PAHO/WHO Multi-Country Cooperation Strategy for Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Countries, 2018-2024

Abstract

This Strategy for Technical Cooperation with Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries reflects a medium-term vision of the work that the Pan American Health Organization [PAHO/ WHO] and the other levels of the World Health Organization will jointly undertake with the seven countries under the jurisdiction of the PWR-ECC during the period, 2018- 2024. These countries are namely - Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, . St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This is the second such multi-country cooperation framework with these small island states. While the first strategy focused mainly on the establishment of the structures which PAHO/WHO and the Member States had agreed on to better facilitate technical cooperation, this second strategy was developed on the basis of a health situational MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PAHO analysis together with consultations with senior technical officers from the Ministries of Health in the respective countries, with a view to identifying joint health priorities to be addressed in a targeted manner. I am happy to note that in the development of this strategic document, due consideration was given to existing national, sub-regional and global frameworks.