CARANA News
CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)
Awareness gets USAID Funds
CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana—The
CARICOM Secretariat is receiving technical assistance valued at over
half a million US
dollars from the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) for Public Education on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy
(CSME). The assistance package is channeled through the USAID
Caribbean Trade and Competitiveness Development Programme (C-TRADECOM).
The funds are being used to support the second phase of a public
education project, which began earlier this year. The CARICOM Secretariat
and C-TRADECOM are collaborating on executing public awareness activities,
which include a media blitz using messages previously developed.
Other elements involve community activities and creating promotional
materials.
A Project Manager has been recruited to manage the activities throughout
the project period, which ends in February 2005.
The USAID supported project falls within the broad CSME Public Education
Programme being executed by the CARICOM Secretariat’s CSME Unit in
Barbados. This programme is critical to the success of the regional
integration process as CARICOM Member States are expected to be CSME
ready in 2005. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados are scheduled
to be CSME ready at the end of 2004.
[Posted September 23, 2004]
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