PRF to Pilot Social Investment Fund

Contact: John Emmanuel

Thursday, June 21, 2001 – Assisting women and young people is the focus of a three-day workshop being staged here next week by the Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF) in collaboration with the Network of Social Investment Funds of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The June 26-28 event, slated for the NIS Conference Centre on the Waterfront, will seek to obtain consensus on the need for social investment funds to intervene more directly in facilitating the implementation of social assistance programmes for women and the youth.

“What we are hoping to do with this workshop is to examine the different experiences that have been implemented by various investment funds in the past that have targeted women and youth,” said Executive Director of the PRF, Donovan Williams.

“So while we in St. Lucia at this point will not be initiating any specific programmes, what will be of importance to us will be to learn from the lessons of experiences from some of those programmes and to determine how applicable they could be to our different circumstances as social investment funds,” he added.

Williams noted that while the PRF is anxious to examine some of these programmes, more critically it will be looking at the processes that have been involved and whether these processes and actual programmes can be replicated in St. Lucia’s context.

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