PIOJ Growth-Inducement Strategy - Planning Institute of Jamaica

society. It also corresponds with recommendations contained in the National Crime
Prevention and Community Safety Strategy (NCPCSS) and the recommendations of the
JCF Strategic Review completed in 2008.
Purpose
The CRP provides a platform for the coordination and enhancement of the delivery of
government and civil society services to volatile and vulnerable communities. The need
for increased coordination and harmonisation is imperative. By establishing effective
national and local coordination mechanisms, the CRP will help to strengthen governance
and ensure that the sum of the wide range of different actions is greater than their parts.
By avoiding duplication, and using an evidence-based approach to guide interventions,
the CRP will seek to maximise the impact of existing programmes aimed at reducing
crime and violence and promoting community development. The CRP is neither an
implementing agency nor a funding body. It is a framework for increasing impact
through working together.
The Programme will not replace existing initiatives being implemented. Instead, it will
act as a vehicle to promote the harmonised and holistic approach to the implementation of
interventions to avoid the sub-optimal use of human and financial resources. It will also
seek to deepen the level of intervention to allow for more meaningful impact on
communities and attract additional resources to expand the scope of interventions to a
larger number of communities.
Objectives
Its objectives therefore are to:
• Strengthen legitimate and participatory governance.
• Promote the development of children and youth
• Increase safety and justice
• Improve socio-economic development
• Enhance social transformation
• Enable physical transformation.
CRP Components
The CRP will consist of six components, as indicated in Figure G.1. The combined effect
of these components is expected to lead to a decrease in violent crime and an
improvement in the quality of life of residents of volatile and vulnerable communities
Approach
In order to maximise coordination and impact, the CRP will target 100 vulnerable and
volatile communities in the five most crime-affected parishes (Kingston, St. Andrew,
Clarendon, St. Catherine and St. James). A significant focus of the development work of
the CRP in these communities will be targeted to help address community, family and
individual risk factors of violent crime. This will necessitate a specific focus on at-risk
children and youth (particularly young males) and their families who are the main victims
and perpetrators of violent crime and among the most excluded of populations from
mainstream society. The CRP has been mandated by Cabinet as the vehicle for taking
forward the National Crime Prevention and Community Safety Strategy (NCPCSS).
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