The Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) transforms and modernizes public sectors of Member States to better formulate and implement public policy towards the achievement of sound Governance.

CARICAD’s core business is public sector transformation through:

Deliberate changes to the structures and processes of public sector organisations with the objective of getting them to run better.  Structural change may include merging or splitting public sector organisations while process change may include re-designing systems, setting quality standards and capacity building.

Other quick facts

• Established: 1979/1980
• Areas of Work: Public Sector transformation, modernization and development; Strategic Planning, Performance Results-Based Management, Business Process Analysis and Redesign, Change and Public Financial Management, Human Resource Planning & Development, and e-Government
• Members: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, The British Virgin Islands, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
• Head: Mr Devon. L. Rowe, Executive Director
• Headquarters Location: Barbados
• Special Projects: Draft Charter for CARICOM Public Services, CARPHA – Strategic Alignment, Judicial Reform and Institutional Strengthening (JURIST) Project (Regional Institution)