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A Good Hope family looking for boards to build a bridge into their flooded yard, January 18, 2005. Photo Credit – Stabroek News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>:\u00a0The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Duravision Inc, Dominica News Online, or any of its subsidiary brands.<\/em><\/p>\n

When major floods hit Guyana in 2005, Christine Samwaroo was a young student. Schools were closed, communities submerged, and she remembers worrying deeply for her grandmother, who was trapped in her home as water levels rose. That memory stayed with her. Today, as Founder of The Breadfruit Collective, she says it shapes how she thinks about resilience.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven as a child, I was aware of justice,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t have the words for climate change yet, but I understood what it meant to be worried about others, older people, classmates, and families. Those worries haven\u2019t gone away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A family at Felicity, ECD, built a ladder from their verandah to the railway embankment. Photo Credit – Stabroek News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christine explains that in Guyana, even a single hour of heavy rain now triggers flooding. For her, it\u2019s a reminder that the systems meant to protect people, from education to housing, are not resilient to climate impacts. \u201cWe still don\u2019t design for people with disabilities or the elderly,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd when you build for those who are most vulnerable, everyone benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the Caribbean, women and youth are repeatedly named as key stakeholders in climate policy, yet still experience limited participation in actual decision-making.<\/p>\n

Christine, who has worked in both government and civil society, says that while \u201cinclusion\u201d is a buzzword in proposals, it rarely translates into shared power. \u201cAt the global level, everyone agrees youth and women should be included,\u201d she says. \u201cBut in practice, projects are still written without those most affected leading them. We\u2019re invited to the table, but not always heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Christine Samwaroo selected to represent Guyana at the One Young World conference in Belfast in 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her frustration echoes across the region. From Saint Lucia to Grenada to Belize, community groups, especially those led by women and young people, continue to operate without stable funding or disaster budgets. The Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC)\u2019s recent research across five Caribbean countries revealed that fewer than one in three community organizations include women in financial decision-making roles related to disaster preparedness, and only about 25% have active youth representatives involved in climate or disaster response planning.<\/p>\n

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Young women from the Dear Future Women mentorship programme are building their activism as Agents of Change in Guyana. Photo credit: Christine Samwaroo \/ The Breadfruit Collective<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This shows that those most affected by climate shocks are often left out of the systems meant to protect them. Yet, across the Caribbean, there is still little public information on how gender barriers shape access to disaster risk finance or insurance. That lack of visibility makes it harder to design financial protection that truly works for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Maria 2017, Colihut, Dominica. Photo Credit – Zaimis Olmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Caribbean Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist from Dominica, Elishah St. Luce, points to Hurricane Maria as a good example of climate impacts on vulnerable people in Dominica. \u201cA lot of elderly women couldn\u2019t leave shelters for long periods of time after Maria,\u201d she says. \u201cSome had lost their homes completely, and without insurance or income, they simply couldn\u2019t rebuild.\u201d<\/p>\n

She cautions, however, against treating \u201cwomen and youth\u201d as one uniform category. \u201cNot all women experience disasters the same way,\u201d she explains. \u201cA single mother without childcare, a rural farmer, or an indigenous woman each faces different barriers. Even among youth, a young man who left school early will face different recovery challenges than a university student.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elishah stresses that understanding these intersections, of age, gender, income, and ethnicity, is key to fair disaster planning. \u201cWe cannot paint disproportionate impacts with a broad brush,\u201d she says. \u201cFair recovery means understanding that not everyone starts from the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Christine and Elishah paint a shared picture of what a truly resilient Caribbean could look like \u2014 one that listens first, plans with care, and invests in people, not just infrastructure.<\/p>\n

For Christine, rebuilding resilience begins with remembering what we already know. \u201cWe have ancestral and Indigenous wisdom about living with the environment,\u201d she says. \u201cResilience means being good ancestors, protecting nature so it can keep protecting us.\u201d Her vision is rooted in justice and design: building communities where accessibility, inclusion, and care are treated as the foundations of development, not as afterthoughts.<\/p>\n

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Roseau, the capital of Dominica, suffered devastating damage from Hurricane Maria. Photo Credit – STR\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elishah adds that reimagining resilience means doing the harder, slower work of meeting people where they are, especially those who have been left out of the formal systems. \u201cWe need to rebuild the networks that used to hold our communities together,\u201d she says. \u201cWomen\u2019s and youth groups were once the bridge between policy and people. We\u2019ve lost many of them, and that loss has made us more vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their reflections echo a larger truth emerging across the region: resilience cannot exist without social cohesion and local ownership. That\u2019s why new regional models, like meso-level Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI), are not just about payouts or policies. They\u2019re about rebuilding trust in local systems. By channeling funds through community groups, cooperatives, women\u2019s groups, and credit unions, meso-level CDRFI strengthens the exact kind of social fabric Christine and Elishah describe.<\/p>\n

Caribbean resilience, then, is not only about disaster response or economic recovery. It\u2019s about restoring the networks of care that allow families to stand back up after every storm, the same networks women and young people have quietly sustained for generations.<\/p>\n

And so, our region must no longer ask whether women and youth should be at the center of resilience planning. It\u2019s whether we are willing to build the systems that make their leadership possible.<\/p>\n

Chalsey Gill Anthony is Environmental Communicator, on behalf of Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disclaimer:\u00a0The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Duravision Inc, Dominica News Online, or any of its subsidiary brands. When major floods hit Guyana in 2005, Christine Samwaroo was a young student. 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