The Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) serves as the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB’s) primary poverty-reduction instrument and has demonstrated ongoing success. The BNTF program achieves its objectives through active community participation and by aligning design with national priorities, thereby supporting national development initiatives to improve access to and delivery of basic services and enhance human development outcomes in its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs). The synthesis shows that BNTF achieved its goals through its community-based approach, which enabled people to participate in decision-making (a demand-driven approach) and used funding to build essential social structures and develop skills.The study confirms that BNTF remains highly important because it stems from community needs and delivers results. The program achieved its multiple objectives by enhancing accessibility, developing human potential, and establishing new economic opportunities, leading to improved health outcomes for Caribbean inhabitants. BNTF will achieve its maximum developmental effect through its focus on outcome-level evidence, its use of new approaches, and its refinement of particular thematic frameworks.
Evaluation of Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (2012-2020)
Evaluation Report
Sector
Complete
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.
