The Women-Centred Disaster Resilience in Small Island Developing States was launched in Haiti in 2024 as a partnership between the Mona School of Business and Management (in Jamaica), through its Caribbean School of Data programme, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The project kicked off with 19 women enrolled in two courses which covered topics related to disaster risk management and resilience, the integration of mapping tools and techniques in this area, and the importance of empowering women in the process.  Based in Port-Au-Prince, the project faced some implementation hurdles due to a period of political instability and unrest in the country. Despite displacement of facilitators and participants, the programme persisted with 74% of the participants completing at least one course. 

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Article taken from: The Caribbean Open Institute