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ATTACHMENT 4 – CBSI PROJECTS IN THE CARIBBEAN

USAID Jamaica/Ongoing project

Project Name

Implementing

Partner Objective

Countries

Supported

Start Date

(CBSI Component) End Date

Basic Education

Transformation Juarez & Assoc.

The Basic Education Transformation project partners with the Ministry of

Education (MOE) to better monitor school management and performance, support development of greater public/private partnerships, and improve literacy and numeracy at grades 1-3. Jamaica December 2010 March 2012

Career

Advancement

Program Juarez & Assoc.

To improve student performance standards in Literacy and Numeracy to support and strengthen the entrepreneurial and skills training offered in the Career Advancement

Program (CAP) in 10 High Schools selected for the CAP pilot. Jamaica April 2011 March 2012

COMET MSI

COMET is designed to reduce crime and violence and strengthen economic competitiveness in

Jamaica’s inner-city communities. Jamaica October 2010 September 2012

Fun 4 Kidz

World Learning/Fun

4 Kidz

To improve the literacy and numeracy of at-risk youth while providing sports, life-skills, and HIV prevention education. Jamaica April 2011 FY2014 (est)

Junior

Achievement

Junior Achievement

Jamaica

The Junior Achievement program seeks to improve Jamaica’s business environment, empower the country’s youth, enhance civic participation, and spur transformational education. Jamaica February 2011 September 2014

PRIDE CARANA Corp.

PRIDE's CBSI component focuses on customs mapping and reform. Jamaica December 2010 September 2012

Youth Upliftment through

Employment

CARANA Corp. /

Private Sector

Organization of

Jamaica

To develop business, technical and social skills, increase employability and provide long and short term economic and entrepreneurship opportunities for 2200 at-risk, inner-city youth Jamaica January 2011 FY2014 (est)

TBD - To Be Determined

(est) - Estimated

Projects To Be Initiated During FY2012

Project Name

Implementing

Partner Objective

Start Date

(CBSI Component) End Date

Basic Education

Transformation

Ministry of

Education

The Basic Education

Transformation project partners with the Ministry of Education

(MOE) to better monitor school management and performance, support development of greater public/private partnerships, and improve literacy and numeracy at grades 1-3. Jamaica FY2012 FY2014 (est)

Summary of CBSI Projects in the Caribbean

Civil Society

Request for

Applications

1 - 2 Local NGOs, TBD

To promote community-driven activities to contribute to the implementation of the

Community Renewal Program

(CRP) and promote improved communications / interactions with police and to develop long-term champions of a culture of lawfulness through engaging multiple sectors of society Jamaica FY2012 FY2015 (est)

Community Based

Policing Assessment TBD

To assess the effectiveness of ongoing work in community based policing Jamaica FY2012 FY2013 (est)

Downtown

Kingston Market

Redevelopment

Project Digicel Foundation

To renovate and develop a governance structure for the

Queens and Redemption Markets in downtown Kingston Jamaica FY2012 FY2012 (est)

Juvenile Justice UNDP

To provide training opportunities, remedial education, and psychosocial support to youth who have been involved with the criminal justice system Jamaica FY2012 FY2015 (est)

National Integrity

Action Forum NIAF

To provide support to strengthen the National Integritry Action

Forum to be an advocate to combat corruption in Jamaica Jamaica FY2012 FY2014 (est)

READY

Equip III Leader w/Associates

READY will focus on the development of host country capacity to build sustainable youth development systems through multi-sectoral, public/private partnerships, effective use of data for decision-making, and the active, meaningful engagement of youth. Jamaica FY2012 FY2015 (est)

READY

Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture

READY will focus on the development of host country capacity to build sustainable youth development systems through multi-sectoral, public/private partnerships, effective use of data for decision-making, and the active, meaningful engagement of youth. Jamaica FY2012 FY2015 (est)

Youth

Employment

Program

Grace Kennedy

Foundation

To provide support to expand the

Grace & Staff Community

Development Educatiional

Program to enhance the lives of citizens within less privileged communities in kingston which has been violated by crime and violence. Jamaica FY2012 FY2014 (est)

TBD - To Be Determined

(est) - Estimated

USAID Barbados/Ongoing Projects

Project Name

Implementing

Partner Objective

Countries

Supported

Start Date

(CBSI Component) End Date

Caribbean Youth

Empowerment

Program

The International

Youth Foundation

To provide Second chance training to vulnerable youth including:

numeracy and literacy training;

life skills development; technical and vocational training; interships and jobs placement.

Antigua and

Barbuda; St.

Lucia; Grenada FY2012 sep 2013

A Ganar

The Partners of the

Americas

To provide Second chance training to vulnerable youth including:

numeracy and literacy training;

life skills development; technical and vocational training; interships and jobs placement.

St. Kitts and

Nevis; Dominica;

St. Vincent and the Grenadines;

suriname FY2012 sep 2014

Youth Training

Suppor t Program

The Youth Training

And Employment

Partnership

Programee

To develop and comission a fully equipped computer mobile unit to serve youth training needs in tobago Trinidad y Tobago Dec-11

USAID Guyana/Ongoing Project.

Project Name

Implementing

Partner Objective

Start Date

(CBSI Component) End Date

Skills and

Knowledge for

Youth

Employment EDC

SKYE seeks to address crime prevention by enhancing skills and increasing economic opportunities for vulnerables populations, in particular, at-risk youth. Areas to be addressed are the provision of social services, life skills trainig, vocational education training and job placement. Guyana 8/8/2011 8/7/2013

USAID Dominican Republic/Ongoing Project.

Projects To Be Initiated During FY2012

ATTACHMENT 5 – INITIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXAMINATION/

ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD DECISION

LAC-IEE-11-48

ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD DECISION

Activity Location: Caribbean Regional

Activity Title: Monitoring & Evaluation of the Caribbean

Basin Security Initiative (CBSI)

Activity Number: NA

Life-of-Activity Funding: $5.5 million

Life-of-Activity: FY 2011 – FY 2015

IEE prepared by: Maricela Ramirez, PDO, USAID/DR

Reference ETDs: LAC-IEE-11-24 (Guyana), LAC-IEE-10-43 (Jamaica)

LAC-IEE-10-113 (Barbados/E. Caribbean

Recommended Threshold Decision: Categorical Exclusion

Bureau Threshold Decision: Categorical Exclusion

Comments:

A Categorical Exclusion is issued to the Monitoring & Evaluation of the Caribbean

Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), pursuant to 22 CFR 216.2(c)(2):

(i) Education, technical assistance, or training programs except to the extent such training programs includes activities directly affecting the environment (such as construction of facilities, etc.);

(iii) Analyses, studies, academic or research workshops and meetings

Amendments

Amendments to Initial Environmental Examinations (IEE) shall be submitted for

LAC Bureau Environmental Officer (BEO) approval for any activities not specifically covered in the IEE, which include:

o Funding level increase beyond ETD amount, o Time period extension beyond ETD dates (even for no cost extension), or o A change in the scope of work, such as the use of pesticides or activities subject to Foreign Assistance Act sections 118 and 119 (e.g. procurement of logging equipment), among others.

Amendments to IEEs include Environmental Assessments (EA or PEA) and approval of these documents by the LAC BEO could require an annual evaluation for environmental compliance.

Date

Victor H. Bullen

Bureau Environmental Officer

Bureau for Latin America & the Caribbean

Copy to: ` James Watson, Acting Mission Director, USAID/Dominican Republic

Robert Rhodes, A/DD

Dora Plavetic, PDO, USAID/Dominican

Republic

Susan DeCamp, Program Officer, USAID/Haiti

Debra Allen-Reid, MEO USAID/Haiti

Sean Osner, Program Officer

USAID/Jamaica

Malden Miller, MEO, USAID/Jamaica

Judith Gittens, Program Officer, USAID/Eastern Caribbean

Michael Taylor, MEO, USAID/Eastern

Caribbean

Chloe Noble, Program Officer, USAID/Guyana

Joe Torres, REA, USAID/Dominican

Republic

Copy to: Dan Riley, Robert Boncy, Debra Banks, Belinda Bernard LAC/CAR

Copy to: IEE File

Attachments:

Initial Environmental Examination

File: P:\LAC.RSD.PUB\RSDPUB\EES\Reg 216\IEE\IEE11\ LAC-IEE-11-48 ETD

(CAR - Monitoring & Evaluation of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative).doc

INITIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXAMINATION

Activity Location: Dominican Republic and

CBSI Countries

Activity Title: Monitoring & Evaluation of the Caribbean Basin

Security Initiative

(CBSI)

Life of Activity: 2011-2015 years

Life of Activity Funding: $5,500,000 M (estimate)

Referenced IEEs: LAC-IEE-11-24 (Guyana), LAC-IEE-10-43 (Jamaica)

LAC-IEE-10-113

(Barbados/E. Caribbean

IEE prepared by: Maricela Ramirez, PDO

USAID/DR

Date Prepared: March 30, 2011

Recommended Threshold Decision: Categorical Exclusion

I. Background:

The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is the latest pillar of a U.S. security strategy focused on citizen safety throughout the hemisphere. CBSI seeks to bring all members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Dominican Republic together to collaborate on regional security with the United

States as a partner. The initiative is a multiyear, multifaceted effort by the U.S. Government and its Caribbean partners to develop a joint regional citizen safety strategy to combat the drug trade and other transnational crime that threatens regional security.

The core mission of the five-year CBSI initiative is to increase citizen safety through the Caribbean by working together to substantially reduce illicit trafficking, increase public safety and security and promote social justice.

The CBSI identified three strategic priorities: Substantially

Reduce Illicit Trafficking (counter narcotics, small arms and light weapons, money laundering and trafficking in persons);

Advance Public Safety and Security (crime and violence, border security, counter-terrorism, criminal gangs and natural and other disasters); and Social Justice (crime prevention, justice sector reform and anti-corruption). The first year of CBSI funding includes $14 million to strengthen Caribbean partners’ ability to control their maritime borders, $10.6 million for law enforcement capacity building and $20 million, to be implemented by USAID, in crime prevention programs that build on previous

USAID efforts throughout the region focused on education, programs to provide opportunities for at-risk youth, and institutional capacity-building. These programs will largely focus on expanding educational and workforce development opportunities for at-risk youth and other vulnerable populations as an alternative to crime and other illicit activity. Other prevention measures will include juvenile justice reform, anti-corruption initiatives, and community-based policing. The $20M is spread among the Caribbean Missions as follows: Barbados

(Leader in juvenile justice) and Eastern Caribbean (Co-lead on workforce development) $7.4M; Jamaica (Lead on at-risk youth, anti-corruption, and community policing) $5.7 M; Dominican

Republic (Lead on monitoring and evaluation) $5.5 M; and Guyana

(Co-lead on workforce development) $1.5M. A portion of the funds will be used to identify and measure the results of these efforts though performance monitoring and impact assessment.

Missions are in the process of designing new CBSI activities and conducting regional assessments (e.g. Dominican Republic recently conducted an at-risk youth assessment and Barbados will conduct a juvenile justice assessment for eastern Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica to inform a strategy for strengthening juvenile justice systems in the region.

Fifteen countries of the Caribbean Basin are included in the

CBSI: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. All fifteen countries will be included in the monitoring and evaluation activities to take part under this Contract.

Activity Description:

http://justf.org/Legislation_Text?bill_number=H.R.3288&date=2009-12-16

This activity consists of obtaining the services of a contractor to monitor and evaluate the Caribbean Basin

Security Initiative (CBSI) activities between the date of award and the end of the CBSI interventions (anticipated for

FY 2015). The results of these evaluations will provide

Washington and the regional Missions implementing activities under CBSI with a basis for judging program effectiveness, impact, and sustainability. Furthermore, these evaluations will better inform the different stakeholders of future policy design, strategy interventions and resource allocation. The

Contractor will be responsible for developing innovative and effective ways to widely disseminate results achieved and lessons learned throughout the region.

Determination: The activity described above will not have a harmful effect on the natural or physical environment and will not include assistance for construction or purchase of hazardous materials or chemicals. On a purely technical basis, the activity which will be carried out under the Limited Scope

Assistance Agreement (LSAA), qualifies for Categorical Exclusion according to Section 216.2(c)-(2)(i, iii, v, and xiv) of 22 CFR as (2) “Analyses, studies, academic or research workshops and meetings”.

Environmental action recommended: Based on the above, the

Mission recommends this activity be given Categorical Exclusion requiring no further environmental review.

Clearances:

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