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7. Recommendations

Ensuring interventions are co-designed with women & youth

based on local needs and context

Co-design long-term solutions with women and youth: (6-12 months)

ENGAGE Full data-based engagement of women & youth for sustainable interventions
including Do No Harm Principle

• 22% of women & youth would leave agriculture if they could, more (29%) in Jamaica and
Drivers Guyana. Participation is already low and falling across all markets.
• ENGAGE will ensure beneficiaries and stakeholders design what works in the long-term

• Design a process for community engagement with women, youth and men with local context,
socio-economic, cultural and geographical factors to inform wants and needs eg household and
community dynamics and power relations, main activities, expenditure, asset ownership,
profitability, major challenges, constraints, etc
Description
• Identify farmer groups, NGOs and organisations to input into process design
• Finalise approach and including workshops and questionnaires eg building out CIAT Rapid
Assessment manual.pdf (see link in appendices)
• Evaluation process – do no harm
Potential • CIAT (potentially to support workshops and climate smart facilitation)
Partners • Government: Ministries of Agriculture and Gender Affairs
• NGOs with networks and experience: eg CARDI, IICA,
• Regional Women’s Groups: eg Caribbean Network of Rural Producers
Long-term Everyone benefits in long run as they have shaped the interventions accordingly
motivation

SAC role Facilitate agreement of common process and lead execution locally

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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