2.2 The Strategic Priorities to 2019
A range of targeted interventions will be applied to address critical gaps over the planning
period; for example, to mitigate and overcome the high debt, low growth, vulnerabilities to
environmental shocks and the general need for re-balancing intra-regional trade between
Member States, as articulated by the DESIRED OUTCOMES (see Figure 1) viz,
Strong Economic Growth and Reduction in Poverty and Unemployment;
Improved quality of life;
Reduced environmental vulnerability;
An integrated Community with Equity for All.
To address the broad development objectives over the planning period to 2019, the set of
integrated Strategic Priorities within the context of a resilience model are proposed (see Figure
1) viz,
Building Economic Resilience;
Building Social Resilience;
Building Environmental Resilience;
Building Technological Resilience;
Strengthening the CARICOM Identity and Spirit of Community;
Strengthening Community Governance.
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
The six priorities are interoperable, each enabling of the other, with the overall outcome of
enhanced resilience of the Community. In that regard, the strategic initiatives proposed, as
outlined in the Matrix at Figure 2 which lays out the strategic framework value chain, target key
sectors during the planning period, focusing on building resilience through a range of crosscutting initiatives which take account of the relationships among the six thematic areas, for
example, the specific human capacity development or ICT requirements to unleash the growth
sectors for building economic resilience; or the actions to strengthen Community governance
and institutional arrangements that will engender higher levels of efficacy, responsiveness and
results for social and environmental resilience.
Therefore, to ensure economic, social,
environmental and technological resilience, a unified Community with strong, efficiency
Community instructions are requisite.
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