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.
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The interactive graphic below provides a visual representation of how our Flagship areas and core programmes intersect showcasing our commitment to equity, well-being, and resilience across the Caribbean.
Graphic showing the relationship between Strategic Vision, Programmes and Flagships
Discover in more detail how each Flagship area delivers on strategic objectives across our four programmes.
Explore our integrated approach
This table shows how our Flagships and programmes 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.
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PROGRAMMES |
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 |
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This Flagship aims to deliver transformational change, addressing the disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis on vulnerable and marginalised communities and promoting pro-poor, inclusive, sustainable and resilient development in the Caribbean. It centres and amplifies the voices of the vulnerable and adopts a rights-based and intersectional approach to address climate justice.
Read more about our Climate Justice Flagship
Explore our projects under the Climate Justice Flagship.
Resilience [Programme]
- Phase 2 of Scaling-up Support for Locally Led Adaptation NOTE: This is a small grant to cover project design costs for a large, multi-year initiative.
- Research proposal on the topic of: Investigating procedural and distributive equity in decentralised adaptation finance – The project will be led by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) with CANARI and University of Namibia as key partners.
- Integrating Digital Technologies and Participatory Tools to Support Coastal Community Resilience in Trinidad and Tobago
- A Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance for Advocacy, Action and Accountability
- GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme: “Enhancing Caribbean Civil Society’s Access and Readiness for Climate Finance”
Equity and Justice [Programme]
- Phase 2 of Scaling-up Support for Locally Led Adaptation NOTE: This is a small grant to cover project design costs for a large, multi-year initiative.
- Research proposal on the topic of: Investigating procedural and distributive equity in decentralised adaptation finance – The project will be led by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) with CANARI and University of Namibia as key partners.
- Integrating Digital Technologies and Participatory Tools to Support Coastal Community Resilience in Trinidad and Tobago
- A Caribbean Climate Justice Alliance for Advocacy, Action and Accountability
- GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme: “Enhancing Caribbean Civil Society’s Access and Readiness for Climate Finance”
Participatory Governance [Programme]
- Integrating Digital Technologies and Participatory Tools to Support Coastal Community Resilience in Trinidad and Tobago
- GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme: “Enhancing Caribbean Civil Society’s Access and Readiness for Climate Finance”
Through our Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) Flagship, we tackle critical challenges in the Caribbean, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water security using nature-based solutions. Although they are underused, these solutions have the potential to address these interconnected issues and promote environmental sustainability and community well-being. The NbS Flagship will drive CANARI’s efforts to integrate, optimise, and expand nature-based solutions, with a focus on conserving and restoring critical ecosystems, enhancing resilience to climate impacts, and ensuring that NbS approaches are equitable and inclusive.
Read more about our Nature-based Solutions Flagship
Explore our projects under the Nature-based Solutions Flagship.
Resilience [Programme]
- Advancing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries for Resilient Caribbean Coastal Communities and Livelihoods
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Ecosystem restoration to build Caribbean resilience to climate change
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- Civil society-led solutions for community-based and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and resilience in the Eastern Caribbean
- Adapting to a new reality: Managing responses to influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean as ecosystem hazards and opportunities
Biodiversity and Ecosystems [Programme]
- Advancing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries for Resilient Caribbean Coastal Communities and Livelihoods
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Ecosystem restoration to build Caribbean resilience to climate change
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- Adapting to a new reality: Managing responses to influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean as ecosystem hazards and opportunities
Actions that form part of our Local Ecosystem Stewardship Flagship aim to enable, empower and support local communities, nature-based enterprises and community-based organisations to conserve and restore the ecosystems that their livelihoods, health and wellbeing depend on.
Read more about our Local Ecosystem Stewardship Flagship
Explore our projects under the Local Ecosystem Stewardship Flagship.
Resilience [Programme]
- Advancing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries for Resilient Caribbean Coastal Communities and Livelihoods
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
Biodiversity and Ecosystems [Programme]
- Advancing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries for Resilient Caribbean Coastal Communities and Livelihoods
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Biodiversity Conservation and Agro-ecological Land Restoration in the Productive Landscape of Trinidad and Tobago (BIOREACH) – PHASE I
- Capacity building and knowledge products to enhance the use and uptake of the National Ecosystem Assessment of the tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
- Haitian fellowship programme to strengthen sustainable livelihoods for biodiversity conservation
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- CEPF Regional Implementation Team for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
- Capacity building in fisheries evidence, networks and management (Virgin Islands)
- Supporting decision making and building capacity to support IPBES through national ecosystem assessments in Grenada
Equity and Justice [Programme]
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
Participatory Governance [Programme]
- Biodiversity Conservation and Agro-ecological Land Restoration in the Productive Landscape of Trinidad and Tobago (BIOREACH) – PHASE I
- CEPF Regional Implementation Team for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
- Capacity building in fisheries evidence, networks and management (Virgin Islands)
CANARI’s Local Green-Blue Enterprises (LGEs) Flagship focuses on supporting rural nature-based small and micro-enterprises that deliver triple bottom line benefits (economic, environmental and social). CANARI supports these businesses by offering direct help in starting and growing their ventures, providing training, and working to improve the policies and regulations that affect them. The goal is to promote local economic development in a way that reduces poverty, inequality and vulnerability, while also promoting stewardship of the natural ecosystems that these businesses depend on.
Read more about our Local Green-blue Enterprises Flagship
Explore our projects under the Local Green-blue Enterprises Flagship.
Resilience [Programme]
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
Biodiversity and Ecosystems [Programme]
- Project Preparation Grant for the project, “Valuing Nature and Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Blue and Green Pathways for the Tourism, Food and Urban Sectors in Saint Lucia”
- Haitian fellowship programme to strengthen sustainable livelihoods for biodiversity conservation
- Pioneering a blue-green economic development model for coastal adaptation, livelihoods and sustainability in St. Vincent
- Experience Nariva – Creating a community-driven, sustainable cluster and brand to transform ecotourism in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad and Tobago, based on participatory Geographic Information Systems
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
Equity and Justice [Programme]
- Experience Nariva – Creating a community-driven, sustainable cluster and brand to transform ecotourism in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad and Tobago, based on participatory Geographic Information Systems
- Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the Global Environmental Facility-Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco)
This Flagship is central to CANARI’s mission, promoting the value of participatory approaches to natural resources governance, strengthening institutional frameworks, and empowering Caribbean civil society to understand and assert their rights to participate. By leveraging their expertise, experience and local knowledge, this Flagship is supporting civil society to contribute to sustainable development progress in the region. Strengthening the organisational capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) and convening and empowering them to engage collectively in development decisions and initiatives, CANARI is contributing to more resilient, inclusive, and transformative whole-of-society approaches to sustainable development in the Caribbean.
Read more about our Empowered Civil Society
Explore our projects under the Empowered Civil Society Flagship.
Biodiversity and Ecosystems [Programme]
- Biodiversity Conservation and Agro-ecological Land Restoration in the Productive Landscape of Trinidad and Tobago (BIOREACH) – PHASE I
- Haitian fellowship programme to strengthen sustainable livelihoods for biodiversity conservation
- Building civil society awareness and capacity to engage in participatory budgeting and financial management for the forest sector in Jamaica
- CEPF Regional Implementation Team for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
- Capacity building in fisheries evidence, networks and management (Virgin Islands)
Equity and Justice [Programme]
- The Caribbean We Want: Civil society recommendations for transformative pathways to Caribbean sustainable development
Participatory Governance [Programme]
- The Caribbean We Want: Civil society recommendations for transformative pathways to Caribbean sustainable development
- Biodiversity Conservation and Agro-ecological Land Restoration in the Productive Landscape of Trinidad and Tobago (BIOREACH) – PHASE I
- Building civil society awareness and capacity to engage in participatory budgeting and financial management for the forest sector in Jamaica
- CEPF Regional Implementation Team for the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot
- Capacity building in fisheries evidence, networks and management (Virgin Islands)
Top photo: Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park
Credit: JCDT