Authored by Jackson and Associates Senior Associate Kizzann Sammy, two significant reports on strengthening the voices of women owners of micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the programs intended to help them were recently published by the Multi-Country Office of UN Women in the Caribbean. One study focuses on Antigua and Barbuda and the other on Saint Lucia. The Office writes that these reports were “motivated by the need to redress or remedy disadvantage through an assessment of barriers and obstacles that limit options for access to finance by MSMEs. This requires that MSME owners have both a voice and space in the creation, evaluation, adaptation and closure of programs and financial instruments that are meant to encourage business start-up and scale-up.” Access these reports for Antigua and Barbuda HERE and for Saint Lucia HERE