Browse categories
Agriculture Biodiversity Brussels Mission Business CARDTP CARICOM Climate Change DCRM Disaster Risk Management ECCAA ECCB ECLS ECSC ECTEL Early Learners Programme Economic Development Education Energy GGGI Geneva Mission Health International Relations Legal Services Migration Morocco Mission OECS Feature Series OECS Yes in Action Ocean Governance and Fisheries Procurement Regional Integration Social Development Sports Statistics Tourism Trade Youth
OECS Commission launches Video on Building Resilience with Nature and Gender to Mark International Day for Biological Diversity 2020

OECS Commission launches Video on Building Resilience with Nature and Gender to Mark International Day for Biological Diversity 2020

OECS Media Release

Friday, May 22, 2020 — As the world observes International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD), under the theme, "Our Solutions are in Nature", the OECS Commission is pleased to announce the release of a 3-minute video entitled: Building Resilience with Nature and Gender in the Eastern Caribbean.

The video seeks to heighten awareness of the value of incorporating natural (ecosystem-based) solutions and gender equality into climate adaptation and resilience-building. It was produced with funding provided through the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD)’s Adapt’Action facility under a cooperation agreement between AFD and the OECS Commission.

Joan John-Norville, Programme Coordinator for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management at the OECS Commission, stated

“We felt it fitting to launch the video on IBD 2020, given its close alignment with the IBD theme for 2020. Our forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems are well suited to natural conditions. By incorporating them as much as possible into our climate adaptation strategies, we can often get better results than if we apply only non-natural solutions. Also, as climate change can often impact men, women and various stakeholder groups differently, it is important to ensure that adaptation measures are tailored accordingly.”

View the video below!

  

Climate Change Biodiversity Social Development
Contact us
Joan John-Norville Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management Coordinator, Environmental Sustainability Cluster, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Climate and Disaster Resilience Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Joan John-Norville Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management Coordinator, Environmental Sustainability Cluster, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Climate and Disaster Resilience Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
OECS Communications Unit Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
About The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

Back to www.oecs.int

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. 

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Morne Fortune
Castries
Saint Lucia