Our Flagship Areas
We work across five Flagship areas to achieve our strategic objectives for 2021 – 2030. They cut across CANARI’s programmes to address specific challenges and opportunities currently facing the Caribbean. Each contributes our broader programme priorities to radically change the way we manage the environment, pursue economic development and seek a more just and equitable society. Our programmes, in turn, operationalise these Flagships, ensuring that our efforts are coordinated and impactful, driving significant change in how we manage the natural resources, pursue economic development, and strive for a more just and equitable society.
Innovation is a cross-cutting theme that runs throughout all our programmes and Flagships, infusing new approaches and creative solutions into every aspect of our work.
Learn more about our Flagships below.
Explore our integrated approach
The graphic and table below provide a visual representation of how our Flagship areas and core programmes intersect and work together to operationalise our Strategic Plan 2021 – 2030 and achieve our vision of all of society working together for equity, well-being and resilience in the Caribbean.
Graphic showing the relationship between Strategic Vision, Programmes and Flagships
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FLAGSHIPS | ||||
| Climate Justice | Nature-Based Solutions | Local Ecosystem Stewardship | Local Green Enterprises | Empowered Civil Society | |
| Resilience | Addresses root causes of vulnerability and ensures fair climate action outcomes, access to climate finance and locally-led adaptation. | Supports a multidimensional approach to resilience building, targeting climate-vulnerable and blue carbon ecosystems that offer adaptive and protective functions as well as mitigation co-benefits. | Focuses on climate resilience of target ecosystems (marine, terrestrial and riverine) | Enhances economic resilience of vulnerable peoples and helps create the enabling policy and institutional frameworks and support mechanisms for enterprises | Strengthens community response to crises, including climate change and disaster impacts while supporting climate justice advocacy and supports climate justice advocacy. |
| Biodiversity and Ecosystems | Focuses on environmental justice, benefiting biodiversity conservation and stewardship. | Scales up ecosystem restoration and promotes local stewardship with NbS. | Contributes to ecosystem health and resilience through local stewardship actions. | Contributes to local-level natural resource stewardship with triple-bottom line benefits. | Supports civil society priorities, including environmental defence. |
| Equity and Justice | Delivers economic, social, and gender justice for rural communities and their MSMEs. | Advances nature-based solutions (NbS) by supporting the most at-risk and marginalised groups, developing rural nature-based livelihoods, and empowering rural communities and their MSMEs. | Supports healthy ecosystems and the ecosystem goods and services that sustain Caribbean people and nature-based livelihoods. | Develops rural nature-based enterprises and supports and ‘climate-proofing’ of these enterprises. | Contributes to sustained action on human rights and intersectional justice by ensuring that the voices of marginalised and vulnerable populations are included. |
| Participatory Governance Programme | Amplifies the voice of vulnerable stakeholders and supports coalition building for participatory governance. | Supports the engagement of marginalised stakeholders by strengthening their capacity, integrating local knowledge, and creating spaces for participation in nature-based solutions (NbS). | Develops frameworks and knowledge bases to improve local-level stewardship and engagement. |
Supports engagement and access rights of marginalised stakeholders and coalition building among rural entrepreneurs and promotes institutional reform for social and green enterprises |
Enhances capacity of civil society to influence natural resource governance, decision-making and management |
Top photo: Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, Jamaica. Credit: JCDT.