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Project Manager of the Basic Needs Trust Fund at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Dainty Ann Barrett Smith.

JSIF Supports Revision of National Policy for Gender Equality

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), through its Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF), has been supporting the Bureau of Gender Affairs with the revision of the National Policy for Gender Equality (NPGE). Project Manager of the BNTF at JSIF, Dainty...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange. (File Photo)

Minister Grange: Let’s Remove Obstacles to Women’s Economic Equality

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left), accepts one of 1,400 hygiene and nutrition packages from Chargé d'Affaires at the High Commission of Canada, Kevin Gilhooly (third left), at a recent handover ceremony, at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation in St. Andrew. Others pictured (from left) are Chairman of the Centre, Debbyann Brown Salmon; Country Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Richard Kelly, and Principal Director for Gender Affairs at the Ministry, Sharon Coburn Robinson. The supplies are provided under the Canada-funded Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster Recovery (EnGenDer), and Climate and Environment Resilience in the Caribbean projects, from which a COVID-19 response and suport initiative has been developed to support vulnerable persons in 11 Caribbean countries. The project is being implemented by the UNDP, UN Women, the World Food Programme, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CEDEMA).

PHOTOS: Jamaica Gets Packages from the Canada-funded Enabling Gender Responsive Disaster

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange (second left) speaking with (from left) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith; Opposition Senator, Gabriela Morris; and President of the Jamaica Women’s Political Caucus, Merline Daley, at the Women Parliamentarians Breakfast on Tuesday (December 8) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

Mrs. Simpson Miller, Dr. Mavis Gilmour Among Great Jamaican Women To Be Honoured

Executive Director of the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), Dr. Zoe Simpson, speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Think Tank held on Monday (November 30) at the JIS head office in Kingston.

Adolescent Mothers Coping Well

5 years ago Gender Affairs

ANC Women’s League President to Address Reparations Council Webinar

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has announced that the President of the African National Congress Women’s League, Bathabile Dlamini, will give the keynote address at a special webinar focusing on the role of women in the fight for freedom, equitable treatment and justice. The webinar, titled ‘Resistance, Resilience and Recognition’ will take place...

5 years ago Budget 2020/2021Gender Affairs

Support For Project To Reduce Teenage Pregnancy

The Government is to spend approximately $7.9 million on the Technical Support to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy project, during the 2021/2022 fiscal year. This expenditure is outlined in the 2021/2022 Estimates of Expenditure, which is now before the House of Representatives. The project is being implemented by the National Family Planning Board and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Objectives of...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Minister Grange Outraged at Killing of Woman in Church

The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has expressed shock and outrage at the killing of a woman during a church service in Falmouth, Trelawny on Sunday. The police report that Andrea Lowe-Garwood was in a worship session at her church on Sunday morning when a man posing as a member of the congregation walked...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Help for Homeless Mother and Child

The woman who was featured on national television sleeping on the street with her young child is getting help. The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, says the woman has been taken from the street “and at this time she is in a facility with her son.” According to Minister Grange, “provision has been made...

5 years ago Climate ChangeGender Affairs

Project Launched To Advance Gender And Climate Change Agenda

A project aimed at strengthening the nation’s institutional coordination, promoting gender responsive climate action and ensuring that policies, programmes and projects address gender inequalities, was officially launched during a virtual ceremony, held today (January 21). The project, ‘Facilitating a Gender Responsive Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Jamaica’, is being financed by a grant of US$270,000 from the...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Spotlight Initiative Jamaica launches Virtual Roundtables on Local Laws

Targeting laws that protect women and girls from violence The European Union/United Nations (UN) Spotlight Initiative (SI) in Jamaica has launched a series of Virtual Roundtables on local legislation underpinning the protection of women and girls from violence. The series, led by UNDP Multi Country Office in Jamaica, kicked off in December with a lunchtime roundtable on Jamaica's draft Sexual...

5 years ago Gender Affairs

Baseline Assessment Of Pregnancy Risk Factors Among High-School Students Being Conducted

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is currently carrying out a baseline assessment of select risk factors of pregnancy among high-school students in eastern Jamaica. “This has come about because of a study we did in 2014 looking at the operation of the Victoria Jubilee Hospital teen clinic, and the findings suggested that the eastern part of the island and...