Inclusivity and Social Protection
Summary
A state has a duty to address all vulnerabilities comprehensively, including gender issues by providing frameworks that promote gender equality and empowerment through gender mainstreaming and setting. Youth development involves ensuring that every young person is respected and valued, equipped with tools to make informed choices to improve their well-being, and supported within an integrated ecosystem. Human and national security should inform citizens, provide for, and take necessary actions to guarantee the safety, security, and stability of the nation, its people, and its interests. Finally, social protection systems must protect the population of St. Kitts and Nevis against chronic poverty and hunger, shocks, destitution, and social exclusion..
Vision
It is the vision of St. Kitts and Nevis to develop social protection systems that will protect the population of St. Kitts and Nevis against chronic poverty and hunger, shocks, destitution, and social exclusion, through programmes designed to ensure equitable human capital development and enhanced capacity of the population to better manage their livelihoods and welfare.
Goals
- Develop a streamlined, effective and efficient social safety net for those most at risk of deprivation and who cannot help themselves;
- Strengthen the resilience of the poor and vulnerable by enabling them to benefit from investments in human capital developments;
- Protect the basic livelihood of the entire population and promoting safeguards against shocks and disasters that may occur
- Enhance the capacity of all persons to better manage their livelihoods and welfare in an effort to impact national development
- Enhance the evidence-based decision- making practice across the social protection sector
- Adjust and further develop the current institutional arrangements, systems and legislative frameworks for a more coordinated, efficient and effective social protection service delivery Restructuring and modernising the social safety net system
Social Protection Strategic Priorities
- Improving quality of life and living standards for targeted groups Pursuing transparent and unified beneficiary selection and registration mechanisms for the social safety nets
- Monitoring and evaluating systems and research plans for the social safety net
- Ensuring that data collection efforts are systematically analysed and data are disaggregated
- Developing job training and employment services for the poor and vulnerable
- Building an enhanced child protection system
- Developing capacities for the social sector reform process
- Ensuring social assistance legal reform
- Undertaking production and use of social protection data
- Linking welfare to work
- Focusing on persons with disabilities and the elderly and persons
Youth - Securing Our Future
Vision
The vision of the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis is to ensure that every young person is respected and valued and is equipped with the tools to make informed choices to improve their well-being, and is supported and connected to an integrated system that allows them to excel and make valuable contributions to a safe and prosperous Federation.
Goals
- Economic participant – to ensure young women and men equitable access to decent environment and livelihood opportunities
- Safety, security and protection-to build resilience and protective factors and reduce youth involvement in voilence and crime
- Education and lifelong learning- to make equitable and inclusive quality education and learning reality for young people, consistent with their life stage, needs, aspirations
- Health and Well-being- to empower young people to pursue healthy lifestyle and behaviours and preserve their emotional, physical and mental health and well-being
- Youths as agents of democracy, develoment and national building- to integrate and empower young people fully for genuine youth led-action as a trusted partner in community national development and decision-making
- Youth and sustainable development to engage young people to manage the environment, nature resources and climate change impact to benefit present and future generations
- Youth development work and youth mainstreaming- to strengthen national capacity and systems for mainstreaming youth development and for the management of proffesional youth work, consistentent with industrial standards and practice
Youth Strategic Priorities
- Developing and sustaining youth entrepreneurship
- Supporting the creative initiatives and start-up endeavours of the young people
- Simulating employment creation and employablility
- Ensuring equal opportunities for everyone
- Ensuring the protection and rights of young people
- Providing second chances to distressed and and troubled youths
- Strengthening families and communities
- Encouraging STEM subjects
- Ensuring life-long learning
- Reorienting the formal education
- Improving youth health outcomes
- Encouraging sports and lecture for the well-being of the youth
- Stimulating youth’s participation and representation
- Encouraging volunteerism
- Promoting environmental sustainability
- Strengthening national capacity for mainstgreaming youth development
Gender Equality
Vision
The vision is to provide a framework that will facilitate gender equality and empowerment by promoting gender mainstreaming and gender setting. Gender mainstreaming will ensure that gender issues are addressed within the existing development strategies and programmes. Gender setting will seek to transform the existing agenda through the systematic application of a gender perspective.
Goals
- Guarantee protection for boys, men, girls and women through a comprehensive enabling environment and associated structures that tackle gender violence and discrimination
- Address economic, social, political, and environmental opportunities for women and men as an integral component of sustainable development
- Engender system wide attention to mainstreaming gender in all public and private spheres of the society to meet the strategic needs and aspirations of boys and men, girl and women and special populations at all stages of their development
- Promote gender equality consistent with the human-rights-based approach and applicable national and international legislation and treaties. Human-Rights based approach
- Accelerate efforts and commitments for women’s economic, political and social autonomy
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Vision
The vision is to clearly determine those threats that impact or could impact the Federation and people of St. Kitts and Nevis, inform the citizenry, provide for and take those actions that are necessary to ensure the safety, security and stability of the nation, its people and its interests.
Goals
- Eradicate corruption in the public and private sectors
- Properly equip law enforcement agencies and providing the necessary legislation for them to conduct their tasks
- Incorporate private security guard companies in the national security architecture
- Improve border security by land, air, and sea
- Develop and maintain an effective national intelligence infrastructure
- Develop counter terrorism resilience
- Strengthen the criminal justice system
- Fully utilize community policing and social intervention tools and mechanisms in dealing with crime
- Eradicate human trafficking and smuggling
- Develop and maintain a natural and manmade disaster resilience
- Improve health security
- Take actions to negate the impact of climate change and developing alternative energy sources
- Improve food and water security
- Engage continuously with regional and international partners in the fight against crime
- Make plans for the continuous improvement of the nation’s human capital
- Modernize facilities for the incarceration of individuals in the care of the state and providing proper bilitation, reorientation and reintegration opportunities
Human Security Strategic Priorities
- Continuing commitments to the Regional Security System (RSS) of the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and other regional and international treaties, protocols, agreements and memoran- dum of understanding
- Supporting the requirements of the CARICOM Crime and Security Strategy (2013)
- Addressing trafficking – arms and ammunition, drug and human
- Tackling money laundering and cybercrime
- Reducing domestic crimes
- Tackling terrorism
- Focusing on the potential for crime amongst the at-risk youth and adult populations
- Eleminating hazardous labour practices at workplaces
- Enhancing health security
- Guaranteeing food security
- Highlighting water and energy security
- Tackling property degradation that harbours criminals
- Developing human resources and adequately fund national security system
- Reforming and modernizing the national security system
- Empowering at-risk communities