IDB - Inter-American Development Bank

Published purpose

his project seeks to improve security and justice for people in crime-prone communities in Jamaica. Project activities include: (i) providing training in conflict resolution, healthy parenting and gang interruption techniques to community members, including school children; (ii) setting up Community Action Committees to implement safety plans, promote positive citizen-police relations, and ensure government services are better coordinated at the local level; (iii) making job skills and entrepreneurship training more accessible for vulnerable groups, particularly at-risk youth and women; and (iv) increasing access to justice for people, especially women, by providing victim support services, dispute resolution, and public education on justice-related rights and services, and by diverting children from the courts and incarceration by channelling them into reintegration programs. The project is implemented by Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security using loan funds from the Inter-American Development Bank, and grant funding from UK’s Department for International Development and DFATD.