Promoting the Advancement of Human Well-Being in the Caribbean
Human development is about creating an environment in which people are provided the opportunity to develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accordance with their needs and interests. It also has to do with providing the space and opportunity for people to enlarge their choices.
Since 2000, this understanding has driven the Foundation to network with likeminded individuals and organizations to influence development policy and practice locally, regionally and globally so that issues like socio-economic development, equity, concern for the environment, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation are addressed not as disconnected activities, but in a holistic manner within the framework of sustainable development.
As our co-founder Angela Cropper says “Our idea was to create a space, a mechanism, that could facilitate others as well to “give something back”. When we see ourselves just as individuals, we feel a little impotent or unequal to the scale of the challenges that are presented to us. But working together creates confidence. There is mutual support, energizing and synergizing. Citizen groups often feel hesitant about commenting on the nature and content of development, and governments may feel it is presumptuous for them to do so.
