Directorates
Directorate for Foreign and Community Relations
Essential to the work of the Directorate is safeguarding and promoting the Community’s interests within the global environment[1]. This is done through the coordination of foreign and external relations evidenced, inter alia, by:
- positioning CARICOM in the international environment;
- facilitating collaboration, cooperation and strategic alliances with Third States; and
- understanding and advocating for the special needs of small open states, sensitive to external shocks of all sorts.
Directorate for Human and Social Development
Enhancing social resilience is an essential element of CARICOM’s thrust to build “A Community for All”. To this end, sustained human and social development with reduced levels of poverty, equitable access and significant improvement of citizen security underlie the essence of the work of the Directorate of Human and Social Development of the CARICOM Secretariat
Directorate of Economic Integration, Innovation and Development (EIID)
Sustainable economic development with improved quality of life for the Caribbean Community is the aim of CARICOM’s economic integration; largely conceived through a single economic space, the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Establishing and implementing the CSME is at the heart of the work of the Directorate of Trade and Economic Integration of the CARICOM Secretariat
DIRECTORATE OF SINGLE MARKET AND EXTERNAL TRADE
Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate
The Forum of the Caribbean Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) is the body that comprises Caribbean ACP States for the purpose of promoting and coordinating policy dialogue, cooperation and regional integration, mainly within the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP and the European Union and also the CARIFORUM-European Community Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).