operational Strategy of the Caribbean Development Bank.
Assessment of the Implementation Effectiveness of the Gender Kitts and Nevis.

Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016- St. Strategic Plan 2010-2014.

Draft Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy, Adaption Strategy in Response to the new EU Sugar Regime 2006 – 2013, A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), O Draft sub-regional programme document for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2012-2016.

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t p The specifics of (i) and (ii) were identified as the key priorities by the delegation that represented SKN at the CDB’s Valida ound this strategic objective opens the way to “initiate discussion at different levels of the Bank and BMC’s about the feasib to increased equality for women and men being added as a funding criterion”.

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5 2 T h e P e o p l e s E m p l o y m e n t P r o j e c t , l a u n c h e d D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 2 , i n c l u d e s E Q u I P - ; W I C T - W o m e n i n C o n s t r u c t i o n T r a d e s ; W I S E - W o m e n i n S m a l l E n t e r p r i s e .
( S E A F ) - ( S I D F ) .
CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS FINANCING LEAD AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS SECTION OECS’ Social Safety This supports CDB’s ‘promoting broad based economic growth and inclusive social development’.

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