Strengthening nature-based enterprises and livelihoods in support of the global environment facility-integrating water, land and ecosystems management in Caribbean small island developing states (GEF-IWEco)

by admin | Mar 25, 2025 | Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Equity and Justice, Local Ecosystem Stewardship, Local Green-blue Enterprises, Past Projects

The GEF-IWEco project Sustainable Livelihoods activity was conducted by CANARI from 2021-2024. It aimed to strengthen and support stewardship and sustainable and climate-resilient livelihoods to facilitate healthy and resilient ecosystems. Target countries included...

Participatory budgeting and financial management for the forest sector in Jamaica

by admin | Mar 25, 2025 | Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Empowered Civil Society, Participatory Governance, Past Projects, Projects

Building the capacity of a national coalition of Jamaican CSOs to engage in collective analysis, advocacy and dialogue with key government agencies under a two-year joint initiative, promoting the development of mechanisms for participatory budgeting/public finance...

Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) Caribbean islands biodiversity hotspot phase II

by admin | Mar 25, 2025 | Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Current Projects, Empowered Civil Society, Local Ecosystem Stewardship, Participatory Governance, Projects

Supporting civil society to conserve the Caribbean’s highly threatened biologically rich ecosystems that are essential to human well-being (August 2021 – July 2027). ‘The Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot is one of 36 recognised biodiversity hotspots...

Jamaica’s Coalition for Forests urges government to prioritise forest conservation in budgets, partner with civil society to deliver national priorities, and embrace participatory budgeting

by admin | Apr 28, 2024 | News, News Releases

Read more in the April edition of CANARI’s Gayap...

Jamaica’s Coalition for Forests calls for a more participatory national budgeting process

by admin | Mar 6, 2024 | News, NEWS & UPDATES, News Releases

Kingston, March 6, 2024 – Jamaica’s Coalition for Forests is calling on the Government to increase the allocation for forest conservation and management in the 2024/2025 budget, to embrace participatory budgeting on every level, and to recognise and support the value...