Basseterre, St. Kitts (June 28, 2005): Gender Affairs Director Ingrid Charles Gumbs left the Federation on Monday to attend a two-day ad hoc expert group meeting on Developing an Agenda to address Equity Gaps in Small Island Developing States.
The meeting was organized by the Economic Commission of Latin America as well as the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC). It is being held at the ECLAC Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, Trinidad from June 28-29.
The conference seeks to provide an opportunity for policy makers to explore the available social measures that can be used to strengthen the evidence-based approach to social policy formulation, and to address existing equity gaps.
It is hoped that it will lead to better formulated policy and programming to reduce poverty and inequalities, including gender inequality.
The substantive issues for discussion include: the use of gender indicators to support evidence based policy formulation; the use of empirical formulas in identifying equity gaps in poverty analysis as well as exploring issues of social susceptibility and the building of resilience in reducing social vulnerability as a measure of reducing equity gaps.
The meeting will develop an agenda to strengthen the use of measures in the activities geared to poverty reduction and to advance the fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals.
