ACS & UNCTAD Exploring Training Opportunities

The ACS Directorate of Cooperation and Resource Mobilisation has met with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) exploring the possibility of training activities in some of the focal areas of ACS work. UNCTAD offers courses on statistics, ecommerce, digital identity for development among others. Both the ACS and UNCTAD agreed to continue discussing potential joint work for the benefit of ACS membership. UNCTAD has a history of collaborating with the ACS on programmes for trade development in the Greater Caribbean.

About the ACS

The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba, Curacao, (France on behalf of French Guiana, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin ), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Sint Maarten, (The Netherlands on behalf of Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius ), Turks and Caicos.