O que funciona em Barbados

Barbados has pursued multiple capacity-building and governance initiatives in recent years. The National Digital Skills Empowerment Campaign reports 12,000+ completed digital courses through its Coursera partnership, though a 2026 assessment found 41% of employees still lack essential digital skills, prompting a two-track accelerator programme. The Joint SDG Fund Programme produced Barbados's first national measurement of unpaid domestic and care work by gender, with capacity-building in demographic data systems. Additionally, the Caribbean Examinations Council's AI standards — headquartered in Bridgetown — established binding region-wide rules for AI use in secondary assessments from 2026 onward. These efforts reflect investment in digital skills, gender-disaggregated data infrastructure, and exam governance, though the digital-skills completion figures and assessments are self-reported without independent verification.