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[MEDIA ALERT] Insuring the Livelihoods in Low Income Communities

[MEDIA ALERT] Insuring the Livelihoods in Low Income Communities

Press invitation

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 — As the rainy season approaches the OECS Commission and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) continue efforts to strengthen resilience in at-risk communities through flood mitigation initiatives and disaster prevention.

WHAT

The Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean Project  (CRAIC) has been designed to provide microinsurance coverage to low-income individuals and help countries to better implement climate change adaptation. The Livelihood Protection Policy (LPP) is designed to help protect the livelihoods of vulnerable low-income individuals such as small farmers, tourism workers, fishers, market vendors and day labourers, by providing quick cash payouts following extreme weather events (high winds and heavy rainfall).

WHO
Participants include: 

  • OECS Social & Sustainable Development Division
  • Representatives of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC)
  • Representatives of the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean Project  (CRAIC)
  • Malgretoute Community Action Trust
  • Micoud Constituency Council
  • Fishermen
  • Vendors
  • Tourism Workers

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The media houses.

WHEN
April 26 at 5:00 PM. 

WHERE
Micoud Secondary School
Saint-Lucia

MEDIA CONTACT
Doris Nol
[email protected]
+1758-285-7399

Contact us
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Josette Edward-Charlemagne Programme Officer, OECS Social & Sustainable Development Division, OECS
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Josette Edward-Charlemagne Programme Officer, OECS Social & Sustainable Development Division, OECS
About The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

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