Faith D. Innerarity, currently Senior Director, Social Security, in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Jamaica and a doctoral candidate in the CGDS, UWI, Mona, gained her B.Sc in Sociology (Hons) and M.Sc Sociology of Development, from the UWI, Mona. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Planning jointly from the Development Study Centre, Israel and the National Economic Development Institute, Philippines. She has lectured at the UWI and the Jamaica Theological Seminary and Graduate School. She has served as Jamaica’s representative to the United Nations Commission on Social Development, as Vice-Chair of the Commission representing Latin America & the Caribbean on the Executive Bureau and Chair of the Commission, and has chaired a number of international fora on social development issues. She has participated in, and presented papers at, many United Nations Expert Group Meetings. She was also part of an international group of experts that assisted the Government of South Africa in developing its Social Protection Legislation in the post-apartheid era. Her published works include articles in the International Social Science Journal and the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) publication, Construction of Gender Development Indicators For Jamaica (2000).