Implementing Partners

The Project is designed to ensure the effective involvement of a number of stakeholders, the Partner Organisations (PO). The POs are:

•  The Secretariat of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean Member States (OECS)
• Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC);
• Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL);
• Caribbean Employers Confederation (CEC);
• Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD); and
• Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC).

The CTCP is an ambitious undertaking by the Community which focuses on a better functioning CARICOM Single Market and Economy for the peoples of the Region by addressing reform and improvement of administrative and regulatory systems, improved access to the labour and services markets in the Community and increased participation of all civil society.

The OECS Secretariat as an Implementing Partner

The OECS Secretariat made its commitment to the project by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the CARICOM Secretariat on April 22nd 2009.

The Secretariat is responsible for project implementation in the six (6) OECS Member States, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Secretariat will liaise with component managers for each of the three components in the tasks of coordination and the preparation and submission of work plans, reports and project analyses. It will also liaise with national coordinators to execute the project in its Member States who participate in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.

The OECS Secretariat is also a member of the Project Steering Committee and Project Management Team and will also participate in other relevant meetings related to the management of the Project.

The OECS Secretariat is undertaking the following activities;

1. Project launches in the Six (6) independent Eastern Caribbean States.
2. Briefing and Mobilization meetings with Partner Organizations namely;
   • CAIC- Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce
   • CEC- Caribbean Employers Confederation
   • CCL- Caribbean Congress of Labor
   • CARICAD- Caribbean Center for Development Administration
   • CPDC- Caribbean Policy Development Centre
3. Project output review meetings
   • Project Management Team
   • Project Steering Committee
   • Project Coordinating Committee
   • Meeting of the National Coordinators
4. Project Reporting and Monitoring through,
   • Financial reports
   • Semi Annual reports
   • Quarterly reports