SAEDI @ 4 Team Statement Series


Hear from Research Associate and Project Manager, Kwasi Pierre, on the Road Sector Resilience Index (RSRI) project.

RSRI, implemented by DT Global for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), focuses on the road transport sector across 16 of the CDB's Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) in the Caribbean. The project aims to integrate gender-sensitive climate change and disaster resilience measures into the sector. SAEDI Consulting executed the gender and social assessment of the road infrastructure to assess climate change resilience in the BMCs. We also performed a field mission in each country and conducted an in-country workshop with key governmental stakeholders to validate the findings of the country workbooks.

The project has strengthened the capacity of CDB Borrowing Member Countries to provide road infrastructure that is more resilient to natural hazards and climate change impacts while ensuring that they are also accessible to vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, children, youth, the elderly and the poor.