This toolkit is a practical resource to help you design community development interventions that are both safe and transformative. It supports the integration of gender equality and inclusion into all stages of project planning, whether through gender-mainstreamed or targeted actions, across diverse Caribbean contexts. Regardless of a project’s primary focus, every initiative should aim to be gender-responsive and actively reduce discrimination and marginalisation.

Recommended as part of a broader gender mainstreaming strategy, the toolkit offers clear definitions, practical tools, and step-by-step guidance to help you conduct a gender analysis, develop a gender action plan, and strengthen prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence.

The toolkit specifically highlights considerations for Indigenous, Tribal, and rural communities, while also encouraging practitioners to examine other intersecting aspects of identity such as inter alia disability, age, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, and migration status.