A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN

A significant part of the JDTAN mission is to partner for success Jdtan collaborated with the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) for the third year in delivering 120 critical early childhood education workshops to more than 7000 practitioners over five days The workshop was virtually executed in May 2022. The workshops covered key components of classroom management, social-emotional learning, educational leadership, and other very essential subject areas that a key to helping the startup development of our young citizens.

Another significant event of 2022 was the strategic mission by members of JDTAN on their visit to Jamaica. A key component of delivering initiatives to our island is to build relationships and understand our partners, sponsors, and beneficiaries. With those in place, collaborations and finding gaps are seamless, and executing interventions is efficient and more effective Members of JDTAN planned and visited Jamaica to meet our stakeholders, to understand their work and their tasks and engage them where they are

JDTAN is a network of more than 2500 experts and professional Jamaicans across 47 countries with more than 15 sectoral task forces The network prides itself in identifying gaps and challenges and delivering content in a train-the-trainer environment ensuring capacity development in areas where Jamaica needs it most. Needs assessments drive our interventions to meet national and sustainable development goals.

It is with this in mind that, as Chairman of the network, I thank all the people who made all the activities possible; chairperson,s vice chairs, liaisons, and registered members. We would be nowhere without our initial and ongoing conversations. We welcome you to join us and be a part of the sharing and giving of love, the heart, and the mind.

LEO GILLING

CHAIRMAN