The 2019 GEPOS affirms CDB’s commitment to corporate values that uphold diversity and inclusion. It reflects on regional gender issues highlighting patterns of inequalities, and opportunities for equality across all sectors. It is set against the unfolding global realisation that the benefits of achieving gender equality are tied to human rights and economic growth while the costs of gender inequality pose risks to productivity and threaten investment opportunities and gender justice.

With the 2019 GEPOS, CDB commits to gender equality as an intrinsic component of the Bank’s international development mandate and its strategic direction emphasising that gender equality is a priority for advancing poverty reduction in the Caribbean. The Bank will strengthen its focus on integrated approaches through gender mainstreaming while committing to explicit gender-targeted outputs that address gender inequalities through all of the Bank’s policy dialogue and operations.