Port-of-Spain, March 3, 2022 – Building the awareness and capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) to engage in participatory budgeting and financial management for the forest sector in Jamaica is the focus of a new two-year project being funded by the European Union (FED/2021/428-620) and implemented by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) and its co-executing partners, the Caribbean Coastal Area Management (C-CAM) Foundation, and the Jamaica Conservation Development Trust (JCDT).
The project will support recommendations outlined in the 2017 report on updating Jamaica’s Public Finance Management Reform Action Plan to increase public access to fiscal information. This is part of the approach to strengthening the government’s public finance management to improve governance and accountability, fiscal control, efficiency and effectiveness in resource use. The project will raise public awareness of public finance management issues and ensure that civil society groups can play a role in the budgetary cycle and delivery of the National Forest Management and Conservation Plan.
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Photo: Community members and civil society groups on a nature trail in the Buff Bay Valley, Jamaica. Credit: CANARI