UNDP News Reports on the CHDR Consultations in Suriname

5 September 2011

Source: UNDP; Artist: Timothy Bootan "two halves of youth"

 

In Suriname a consultation meeting on the Caribbean Human Development Report on Citizen Security took place on Friday 2 September 2011. The article (in English) from the Starnieuws translates as:

 

"Suriname and six other countries are in the Caribbean National Human Development Report (CHDR). This report is a country study into the level of violence and safety. With the final report released in November, will be shown how an unsafe living environment has a negative impact on human development in the English and Dutch speaking countries in the region.

The research is done by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The purpose of the report to civil society organizations and national governments far to get their security and crime fighting plans to focus on human development. Friday was the Hotel Torarica a meeting of all partners involved in the consultations Surinamese have worked or still need to cooperate. It was more than sixty representatives from ministries, parliament, youth organizations and non-governmental organizations.

Policy making

 

Marcia De Castro, resident representative of UNDP in Suriname, stressed the important contribution that each member countries to provide the report. The idea is that areas are located in countries where a degree of violence and insecurity, and that programs created specifically for that purpose. Involvement of communities in the areas of the program is an important condition. Castro said that governments are free to adopt the recommendations and subsequent policy.

Besides Suriname in the project included: Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Jamaica. In each country, interviewed 1,500 households in various districts. In total, more than 11,000 people are interviewed. The West Indian University was hired to conduct the investigation. The issues that emerge are the consultations, domestic violence, crime, fear of neighborhood crime, policy and legislation. Tested how the police deal with crime and violence, the judicial system and human rights. In Suriname, Jack Mencke in charge of the investigation, which began last September."

 

Reference: http://www.starnieuws.com/index.php/welcome/index/nieuwsitem/7070

Translation: Google Translate

 

To access the various articles (in Dutch) please click the below thumbnails.

 

Suriname deel van Caribisch onderzoek veiligheid en geweld	UNDP houdt nationaal overleg	Overgang staatsveiligheid naar burgerveiligheid voor Caribische landen