Unite Caribbean organised a 5-days study visit for 12 French Gateways to Global Careers students in Martinique, to meet local business and develop ideas for increased cooperation between the islands.
French Gateways to Global Careers: Launch of a ground-breaking programme for Saint Lucian students
The official launch of French Gateways took place on February 3rd, with the Minister of Education, SALCC and Unite Caribbean.
Economic development through education: a 6-step methodology
Launch of the French Gateways to Global Careers: an educational programme to promote cooperation between Saint Lucia and the French West Indies
Two key partnerships for our FORPRO project
Unite Caribbean recently signed two key partnership agreements to develop cooperation in professional training in the Caribbean.
A sound training provided by the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
Unite Caribbean is very happy to officialise its partnership with the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, the leading tertiary learning institution in Saint Lucia. We hope that this partnership will signal the start of long-lasting collaboration between Saint Lucia and her French Caribbean counterparts in the field of education and economic development.
The SALCC will play a key role in the FORPRO project, by offering the “French Gateway to Global Careers” Programme to 15 Saint Lucian students. Resolutely geared towards professional employability and entrepreneurship, the programme will focus on the key sectors of tourism and agriculture. Courses provided will be divided between theory and practical sessions.
The overall goal of the “French Gateway to Global Careers” Programme is to improve the mobility and economic development of Saint Lucianâs students and young entrepreneurs through cooperation with French overseas territories. Private sectors partners are being contacted to ensure the success of the programme.
The French touch: our partnership with the Alliance française in Saint Lucia
The Alliance française network is acknowledged worldwide as major provider of quality professional training in French, delivering recognised certificates in French proficiency. Unite Caribbean is proud of include Alliance française in Saint Lucia into the FORPRO framework. Indeed, one of the main components of our TVET project is to teach technical skills in French to Saint Lucianâs students and young entrepreneurs to improve their mobility with the French overseas territories.
All students enrolled with the “French Gateway to Global Careers” programme will therefore benefit from a dedicated French training, focused on professional vocabulary related to the tourism and agricultural sectors. If they manage to pass the final exam, they will earn a recognised certificate from the Alliance Française.
FORPRO is funded by the French cooperation through the French Embassy for the OECS countries based in Saint Lucia. It aims to improve professional integration and increase exchanges between French and Saint Lucian vocational and higher education institutions.
Training on the challenges of sports cooperation in the Caribbean
Unite Caribbean trained the institutional actors of the sport sector of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in order to reinforce their competences and to trace development paths for cooperation in the Caribbean.
Training of CSOs in Guadeloupe on regional cooperation issues
Unite Caribbean developed and facilitated a 3-day training module dedicated to Guadeloupean public and associative actors. This module aimed to strengthen their skills in understanding the mechanisms of regional cooperation as well as to provide tools of understanding necessary to implement Caribbean cooperation projects.
The training was structured in 3 sequences enriched by presentation materials and interspersed with exchange sessions. The first sequence focused on cooperation issues in the Caribbean and was presented in the form of interactive games. The second sequence of the training module dealt with existing cooperation in the Caribbean and the different types of actors. It was implemented through a participatory workshop of information exchange and classification. And finally the third sequence focused on the identification of partners and funding. It was presented as a presentation and sharing session around the methods of identifying partners and good practices, available and mobilizable funding and tools to master for mobilizing funding.
The training and methodology delivered by Unite Caribbean thus enabled participants to understand the issues of cooperation in the Caribbean, and also to identify and mobilize potential partners for their project.
After the training Unite Caribbean provided participants with a pack of tools and contacts enabling them to build their own projects.
Business Continuity Training – PAIRCC
As part of the PAIRC-C project, Unite Caribbean organised a training of trainers session on business continuity for the private sector.
Facilitated by Alexander Mirescu, Business Continuity Consultant, UNISDR and Anissa Zapata, Climate – Energy Expert and Environment Project Manager at UNITE Caribbean, the training brought together actors from Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Haiti.
The objective was to strengthen the capacity of territories to be more resilient by helping small businesses to build and implement their business continuity plan. Indeed, the training of trainers and referents in their territory on the theme of “business continuity for small Caribbean businesses” made it possible to duplicate this training on the scale of their territory and to support businesses in the implementation of their Business Continuity Plans.