Caribbean innovators urged to take advantage of World Bank funding project

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CMC – Climate change innovators in the Caribbean can access funding to develop their projects through the World Bank’s Entrepreneurship Programme for Innovation in the Caribbean (EPIC).
These innovations include clean technologies in energy, water, agriculture, transport, among other areas, that are designed to mitigate the effects of and adapt to climate change.
“There are many opportunities for Jamaicans and the rest of the Caribbean to utilise climate change to increase employment, economic development and sustainability,” said Karlene Francis, the Operations Officer at the World Bank.

Karlene Francis, Operations Officer at the World Bank
Karlene Francis, Operations Officer at the World Bank

Francis said that beneficiaries under the Caribbean Climate Innovation Center’s (CCIC) Boot Camp and Accelerator programmes, which are part of the EPIC, can also access additional funding and networking opportunities.
She noted that support is available for women entrepreneurs and for the creation of mobile innovations.
Francis said the World Bank recently launched a crowd funding online course for Caribbean entrepreneurs.
She said that crowd funding is an easy way to gain funds from investors using an online platform and to qualify for the CCIC’s Boot Camp and Accelerator programmes, persons must be engaged in developing technologies in the areas of energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, waste water management, or resource use efficiency.
The CCIC is a consortium under the Scientific Research Council and the Trinidad-based Caribbean Industrial Research Institute.

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