Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
Minute Book of the Institute of Jamaica, 1879-1892
These Minute Books of the Institute of Jamaica 18791892 are original handwritten texts which document the birth and formative years of the Institute of Jamaica IOJ which is still in operation today These two Minute Books document the activities of the IOJs Board of Governors General and Special Meetings from their first meeting on August 5 1879 and subsequent meetings to January 4 1892 The inclusive dates of each book are August 1879February 1886 and February 1886January 1892 The minutes represent the deliberations and determinations of approximately 200 meetings These Minute Books provide testimonies on the development of the IOJ one of Jamaicas most enduring and endearing entities and which has rightfully been described as a cultural catalyst These Minute Books give insights into the proceedingsdeliberations of the Board of Governors and the decisions taken by these eminent men of their time Based on the mandate of the enabling legislation which states that the IOJ was for the encouragement of literature science and art these men zealously sought to ensure that the IOJ upheld its governing law in thought and deed Act 27 Victoria Cap22 of 7 May 1879 Additionally these Minute Books provide early documentary evidence of national developmental concerns dating from about 50 years after the abolition of enslavement in Jamaica They also reflect the thrust of the Crown Colony Government that emerged after the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion Of the many institutions established in Jamaica at the end of the nineteenth century the IOJ is one of the very few that has had an uninterrupted history and still operates out of its original location Further these Minute Books are primary source documents of the IOJs seminal role as a primary progenitor of museums libraries art galleries and cultural training in Jamaica and the Caribbean The Minute Books of the Institute of Jamaica 18791892 were inscribed in the Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010
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Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
The Roger Mais Collection, 1925-1955
Roger Mais 19051955 is recognised as one of the regions early postcolonial literary figures Mais influence as a literary and political personality extended beyond Jamaica His legacy lies in the large quantity of unpublished material that was found after his untimely death He was the quintessential anticolonial activist whose contribution included literary political artistic and journalistic output His collection covers over 20 years of activism and chronicles the birth and development of the anticolonial nationalist struggles of the colonised against the coloniser which led to political independence the creation of a literary tradition and the birth of an artistic movement Mais has been described as a colonial writer grappling with his art without the benefit of a literary tradition of his own Morris 1981 His activism was manifested through his literary and journalistic writing His imprisonment for seditious libel in 1944 made him a hero of the anticolonial struggle in Jamaica Mais published just three novels all of which are considered classics of Caribbean literature The bulk of his unpublished material is located in the Roger Mais Collection The Roger Mais Collection was inscribed in the Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014
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Results Based Financing
Resultsbased financing RBF is an umbrella term referring to any program or intervention that provides rewards after the credible verification of an achieved result These rewards can be monetary or nonmonetary and can be partial such as a bonus on top of a salary or whole such as the cost of training a teacher under outputbased aid There are differing opinions on what actually constitutes resultsbased financing with much of the debate centred on what constitutes a result These can be outputs such as the implementation of a new teacher training system intermediate outcomes final outcomes such as learning or more likely a mixture Importantly the dividing line between inputs and outputs can depend on which particular bottleneck the RBF is being used to resolve and on the objectives of each specific projectRead more about Results Based Financing
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