Disaster Heritage webinar by IGCP project IGCP718 & IGCP692
Webinar “Disaster Heritage: Can memoralising disasters make people more resiliant”. Part 1 on 1 December 2022 Hosted by IGCP project IGCP718 and IGCP692 (a partner project).
ILD 2022 Visibility Exercise: Exhibition in Black River
An exhibition is mounted at the St Elizabeth Parish Library for the period 12 Sept-3 Oct. in which JNC-UNESCO/UNESCO banners and books are being displayed to inform the public on the work that UNESCO is doing in Jamaica in education, culture, sciences, gender, information and communication.
International Literacy Day, 8 September
JNC-UNESCO cohosted International Literacy Day on 8 September 2022 in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Region 5, and the Jamaica Library Service This visibility exercise was held at the Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville on the global theme “Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces”. It was a hybrid event with 186 […]
Refocus with a Purpose Empowerment session (Participation Programme project)workshop,
Participation Programme project “Refocus with a Purpose Empowerment session” on Saturday 17 September 2022 at St Mary. The programme included 1.
Update: Addressing the Gap of Gender-based Violence Phase 11: Refocus Perpetrators Programme (RPP)
In continuing the project there were partnership meetings (15) with the Restorative Justice team and with Jamaica Mental Health Advocacy Network (JaMHAN) – 30 – to plan, coordinate and implement the psycho-educational component of the RPP. Further activities included: Recruitment & Onboarding of Programme Coordinator A clinician training workshop (9) from […]
Endemic Bird Festival activities at PBDC, Salt River
This bird festival was to showcase the endemic birds of the region. It involved a number of activities including talks about the birds, visiting the Bird Hide and for the primary schoolers drawings and other art and craft on the topic.
Earth Day at CCAM: Capacity building in Climate change
The Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (CCAM) in collaboration with the Jamaican National Commission for UNESCO celebrated Earth Day at CCAM’s Salt River location in Clarendon on Friday, 22 April as one of the project activity. Greetings were brought by Dr Maria Smith, JNC-UNESCO, Presentations were given by Brandon Hay, […]
Presentation of the YAR research findings
The team explored the extent to which ZOSO implemented in the Denham Town community was effective in addressing crime and violence in the said community from a social interventionist standpoint. The researchers were minded to study this area as not much has been documented thus far about the impact that ZOSO […]
Continuation of Build Resilience of Caribbean SIDS to Disasters and Climate Change
The project continued with two more activities: SAFETY WARDEN/MONITOR TRAINING seminars to build capacity for the culture sector, It was held face to face on March 1, 3 and 8, 2022 at the Institute of Jamaica’s Lecture Hall by the Jamaica Fire Brigade. About ninety individuals across the culture agencies were engaged in one day […]
Photography Competition: Capacity building in Climate Change Resilience
With this UNESCO Participation Project C-CAM launched the PBPA high school virtual photography competition with high schools in and around the Portland Bight Protected Area in November 2021. The judging of the photo competition was held 14-25 February for the best visual expression of climate change, its impact and adaptations.