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 US-CARIBBEAN STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE 

US/Caribbean Engagement: A Multi-Year Strategy To Increase the Security, Prosperity, and Well-Being of the People of the United States and the Caribbean. 

The United States Strategy for Engagement in the Caribbean under Public Law No: 114-291  formerly HR 4939 states that it is U.S. policy to increase engagement with the governments of the Caribbean region, including the private sector, and with civil society in both the United States and the Caribbean.  This strategy, coordinated with the interagency, identifies the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development’s priorities for United States engagement with the Caribbean region in the areas of: Diplomacy, Inclusive Prosperity, Energy, Security, Education and Health.

Read more on United States Strategy for Engagement

The Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS), along with members of the Caribbean American Leadership Alliance (CALA), and the New York State Commission on H.R. 4939, expressed strong support of Public Law 114-291 and as a result developed recommendations and an implementation strategy in the form of the Caribbean-American Diaspora Companion Paper, released June 2017 for National Caribbean-American Heritage Month.

Since that time, ICS has also established working groups to lead the charge of the strategic implemenation in the region for the six areas of collaboration.

Caribbean 2020: 

ICS White Paper on Security, Prosperity, and Well-Being of the People of the United States and the Caribbean. 

 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN POLICY WORKING GROUP 

Diplomacy Working Group 

Chair - Wesley Kirton
Co-Chair - Eric Walcott 

Gabriel Christian
 

Caribbean Security Initiatives Working Group

 
Co-Chair - Dr. Amelia Estwick
Christopher Beckford
Ian Hall
Daniel Silva

Energy Security Working Group

Co-Chair  Eric Walcott
Co-Chair  Dawn Stewart

Prosperity  Working Group 

 
Co-Chair - Amala Luncheon 
Co-Chair -  Vacant 
Kimone Gooden
Dav-Ernan Kowlessar
Alland Leandre
Mark Milward
Dennis Ramhadin
 
Health Futures Working Group
Chair - Ivonne Fuller Cameron
Co-Chair - Francine Campbell Hakim
Andrea McKie
Dr. AnnMarie Richards
Samantha Samuels
Jean Welsh M.D.
Education 2030 Working Group
Chair - Michael Flanigan 
Co-Chair - Caroline Henry Packer 

Dr. Meredith Beckford Smart
Michael Campbell
Karren Dunkley Ph.D.
Joanna Minott
Clovis Nelson Ph.D. 
Andrew Sharpe
 
 STATE DEPARTMENT 2019 PROGRESS REPORT  

Please view the Progress Report July 2019- US/Caribbean 2020 Strategic Agenda

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO GET INVOLVED,  SEND EMAIL:  WORKING.GROUPS@ICSDC.ORG

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