EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Human Resource Development 2030 Strategy (C-HRD 2030 S) was approved by CARICOM Heads of Government in 2017. It aims at ensuring that all education and training across three sectors – Basic Education (BE), Skills for Lifelong Learning (SLL) and Tertiary Education (TE) – are relevant to the needs of 21st Century economies and societies. It promotes the development of a seamless education system with multiple pathways and modalities to enhance social, environmental and economic security and resilience. The C-HRD 2030 S is the regional roadmap that guides the development of the education sector and provides direction for the Region’s response to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is envisaged that during the period 2018-2030, the objectives of CARICOM will be realised through the implementation of forty-one (41) strategies, thirteen (13) Cross-Sectorial Enablers and the delivery of seventy-one (71) outputs as set out in the C-HRD 2030 S. The Situational Analysis Survey (SAS) was undertaken between October 2018 and June 2019 after finalisation of the proposed indicators for Phase One of the Regional Action Plan (RAP) for Implementation and the development of the Situational Analysis Matrix (SAM). Both the finalisation of the indicators and the SAM were completed in collaboration with the Regional Network of Planning Officers (RNPO) who serve as the focal points for the C-HRD 2030 S, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the CARICOM Secretariat. The SAS results suggest that the proposed indicators on which Member States are best prepared to report are those that are listed under BE. Even then, the quality of the submissions was diverse and despite a nine-month timetable for submission, no Member State submitted a complete response to the SAM. Only eight indicators were able to attract reports from fifteen (15) or more Member States and there were challenges with baseline values for males and female, an issue that is likely to impact regional interest in gender-sensitive reporting. The reports on baseline values for urban and rural populations, where applicable, were even more deficient and in general, there is a dearth of data for SLL, TE and Cross-Sectoral Enablers. The paucity of data to inform baseline values makes a case for further dialogue with countries that offered limited reports.
READINESS FOR ACTION: THE BASELINE AND SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS REPORT FOR PHASE I OF THE CARICOM HRD 2030 STRATEGY
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