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Environmental wardens trained under the World Bank-
funded Inner City Basic Services Project (ICBSP) and
residents of 11 inner-city communities, participated in a
massive clean-up campaign to help fight the spread of the
Chikungunya virus.
This project was implemented by the Jamaica Social
Investment Fund (JSIF) under the new World Bank-funded
Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP).

JSIF disbursed a total of $1.94 billion in project funding and (l-r-) Scarlette Gillings, JSIF Managing Director; Kelly Tomblin, JPS President &
completed 74 sub-projects aimed at poverty alleviation and CEO; Omar Sweeney, JPS Regional Director; and Colin Bullock, JSIF Chairman
community development, during the 2013/14 financial year. talking at the signing of the MOU for the JSIF-JPS Electricity Regularization
Work was done under three major programmes: the Inner City Project.
Basic Services Project; the Poverty Reduction Programme II;
and the close-out of the Jamaica Violence Action Fund project. 2014
The agency’s 2014 portfolio focused on the areas of job creation,
economic growth, improved security and safety, human capital
development, and effective social inclusion.

$160 million had been allocated to undertake expansion and rehabilitation works Students who benefitted from the PetroCaribe Hope Zoo
at nine schools in rural Jamaica. The schools are: Clarence Brimm, Dutch Hill, Education Project.
Ulster Spring and Raymoth Notice Basic in Trelawny; Austin Primary, Bethlehem
All-Age and Aberdeen Primary and Junior High in St Elizabeth; Glendevon Primary
and Junior High in St James; and May Pen School of Special Education for
Children with Intellectual Disabilities, in Clarendon.

Fishermen are trained in Safety Procedures

Fishermen from Port Maria during training. Under the Rural Economic Development Initiative fishermen
across 57 beaches in 11 parishes received certificates in safety as part of the Jamaica Fishermen Co-
operative enhancement of the cold chain supply and safety project which befitted 2,000 fisher folk and
400 fish vendors.

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