BARBADOS

Child Support, Poverty and Gender Equality in the Caribbean (Phase I):

For the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

focus group discussions, focus group training, focus groups, women in development, program evaluation, impact evaluation

Woman in Bridgetown, Barbados

This review for the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Program (WRC) used field visits and desk reviews of multiple projects in three regions—Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South/Southeast Asia—and one project in Middle East and North Africa. The review explored WRC’s programmatic relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency in supporting three core objectives–fostering quality research and analysis, building research capacity, and supporting research that results in evidence-based, concrete recommendations for policy influence and social change.

GDI Director, Janet Mancini Billson, conducted focus group and key informant interviews in 2009 with members of the Barbados court system, UNIFEM staff, and others involved in the issue of Child Support.