International Development Grant
Caribbean Local Economic Development
Project Number: CA-3-A033880001
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $19,256,180.00
Start Date: September 06, 2011
End Date: July 26, 2018
Duration: 6.9 years
Project Description
The project aims to support up to 50 local governments and local agencies to implement or facilitate local economic development (LED) initiatives with up to 500 micro- and small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in seven countries. The project aims to help to develop business-friendly environments in which MSMEs can grow by enhancing the capacities of local authorities to lead and support a growth strategy. The initiatives are expected to generate lessons approaches and practices for local economic development that help to improve national and regional policies regulations and programs on LED and create new tools and management models to be disseminated throughout the Caribbean.
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) improved economic governance and service delivery at local levels related to the growth of sustainable MSMEs with special emphasis on the needs of female-led enterprises; and (2) improved implementation of policies programs and knowledge sharing at national and regional levels related to sustainable local economic development with special emphasis on the needs of female economic stakeholders.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2016 include: (1) 43 LED Demonstration projects have been implemented and 10 of them were completed and evaluated to identify results and lessons learned; (2) 447 MSME owners operators (85 male; 16 female; 346 equitable) received training to improve their enterprises; and (3) five countries (Belize Guyana Jamaica St. Lucia Trinidad & Tobago) have bills related to local government reform fiscal reform planning and facilitation and human resources. These results have contributed to increasing access by MSMEs especially female-led ones to local public and private sector initiatives supporting sustainable local economic development.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP