What works in Barbados
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Evidence snapshot for Barbados
Barbados has invested in digital skills development through its National Training Institute's free Coursera partnership, which logged 12,000+ completed digital courses by mid-2026, though a 2026 National Digital Assessment found 41% of employees still lack essential digital skills. The country produced its first-ever national gender-disaggregated measurement of unpaid domestic and care work through a Joint SDG Fund Programme concluded in November 2024, supported by capacity-building in the National Transfer Accounts Model. As the headquarters of the Caribbean Examinations Council, Barbados is home to the statutory body that published binding, region-wide standards governing AI use in secondary assessments across 16 Caribbean territories from the 2026 examination cycle onward. In September 2022, Barbados closed a landmark debt-for-nature conversion redirecting an estimated US$50 million over 15 years into marine conservation funding.
Drawn from: National Digital Skills Empowerment Campaign (NTI) · Joint SDG Fund Programme for Gender-Responsive Population Data (Barbados) · Standards and Guidelines for the Use of AI in Assessment — Caribbean Examinations Council's Region-Wide AI Policy for CSEC, CAPE and CCSLC · Barbados Blue Bond Debt Conversion for Marine Conservation
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.416
Scalability & sustainability +0.311
Governance, certification & transferability +0.306
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Effectiveness +0.189
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.216
Equity & inclusion -0.224
Transferability / replicability -0.271
Sustainability -0.314
Evidence of learning impact -0.327
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.405
Efficiency -0.517
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -0.538
Top good practices here
National Digital Skills Empowerment Campaign (NTI) · 92
Joint SDG Fund Programme for Gender-Responsive Population Data (Barbados) · 70
Barbados Blue Bond Debt Conversion for Marine Conservation · 27
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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