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UNESCO in the Caribbean collaborates with multi-stakeholder groups across the region to strengthen capacities of Member States and Associate Members to work towards a culture of peace and to advance effective policies and practices that uphold human rights, as well as intercultural understanding and ending all forms of discrimination and racism.
 

This includes efforts within the ongoing Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), the UNESCO Roadmap Against Racism and Discrimination (following the Global Call in 2020 and the Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice in 1978), the Routes of Enslaved Peoples project (since 1994), as well as related to advancing priority Gender Equality, including through its flagship Transforming MEN’talities.

Various actions support the development of a Culture of Peace that aim to empower stakeholder groups, including women, youth and persons with disabilities, among others, and support them to develop the tools that shape and celebrate resilience, multiculturalism and pluralism in a diverse Caribbean sub-region, including with focus on intercultural dialogue.

UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme partners with national authorities, scientific and academic communities, as well as civil society to assist UNESCO Member States to strengthen the connection between research and policy, and therefore also between knowledge and action, which are central to fostering positive social change towards inclusive and sustainable development.

UNESCO in the Caribbean works to strengthen cooperation and knowledge co-creation between stakeholders, including national and regional: universities, research councils, policymakers, organizations including CSOs and NGOs, and youth-led structures, to promote the research-policy-practice nexus, to address inequalities and foster inclusive policy agendas, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

UNESCO works with diverse actors to analyze, capture and disseminate knowledge and good practices to enhance the policy uptake of research, connect stakeholders, and bolster inclusive decision-making in Caribbean SIDS, grounded in Human Rights.

Youth are a UNESCO priority group. As crucial actors, leaders, and partners in the fight against inequality and for building peace, youth have been at the forefront, helping their communities overcome challenges, such as those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Young people in the Caribbean, therefore, have a significant contribution to make to promote sustainable development in the region.

Fostering holistic youth development and creating an environment that is conducive and supportive of youth-led action and participation is crucial to advance positive social development in the region. UNESCO provides policy advice and technical support for Member States to prioritize actions and policies that build on the potential of youth to address their needs and allow them to exercise their rights. This entails conceiving youth as partners and agents of change and integrating their expertise, experiences and lived realities throughout policy design, the program cycle and institutional decision-making.

UNESCO in the Caribbean supports the potential of youth-led solutions and youth-led knowledge creation. Further UNESCO works with and for youth to amplify youth voices and to develop the capacity of youth, youth structures and youth-led organizations. UNESCO in the Caribbean also focuses on advancing the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda.

UNESCO is carving the way with the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - AI (2021) and the Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (2017), to support ethical Human-rights centred scientific and technological growth for the development of societies worldwide. In particular, UNESCO supports the development of national capacities to address the ethical dimensions of AI, with a focus on discriminatory biases (including gendered) of AI technologies and the need for regulatory action, highlighting the crucial role of the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI.

As a follow-up to the guidelines of the Recommendation, the Office for the Caribbean works to render operational its associated values and principles, by strengthening capacities, supporting the rollout of related tools including the Readiness Assessment Methodology and the Ethical Impact Assessment,  and providing structural guidance for regulatory action in Caribbean SIDS to support Sustainable Development Goals.