The United Nations in Barbados and the OECS

The United Nations System in the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean is made up of 5 United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the United Nations Sub-Regional Team (UNST) for Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

The United Nations Multi-Country Office for Barbados and the OECS is located in Barbados and covers the 7 independent nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and 3 British Overseas territories: Anguilla,  the British Virgin Islands and Montserrat.  

24 UN agencies, funds and programmes have cooperation with the Eastern Caribbean countries and territories. 

Photo in Header: UN House, Barbados 

Photo: UN Sub-Regional Team during 2019 Annual Retreat 

The United Nations is Reforming!

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has made proposals to reform the United Nations since the beginning of his term in January 2017. To improve the delivery of our mandate, the United Nations is making sweeping changes in the following areas: Development, Management, Peace and Security. 

"The goal of reform is a 21st-century United Nations focused more on people and less on process, more on delivery and less on bureaucracy. The true test of reform will be measured in tangible results in the lives of the people we serve – and the trust of those who support our work."
UN Secretary General António Guterres
27 November 2018

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