The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with U.S. Embassy Guyana, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ministry of Public Security, will be launching a National Task Force to bolster evidence-driven crime prevention under the scope of the CariSECURE Project.
The Honorable Khemraj Ramjattan, Second Vice President and Minister of Public Security, will appoint the Task Force. The Task Force will comprise key representatives from the Police Department, Prison Department, Bureau of Statistics, and the Ministry of Public Security. The Task Force will be responsible for managing the implementation of the Caribbean Citizen Security Toolkit in Guyana. The toolkit will enable Guyana and 9 other countries in the eastern and southern Caribbean to improve citizen security data management, analysis, and monitoring to enable more effective crime prevention programs and policies.Ms. Mikiko Tanaka, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Guyana; and the U.S. Ambassador will also deliver remarks at the event.
CariSECURE is a partnership between the USAID and UNDP, made possible by the American People. The Project improves youth crime and violence policy-making and program development in the eastern and southern Caribbean through the use of quality, comparable and reliable national citizen security information. CariSECURE will achieve this goal by strengthening the capacity of regional and national institutions to collect, analyze, and use citizen security data to develop evidence-based policies and programs that address root causes of criminal activity, particularly among youth.
The CariSECURE Task Force will be launched on Wednesday at the Guyana Marriott Hotel at Kingston, Georgetown.