Caribbean Centre for Development Administration

CARICAD is pleased to share the the next eBrochure in our Digital Explainer Series. This explainer features Guide to Strengthening the Leadership Pipeline through Mentoring.

This document presents mentoring as a practical and necessary strategy for building leadership capacity across the public sector, especially in the face of retirement risk, talent attrition, institutional memory loss, and evolving citizen expectations. It defines mentoring as a collaborative relationship focused on growth, knowledge transfer, professional values, and career development, while also clarifying what mentoring is not. The guide explains the difference between mentoring and coaching, outlines types of mentoring, highlights the benefits for succession planning and public service continuity, and provides guidance on mentor and mentee characteristics, effective conversations, confidentiality, technology, implementation steps, leadership support, and common hurdles.

In general, the Digital Explainer Series depicts models and frameworks that can be used by public sector organisations, in CARICAD member states, in their modernisation efforts.

We invite you to read this explainer here - https://www.caricad.net/guide-to-strengthening-the-leadership-pipeline-through-mentoring-cdes-23-1/

Join us for another CARICAD webinar, this time we are presenting on Parenting as Public Infrastructure: Insights from a Jamaican Grounded Theory Study.

Register for this engaging webinar below or via the link in our bio.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lh23gAdXSwqzSAmQzdInGA

CARICAD’s Succession Planning and Management (SP&M) Model involves the use of five key steps:
1. Identifying current and future challenges
2. Identifying key positions
3. Considering and assessing qualified and interested candidates
4. Creating learning and development opportunities
5. Monitoring, evaluating, and revising the succession plan

While Succession Planning may be commonly understood as the identification of critical positions and preparation to move people into those jobs, it is not just about preparing for the automatic replacement of employees who leave or retire. The concept is broader. CARICAD’s model identifies several success factors for succession planning including a clear vision and goals, strategic engagement with stakeholders, a commitment to leadership development, and an organisational culture that supports learning, growth, and the achievement of results.

Interested in learning more? Visit here - https://www.caricad.net/succession-planning-model/

Happy Anguilla Day 👏🇦🇮

Permanent Secretaries or the equivalent are seen as the core of the top management hierarchy in member states. While they are assigned responsibility for specific ministries and agencies, it is their cohesive, collaborative and coordinated actions that will generally determine the level of implementation of government’s priorities, projects and programmes. The principles highlighted here are intended as a foundation for the consistent, collective action required for achieving desired results.

Interested in learning more? Visit here - https://www.caricad.net/principles-for-committees-of-permanent-secretaries-cops/

Happy Independence to Guyana 🇬🇾

The Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) is pleased to issue a Call for Applications from suitably qualified mid-level managers from public, private and non-governmental organisations for enrolment in its Mid-Level Leadership Development Programme (LDP). The LDP will be delivered in a synchronous, virtual and experiential learning format beginning September 2026.

On completion, participants will receive a total of forty (40) Professional Development Units and globally recognised Certificate of Completion from the CPD Certification Service United Kingdom.

Read more here -https://www.caricad.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CALL-FOR-APPLICATIONS-THE-MID-LEVEL-LEADERSHIP-DEVELOPMENT-PROGRAMME-2026.pdf

Debt swaps. Multi-guarantor conversions. Resilience-linked refinancing. These instruments are no longer experimental; they're being deployed in the Caribbean right now, backed by coordinated guarantees from Multilateral Development Banks.

This seminar, at CDB’s 56th Annual Meeting, will provide a comprehensive briefing on how these innovative debt solutions work in practice.

If your country is navigating high debt and compressed fiscal space, this session is required viewing.

Innovative Debt Solutions: Financing a More Resilient Caribbean

Speakers

Hon. Ryan Straughn
Minister of Finance, Barbados

Mr. Joshua Grundleger
Director, Sovereigns, Americas Group, Fitch Ratings

Mr. Gabriel Felpeto
Chief Financial Officer, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Mr. Joan Oriol Prats
Principal Financial Specialist, Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Ms. Lilia Burunciuc
Country Director for Caribbean Countries, World Bank

Mr. Stefano Capodagli
Chief Risk Officer, Caribbean Development Bank

Mr. Jason Cotton
Lead Economist, Caribbean Development Bank

🌐 Watch live online 👉 https://www.caribank.org/newsroom/news-and-events/seminar-2-innovative-debt-solutions-financing-more-resilient-caribbean

📅 Thursday, June 4 | ⏰2:30 PM

💡Learn more: https://www.caribank.org/newsroom/news-and-events/regional-and-international-experts-discuss-innovative-debt-solutions-resilient-caribbean-cdb-annual

Today, Dr Lois Parkes from CARICAD presented to the Government of Jamaica HR Network on CARICAD'S Succession Planning Model, which aligns with the current GoJ HR transformation agenda. To learn more, click on the link - https://www.caricad.net/succession-planning-model/