About Us
About Us
The GICSRD is a UWI facility that provides thought and academic leadership and services that build a Caribbean culture of resilience and advance the region’s proposition to become a climate resilient zone.
The GICSRD is a UWI facility that provides thought and academic leadership and services that build a Caribbean culture of resilience and advance the region’s proposition to become a climate resilient zone.
Our Vision
To be a university ecosystem committed to excellence in teaching, research and collaboration that informs policy formulation advances advocacy and facilitates a Caribbean climate resilient zone.
Our Mission
To address the climate change challenge from a mission of service, provide thought and academic leadership and continue a tradition of engagement with governments, industry and civil society - all toward a Caribbean climate-resilient zone.
Our Values
Smart governance
A governance model informed by simplicity and flexibility that facilitates agility.
Smart pathways
Mainstreaming to make education and training more aligned and responsive to the new products, skills and service required to support the pathway to resilient development.
Smart partnerships
Partnerships that are diverse, strategic and bring added value to the resilience development cause.
Smart Resource Management
Building on existing entities and mechanisms. Avoiding duplication. Embracing the opportunity for interface with industry.
Smart Services
Student and practice driven products and programmes for resilience development.
Smart Thinking
New ways of thinking and practice, new offerings, emerging and new skill sets and new modes of delivery and engaging.
Our Aims
To provide a platform for collaboration across regional and international Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in support of resilient pathways to development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
To promote the development of knowledge management products and tools that enhance knowledge and competencies needed to drive resilient development.
To develop and manage a globally recognised clearing house on ongoing resilience research and innovation in the Caribbean and other SIDS.
To foster the development and promotion of teaching and research leading to innovation of materials, systems, services and products that promote structural, integrative and transformative resilience.
