This document presents a synthesis of the main findings and lessons learned from evaluations completed in 2025 and published in early 2026, as well as from Project Completion Validation Reviews (PCVRs) conducted between 2023 and 2025. Together, these sources provide a consolidated view of the evidence emerging from the Caribbean Development Bank's recent evaluation portfolio.The evaluations and PCVRs offer important insights into what is working well, where challenges persist, and what lessons can be drawn to strengthen future programming. They provide evidence for the Bank, its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs), and the Board of Directors to inform decision-making, enhance development effectiveness, and strengthen the design and implementation of future interventions.
Evaluation of Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund 2012-2020
Climate
Evaluation Report
Sector
Complete
CDB
Management Response
Yes
Summary
The Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) Office of Independent Evaluation has undertaken a final evaluation of the Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF) and its eight sub-projects to assess their relevance, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. The evaluation covers the implementation period of the Fund from 2012-2020 in four Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs): Jamaica, Belize, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), and the British Virgin Islands (BVI).The CDRRF is a multi-donor trust managed by the CDB, with contributions from the Government of Canada, the European Union and the CDB, that was established in 2012 to help community members and groups to reduce their vulnerability to risks associated with natural disasters and to adapt to a changing climate.
The CDRRF intended to support participating BMCs to:
Reduce risk to vulnerable populations at the community level via implementation of natural hazard risk reduction, climate change adaptation and or related livelihood demonstration products,
Develop experience-based knowledge from the pursuit of demonstration sub-projects to fill national and regional knowledge deficits
Develop disaster risk management and CCA enhanced guidelines for country poverty assessments (CPA)
Undertake a targeted strategy for the dissemination of knowledge presented.
