Barbados

DFID does not have a development programme in Barbados, although our main regional office is located here.

Although Latin America and the Caribbean are relatively advanced regions, they still face persistent poverty. This was reduced in the 1990s but achievement of all Millennium Development Goals will be a challenge, particularly those relating to the number of people living on less than $1 a day, maternal mortality in Latin America, and gender equality and HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean.

DFID is developing Regional Assistance Plans for each region to set out its response to these challenges. In both cases increased priority will be given to making the international community as a whole more effective regionally.

DFID's overarching goal in the Caribbean is to assist the region to achieve sustainable reductions in poverty in line with the Millennium Development Goals.

This effort will operate within and support the framework of poverty reduction and growth promotion policies and instruments embodied in the treaties and communiqués of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, together with the policy frameworks provided by the CARICOM Secretariat, such as the Regional Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS.

Last updated: 29 July 2004