OECS examining efforts to reduce or eliminate juvenile delinquency

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Officials from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting here this week examining the use of credible data from social development programmes to further inform policies for reducing or eliminating juvenile delinquency in the sub-region The OECS Secretariat’s Juvenile Justice Reform Project, which is being funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is collaborating with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UNICEF in hosting the four day workshop which aims to provide participants with the methodology and tools for measuring the effect of juvenile justice programmes.