UNFPA - United Nations Jamaica - Kingston

UNFPA - Delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled

The UNFPA Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean (SROC) serves 22 countries and overseas territories in the English and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean.UNFPA promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. It does so by promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and equity and by promoting and supporting the use of population data in the formulation of national policies and programmes.

The Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean served by the UNFPA SROC include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, the Cayman  

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Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Sint Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The Caribbean is a global leader in the tourism industry and many of the countries are also rich in natural resources such as timber, water, oil and natural gas. At the same time, the Caribbean is characterized by a fragile ecosystem that is affected by natural and man-made disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes and the looming threat of extinction due to rising sea levels as a result of climate change. The region also grapples with the challenges of high external migration, limited economic diversification, an ageing population, high youth unemployment, high levels of crime and violence, including gender-based violence; the levels of HIV/AIDS and adolescent pregnancy rates are second only to sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 7.5 million people live here, with the largest concentrations in Jamaica (2.9 million), Trinidad and Tobago (1.4 million), Guyana (0.8 million) and Suriname (0.6 million).