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PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AUTHORISED CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENT ST. KITTS & NEVIS (VOL.

1) The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Caribbean Development Bank or its Board of Governors or the governments they represent.

Prepared by: Linnette Vassell RAWWIDA BAKSH AND ASSOCIATES JUNE 2014 COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENT ST. KITTS & NEVIS (VOL.
I) LINNETTE VASSELL RAWWIDA BAKSH AND ASSOCIATES JUNE 2014 PRESENTED TO CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WILDEY, ST. MICHAEL, BARBADOS i | P a g e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The preparation of this Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Kitts and Nevis, initiated by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), rests on the contribution of many persons in the twin-island state, to whom we offer heartfelt thanks.

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Marcella Liburd, Minister of Health, Social Services, Community Development and Gender Affairs, the principal host and contact on behalf of the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN), was supportive of the CGA and forthright in her comments.

So too was Hon.

Hazel Brandy-Williams, Minister of Social Development in Nevis, who with Ms. Lorraine Archibald, Nevis Gender Coordinator, provided written comments to the first draft report.
Ms. Sharon Rattan, Permanent Secretary in the St. Kitts Ministry of Social and Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs strategically utilized the opportunity of the research process to orient the then newly recruited Director of the Department of Gender Affairs (DGA), Mrs. Etsu Bradshaw-Caines to her post.

She also drew sections of the public into the conversation on gender equality issues through a sponsored panel discussion on television.
Ms. Beverley Harris, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sustainable Development opened the door for support by the professionals in that Ministry.

The public sector, civil society and the private sector have been responsive to our request for information.
The Stakeholders Workshop, held in January 2014, enabled participants to review and make inputs into the draft CGA, including recommendations for areas to which consideration should be given by the GOSKN and CDB to activate the gender mainstreaming agenda.
A four-member team comprising Permanent Secretary Ms. Rattan, Ms. Archibald, Dr. Eva Donelly Bowrin, Director of Curriculum Development of the Ministry of Education, and Ms. Miselle O’Brien – Attorney-at-Law and President of the National Council of Women, attended the CDB-hosted Validation Roundtable held in Barbados in March 2014.

They considered and made proposals for objectives and actions that should be taken as first steps in advancing the CGA in SKN through support from the CDB.
Within the CDB, Dr. Carolina Ferracini, former Operations Officer for Gender and Development deserves high commendation for her insight and diligence in guiding the process from inception into the research validation stage.

Ms. Denise Noel-Debique, CDB’s Gender Advisor, has brought immense value to the research by insightful comments and pointed queries.

Mr. Elbert Ellis has assumed responsibility for the project with great interest and diligence.
We acknowledge and thank them for their leadership, and also express our appreciation to other CDB professionals who shared documents, information and comments to inform the research.

Dr. Rawwida Baksh based in Trinidad and Tobago, brought together a group of committed gender experts to undertake this seven-country study: Caroline Allen, Tamara Huggins, Lebrechtta Nana Oye Hesse and myself.
We have had fruitful exchanges under Rawwida’s open and affirming leadership on our shared passion for research and gender justice.

Dr. Christine Walwyn and her staff in Basseterre coordinated the interviews and focus group discussions in St. Kitts and in Nevis and we express much appreciation for their contribution and that of volunteers who worked at the Stakeholders’ Workshop.

Finally we offer thanks to Aleah Ranjitsingh and Asha Claxton for editorial and formatting assistance.
ii | P a g e TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................................................... ii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ........................................................................................................ v ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................ vi PART I ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................ 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 4 2.0 3.0 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 6 PART II ................................................................................................................................................. 8 4.0 STATISTICAL GENDER PROFILE ............................................................................................. 8 5.0 COUNTRY GENDER PROFILE ................................................................................................ 12 GENDER AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ........................................................................... 12 5.1 5.2 GENDER AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 14 5.2.1 GENDER, AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-BUSINESS ....................................................... 14 5.2.2 TOURISM ......................................................................................................................... 15 5.2.3 GENDER, ACCESS TO PROPERTY, ASSETS AND PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES ....... 16 5.2.4 POTENTIAL FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE HOUSING SECTOR ....... 17 5.2.5 INFORMATION AND
 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AND GENDER .... 18 5.2.6 THE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (EPA) AND GENDER ...................... 19 5.3 5.4 GENDER AND POVERTY REDUCTION ........................................................................ 21 GENDER, EDUCATION AND LABOUR ......................................................................... 24 5.4.1 GENDER, EDUCATION AND TRAINING ...................................................................... 24 5.4.2 GENDER TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) AND THE LABOUR MARKET ....................................................................................... 24 5.4.3 NATIONAL SOCIAL PROTECTION STRATEGY AND GENDER ................................. 26 5.4.4 BASIC NEEDS TRUST FUND (BNTF) AND GENDER .................................................. 27 5.5 VIOLENCE, INSECURITY AND GENDER ..................................................................... 29 5.5.1 SECURITY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS – ADDRESSING TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND INCEST ................................................................................................................... 30 5.5.2 GENDER ISSUES FACING MALES .................................................................................... 30 5.6 GENDER, EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP .......................................................... 33 5.6.1 WOMEN IN DECISION MAKING ..................................................................................... 33 5.6.2 GENDER IN PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ............................................................... 34 iii | P a g e PART III .............................................................................................................................................. 36 INTERNATIONAL, LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCING GENDER 6.0 EQUALITY ................................................................................................................................ 36 INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL
 COMMITMENTS ................................................ 36 6.1 6.2 CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY ....................................................................................................................... 38 6.2.1 AREAS REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE REFORM .............................................................. 39 7.0 INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND CAPACITY FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING ..... 42 STATUS AND CAPACITY OF THE NATIONAL GENDER MACHINERY .................... 43 7.1 7.2 7.3 CIVIL SOCIETY BODIES AND GENDER EQUALITY ................................................... 44 FILLING THE POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL GAPS: CONTRIBUTION OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS .......................................................................................... 44 8.0 STRATEGIC ENTRY POINTS FOR GOSKN AND CDB TOWARDS CGA IMPLEMENTATION .................................................................................................................................................. 48 REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................... 56 iv | P a g e LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES T1: T2: T3: T4: T5: T6: T7: T8: T9: T10: T11: SUMMARY OF KEY GENDER EQUALITY INDICATORS .................................................. 9 REPORTED MEMBERSHIP OF SELECTED COOPERATIVE GROUPS (2013) ................. 15 ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY NEDD BY SEX (2013) ........................................................ 17 PERCENTAGE OF POOR/NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS, BY AGE AND SEX OF HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD ....................................................................................................................... 21 EMPLOYMENT IN SKN BY SEX AND SECTOR (2012) .................................................... 25 STRENGTH OF THE SKN POLICE FORCE AS AT SEPTEMBER 2013 ............................. 29 SKN TEEN PREGNANCIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL BIRTHS BY YEAR .......... 30 LEADERSHIP IN THE
 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BY SEX (2013) ................................ 34 LEADERSHIP OF STATUTORY BOARDS IN SKN BY SEX (2013) .................................. 35 CURRENT AREAS OF SUPPORT TO GENDER MAINSTREAMING BY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ........................................................................................................................... 46 ST. KITTS AND NEVIS: ENTRY POINTS FOR CDB SUPPORT ON GENDER EQUALITY, 2014 – 2017 ............................................................................................................................ 49 F1: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ST. KITTS AND NEVIS COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................ 7 v | P a g e AIDS BCDD BNTF BMCs CAPE CARICOM CCM CDB CEDAW CGA CFBC CIV CPA CSME CSEC EC ECCU ECLAC EU EPA FBO GDP GEPOS GOSKN HIV ICT IDP LGBT ILO IMF MDGs MSM NGO ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Broadband Commission for Digital Development Basic Needs Trust Fund Borrowing Member Countries the Elimination of All Forms of Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination Caribbean Community Concerned Citizen Movement, St. Kitts and Nevis Caribbean Development Bank Convention on Discrimination Against Women Country Gender Assessment Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College, St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Unit, St. Kitts and Nevis Country Poverty Assessment Caribbean Single Market and Economy Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate European Commission Eastern Caribbean Currency Union Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean European Union Economic Partnership Agreement Faith-based Organization Gross Domestic Product Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy, Caribbean Development Bank Government of St. Kitts and Nevis Human Immunodeficiency Virus Information and Communications Technology International Development Partner Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
 International Labour Organization International Monetary Fund Millennium Development Goals Men who have sex with men Non-governmental Organization vi | P a g e PART I 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.
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This St. Kitts and Nevis Country Gender Assessment (CGA), commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), provides a gender analysis of the economic, social and governance sectors in St Kitts and Nevis (SKN).

The pursuit and achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment is one of the two cross cutting themes in the current results-based management framework of the CDB.
The CGA of St. Kitts and Nevis reflects a commitment to a dynamic engagement between the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN) and CDB around how to achieve this goal by deepening and strengthening policies and strategies to transform gender relations in the country.

The CGA first examines the policy and institutional framework for the promotion of gender equality in an effort to probe the effect and impact of policy on development in the specific context of SKN.
The aim has been to seek an answer to the question of whether good policies are enough to achieve gender equality.

The research firmly established that over the years, the country has passed a number of laws and implemented important measures towards advancing the human rights of women and girls alongside those of men and boys.

However, despite these measures, the CGA found that the answer is ‘no’ to the question of whether good policies and strategies were enough to achieve gender equality and equity.
This is so for a number of reasons: first, the broad context and specific conditions within which the policies and strategies operate are key determinants of success.

The economic realities of SKN as an open small island ‘dependent’ economy, prone to natural hazards and disasters and in the grips of a Standby Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), leave very little space for measures to address the harsh conditions facing the majority of the population, and women and children in particular.
What space is found comes from returns from public investments, such as the Citizens by Investment Programme through which the People’s Employment Programme (PEP) is being funded.

However, it is recognized that this cannot continue indefinitely which is why, ensuring that investments in PEP yield sustainable livelihoods especially for women who are among the most vulnerable, is seen as critical.

Second, policies that integrate gender equality and equity will not bear fruit if problems are misdiagnosed.
In general, the CGA found that there is a strong view in the marketplace that gender equality must be seen less in terms of addressing women’s issues and that the focus must now be on men who are said to be the ones who are really marginalized.

There is therefore a tendency towards polarization of the core issues where it is not so much a matter of addressing the specific gender needs and interests of men and women, but of setting up a competition between both sexes.
Third, good gender equality policies do not yield results without the ability to secure resources for action, monitor and evaluate implementation, and demand accountability.

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And finally, without clarity around what the practice of gender mainstreaming requires and entails, efforts to address the challenges (for example, employment, poverty and violence) that retard the access to and control of resources faced by the majority of women and girls, in particular, may not yield the best results.
Possibilities do exist to analyze some initiatives that are being undertaken from a gender perspective, in order to enlarge the prospects for addressing issues of economic empowerment, particularly of women and youth; deepen actions to stem domestic violence; and promote the increased role of women in leadership and decision-making.

Such initiatives, being taken in various sectors, can strengthen the foundation for advancing gender equality and equity.

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v. The reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to meet more directly, the growth needs of the labour market and economy.

This reform should enable young women to take advantage of opportunities for economic empowerment in fields traditionally defined as ‘male’ (e.g., construction and engineering), and young men to do the same in fields traditionally defined as ‘female’ (e.g., nursing and teaching), thus challenging traditional gender stereotypes.
The Women in Construction Trades (WICT) programme in which women are being trained as masons, carpenters, electricians, tillers, etc.

This is equipping them for more lucrative occupations and by combatting traditional gender stereotyping, new development possibilities are being shaped.

Through a small project within the primary school system, the Ministry of Education is seeking to understand and respond to the factors that influence the low participation and performance of some boys.
Internal reform measures are being undertaken to develop and implement protocols to make the Police and other stakeholders more responsive to gender-based violence.

In Nevis, the Social Services Department, Gender Affairs Division recently embarked on the “Gender Issues Workplace Programme”, which is designed to promote gender equality by increasing men and women’s knowledge of their rights and benefits in the workplace.

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In order to maximize the potential of these existing as well as other initiatives as possible game changers to support the gender equality agenda, it is important that their transformative potential be carefully analyzed so that interventions can be deepened and expanded where the findings warrant this.

Further, taking this approach can help to revive the institutions and the overall framework responsible for gender mainstreaming.
This is the approach that informs proposals, endorsed by SKN stakeholders in January 2014 and validated in March 2014 for discussion between GOSKN and CDB on how to move the agenda forward.

Here, it was proposed that alongside the initiatives cited above, priority would be placed on the rebuilding of the National Gender Machinery with focus on the establishment of an Inter- Ministerial Committee and deeper civil society’s involvement with the gender equality agenda.
Action to develop a national gender policy which has been pending, was seen as a critical related activity.

International Development Partners (IDPs) such as CIDA, the European Community, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, UNWomen and the World Bank make contributions to both regional OECS projects and SKN in areas of policy development, institutional strengthening and programmes development and delivery.

In a few cases, these interventions explicitly call for ‘gender mainstreaming’.
However, information is not available on the outcomes or how they are monitored and assessed, so it is difficult to comment on gender impacts.

Since the CDB partners with these entities on a number of these programmes, the basis for continuing collaboration can be strengthened.

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Above all else however, focus must be placed on responding to the challenges facing the National Gender Machinery and policy implementation for they have not impacted in any meaningful way on the four pillars that support gender equitable development and social transformation.

On the contrary, the system of the National Gender Machinery has broken down except for the existence of the Department of Gender Affairs, which has a number of resource challenges but is now being rebuilt.
The National Council of Women is now being reconstituted and recently the Nevis Women’s Council was formed in Nevis.

Further, while there is interest among professionals at various levels of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in gender issues, and some are taking good initiatives, the skills and competencies to integrate gender considerations into the national planning processes, project implementation and evaluation are underdeveloped.
Hence, there are no systems for integrating gender into sector programmes; no coordinated policy dialogue around gender; no routine collection of sex-disaggregated data across the sectors although this is done in the Ministry of Health, for example; and no systems or procedures for gender monitoring.

There are also no clear systems for collecting information from MDAs to facilitate reporting to international agencies.

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These areas need to be strengthened by filling policy gaps, and most notably among these, the absence of a National Gender Policy (NGP).

Of equal importance is the need to think through how a NGP will advance the overall gender equality agenda and gender mainstreaming in real terms and what other measures are needed in the context of national, regional and global experience of gender mainstreaming.

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Gaps in legislation have been identified in a number of areas such as those to address sexual and reproductive rights; the unequal status in law of common-law unions; the non-valuing of care work; spousal rape; sexual harassment; discrimination against single parents, mainly women compared to married women in relation to access to maximum maintenance.
However, experience has taught that implementation, monitoring and evaluation are among the critical inputs and this influences the practical proposals that are being made to advance the agenda, as the CDB requires, beyond the writing of the CGA report.

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The CGA thus proposes strategic entry points for GOSKN and CDB discussions towards its implementation.

As examined in Table 11, the four core priority areas presented are: i. ii.

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Rebuilding of the National Gender Machinery; Investment in strategic projects for gender responsive outcomes; Collection and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data; Public education and mobilization to promote mindset change and support gender equality and equity.

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The CDB has declared its vision to be a “leading catalyst promoting gender equality in the region”, thereby “assisting all women and men to achieve their full potential”.
Similarly, the GOSKN, through the Constitution, the ratification of relevant international treaties and by taking action nationally, has affirmed its commitment to equality between men and women.

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To realize its own declared intention, the CDB has commissioned this St. Kitts and Nevis CGA to assess the country’s capacity to institutionalize gender equality and to make recommendations to mainstream the transformation of gender relations into the agenda for sustainable development and economic growth.
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There has been a certain concern among men in particular, that discussions on gender equality target them for criticism for the discrimination which women face.

However, what the CGA does is provide data and information that show that it is the patriarchal gender system which perpetuates ideas and practices that ascribe roles, rewards and power on the basis of whether one is born male or female.
In addition, gender discrimination which affects the life chances of women (more so than of men), is embedded in the economic, socio-cultural and political systems and practices.

The gender system, it is revealed, not only discriminates against women and girls, but also induces some men and boys into displays of masculinities (for example through involvement in perpetuating violence and sexual abuse, drugs and gangs) that in many ways damage them and their relationships within family and the wider society.
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The CGA found that many men and women were also concerned to discuss issues facing men.

These are addressed alongside the policy and institutional, economic, and political matters bringing some visibility to the other side of the coin, hopefully serving to demonstrate the shared interest that women and men have in transforming gender relations – the ultimate goal of the CGA.

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The St. Kitts and Nevis CGA thus: i. Gathers and systematizes general statistics, critical sector data, and qualitative information ii.

on gender equality in St. Kitts and Nevis; Critically analyses the current legal, political and institutional framework for gender equality; iii.

Undertakes an assessment of SKN’s national capacity to institutionalize gender equality in iv.
public institutions, the private sector and civil society; and Identifies in partnership with the people and government of the St. Kitts and Nevis, opportunities and constraints for the promotion of gender equality in their focus on economic growth and poverty reduction.

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The direction of the CGA is not to make victims of women or to cast men as a group as an oppositional force to women’s empowerment, but to interrogate the realities of the lives of women, men, girls and boys and to reveal, and therefore address, the relations of gender that obstruct national development.

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The St. Kitts and Nevis Country Gender Assessment comprises three main parts: Part I Executive Summary, Introduction and Methodology.
See Volume II, Appendix I for a more comprehensive discussion of the analytical and methodological framework of the CGA.

Part II Statistical data and context analysis, which provides a gender-based statistical profile and situational analysis of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Part III Legal and institutional framework, which undertakes a gender assessment of St. Kitts and Nevis’ constitutional and legislative framework, as well as the country’s institutional framework and capacity for gender mainstreaming.
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The methodology used to conduct the St. Kitts and Nevis CGA consisted of: Interviews with CDB staff; i. ii.

A review of relevant CDB documents, including the St. Kitts and Nevis Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016, 2007-2008 Country Poverty Assessment (CPA), and CDB sector policy documents; iii.
An extensive review of recent policy documents, reports, policy briefs, statistics and public awareness brochures related to economic planning and growth, poverty reduction, and gender equality issues in St. Kitts and Nevis produced by the Government and other institutions; iv.
Missions to St. Kitts and Nevis to meet with and conduct workshops, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, private sector, civil society organizations, and importantly, practitioners (e.g., farmers, entrepreneurs, etc.).
(See Annex II for the list of persons interviewed); In March 2014, a four-person delegation led by Permanent Secretary Sharon Rattan, represented the GOSKN at a Validation Roundtable hosted by the CDB that included three other OECS countries and representatives of regional and international development agencies, to review the CGA and to propose the way forward.

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With regard to limitations of the CGA, the paucity of sex-disaggregated data on current programmes has forced reliance on older studies, and the consultations with civil society were not as wide as planned.

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The analytical framework of the CGA is grounded most fundamentally in the commitment to equality between men and women, which is enshrined in the constitution of SKN and affirmed in international agreements signed by the GOSKN including the Revised Treaty of Basseterre.
The CGA is therefore anchored in the human rights approach to development and draws on understanding of development as expanding human choices, freedoms and capabilities -the analytical framework popularized by Amartya Sen. 1 The growing acknowledgement of the linkage between gender equality and sustainable human development, reflected for example in the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report – Gender Equality and Development, affirming the pursuit of gender equality and equity as “smart economics”, also brings this market-oriented analysis into support of the analytical framework.
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In this context it is useful to identify specific ‘capabilities’ that must be accessed in order for some objective measurement of the extent to which the Government as duty bearer is fulfilling its enshrined responsibilities to its citizens, who are rights holders, and seeks to enable their empowerment.

The CGA brings these issues to the fore at a time when conversations have begun in the CARICOM Caribbean on the Post-2015 Gender Equality and SIDS agenda.
In these discourses the platform for transformation in gender relations is being anchored by four pillars for gender equality and the empowerment of women: (i) Economic empowerment; (ii) Accessing socio-cultural 1 Sen, Amartya (1999), Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press.

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6 | P a g e capabilities; (iii) Freedom from violence and access to justice; and (ix) Political empowerment and leadership.3 The CGA therefore seeks to answer questions such as: a.

To what extent have policies, strategies and programmes impacted on the pillars necessary to secure the transformation in gender relations which is the goal?

Where are the gaps, if any?

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To what extent is there potential to transform current strategies and measures or those planned by Government, the private, civil society and development partners towards supporting more directly, the agenda for transformation in SKN?

c. If there is potential, what are the critical areas for engagement between GOSKN, the CDB and other partners towards building such an agenda?
F1: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ST. KITTS AND NEVIS COUNTRY GENDER ASSESSMENT4 3 SKN was represented by the Executive Director of the Gender Affairs Department and a member of the National Council of Women at the “Caribbean Forum on Gender Equality and the Post-2015 Agenda”, convened by UN Women in in Barbados on 22-23 August, 2013.

A Caribbean Joint Statement on Gender Equality and the Post- 2015 SIDS Agenda was agreed at the Forum, which is contributing to the process of continuing discussion.
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II, Appendix 1 for the full Framework.

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The statistical gender profile (see Table 1 below) sets out core sex-disaggregated statistics and indicators in areas including population, income, poverty, social development, sexual and reproductive health, leadership and decision-making, and gender-based violence.

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The small population of 46,398 citizens is resident on the twin island nation, with St. Kitts having some 34,983 persons and Nevis having 11,415.

In both territories, women slightly outnumber men, by 1.4% in St. Kitts and 2% in Nevis and overall there are 96.95 men to every 100 females.5 A total of 17,425 households were enumerated in the Federation, with the average household size of 2.7, declining from the 2001 average household size of 3.0.
Life expectancy – Males: 72.0 years and Females: 76.8 years (2012).

St. Kitts and Nevis has improved its Human Development Index (HDI) ranking from 72 in 2012 to 67 in 2013, and the country had the highest per capita income in the Caribbean of US $13,330 in 2013.

Females are more likely than males to be among the indigent in St. Kitts.

However, in Nevis, it was among men that the non-indigent poor and vulnerable were found.
v. Women’s labour force participation is lower than men’s in both St. Kitts and Nevis.

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With regard to education, the literacy rate is higher among females (97.4%) than males (96.5%) in the 15-24 year old group; females have a higher completion of primary and secondary level education at 32.5% and 52.5% respectively than men at 24.1% and 51.6% respectively, but men have a higher completion rate of university (11.6%) education than women (5.4%).
A major issue affecting education is the high rate of teenage pregnancy and the effects on the interruption of girls’ education.

Another is the dropout rate among girls and the comparative performance of boys and girls at the primary school level.

The percentage of women in the Parliament of St. Kitts and Nevis is 6.7% and 20% in the Nevis Assembly (2013).

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The other key indicators related to gender equality presented in Table 1 below are analysed in Section 5.

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Preliminary Report, Population and Housing 2011 Census, p. 2 8 | P a g e T1: SUMMARY OF KEY GENDER EQUALITY INDICATORS6 INDICATORS Total population (2011) MALES FEMALES TOTAL SOURCES7 22,846 (49.2%) 23,552 (50.8%) 46,398 Preliminary Report Population and Housing 2011 Census, Statistics Department, of Sustainable Development, February 2012.
Ministry Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, 2011 Census Numbers/percentages of male and female-headed households (2011) 9,003 (57.4%) 6,677 (42.6%) 15,680 (100%) Human development index (HDI) (2012) St. Kitts and Nevis is ranked at 67th globally.

Gender inequality index (GII) The GII measures three aspects of gender inequality: reproductive health, empowerment, and economic activity.

It indicates the loss in human development due to gender inequalities in the three areas.
Labour force Participation Rate (2009) St. Kitts Nevis Unemployment rates (2009) St. Kitts Nevis Per capita income - - - - 0.745 N/A UNDP UNDP 78% 76.2% 5.3% 8.1% 70.3% 66.3% 6.6% 8.3% 6.5% N/A Labour Force Assessment, 2009 Labour Force Assessment, 2009 US$13,330 World Bank Average Wage (Annual) 30,123EC$ 28,079EC$ $29,056EC$ Statistics Department, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2012 6 Please note that N/A = not available.

7 See the list of References for the source(s) of the individual indicators.
9 | P a g e INDICATORS MALES FEMALES TOTAL Income below the poverty Line (2012) St. Kitts Nevis Poverty Headcount Index (Poverty Rate) (2007-2008) St. Kitts Nevis % of total primary school completion (2012) This indicator is also known as “gross intake rate to the last grade of primary”.

N/A N/A 91% N/A N/A 94% EC$2595 EC$2931 23.7% 15.9% SOURCES7 PAHO Poverty National Strategy, 2011-2015.

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in trade based education 51 (33.1%) 103 (66.9%) 154 (100%) CFBC First Year Registration, 2013 Life expectancy at birth (2012) Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

Fertility rate (2013) A rate of two children per woman is considered the replacement rate for a population, resulting in relative stability in terms of total numbers.
Maternal mortality rate (2013) Maternal mortality per 100,000 women.
72 years 76.8 years 74.4 years (avg) Health in the Americas, 2012 Edition - - - 1.78 CIA Word Fact Book, St. Kitts and Nevis 3.14% - Government of St Kitts and Nevis, Statistical Department % of 15-24 year olds who had sexual intercourse before age 15 (2010-2011) 21.2% 7.2% 13.9% OECS/UWI Males/females in Parliament (2013) 14 (93.3%) 1 (6.7%) 15 (100%) Males/females in Nevis Assembly (2013) 4 (80%) 1 (20%) 5(100%) Gender Bureau, Affairs Government of St. Kitts and Nevis Gender Bureau, Affairs Government of St. Kitts and Nevis 10 | P a g e INDICATORS MALES FEMALES TOTAL SOURCES7 Males/females in Judiciary at all levels (2013) 73 (54.9%) 60 (45.1%) 133 (100 %) Government of St. Kitts and Nevis No.
of presiding judges (2013) 2 (66.7%) 1 (33.3%) 3 (100%) Government of St. Kitts and Nevis No.

of presiding magistrates (2013) 18 (100%) 0 8 (100%) Commissioner of Police, St. Kitts and Nevis No.

of reported cases of gender-based violence (2008) 46 per 10,000 women PAHO No.

of victims of homicide (2012) 18 (100%) 0 18 (100%) No.

of persons in geriatric facilities (2013) State Private 66 (54%) 13 (34.2%) 56 (46%) 25 (65.8%) 122 (100%) 38 (100%) Commissioner of Police, St. Kitts and Nevis, 2012.
Ministry of Health, Government of St. Kitts and Nevis 11 | P a g e RECOMMENDATIONS 5.1  The CDB’s Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016 for SKN identifies priority areas for collaboration with GOSKN in the areas of: - Strengthening of public sector management; - Tourism development and competitiveness; - Agricultural development linked to private sector development; Social safety net reform; - - Education and training linked to labour market demands; and - Water and sanitation infrastructure.
5.0 COUNTRY GENDER PROFILE 5.1 GENDER AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 26.

The identity of St. Kitts and Nevis as a Caribbean Small Island Developing State shapes the reality of life of all citizens to a large extent.

The small population of 46,398 citizens is resident on the twin island nation, with St. Kitts comprising 34,983 persons and Nevis 11,415 persons.

In both islands, women slightly outnumber men – by 1.4% in St. Kitts and 2% in Nevis.

Overall, there are 96.95 men to every 100 females.8 economic 27.
As an open dependent economy with a debt burden which in 2012 stood at EC $2.7 billion, citizens have faced increasing from macro-economic fallout measures such as a 17% increase in value added tax (VAT), increase in electricity rates, reduction in subsidies, and a freeze on borrowing and on wages of civil servants – measures associated with the 2011 Standby Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
These have come on top of the fallout of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis which, for example, severely affected the situation of women in the light manufacturing sector.

The deterioration in working conditions of women is reflected in shortened working hours, reduction of rates of pay and overtime, and the spread of redundancies due to scaling back by multi- national corporations.
The sector has been hit by layoffs due to external and internal factors, the latter including the sharp hike in the price of electricity.

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Vulnerability from natural hazards is a persistent reality.

Hurricanes such as hurricane Omar in 2008, destroyed the Four Seasons Hotel in Nevis, the largest employer of labour in the island, which was closed for two years.
The country is still recovering from the 2005 closure of the sugar industry which adversely affected some 12% of the labour force, 9 especially women who had less marketable skills than men and therefore continue to face problems of 8 Statistics Department (2012).

Preliminary Report, Population and Housing 2011 Census, p. 2.

9 Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2009), Social Safety Net Assessment.
Prepared for the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis with support from United Nations Children Fund, World Bank and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, p. 4.

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So although the per capita income was estimated at $13,350 in 2013,10 the livelihoods and pathways to economic empowerment of the majority of men and women have remained precarious.

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This is not to deny that there are sections of the population, including women, who are benefiting from the liberalization of the economy.

Through the Citizenship by Investment programme, for example, funding is being made available to small business investors through the Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF).

Women are among the forty-five (45) service providers, all lawyers, who represent applicants to the Citizenship by Investment Programme.
Some 50% of lawyers registered with the SKN Bar Association are females, 11 according to 2012 figures, and so the opportunities are equally open to either sex.

Men however dominate the real estate sector as developers.

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Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016 – St. Kitts and Nevis.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2012).

Preliminary Report, Population and Housing 2011 Census.
Ministry of Sustainable Development, Statistics Department.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2011).

National Poverty Reduction Strategy, Draft Report, May 2011.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2009).

St. Kitts and Nevis, Social Safety Net Assessment.

Prepared for Government of St. Kitts and Nevis with support from United Nations Children Fund, World Bank and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, November 2009.

Sen, Amartya (1999).

Development as Freedom.

Oxford University Press.


United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2009).

Social Safety Net Assessment.

Accessed at: http://www.unicef.org/barbados/SSNA_St.Kitts_Booklet.pdf World Bank (2012).

World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development.

World Bank, Washington D.C. 10 Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2011), National Poverty Reduction Strategy, Draft Report, p.121.

11 In the absence of sex-disaggregated data, a count was done by name.
The sex of seven persons could not be determined by name.

13 | P a g e 5.2 GENDER AND PRIVATE SECTOR RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.1 DEVELOPMENT 5.2.1 GENDER, AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-BUSINESS 30.

The Country Strategy Paper (2013-2015) for St. Kitts and Nevis projects increased output in agriculture on the basis of the provision of irrigation, mechanization of services and increase in facilities for product handling and storage.
These are very important and from a gender perspective have to go hand in hand with addressing other issues such as: i. ii.

land ownership for women.

It Increasing is estimated that some 80% males and 20% females occupy farm holdings and that there is a 70:30 ratio of males to females in actual production; Expanding opportunities in agro-processing where women dominate and but face challenges in production and marketing; iii.
Opening opportunities for the increased presence of women in protected agriculture; v. enterprise iv.

Addressing work-life balancing issues for women – the absence of child care facilities is cited as a major barrier to women expanding their involvement in agriculture; through Promoting Cooperatives.

Data on seven (7) Cooperatives (see Table 2) showed female membership of 24%.
The all-female Fahies Agriculture Women Cooperative Society has turned to processing a variety of products: sorrel, guavas, aloe-vera and fruits and can provide insights into the challenges of women in agriculture and how to begin to address them.

development  Revisit existing projects in agriculture in order to incorporate a gender focus.

 Produce a road map to develop the agro-processing sector and address constraints such as : - Women’s responsibility for caregiving and the impact on productivity.
Because many women head single parent families, home and family care responsibilities make it difficult for them to develop their businesses; Financing and training needs for business development including greater facilitation for the development of business plans; - - Lack of water for irrigation.

Slowness in technological adaptation, for example, in greenhouse agriculture.
This is now being addressed with plans to allocate green houses to more women, especially single mothers; - Establish a special line of credit for women in business.
It is also important to review existing loan criteria to ensure that they do not present barriers to women; - Target women for - agriculture – they are more educated and better placed to support agricultural expansion in key areas; Implement the proposal of the Adaptation Strategy which calls for “introducing incentives to encourage youth, disabled, elderly and women in entrepreneurship involvement” as part of the ‘agriculture food safety security and nutrition’ focus; 14 | P a g e T2: REPORTED MEMBERSHIP OF SELECTED COOPERATIVE GROUPS (2013) MEMBERSHIP Male Female Male Female 32 9 11% 18% 89% 82% 4 2 % 40 - 13 13 17 10 15 3 2 4 80% 20% - 100% 81% 19% 87 % 13% 81% 19% NAME OF COOPERATIVE Taxi Cooperative Sandy Point Agricultural Cooperative St. Kitts Farmer’s Cooperative Fahies Female Cooperative Gideon Force Agricultural Coop St. Kitts Agro Processors Lia Migua Agricultural Society Total 40 Source: Leaders of Cooperatives who attended meeting held on September 24, 2013.
24% 76% 124 5.2.2 TOURISM 31.

The construction of new high end hotels was expected to create many new jobs and a high demand for high paying occupations.

The sector presently has a high concentration of women mainly in housekeeping, reception, and food and restaurant services.

Although men are said to be needed as waiters, they are not attracted to this occupation.

The St. Kitts Tourism Authority provides training for service providers – mainly men – as taxi and tour operators.
Training for women is targeted in areas such as massage therapy and hair braiding.

The new Tourism Policy and Strategy was not accessed but it is important to investigate this policy from a gender perspective and to promote the principle that competitiveness can be linked to a more transformational image of the sector.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.1 - Address cultural biases and the host of consequences that shape experiences of women and men in agriculture and enterprise development in order to encourage men, and women more so, into assets building and protection through agriculture; Pay attention to ‘Europe in the Caribbean’, by targeting sales of agro- processed jams and foods to Martinique and Guadeloupe.
-  Provide attachments to countries such as to Venezuela and Colombia to expose agro-processors to the wide scope of the sector and how small producers organize themselves.

 Establish public/ private partnership for investment and promotion in agro- processing by provision of lands, irrigation and storage /refrigeration by GOSKN.

 Expand training and promote agriculture as a business.

 Reclassify skills in agriculture to remove lower wages paid to women.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.2  The Tourism Sector Strategy and Action Plan be should analyzed to ensure that critical issues are addressed such as: - The differential access of men and women to opportunities to benefit from tourism development, for example to become entrepreneurs (tour bus operators for example); - Ensure that conditions for investment in the sector are equally enabling for women as for men; 15 | P a g e 5.2.3 GENDER, ACCESS TO PROPERTY, ASSETS AND PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES 32.
Initiatives are being taken by GOSKN through programmes supported by multilateral partners, for example under the Economic Partnership Agreement, which opens the way for encouraging more women into entrepreneurship.

This potential also exists in public sector investment in housing and infrastructure.

The People’s Employment Programme (PEP), a poverty reduction programme, has also opened some space for entrepreneurship and asset-building among men and women.

These are explored in this section.


MEDIUM SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES (MSME) 33.
The 2010 business profile for SKN indicates that 57.8% of the 150 firms surveyed have female participation in ownership; 21.1% have a female top manager; 43.3% of permanent full-time workers are females; and across all firms, access to finance, tax rates and electricity charges are the main barriers in the business environment.12 There are, however, many other gender-based obstacles facing women, including those related to the nature of the labour market, such as: “occupational and industrial segregation, time, poverty and skills”; and strong socio-cultural factors, including the “current mind-set” of both women and men … “that women can only ‘handle’ certain areas, closely associated with the household and devalued in terms of power”.13 Sex-disaggregated data are not available that would indicate whether female-owned businesses in SKN have moved beyond the 2005 estimate of 25%.14 The St. Kitts Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF) managed by the St. Kitts Investment Promotions Agency, started to provide loans, maximum of EC $50,000 at 1% interest to small businesses in June 2013.
Operators and interested persons in tourism transport (buses, taxis, open-bed trucks), retail trading, landscaping, fisheries and beauty care are among the areas to which financing has been made.

There has been no system of collecting and analysing sex- disaggregated data, and it is said that this is to be addressed.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.2 - Labour market reform measures to halt the concentration of females in the less stable and lower-skilled ‘domestic’ sector of the service, and promote and facilitate women’s entry into the anticipated higher paying areas that are said will open up, such as landscape architecture, chefs (pastry and sushi), engineering, design and production of furniture; - Opportunities for male and female farmers and entrepreneurs to establish and maintain linkages with the hotels, for example, to supply agricultural goods; Put in place measures to fulfil the requirements of the Decent Work Conventions promoted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) within the tourism sector -  Training should be offered in the tourism sector to enable women and men to access different options outside of the traditional sexual division of labour that persists.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.3  Collection of sex- disaggregated data must become embedded in the modus operandi of State Ministries, Departments and Agencies and the respective programmes.

 The challenges of finance for women in the MSME sector should be investigated and addressed by reform of lending policies.

12 International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank (2010), Enterprise Surveys – St. Kitts and Nevis Country Profile 2010.

13 DFID (2009).
13 DFID (2009).

Scoping Study of Gender and Enterprise Development in the Caribbean: Vol.

1 Research Findings, March 2009, pp.

15-18.

14 Ibid, p. 14.

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The National Entrepreneurial Development Division (NEDD) of the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, was established in 2008 to “provide targeted, high level support to micro, small and medium enterprises”.

Table 3 represents a breakdown of the assistance provided by sex.
There is need for data and information beyond numbers to identify what sectors are being impacted, the scale of operations, etc.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.3  Training, including technical and business courses, should be provided for male and female entrepreneurs.

Confidence-building and self- empowerment should become an integral part of the training/sensitization programme for female entrepreneurs.
T3: ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY NEDD BY SEX (2013) TYPE OF ASSISTANCE Business Plan Development Duty Free Concessions Business Consultations MEN No.

% 36 61.0 85 26 56.3 59.1 WOMEN No.

23 % 39.0 TOTAL NO.

59 66 18 43.7 151 40.9 44 Source: NEDD, 4 October 2013.

5.2.4 POTENTIAL FOR FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE HOUSING SECTOR 35.
The Country Poverty Assessment (CPA) data shows that males have a much higher level of housing assets than females, although there is a higher proportion of female headed households and with larger family sizes compared to male headed households.

15 The National Housing Corporation (NHC) receives Government or ‘crown lands’ for housing and therefore is able to construct at lower costs.
Under the H500 housing programme, of three hundred and fifty-one (351) units built, two hundred and fifty-eight (258) or 73.5% were allocated to female heads, seventy four (74) or 21.1 % to male household heads and nineteen (19) or 5.4% to joint male and female owners.16 Currently the NHC is building 500 homes.

However, information is not recorded on the sex of applicants, but it is estimated that women comprise a high proportion.
 A programme of advocacy using female entrepreneurs as role models and advocacy agents should be implemented to encourage more women into the MSME sector.

 Technical Assistance – in areas including physical facilities, records management, market research and product design, and networking via the internet (including website development) should be provided for female entrepreneurs.

 Detailed economic and social analysis from a gender perspective of projects that support MSME expansion (e.g.
the work of NEDD and the SEAF) could yield valuable lessons on the direction of entrepreneurship development and the issues facing men and women.

From this, practical problem- solving measures can be undertaken to take advantage of the interest that some international development partners (IDPs) have in expanding women’s role in entrepreneurship.
What is also evident is the need for a proactive approach to training for women in technical areas and for encouraging entrepreneurial activities in non-traditional fields.

15 See the CPA.

16 Information received from National Housing Corporation – General Manager’s Office, 7 November 2013.

Re.

Consideration #12 - GOSKN Adaptation Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime, 2006-2013, p.121.

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In the process of construction, the NHC has enabled some fifty (50) masons and carpenters, all males, to transition into being contractors.

They are on an active list and used in the housing programme.

This path could potentially be open to women but cultural barriers persist.

The Women in Construction Trades (WICT) project points to ways in which a new direction can be charted for female entrepreneurs in construction.
Under the WICT, some thirty six (36) women are being trained at construction sites in related trades – tiling, plumbing, roofing, carpentry, and electrical works.

It is an anti-poverty response programme within the People’s Empowerment Programme (PEP), which started in November 2012.

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Sex-disaggregated data has not been collected, nor has any written formal assessment been received, so it is not possible to say to what extent gender issues are being addressed in PEP as a whole, or gender-responsive measures in WICT itself.

However, in different discussions held, stakeholders from different sectors know about and express positive views about WICT and the training and earning opportunities it opens for women.
The programme is seen as also providing a positive message that there is really nothing that women cannot do if given the opportunity.

It the persistent gender also confronts very directly stereotyping in the labour market.

5.2.5 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AND GENDER 38.

In the area of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), much preparatory work is being done.

An ICT policy is to be developed.


The present ICT sector is mainly comprised of males developing websites and selling equipment.

However, much more potential is said to exist the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

under Training has been taking place under the European Union- funded “Information Communication Technology for Improving and Competitiveness” (ICT4EDC) initiative managed by the Ministry of Sustainable Development.
As the table of participants in the 2013 ICT4EDC Training Programme shows, both females and males are participating.

However, it is not clear where this training is expected to lead and the impact of what is being done.
See table - Participants in the Diversification Education, RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.4  The GOSKN should put in place systems and mechanisms for the collection of sex-disaggregated data in all sectors, programmes and projects in the public, and encourage the same in the private sector, to ensure effect planning and evaluation.
 Undertake an assessment of the WICT project, examining whether and if so how, the project has engendered changes in knowledge, skills and attitudes; enhanced livelihoods for women and their families; and how family life, including work life balancing issues, have been affected.
 Undertake a gender analysis of the People’s Employment Programme which, it is reported, has over 2,000 participants in the six (6) sub- projects: (1) Skills Training and Enterprise Development; (2) National Infrastructure Project; (3) EQUIP, (4) Agricultural Training Management Project; (5) Women in Small Enterprise Project; and (6) Women in Construction Trades.
Recommendations should be implemented to enhancing their potential to respond to strategic gender needs and to support transformation in gender relations as well as to build sustainable livelihoods and reduce poverty.

 Building on existing initiatives, design and implement a programme to facilitate females to become small contractors/entrepreneurs in the housing sector, through collaboration among relevant MDAs and private sector partners.
18 | P a g e 2013 ICT4EDC Training Programme by Sex17 in St. Kitts and Nevis CGA, Vol.

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5.2.6 THE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT (EPA) AND GENDER 39.

Understanding and applying solutions to address current challenges is critical in moving forward.

For example, the concept of gender and trade, which is not yet fully understood, is not only a matter for the Ministries of Trade or Sustainable Development or the Department of Gender Affairs.
Little or no reflection is taking place on what it takes to enable women and men to access provisions under the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) or the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), or how trade policy impacts on the lives of women and men.

The “Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Project” is being implemented to enable the Ministry of International Trade to build capacity in the business sector to take advantage of opportunities under the CSME and the EPA.
Embedded in the capacity building programme are two components that have implications for gender-responsive implementation of economic agreements and policies nationally and regionally.

The first is the responsibility to prepare an EPA roadmap, and the second involves “creating a population of nationals that are highly knowledgeable about the CSME, EPA and gender and trade issues”.18 40.
While quantitative data are not available, within the current economic framework, some women particularly in the business sector (broadly defined), have been enabled to advance their participation in the formal sector, as suggested by data from NEDD for example and SKIPA, while poor and working women have been enabled to address livelihoods issues under PEP.
In either case, it is not clear what the broad impact has been – whether, for example, there have been shifts in the economic system towards greater enabling of women’s economic empowerment and therefore personal autonomy.

The view is that a definite shift has not taken place, although small indications of possibilities exist.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.5  Undertake training on gender issues in ICTs, involving both gender and ICT advocates.
 The proposed ICT policy should be informed by analysis of gender issues in ICT.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.2.6  Mainstream gender into trade capacity building programmes such as the “Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Project”.
 Implement training/sensitization programmes to build understanding and capacity on gender and trade issues, with a primary focus on MDAs dealing with trade and related areas and special areas such as regional trade organs such as under the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and personnel involved in Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.

 Undertake gender analysis and integrate a gender perspective into national, regional and multilateral trade negotiations.
 Collect and analyse sex- disaggregated data using agreed gender indicators, which is vital if there is to be a decisive advancement of the gender mainstreaming agenda.

17 Accessed from EPA Office, September 2013.

18 Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Trust Fund – Eighth Meeting of the Steering Committee held in Guyana, 5 April 2011, p. 8.

19 | P a g e REFERENCES Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional Integration Trust Fund – Eighth Meeting of the Steering Committee, Guyana, 5 April 2011.
Caribbean Development Bank and Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2012).

Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016 – St. Kitts and Nevis.

Caribbean Development Bank (2009).

Country Poverty Assessment St. Kitts and Nevis 2007/2008: Living conditions in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State, Appendix to Volume I – Technical and Statistical Appendices.

Prepared by Kairi Consultants Limited.


Accessed at: http://www.caribank.org/uploads/publications- reports/economics-statistics/country-poverty-assessment-reports/St.Kitts+and+Nevis+CPA+- +Vol.+1+Final+Report.pdf Caribbean Development Bank (2009).

Country 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.

Prepared by Kairi Consultants Limited.


Accessed at: http://www.caribank.org/uploads/publications- reports/economics-statistics/country-poverty-assessment-reports/St.+Kitts+and+Nevis+CPA+- +Vol.+2+Final+Report.pdf Caribbean Development Bank (2009).

Country Poverty Assessment St. Kitts and Nevis 2007/2008: Living Conditions in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State, Appendix to Volume III – Technical and Statistical Appendices.

Prepared by Kairi Consultants Limited.


Accessed at: http://www.caribank.org/uploads/publications- reports/economics-statistics/country-poverty-assessment-reports/St.+Kitts+and+Nevis+CPA+- +Vol.+3+Nevis+Final+Report.pdf DFID (2009).

Scoping Study of Gender and Enterprise Development in the Caribbean: Vol.

1 – Research Findings, March 2009. International Finance Corporation, World Bank (2010).
Enterprise Surveys: St. Kitts & Nevis Country Profile 2010. at: Accessed http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/~/media/FPDKM/EnterpriseSurveys/Documents/Profiles/English/st-kitts- and-nevis-2010.pdf Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2011).

Support for the Establishment of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit in St. Kitts and Nevis.

Caribbean Aid for Trade and Regional integration Trust Fund, Eighth meeting of the Steering Committee, April 2011.
Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, St. Kitts and Nevis.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2006).

Adaption Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime 2006–2013.

Ministry of Sustainable Development, St. Kitts & Nevis.

20 | P a g e 5.3 GENDER AND POVERTY REDUCTION 41.

SKN has improved its Human Development Index (HDI) ranking from 72nd in 2012 to 67th in 2013, and the country has the highest per capita income in the Caribbean.
However, this data masks the reality that poor income distribution and poverty may well have increased beyond the rate recorded in 2007/2008, when the overall poverty rate stood at 21.8%.

The 2009 data showed that females in St. Kitts were more likely than males to be among the indigent.

However, in Nevis, it was among men that the non-indigent poor and vulnerable were found.
T4: PERCENTAGE OF POOR/NON-POOR HOUSEHOLDS, BY AGE AND SEX OF HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD POOR Male 0.0% 1.6% 20.6% 38.6% 17.8% 1.8% 19.5% AGE GROUPS 0-21 22-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-64 65+ Total No.

925 Total % 43.0% Female 1.4% 4.4% 37.8% 26.5% 14.7% 1.1% 14.1% 1,226 57.0% NON-POOR Male 1.4% 8.4% 21.9% 22.0% 22.0% 3.7% 20.2% 7,077 51.1% Female 1.3% 8.5% 16.4% 24.5% 17.6% 8.6% 22.7% 6,760 48.9% TOTAL 205 1240 3316 3895 3090 877 3317 15,988 Source: Gender and Child Analysis of OECS CPAs, November 2012, p. 119.

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A recent analysis of the CPAs done in OECS countries has enabled gender-sensitive assessments to be presented and the data has revealed that 57% of all poor households were female headed while 43% were headed by males.

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Younger females (30 to 34 years old) showed the highest incidence (21.2%) of heads of poor households while older males (40-44 years old) showed the highest incidence (22.6%) of heads of poor households.
The CPA showed that children were under pressure, with 31% of under 19 olds on the poverty headcount index.

21 | P a g e THE NATIONAL POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY (NPRS) 44.

The St. Kitts and Nevis National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) shows an awareness of the impacts of poverty on women, men, girls and boys, but its prescriptions and strategies are not rooted in an analysis of the power relations of gender, and the systemic nature of gender discrimination.
Hence they fall short of strengthening the pillars for transforming gender relations.

For example, the NPRS makes reference to “the gendered nature of the labour market”; the impact of unemployment on females who are dominant as heads of poor households which also comprise the higher percentage of children.
It refers to the challenges of youth and young men, the latter seen as the “group most at risk”, 19 and proposes some important measures that respond to conditions faced by women and young girls as well as by young men in particular.

These include training; entrepreneurship promotion; mandatory prosecution of males who get teenage girls pregnant; family friendly policies and legislation; new and improved day care centres and improved care facilities for the elderly.

issues might have been prompted by 45.


Regarding more strategic interventions, reference is made in the NPRS to a gender policy and action plan which was to be developed and to a multi-sectoral action plan on sexual and gender-based violence that it reported had been developed in 2010 and was to be adopted and implemented to enhance coordination.
The attention to these more the strategic requirement in the terms of reference for the provision of sex-disaggregated data and “a rights based approach” in addressing the needs of vulnerable groups including of male and female households, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women (MDG3).
However, gender mainstreaming is not reflected either in the working principles or in the objectives of the NPRS; the systemic nature of gender inequality is not analyzed; or gender equality is not identified as a cross-cutting issue.

Why is this the case?


One factor is the weak capacity for gender analysis in the ministries, department and agencies which coordinate policy development – a situation pervasive throughout the bureaucracy and widely acknowledged in discussions with public sector personnel at all levels.

Another factor is that policy and strategies are responsive to what one could call an ‘incomplete gender analyses.

This in turn further weakens the institutional framework that should drive policy and strategies.
19 NPRS, p.69.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.3  Ensure that poverty reduction programmes are evidence- based, promote gender equity, and respond to the specific needs of poor men, women, youth, elderly and disabled.

 Strengthen the linkages between poverty reduction and economic growth, e.g., engaging women in sustainable livelihood initiatives to both meet their household needs and develop/grow enterprises.
 Through the BNTF, promote growth in micro-enterprise development, for example in agriculture enterprises and, in the housing and construction sectors.

In this way, poverty reduction is designed and envisioned as a pathway to growth.

22 | P a g e REFERENCES Babb, C., and Bishop, K. (2012).

Gender and Child Analysis on OECS Country Poverty Assessments (CPAs).

The Caribbean Development Bank, Barbados.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2012).


National Social Protection Strategy 2012-2017: Making St. Kitts and Nevis a Great Place to Grow Up and to Grow Old in.” March 2012.

23 | P a g e 5.4 GENDER, EDUCATION AND LABOUR 5.4.1 GENDER, EDUCATION AND TRAINING 46.

The country has made commendable achievements in education; for 52% of households, secondary education is the highest level achieved.

Further, there are high rates of participation of boys and girls in early childhood education.
It is said that such data informs the assumption that gender equity has been achieved, but there are still outstanding critical developmental issues that need to be tackled.

Information on entries and passes by males and females in 2012 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations (see Volume II), shows the subject choices of males and females and how these reinforce sex-stereotyping and occupational segregation.
There were nearly three times the number of female compared to male candidates sitting the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in 2012: (418 girls (71%) to 167 boys (29%) and at the CSEC level, 807 females (64%) to 455 males (36%).

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The literacy rate is higher among females (97.4%) than males (96.5%) in the 15-24 year old group; females have a higher completion of primary and secondary level education at 32.5% and 52.5% respectively than men at 24.1% and 51.6% respectively, but men have a higher completion rate of university education (11.6%) than women (5.4%).

Major gender issues affecting education are the high rate of teenage pregnancy and the effects on the interruption of girls’ education.
5.4.2 GENDER TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) AND THE LABOUR MARKET 48.
The Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016 for SKN identifies two critical issues which relate especially to technical vocational education and training: “inadequate demand- driven education programmes” and “gender disparity in the provision not adequately addressed”.20 The White Paper on 2009-2019 Education Development “acknowledges that there are gender issues in training and Policy and RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.1  A host of gender issues in education need to be acknowledged and addressed.
These include: - Differential performance of boys and girls, with girls almost consistently performing at a higher level than boys in primary and secondary education, and men having greater access than women to university education;1 - Choice of subjects reinforcing sex- stereotyping and occupational segregation; - Violence in schools – perpetrated especially by boys; - Text books and language reinforcing gender stereotyping; - Higher levels of male school drop-outs, with girls dropping out due to teenage pregnancy; - Lack of responsiveness of the education system to the different learning and teaching requirements of boys and girls; - Disproportionate number of female teachers in education.
 The small project by the Ministry of Education addressing the poor performance of some boys in the lower grades of primary schools should be constructed into a pilot study with the necessary resource inputs provided so that lessons can be drawn for wider application.

This project could become part of the pool of initiatives/projects, for consideration in continuing GOSKN/CDB collaboration.

20 Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016: St. Kitts and Nevis, paper BD 122/12, p. vii.
24 | P a g e that too many people perceive there to be separate training courses for men and women”.21 The related strategic plan is cited as an opportunity to “improve gender equity”, but no specific objectives, strategies or activities are stated.

22 the United Nations However, with support from Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), a TVET policy review is being done through the Ministry of Education.

The policy is expected to address gender equality as a fundamental issue.

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A second initiative is underway towards strengthening, redesigning and expanding the technical and vocational education and management services programmes and facilities in order for the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) to foster “a culture of lifelong learning, self- empowerment, entrepreneurship, professional services and a professional attitude to training and work”.
23 There is therefore consensus that transformation of TVET is critical and the CSP envisages that “A TVET Enhancement Project” will be started by June 2014.

This requires consideration of the recommendations made below.
T5: EMPLOYMENT IN SKN BY SEX AND SECTOR (2012) SECTOR MALES FEMALES TOTAL Agriculture, Hunting, Fishing, Forestry Manufacturing (including Mining and Quarrying) Electricity, Gas and Water Supply Construction Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles, Personal and Household Goods Hotel and Restaurant Transport, Storage and Communications Financial Intermediation Real Estate, Renting and Business Activities 282 865 223 2497 1519 1381 812 371 797 79 361 1304 2169 92 315 257 1977 2754 3496 2229 768 873 786 3610 1580 1244 1583 RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.2  Ensure that the development of the TVET Enhancement Project is explicitly committed to supporting the agenda to transform gender relations as part of the overall programme and process to link training to labour market reform, for propelling development and growth.
Hence, TVET Enhancement, geared towards strengthening the labour market and generating employment must employ measures to address gender issues such as: - Sex-stereotyping and occupational segregation in the labour market; - How choice of subjects in technical and vocational education and training at the post-secondary level reinforces and consequently influences the livelihoods potential of males and females; - The disconnection between training and labour market needs in relation to the country’s growth agenda.
Women more so than men, because of their place in the training scheme, would continue to be alienated from the growth agenda unless reform is implemented; Inequality in the division of labour at the level of the household where women have the major responsibility for the care of the family and the undervaluing of this and the resultant lower participation of women in the formal labour force; - 21 OECS Education Development Management Unit, UNICEF, Review of Education Plans and Policies in the Eastern Caribbean Area, August 2013, p.12.
22 GOSKN, Ministry of Education, White Paper on Education Development and Policy, 2009- 2019.

March 2009, p. 86.

23 Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (No date).

Proposal for “Redesigning and Expansion of Technical and Vocational Education and Management Services Programmes and Facilities for Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College”.
25 | P a g e SECTOR MALES FEMALES TOTAL RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.2 Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security Education, Health and Social Work Other Community, Social and Personal Service Activities Private Household with Employed Persons Extra-Territorial Organisation and Bodies 2846 4015 6861 421 770 176 1 696 699 1117 1469 282 458 3 4 Source: Ministry of Sustainable Development, 2013.

5.4.3 NATIONAL SOCIAL PROTECTION STRATEGY AND GENDER 50.
The National Social Protection Strategy (2012-2017) includes as one of its guiding principles “respect for human dignity, equality and human rights”,24 and a core objective of moving from welfare to sustainable livelihoods.

51.
51.

The report from Nevis on the implementation of the first phase of the National Social Protection Strategy (2012- 2015) is that much is being done on raising awareness and to encourage women in particular to use the court system for child maintenance and not to rely only on the social safety net system which provides EC $100 per child per month and a food voucher of EC $200 monthly.
The programme, called RISE (Restore, Inspire, Serve, Empower), is still being implemented for recipients to do parenting training – including training in life skills, budgeting and money management as part of conditionalities.

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MEND, the equivalent programme in St. Kitts, will support the monitoring and evaluation of the reformed social safety net system.
However, it is noticeable that the documentation on the programme on the Inter-American Social Protection Network’s website, for example, does not mention gender responsiveness as being a feature of the programme.25 - The concentration of women in the lower paying sectors of the economy and the persistent gender gap in income where it is said women make an annual wage of EC$ 2,700 less than men.
 A proposal made in the 2009 Labour Market Assessment that a Gender Committee be set up under the TVET Council1 should be implemented.

 Measures to promote the sharing of care work as a critical measure to enable women to access opportunities and benefits must be developed.

The conduct of time-use studies is recommended as an important mechanism to investigate women’s and men’s contribution in labour time in the household and public sectors.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.3  Undertake gender training as part of overall capacity building to support the MEND and RISE companion programmes in St. Kitts and Nevis, strengthening collaboration between the two initiatives as a basis for relevant lessons to be drawn from both islands.
 Ensure that the Social Assistance machineries both St. Kitts and Nevis are supported to build their capacity and deepen collaboration for optimal use of resources and to transform welfare into avenues towards sustainable livelihoods and empowerment.

24 Ibid, p. 57.

25 MEND Families in SKN Programme.

Accessed at: http://socialprotectionet.org/portfolio/mend-families-st-kitts- and-nevis-programme 26 | P a g e 5.4.4 BASIC NEEDS TRUST FUND (BNTF) AND GENDER 53.
The CDB-funded Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) is an important mechanism that can build bridges towards livelihoods development and empowerment of women and men while providing vital services to the community, which might otherwise not be provided by the Government.

The question of the gender sensitivity of the BNTF has been raised from one funding cycle to another.
For example, the 2008 BNTF evaluation noted that “while the BNTF office staff mentioned effort to bring wider participation of men and women in community meetings, there were no specific measures to address men’s low involvement in the project” and no particular attention to gender dimension in the project cycle.26 RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.3  Develop a monitoring and evaluation plan and train personnel at all levels in monitoring and evaluation.
 Remove disparities in the social assistance programme from all sources including legal constraints whereby “unmarried mothers and their children face differential treatment with regard to child maintenance rights, with married mothers being able to petition at the High Court, rather than the Magistrates Court, where unmarried mothers must petition and where the awards are smaller.”1 RECOMMENDATIONS 5.4.4  Develop and implement a gender-responsive capacity building programme for the BNTF Steering Committee, staff and key community stakeholders to ensure that BNTF implementation registers a qualitative change with regard to attention to gender- sensitive indicators that are monitored throughout the project cycle.
 In order to maximise the employment and livelihoods creation potential of BNTF, the CDB and GOSKN should ensure that contracting under water infrastructure, identifies the jobs and positions generally assumed for men that can be performed by women after basic training.

These include operating the back-hoe, installing service saddles on the pipes, laying bedding material for laying of pipelines and chlorination of water.1 26 Caribbean Development Bank (2008).
Mid-Term Evaluation of the Basic Needs Trust Fund 5.

Final Report, March 2008, p. 39.

27 | P a g e REFERENCES Bekkers, H. (2009), Labour Market Assessment.

European Consultants Organisation.

Caribbean Development Bank (2008).

Mid-term Evaluation of the Basic Needs Trust 5: Final Report, Vol.

I.

Prepared by Universalia.


Accessed at: http://www.caribank.org/uploads/projects-programmes/special-development- fund/sdf-meetings/negotiation-meetings/MTE%20of%20the%20BNTF%205%20Final%20Report_05tw.pdf Caribbean Development Bank and Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2012).

Country Strategy Paper 2013-2016 – St. Kitts and Nevis.

Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2012).

St. Kitts and Nevis National Social Protection Strategy (2012-2017) and Plan of Action, 2012.
Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2009).

White Paper on Education Development and Policy 2009 – 2019: Raising the Standard, Maximising Resources, Aligning with Best practices and Promoting Success for all.

Ministry of at: & Education, http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/Saint%20Kitts%20and%20Nevis/St_Kitts_Nevis_White_Paper_Ed_ Development_and_Policy_2009-2019.pdf Accessed Nevis.

Kitts St. Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (No date).
Proposal for “Redesigning and Expansion of Technical and Vocational Education and Management Services Programmes and Facilities for Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College”.

MEND Families in SKN Programme.

Accessed at: http://socialprotectionet.org/portfolio/mend-families-st-kitts-and- nevis-programme UNICEF (2013).

Review of Education Plans and Policies in the Eastern Caribbean Area, August 2013.

OECS Education Development Management Unit, UNICEF.

28 | P a g e 5.5 VIOLENCE, INSECURITY AND GENDER 54.
The involvement of young men in crime and violence, in gangs and the drug trade, and their perpetuation of violence against women in its various forms is of great concern in St. Kitts and Nevis.

In the case of Nevis, the reporting of domestic violence is said to be almost non-existent because there is no opportunity for confidential reporting and the Gender Affairs Department does not have the capacity to address this deficiency.
There are no shelters for survivors of violence in either St. Kitts or Nevis.

Penalties for conviction for domestic violence go up to EC$13,500 or six months in prison for the guilty party.
T6: STRENGTH OF THE SKN POLICE FORCE AS AT SEPTEMBER 2013 RANKS Commissioners Superintendents Inspectors Sergeants Corporals Special Constables Constables MALES % # 100 5 86 6 86 18 72 31 70 14 37 9 FEMALES % # 0 0 14 1 14 3 28 12 30 6 63 15 TOTAL 5 7 21 43 20 24 218 75 74 25 292 Total 301 73 111 27 412 Source: Office of the Commissioner of Police, St. Kitts and Nevis, October 2013.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.5  A timetable for the implementation of agreed measures must be established.
These include: - Amending the legislation to make the State the victim in cases of domestic violence (as in all other forms of violence, e.g., assault, murder, etc.

), to ensure that victims are provided with the full support of the legal system and do not drop cases after initial complaints are made to the police and; Implementation of the protocol related to the handling of domestic violence that involves the church, guidance counsellors, police, Ministry of Health and the Courts.
-  Undertake an evaluation of the impact of the establishment of the Domestic Violence Response Unit within the Police Force to guide the upscaling of this initiative.

 Integrate training on the protocols and procedures regarding the use of the Domestic Violence Statement and the Domestic Violence Work Sheet into the basic training course for new police recruits.
 Government should accept and implement the proposal that the “establishment of a safe house should be a priority issue for the Department of Gender Affairs in particular and the Government in general given the increase in domestic violence cases”.

29 | P a g e 5.5.1 SECURITY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS – ADDRESSING TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND INCEST 55.

According to the 2013 report on adolescent pregnancy by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), approx.
19% of young women in developing countries become pregnant before age 19.

Further studies conducted from 1990-2008 and 1997-2011 showed that “Latin America and the Caribbean is the only region where births to girls under 15 rose” and it is said that this trend is expected to continue to 2030.

27 Data for SKN reflected in the table below, indicates that a reduction has been taking place, including a dramatic 4.5% decrease from 2010 to 2011.
T7: SKN TEEN PREGNANCIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL BIRTHS BY YEAR Year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 Births to teens (15-19 years) a % of Total Births 14.5 19.0 19.1 15.1 15.2 20.4 Source: Health in the Americas, 2012, p. 553.

5.5.2 GENDER ISSUES FACING MALES 56.

The BNTF’s annual work plan and budget indicates that “the issues facing males need urgent attention”,28 but there is no mention of what these issues are.
The broad portfolio of the Ministry of Health, Social Services, Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs and the Male Desk attached to the Department of Gender Affairs have identified among such male issues, the following: RECOMMENDATIONS 5.5  The promotion of women in leadership within the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force which for the first time in its fifty two (52) years history, saw a female being promoted to the rank of Superintendent in 2013, should be accelerated (See Table 6 above).
 Accelerate gender-responsive internal reform that includes: (a) a non-discrimination policy that addresses employment issues; (b) higher levels of female recruitment into training; (c) anti-sexual harassment measures; and (d) engendering greater respect among women and men and higher levels of confidence among women through partnerships, for example, with the Department of Gender Affairs and civil society organizations.
 Develop and implement an information programme to support a change of mind-set towards violence and to inform the public on the assistance that domestic violence survivors can receive from the police, for example, with taking photographs of injuries and with obtaining Domestic Violence Injunctions.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.5.1  Research and analyse the current level of teenage pregnancy to understand the factors at work and take appropriate steps taken to reduce this violation of children.

27 UNFPA (2013).
27 UNFPA (2013).

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

3-5.

28 Ibid, p. 5.

30 | P a g e i. Men’s insecurity linked to issues of accepting women’s leadership in the home and society, linked to an erosion of confidence in the male breadwinner concept.

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Men’s to related fear of and low sexual performance, and hence a drift into risky behaviours such as alcohol and drug abuse that further threaten their health and that of their families.

Stress from seeing themselves and being seen as ‘the provider’ or ‘the pay cheque’.

The involvement of many men in crime and violence – dropping out of school and being drawn into the gang culture.
The reluctance of young men to enter the labour market “at a certain level” leading to economic deprivation and risky sexual behaviours in their relationships.

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Men’s absence from many homes and the void this leaves that cannot be filled by single mothers in particular.

In many cases mothers are hard pressed to control the boys after they turn 14 years old.

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Apathy among men and boys around such issues such as their low academic performance; the view that “men have become second-class citizens in their heads” even while living and operating in a context where boys and men are still “in control”.

Loneliness among many older men because of the disconnection from their family.

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RECOMMENDATIONS 5.5.2  Take measures to give visibility to the psycho-social and other issues facing men, including sexual abuse of boys and men as victims.
 Make counselling more accessible to families and integrate it into the legal justice and social safety net systems.

 Deepen and broaden through public channels, discussions on the gender equality agenda and the imperative to transform existing gender relations.

 Promote the gender equality agenda widely, including showing how men and not only women are harmed by the gender system and its perpetuation of negative masculinities.

 Encourage and give visibility to males in co-parenting.
RECOMMENDATIONS 5.5.1  Research and analyse the current level of teenage pregnancy to understand the factors at work and take appropriate steps taken to reduce this violation of children.

 Review the status of implementation of the proposal under the NPRS for the “mandatory prosecution of males who get teenage girls pregnant”, and take steps to ensure adherence to the rule of law.
 Encourage a national conversation among key stakeholders, including parents, on long-standing issues of adolescents’ access to comprehensive sexuality education and services.

 Continue initiatives such the Teddy Bear Campaign launched in SKN as part of the USAID and UNICEF project in the OECS to raise public awareness and reporting of incest, and sustain active collaboration with NGOs on this issue.
 Undertake the evaluation of Project Viola, established in 2001 to enable teenage mothers to return to the regular school system, to inform its integration into the services offered under the reformed Social Assistance programme.

31 | P a g e REFERENCES Caribbean Development Bank (2008).

Mid-term Evaluation of the Basic Needs Trust 5: Final Report – Vol.

I.

Prepared by Universalia.


Accessed at: http://www.caribank.org/uploads/projects-programmes/special-development- fund/sdf-meetings/negotiation-meetings/MTE%20of%20the%20BNTF%205%20Final%20Report_05tw.pdf UNFPA (2013).

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

32 | P a g e 5.6 GENDER, EMPOWERMENT AND LEADERSHIP 5.6.1 WOMEN IN DECISION MAKING 55.
The issue of the low level of representation of women in leadership in politics, is one of the issues of deep concern among a wide range of stakeholders.

SKN has a single National Assembly of fifteen (15) members, eleven (11) of whom are elected and three (3) appointed (two on the advice of the Prime Minister and the third on the advice of the Leader of the Opposition), and one (1) Ex officio.
As compared to women in decision-making in other sectors however, women’s leadership in the political arena has remained dismally low over the years.

Since Universal Adult Suffrage was secured in 1955, some fifty nine (59) years ago, only three (3) females have been elected to political office, 29 the first in 1984 after political independence was achieved in 1983.
In addition, currently, of the eleven (11) elected parliamentarians, eight (8) represent constituencies in St. Kitts and three represent seats for Nevis.

One female is among the eight (8) persons elected to seats for St. Kitts, while in Nevis one of the Ministries is held by a female.

Interestingly, the Chairpersons of the governing St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) and the Opposition party, the People’s Action Movement (PAM) are held by women.
Recently PAM, the People’s Labour Party (PLP) and the Concerned Citizens’ Movement (CCM) have come together as the Opposition body called ‘Team Unity”.

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A major factor in moving the discussion forward on practical measures to strengthen women’s leadership and decision-making at all levels is the need for women’s organizations and civil society more broadly to pursue advocacy with the GOSKN and political parties.
The capacity of women’s organizations to address this issue and the factors that will help and hinder any efforts they may make to advance the gender equality agenda are issues for specific examination within a broad cross section of these groups.

RECOMMENDATIONS 5.6.1  Political parties should be encouraged and challenged to address the persistent marginalization of women in the political process and its impact on gender relations and sustainable development process.
Specific attention in inner party discussions should include examination of the barriers that are faced by women (See SKN CGA, Vol.

II).

 Quotas should be considered as a temporary measure to increase women’s participation in political leadership within political party structures.

 Strengthen partnerships with and among women’s organizations, including NGOs and community-based organizations to address their critical issues, including leadership, and encourage women to reach out to support other women.
 Implement confidence- building measures and targeted training, mentorship and sponsoring of women for leadership.

 Increase coordination between St. Kitts and Nevis on the gender equality agenda.

 Develop a National Gender Policy and strengthen the Gender Affairs Department to coordinate implementation of the policy.

29 Inter-American Commission on Women, Thirty-Fifth Assembly of Delegates.

National Report: St. Kitts and Nevis.

Accessed at: http://www.oas.org/es/cim/docs/stkitts%26Nevis2010.pdf .
33 | P a g e 57.

SKN’s judicial system is administered through the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, which is headquartered in St. Lucia.

At the highest level, it comprises the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal.

At the local level it is led by High Court judges who sit on the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, Magistrates Courts, and the Office of the Attorney-General.

SKN has shown signs of progress towards a representative judicial system.
As at 2013, 133 persons, 73 (55%) males and 60 (45%) females, formed part of SKN’s judiciary at all levels.

These include five presiding Magistrates, one (20%) male and four (80%) females, and three presiding Judges, two (67%) males and one (33%) female.

5.6.2 GENDER IN PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT 58.


In terms of public sector management, in St. Kitts, there are signs of progress towards a balanced participation of males and females at the level of Permanent Secretaries with females holding a slight majority (53.3%) and males 46.7%.

However, in the position of Heads of Departments, males dominate 65.7% of positions while women are 34.3% of the leaders at this level.
In Nevis, males dominate positions both as Permanent Secretaries (80%) and as Heads of Departments (71.4%).
T8: LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BY SEX (2013) St. Kitts Nevis TITLE Permanent Secretaries Heads Departments Permanent Secretaries Heads Departments MALE % 46.7 FEMALE # 8 53.3 # % 7 of 65.7 23 34.3 12 80 8 20 of 71.4 20 28.6 2 8 Source: Human Resource Department, October 2013; Nevis Gender Affairs, 2014 RECOMMENDATIONS 5.6.2  Establish a quota to ensure that Statutory Boards should have an agreed proportion of male and female members.
The data above would suggest that a ratio of 60:40 in favour of either sex could be agreed, that is, no Board should have more than 60% or less than 40% of either sex.1  Integrate gender and corporate governance issues into training programmes on public sector management and modernization.

Points of entry for interventions to address gender equality and equity are drawn from the recommendations arising throughout this CGA and are presented in the summary of the report.
A number of possible interventions are cited but are by no means exhaustive.

From those presented in Table 10, areas for priority action have been identified by the GOSKN Team which deliberated at the recent CDB-sponsored CGA Validation Roundtable.
 Further, the areas identified as ‘entry points’ for strengthening the gender equality agenda in St. Kitts and in Nevis are not necessarily directed solely to the CDB but represent opportunities for wider collaboration among International Development Partners and other agencies.

34 | P a g e 59.
34 | P a g e 59.

With regard to public sector management in St. Kitts, there are signs of progress towards a balanced participation of males and females at the level of Permanent Secretaries, with females holding a slight majority (53.3%) and males 46.7%.

However, with regard to Heads of Departments, males dominate, holding 65.7% of positions while women hold 34.3% of positions the leaders.

In Nevis, males dominate the positions of both Permanent Secretaries (80%) and Heads of Departments (71.4%).
T9: LEADERSHIP OF STATUTORY BOARDS IN SKN BY SEX (2013) STATUTORY BOARDS MALE % 66.7 Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College 71.4 Development Bank of St. Kitts & Nevis 57.1 National Housing Corporation, St. Kitts St. Christopher Air & Sea Port Authority 66.7 St. Christopher & Nevis Social Security Board 61.5 40.0 St. Kitts & Nevis Accreditation Board 87.5 St. Kitts Electricity Company 55.6 St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank 77.8 St. Kitts Tourism Authority 61 .9 Total FEMALE TOTAL No.
% 4 5 4 6 8 6 7 5 7 52 33.3 28.6 42.9 33.3 38.5 60.0 12.5 44.4 22.2 38.1 No.

8 2 3 3 5 4 1 4 2 32 12 7 7 9 13 10 8 9 9 84 Source: Statistics collected by SKN CGA Research Assistant, November 2013.

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61.

In Nevis, men hold two-thirds and women one third of posts of Permanent Secretary, while men hold 51.7% and women 48.3% of positions as Heads of Departments in the Public Service.

With regard to Statutory Boards in St. Kitts, males hold 62% of seats compared to women who hold 38%.
Public sector leadership at all levels is therefore dominated by males.

It is only on the Accreditation Board, responsible for monitoring standards of educational institutions, that females hold a majority of seats (60%).

As can be seen, women have low representation in the key economic sectors of tourism, electricity, and development banking (although they hold 44.4% positions on the board of the SKN-Anguilla National Bank.
It would be useful to see whether any females hold the position of Board Chairperson.

REFERENCES Inter-American Commission on Women, Thirty-Fifth Assembly of Delegates.

National Report: St. Kitts and Nevis.

Accessed at: http://www.oas.org/es/cim/docs/stkitts%26Nevis2010.pdf 35 | P a g e PART III 6.0 INTERNATIONAL, LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY 6.1 INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL COMMITMENTS 62.
The policy and institutional framework for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment 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 constitutional guarantee of fundamental rights and freedoms regardless of sex was affirmed by the ratification in 1985 of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
SKN’s subsequently signed the Optional Protocol to CEDAW in 2006, a key 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”.

30 However, the Protocol has never been used by organizations or individuals in St. Kitts and Nevis.

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SKN submitted its combined “Initial, Second, Third and Fourth report” to the CEDAW Committee in 2002, following which no further report has been submitted.
31 This means that accountability under CEDAW has been weak.

The same is the case with the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (the “Belem Do Para” Convention) which SKN signed in 1995.

An assessment in April 2011 through the fourth conference of States Parties on performance under the Convention concluded that, “St.
Kitts and Nevis unequivocally does not have an action plan and/or strategy for the prevention, punishment and eradication of violence against women within the state ….

No indication has been given as to whether a national action plan is in conception stages and/or if steps are being taken to formulate one”.

32 64.

Non-compliance to reporting requirements, while they do not bring sanctions, deprives the country of performance assessments to guide further action.
This deficiency is linked to the weak institutional capacity of both Government agencies as well as civil society organisations – issues to be explored in greater depth in this chapter and for which specific measures are proposed.

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65.

With regard to the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were agreed by SKN in 1995 and in 2000 respectively, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean 30 United Nations, Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, last modified on 21 December 2000.

Accessed at: http://www.iwraw-ap.org/protocol/list_signatories.htm.

31 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Twenty–seventh Session.
Press Release WOM/1340, “Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes up St. Kitts and Nevis: Praises National Machinery Established to Protect Women’s Rights”.

Accessed at: www.un.org/News/Press/docs/wom1340.doc.htm.

32 Mechanism of the Follow-up Convention Belem Do Para (MESECVI), Fourth Conference of States Parties: 16 April 2011.

Saint Kitts and Nevis Country Report, March 2012, p.4.

36 | P a g e States has “localized” their implementation in the context of an MDG review conducted in 2006.
33 The MDG targets were used as reference points to inform action planning for the various sectors, for example, the priority of poverty reduction and MDG 3 for addressing gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Thinking around these international agreements and targets is therefore reflected in national policy instruments such as the GOSKN’s 2005 Adaptation Strategy in Response to the New EU Sugar Regime 2006-2013, and its National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) 2011- 2015.
It also needs to be noted that the articulation of MDG3 in these key policy instruments was also shaped by the Government’s wider national, regional and international commitments on gender equality.

33 Hensley Daniel (2006).

UNDP - A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, OECS.

37 | P a g e 6.2 CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY 66.
The Constitution of the SKN is the supreme law of the land, and according to an ECLAC analysis, this implies that “all laws or actions whether or not referable to the rights and the Constitution are reviewable for freedoms under consistency with sex equality”.34 This provides an important legal covering for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

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The following is a summary of key pieces of legislation and regulations which have advanced gender equality and women’s rights: i. ii.
The Domestic Violence Act (2000) which went into effect in 2004 has a number of commendable features such as: (a) the absence of gender bias in that both males and females can obtain protection under any of the orders under the Act; and (b) imposing an obligation on the Police, where injuries have been suffered, to accompany a survivor of domestic violence to his/her home and for medical treatment if required.35 The Education Act (2005) and Education (Amendment) Act (No.
17 of 2007) confirm that the goals and objectives of the education system, include developing “an understanding of the principle of gender equality and other forms of equality as defined in the Constitution”.36 iii.

Accessing continuing education: In order to reduce the negative impact of teenage pregnancy, a Cabinet policy decision established the right of teenage mothers to complete their education, was enforced in 1997 in St. Kitts and 2007 in Nevis, based on advocacy by the Gender Affairs Division.
The country’s Constitution as well as international legal RECOMMENDATIONS 6.2.1  Secure the recognition of common-law unions, to provide all persons involved in these unions with rights to property and maintenance.

 Amend the legislation in which property settlement, still guided by common law principles, is based on the financial contribution of the parties, and trust principles relate to whether it can be proven that the parties intended to share the property when they were acquired.
These considerations leave room for the unfair treatment of women in particular, whose family care work undertaken within the gender division of labour, as previously discussed, is not valued.

 Close legislative gaps by addressing forced prostitution, sexual harassment in the workplace, and sexual violence within marriage or common-law unions.1  Settle the matter of how abortions are to be handled.

Currently, the Offenses Against the Person Act (Rev.
2002) prohibits abortions (whether in collaboration with another person or self- inflicted), the Infant Life (Preservation) Act allows for an abortion in cases where it will save the woman’s life, and the 1938 Rex vs. Bourne common law decision is referenced in cases that involve abortions in order to preserve the woman’s mental or physical health.

34 Advancing Gender Equality in the Caribbean: Legislative Approaches to Sex Discrimination.
Accessed at: http://www.eclac.org/publicaciones/xml/8/9898/carg0670.pdf 35 Richard Williams (2010).

A Gender Analysis of the Domestic Violence Act of St. Christopher and Nevis (St. Kitts Accessed at: the West Indies Open Campus, Barbados, June 2010, and Nevis).

University of http://www.open.uwi.edu/sites/default/files/wanddomestic5.pdf, 5 36 Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (2009).

Ministry of Education White Paper on Education Development and Policy 2009-2019.
Ministry of Education, St. Kitts and Nevis, March 2009.

Accessed at: http://www.gov.kn/sites/default/files/docs/Education%20White%20Paper.pdf, 2.

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relationship.

Further, under commitments were used to advance advocacy for the measure”,37 now regarded as ‘best practice’ by the international donor community.
Equal status and protection of children: Although common-law unions are not legally recognized in SKN, (1983) the Status of Children Act “legitimizes” children born outside of wedlock, awarding them equal rights to children born within the a marital Maintenance of Children Act (2012) and the Guardian, Custody and Access to Children Act (2012), “each parent of a child has an obligation to provide reasonably for the child’s maintenance, whether or not the child is in that parent’s custody”.
38 In addition, maintenance should be continued for children over the age of 18 who are enrolled in a tertiary institution, until s/he completes his/her course of study.

Provisions under Labour Laws include: Maternity benefits for women aged 16-62 years; Survivors’ benefit payable to the widow, widower, child or dependent parent of a deceased insured person; and an Age Pension or Age Grant is payable to both contributors and non-contributors, regardless of sex, who are over 62 years.
Provisions related to inheritance and intestate status are addressed equitably in the law.

There is no discrimination with regard to the benefits awarded to either male or female spouses or children.

6.2.1 AREAS REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE REFORM 64.

In summary, the legislative framework for the promotion of gender equality is quite enabling and in advance of the overall policy context.
However, there is a huge gap between the legal framework that supports gender equality, the implementation of the law, and the monitoring of its implementation.

RECOMMENDATIONS 6.2.1  Align St Kitts and Nevis’s labour laws with the norms and ideals of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)”.1  Follow up on the implementation of the Education Act (2005) and the Education (Amendment) Act (No.
17 of 2007) with regard to developing “an understanding of the principle of gender equality and other forms of equality as defined in the Constitution”1.

 Develop a National Gender Policy (NGP).

Include considerations of how a NGP will advance the gender equality agenda in SKN in light of wider regional and global trends.

 Convene public consultations and a Parliamentary debate on laws related to abortion.

These should inform whether reforms to the current law should be made.
 Review and address the status of common-law unions under the law in SKN.

The Government may wish to refer to the examples of Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

 Monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Labour Code and the Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS, ensuring that sensitivity to gender issues is included.

 Monitor and evaluate the implementation of the recommendation of the NPRS with regard to the “mandatory prosecution of males who get teenage girls pregnant”.
37 Antigua Observer (2009).

“Antiguan Benefits from St. Kitts & Nevis Programme for Pregnant Teens”, 17 http://www.antiguaobserver.com/antiguan-benefits-from-st-kitts-nevis- 2009.

Accessed at: September programme-for-pregnant-teens 38 Maintenance of Children Act, Section 4(1).

39 | P a g e 65.

With regard to Legal Aid, SKN established a Legal Aid and Advice Clinic in 2005, which “targets mostly women, the elderly and juveniles who are often declared as having the modest financial means”.
39 Divorce, rent disputes, debt, adoption, civil matters, personal injury, child maintenance and access, custody, and succession are some of the matters that are handled.

Juvenile criminal and domestic violence cases receive special attention and are expedited, as far as possible.

66.

The following recommendations are focused on addressing deficiencies and advancing gender equality in the law.
RECOMMENDATIONS 6.2.1  Improve the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (2004) by, for example, expanding the types of persons who can be prosecuted for committing an act of domestic violence (such as cousin, aunt and stepfather), and giving the Court the power to order that the perpetrator “compensates the victim for any loss or expenses incurred as a result of the domestic violence such as medical fees, fees incurred for counselling sessions, loss of income, accommodation expenses and relocation expenses”.1  Amend the legislation that governs the treatment of sexual offenses to include issues related to forced prostitution, sexual harassment and sexual violence within a marriage or common law union,1 and sexual harassment in the workplace, educational institutions, etc.
 Address the finding that “St.

Kitts and Nevis has no legislation to deal with equitable distribution of property and financial matters either for women who are married or unmarried”.1  Undertake an evaluation of the Legal Aid system.

 Remove legal constraints and disparities with regard to child maintenance, whereby unmarried mothers and their children face differential treatment and benefits compared to married mothers.
Married mothers are able to petition the High Court where the awards for child maintenance are larger, while unmarried mothers must petition the Magistrates Court where the awards are smaller.

39 Legal Aid Centre now operational.

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1.

Accessed at: www.unicef.org/barbados.cao_publications-cifreform.pdf 41 | P a g e 7.0 INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND CAPACITY FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING 67.

Reference has been made earlier in the CGA to “an incomplete gender analysis”, which emerges from the examination of policies and strategies put forward to address gender issues in development.
The dominant theme is to polarize “men/boys at risk”, on the one hand, with women’s struggle for equality and the advances that women are making in education, for example, on the other hand.

The argument is presented as though the challenges that men/boys are facing are ‘caused by’ or ‘result from’ the advances being made by women.
This conclusion is not based on an examination of the systemic nature of gender discrimination rooted in patriarchy, and it has consequently fed into the polarization of the society arising from addressing the gender justice issues raised by women.
This phenomenon, which has been taking place across the Anglophone Caribbean, is a feature of the ‘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’.40 This line of thinking is expressed in the current context in SKN in relation to MDG3, where it is argued that while women are still grossly under-represented in politics and decision-making and this needs to be addressed, “the focus needs to be shifted to deal with male literacy and the under-achievement of boys at primary and secondary school”.41 However, this CGA is of the view that both are gender equality issues which demand attention.
The approach of not investigating the root causes of the underperformance of some (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 patriarchy and therefore of the construction of masculinities and its pervasive influence in the country have not been explored beyond the assertion of the need to “overcome ingrained male chauvinism that informs relationships between males and females”.42 68.
The analysis of gender issues that leads to the conclusion that “youth and young men are the group most at risk” is perhaps reflected in the need to pursue “the pacification of the youth”, 43 instead of a more holistic approach that would embrace understandings of how existing gender relations harm both men and women, and therefore the need for men to take up the challenge in the partnership for transformation.
This societal unclarity around gender equality issues has meant that the Department of Gender Affairs in SKN is operating within a most difficult environment, and is perceived by a large number of men as “being concerned exclusively with women’s issues”.

44 The Department therefore faces high (and often contradictory) expectations from both women and men.

69.
69.

The institutional framework to advance gender equality is therefore not buttressed by a clarity and broad consensus around the fundamentals of the gender empowerment and transformation agenda.

This is one aspect of the larger problem of low capacity within the institutional framework.

This showed itself in the Adaptation Strategy, which is gender blind both in its analysis and prescriptions.
The Strategy thus alludes only to specific vulnerabilities of women in agriculture and proposes to 40 This position is based on a misreading of Errol Miller’s Men at Risk (1991), which traced the historical changes that posed challenges to men functioning within the norms of ‘manhood’ as required by patriarchy.

41 Daniel, Op.

Cit., p. 7.

See also NPRS, pp.

69 and 117.

42 Daniel, Ibid, p. 30.

43 NPRS, Op.

Cit., p. 69.

44 Daniel, Op.

Cit., p. 30.


42 | P a g e “introduce incentives to encourage youth disabled, elderly and women in entrepreneurial involvement”.45 7.1 STATUS AND CAPACITY OF THE NATIONAL GENDER MACHINERY 70.
The government’s Medium Term Economic Strategy Paper 2005-2007, reported that the National Women’s Machinery (NWM) had been put in place “as the control policy coordinating unit inside the government and has the major responsibility for monitoring and improving the status of women and girls in the country”.
46 The Machinery then included: (i) the Department of Gender Affairs (DGA), which had been established in 1984 as the Bureau of Women’s Affairs; (ii) a National Advisory Council on Gender Equity and Equality; (iii) an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Gender; and (iv) Gender Focal Points.

Over the years the Machinery as a whole has lost capacity.
The Department of Gender Affairs, currently located within the Ministry of Social and Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, and headed by a Permanent Secretary, the most active and visible arm of the Machinery.

However, the DGA in St. Kitts has a very small staff of two persons and it was only in September 2013 that an Executive Director was appointed; and the Gender Machinery in Nevis is being reshaped.

71.
71.

The National Women’s Council, the civil society ‘arm’ of the gender machinery, is being revived.

The Inter-Ministerial Committee and Gender Focal Points have evaporated.

The Bureau of Women’s Affairs in collaboration with the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Gender, undertook an initiative in the late 1990s, with support of the Commonwealth Secretariat to pilot Gender-responsive Budgeting (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 [already] impacting on women disproportionately”, meaning more favourably.

Other factors affecting the gender machinery include: i.

Overload of responsibility of the DGA, without adequate human and budgetary resources; ii.

Unclarity around the central role of the DGA – is it to focus on policy development and iii.
mainstreaming, or project implementation on the ground?

Lack of capacity and competence to implement gender mainstreaming among professionals at various levels of MDAs, despite their interest.

45 Adaptation Strategy, p. 121.

46 See OECS (2006).

A Plan of Action for Localising and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/MDG/english/MDG%20Country%20Reports/Saint%20Kitts%20 and%20Nevis/St%20Kitts%20and%20Nevis_MDGReport_2006.pdf, 29.
43 | P a g e 7.2 CIVIL SOCIETY BODIES AND GENDER EQUALITY 74.

Civil society organizations are active in gender-responsive service delivery in various areas, including HIV/AIDS.

However, they are not active in advocacy around gender equality and women’s empowerment issues.

The faith- based organizations are regarded as having a critical role to play, from a policy perspective, with regard to gender and reproductive health rights of adolescents to sexuality education.
The National Women’s Council suggests the need for advocacy on issues of gender and leadership, but is still in the process of regrouping.

including issues the 75.

In general, the NGO sector is highly dependent on external funding and this is increasingly posing a challenge to the continued viability of many organizations.

7.3 FILLING THE POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL GAPS: CONTRIBUTION OF DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS 76.
The role of regional and international development partners in the strengthening of the gender mainstreaming agenda in SKN is elucidated somewhat by the journey of the CDB in preparing to play the role of “catalyst”, which it has defined for itself.

It points to the importance of getting the policy and institutional framework ‘right’, as a necessary first step.
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 sustainable development, and to reduce poverty and vulnerability”.47 RECOMMENDATIONS 7.3  Give priority attention to the systematic rebuilding of the National Machinery for the promotion of the gender equality agenda through appropriate resource allocation and budget, in order to enable and make practical the embedding and implementation of gender as a cross cutting theme in all policies, development frameworks, and strategies of the State.
 Establish and sustain an Inter- Ministerial Collaborative Framework, supported by partners in civil society, private sector and development agencies for learning and doing gender mainstreaming through agreed priorities such as: (i) Institutional strengthening/ capacity building and training; (ii) Research, policy development and deployment; (iii) Collection and management of sex- disaggregated data; (iv) Economic empowerment/wealth creation among women and young men; (v) Education and advocacy.
 Undertake, as a priority, the development of the National Gender Policy that draws on national/regional/global experiences best practices for advancing gender equality, and is also responsive to the global and regional imperatives of the emerging post-2015 sustainable development agenda.

47 Caribbean Development Bank (2008).

Draft Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy, July 2008, p. vi.

44 | P a g e to 77.
44 | P a g e to 77.

The 2012 assessment of the implementation of GEPOS points insufficient recognition “that women are disproportionately affected by discriminatory practices and social, economic and political structures”.48 This conclusion is reflected in CDB’s current Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2013-2016 for SKN.
Finalized in 2012, the CSP does not include a gender analysis to guide policy-making and programming around the following priority areas identified for collaboration with the GOSKN: (a) strengthening of public sector management; (b) tourism development and competitiveness; (c) agricultural development; (d) social safety net reform (linked to poverty reduction); (e) education and training (linking education and training needs to labour market demands); and (f) water and sanitation infrastructure.

78.
78.

The Strategic Plan 2010-2014 and operational strategies49 addressed this previous weakness, and include the following explicit measures towards securing gender equality outcomes: i.

Building commitment and support for gender; ii.

Allocating resources to achieve related results; iii.

Building staff and other stakeholders’ capacity; and iv.

Monitoring the implementation of the operational strategy.

CONTRIBUTION OF OTHER DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS 79.


To varying degrees, international development partners (IDPs) are pursuing one or more objectives/strategies and providing multi-faceted support towards addressing the mandate on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
institutional Their contributions framework on gender fall into four (4) main areas: institutional strengthening; policy development; data collection and management, and targeted programmes to support employment and enterprise development among women and children.

These align closely with CDBs own stated strategies and consequently there is a strong foundation for continued synergy among all the partners.
the policy and to RECOMMENDATIONS 7.3  Foster closer collaboration/coordination among development partners around priorities for CGA implementation.

Attention should also be paid to collaborating with them to build capacity for gender mainstreaming among the respective partners with whom they collaborate.
 Initiate discussions with civil society organizations, especially those active in communities, towards deepening their links with the CDB and building their capacity to address the gender equality agenda through their various programmes, active sectoral collaboration and increased advocacy on gender equality issues.

 Facilitate the involvement of the Nevis Gender Machinery as a separate but collaborating entity, in all decision-making and implementation of decisions relating to the CGA.
 Strengthen the policy and institutional framework at the country and regional levels in order to influence the international policy agenda and ensure that economic, social and political policies maximise possibilities for addressing and transforming gender relations.

80.

Some of the IDPs have had their own challenges with gender mainstreaming.
For example, with regard to its 2005 to 2011 programme, the UNDP Office for Barbados and the OECS assessed that “neither gender nor HIV/AIDS has 48 Assessment of the Implementation Effectiveness of the Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy of the Caribbean Development Bank, p. i-ii.

49 Caribbean Development Bank Strategic Plan, 2010-2014, p. 31.
45 | P a g e been sufficiently mainstreamed across programme areas”.50 Coordination among the partners in their interface with the small nation states of the Caribbean has also been a challenge.
T10: CURRENT AREAS OF SUPPORT TO GENDER MAINSTREAMING BY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS SPECIFIC COMPONENT (S) COMMENT AREA OF CONTRIBUTION Institutional Strengthening DEVELOPMENT PARTNER Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) European Community (EC) Labour Market Information System: Training on gender, entrepreneurship and environment Institutional capacity building and training on gender Mainstreaming gender and environment; Reform public sector, tighten expenditure controls, etc… EC 2008-2013 programme.
Policy Development UNESCO TVET Policy – linked to labour market reform.

UN Women National Gender Policy Data collection and management UNICEF, UN Women, CDB, World Bank, European Union UNDP Gender- responsive programmes targeted to women Department for International Development (DFID) CARICOM and CDB are major implementing partners.

Twelve (12) country national gender disaggregated programmes to produce equity sensitive policy and programmes.

2012-2016.
2012-2016.

Develop gender-sensitive data sets to capture differential impacts of natural disasters and towards gender-sensitive adaption strategies, 2012-2016 DFID’s Operational Plan for the Caribbean, 2011-2015: Wealth creation, governance, security and climate change.

Wealth creation component will support women entrepreneurs with 15 business environment reforms targeted to women.

Coordinated by CARICOM OECS Secretariat target group – potential to impact SKN within OECS partnership.
“Equal opportunities for women will be guaranteed”.

Being done with Ministry of Education; gender component is integrated.

Funding provided to SKN in 2010 – policy pending Linked to programme for child-friendly budget allocations and child – sensitive social protection.

Gender responsiveness around governance a cross cutting issue.

Estimate that this will produce 5,000 jobs for women by 2015.

Linked to DFID’s 2009 study and private sector development.
50 UNDP Draft sub-regional programme document for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2012-2016, p. 4.

46 | P a g e 81.

A larger challenge rests with SKN’s capacity to absorb and to provide the level of resources, human and material for tapping into regional opportunities and or making effective use of specific national programme opportunities.

The delay in the work towards the national gender policy is one concrete example.
Challenges are also faced by ministries, departments and agencies, other than the DGA, in addressing gender issues in funded programmes.

82.

Another challenge is the uncertainty relating to development assistance to the region and especially to the civil society sector, in light of increasing poverty among the majority of men and of women in particular and the fragility of the small island economies.
The conversation on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda and how to make gender equality and women’s empowerment a more central global policy is one in which St. Kitts and Nevis like other OECS and CARICOM Caribbean counties need to be engaged.

83. International, regional and national commitments made by the GOSKN to gender equality and equity are not matched by a strong policy and institutional framework to drive and live up to the commitments made.
Measures, processes and organizations to hold the Government accountable do not currently exist and alongside the strengthening of the entire gender equality architecture, have to be built if the commitments are to be realized.

The IDPs play an important role in supporting awareness and action around gender mainstreaming.

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47 | P a g e 8.0 STRATEGIC ENTRY POINTS FOR GOSKN AND CDB TOWARDS CGA IMPLEMENTATION 84.

As presented in Table 11, the CGA proposes the following among the entry points for the GOSKN and CDB towards its implementation.

Overall the collaboration between the GOSKN and CDB should be towards the transformation of gender relations through awareness building and practical steps.
Measures should include: i.

Rebuilding of the National Gender Machinery: a.

Undertake preparation of National Gender Policy, Strategy and Action Plan and budget, in collaboration with UN Women.

b.

Establish an Inter-Ministerial Committee coordinated at the level of Permanent Secretaries, with Directors having reporting responsibility for the coordinating of gender mainstreaming in selected projects.

c. Establish a Committee to coordinate actions in Nevis and to link with the developments in St. Kitts.
ii.

Focus on initiatives to increase productive resources development from gender perspective a.

Undertake gender analysis of existing PEP Programmes- focus on WICT, EQUIP, WISE b.

Develop strategy for training and expansion based on findings of gender analysis.

c. Involve public, private and civil society in project development initiatives iii.

Investment in Strategic Projects for gender-responsive outcomes: a. TVET Reform linked with Labour Market reform; b.
Gender and Child-sensitive Safety Net implementation c. Deepening of internal gender-responsive reform in the Police Force and strengthening the Domestic Violence response of the Police Force; d. Support a Pilot Project addressing issues related to boys and education; e. Strengthening of Project Viola; f. Address Roadmap for EPA Implementation through Caribbean Aid for Trade Project.

g. Collect, analyze and disseminate sex-disaggregated data.

iv.
iv.

Undertake public education and mobilization to promote mindset change and support to gender equality and equity.

48 | P a g e T11: ST. KITTS AND NEVIS: ENTRY POINTS FOR CDB SUPPORT ON GENDER EQUALITY, 2014 – 2017 PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS CDB as aspect of operationalising the findings of the CGA.

Strategic plan to clearly identify existing potential ‘external’ partners, but these should include, the Chamber of Industry, civil society/ NGOs.

Explore support from DFID/CARICO/ CDB programme.


ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS 1.

Re-build the National Gender Machinery51 i.

Development of a strategic National Policy on Gender Equality: (NPGE).

ii.

Establish an Inter-Ministerial Commission on Gender Equality and Equity (Human Equality) to address practical and strategic gender issues in selected existing projects.

iii.
iii.

Establish Committee in Nevis CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS National Policy of Gender Equality - Expand TORs to examine - Caribbean experience with gender policies- what difference have they made; - Context of discussion to include the Post 2015 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.

Purpose: i. to transform gender relations through awareness building and implementing practical collaborative actions; ii.
promote and ensure coordination of FINANCING LEAD AGENCY Ministry responsible for Social Development and Gender Affairs53 through the Dept.

of Gender Affairs.

In SK- Ministry responsible for Social Development and Gender Affairs In Nevis-Ministry of Social Development Grant from UN Women has been received.

Strategic Plan will include outline scope of work and related costs in SK & N. Note aspects of this project can be financed through the BNTF and existing SKN channels.
Technical Assistance (to support project design and development of strategic plan).

COMMENTS SECTION Part I Links with CDB’s Strategic Objective of “Promoting good governance by building commitment and support for gender equality.54 Funding in place since 2010.

Selection of Consultant identified as immediate task by SKN delegates to CDB sponsored Validation Roundtable on March 24, 2014.

Agreed Action steps include: i. ii.

iii.


Cabinet Submission in St. Kitts; Establishment of Inter- Ministerial Commission in Nevis; Gender analysis of targeted programmes in SKN; 51 The specifics of (i) and (ii) were identified as the key priorities by the delegation that represented SKN at the CDB’s Validation Workshop in March 2014.

53 Ministry of Health, Cultural Affairs, Gender Affairs, Social and Community Development.
54 Discussion around this strategic objective opens the way to “initiate discussion at different levels of the Bank and BMC’s about the feasibility of contribution to increased equality for women and men being added as a funding criterion”.

See Draft Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy, July 2008, p. 5.
49 | P a g e ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS training, capacity building and enhanced employment of women and men in non-traditional employment through selected Peoples Employment Project (PEP) projects- EQUIP, WICT, WISE, and through SEAF52 FINANCING LEAD AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS SECTION iv.
Development of strategic plan for the I- MC to include support for enhancing livelihoods, capacity building and training, social support systems , a multi-media platform for public education and outreach and a framework for collaboration and shared learning between the processes in St. Kitts and Nevis.

52 The Peoples Employment Project, launched December 2012, includes EQuIP- Engaging Qualified Interns Project; WICT- Women in Construction Trades; WISE-Women in Small Enterprise.
The Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF)-is financed by the Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation (SIDF) which receives contributions from a category of applicants under the Citizenship by Investment Programme.
50 | P a g e CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS Need for gender analysis of existing programmes Develop strategy and training based on findings of gender analysis TVET/Labour Market Reform - Linking the TVET Road Map with labour market reform - Encouraging women and men to participate in non-traditional programmes - Implement support programmes for women - Undertaking gender analysis of new 2013 TVET Policy and Action Plan.

ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS 2.


Expanding training for employment of women, youth and men in WICT, WISE, EQUIP, WISE, SEA.

3.

Investment in Strategic National Projects for Gender-Responsive Outcomes Projects: a.

The Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the Strengthening of the Labour Market.

b.

Gender and Child Sensitive Safety Net Implementation.
c. Gender Sensitive Reform in the Police Force and related areas FINANCING LEAD AGENCY BNTF PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS Public, private and civil society Ministry of Education Track implementation of UNESCO sponsored Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Policy Review, 2013 CDB/MOF negotiations around TVET Enhancement Project.
CDB /GOSKN negotiated financing for areas such as training of curriculum specialists and verifiers; re- organising and development of learning spaces; and the provision of support programmes.

Strengthen participation in and support for the OECS’ Social Safety Net and Social Protection Framework.

Training and systematization of use of Domestic Violence Statement and Work Sheet, etc.

Collection and sharing of sex- disaggregated data.

Potential to link to wider OECS/CARICOM project to be assessed.
COMMENTS SECTION 5.4.2 5.5 5.4 5.2.7 Need to build on lessons of experience of PEP and focus on expanding training for women in non- traditional areas, in particular construction through WICT.

This supports CDB’s strategic objective of ‘promoting broad based economic growth and inclusive social development’.
Support programmes could include: Child care for evening classes; attention to non-traditional sectors; advertising and marketing to challenge stereotypes and encourage participation of women & men in non-traditional areas; scholarships, etc.

Note that the CSP for SKN 2013-2016 envisaged a TVET Enhancement Project to start by June 2014 (CSP, p. vii).

51 | P a g e PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS Ministry of Social & Community Development & Gender Affairs.
OECS Framework for Regional Integration and trade COMMENTS SECTION Proposed legal reform to make the State the victim of gender-based violence is a critical companion measure which should be implemented.

Lessons learned shared towards wider application.

Programme to be assessed and financing incorporated into national budget for sustainability.

Could be approached in context of OECS Growth and Development Strategy.
ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS d. Pilot project to improve participation and performance of some boys in Primary Level Education e. Project Viola- Education and Training for Teen Mothers f. Economic Partnership Agreement implementation to support national growth agenda FINANCING LEAD AGENCY Ministry for Social Development; Focal point- Department of Social & Community Development.

Ministry of Homeland Security through Police Force.
Ministry of Education Ministry of International Trade Seek support through UNICEF, UNWomen, CDB, World Bank & EU continuing collaboration.

DFID/ CARICOM CDB Project Technical Assistance to design scope of pilot and costs.

Technical assistance for full assessment of programme and needs.
Technical Assistance and project financing CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS Gender and Child Sensitive Safety Net - Focus on programmes (not buildings): MEND, school support programmes, awareness raising, mentorship, early childhood development.

- Strengthen Domestic Violence Response Unit (DVRU) and its - Promotion of women in the Force continued.
Increase in intake of women in the Police Force Gender-sensitive training programme in the Police Force Factors impacting boys ’underperformance in selected schools identified and addressed.

52 | P a g e ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS 4.

Sex Disaggregated Data Collection, Analysis and Utilization at national and regional levels.

CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS Project Viola to be Programme, made sustainable and streamlined and responsive to education, training and family needs of teenage mothers.
EPA Roadmap preparation Capacity building on CSME.

EPA, Gender & Trade Policy and regulation to systematize the collection and use of sex- disaggregated data in SKN in public and private sector.

Software and computers for data collection and for training acquired.

Training in Monitoring and Evaluation for relevant public sector personnel.
FINANCING LEAD AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS SECTION GOSKN/CDB negotiation Ministry of Sustainable Development OECS Secretariat CDB Technical Assistance Stakeholders proposed that: i.

Data collection be done as part of a regional programme through the Eastern Caribbean Statistical Institute; ii.

Education of partners to provide information on standardized arrangements; iii.

Regular publication on gender-sensitive data.

53 | P a g e ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS 5.


Values and Attitudes Programme to Promote Partnership for Equality and Equity CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS Gender- sensitive Country Poverty Assessment (CPA) for SKN completed To engage the public in discussion of gender equality/ masculinities issues through the preparation of National Gender Policy.

Need for investment in a multi-modal public education programme designed by behaviour change.
Protocols for collaboration signed with civil society organisations (NGOs, CBOs, FBOs) for support of their work on behaviour change modification around gender equality and human rights issues.

FINANCING LEAD AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS SECTION Project of the Inter- Ministerial Commission on Gender Equality and Equity (Human Equality).

Stakeholders recommend that : i.

The programme is to be seen as part of policy and practical measure supporting transformative goals ii.
Step by step approach and collaboration at all levels is key principle.

iii.

Involve schools and workplaces.

iv.

Secure Champions at all levels, including from the Cabinet v. Multi-faceted components – using various media vi.

Gradual inclusion into government activities and projects vii.
Use attitudinal change model 54 | P a g e FINANCING LEAD AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS CONSIDERATIONS COMMENTS SECTION ENTRY POINT/AREA OF FOCUS CORE ISSUES/MAIN ACTIONS Champions and Facilitators identified and engage national conversations on partnership between men and women, girls and boys in problem solving for personal and sustainable national development.

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