The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Kingdom of Spain have signed a new agreement for technical cooperation in food and nutrition security, health, climate change, and disaster risk reduction for the next five years, a CARICOM release announced yesterday.
The aforementioned focal areas were approved at the fourth (IV) Meeting of the Joint Commission of the Spain-CARICOM Fund recently held at CARICOM’s headquarters in Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown.
According to the release, the meeting aimed to continue the dialogue between CARICOM and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), to establish priority areas of cooperation and define the strategic objectives for a new cooperation programme, within the framework of the Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement between the two parties.