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RIISE — Caribbean Resilient Infrastructure Implementation and Skills Exchange
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Accelerating Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Delivery Across the Eastern Caribbean

The Caribbean Resilient Infrastructure Implementation and Skills Exchange Facility (RIISE) supports governments in overcoming implementation bottlenecks through on-demand technical expertise, hands-on implementation support, and regional knowledge exchange. When a project faces a challenge that can stall implementation, RIISE steps in to clear the bottleneck and help deliver resilient infrastructure — strengthening local systems and capacities across the region.

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  • Project Management
  • Procurement
  • Contract Management
  • Engineering and Technical Reviews
  • Financial Management
  • Environmental Safeguards
  • Social Safeguards
  • Climate Resilience
  • Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Communications
  • Monitoring and Reporting
  • Risk Management
The premise

Why Infrastructure Implementation Matters

Planning creates a vision. Investments create opportunities. Implementation creates impact, and this is where RIISE comes in.

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Context

The Caribbean Implementation Challenge

Across the Caribbean, governments are advancing infrastructure projects that are critical to climate resilience and sustainable development. While financing is often available, implementation bottlenecks can delay progress, increase costs, and reduce development impact.

Delivering climate-resilient public works is therefore a race against time. RIISE helps countries navigate and overcome the most common implementation roadblocks:

Capacity Constraints

  • Overstretched implementation teams
  • Limited access to specialised niche expertise

Operational Roadblocks

  • Complex administrative bottlenecks
  • Critical procurement delays

Systemic & Coordination Gaps

  • Fragmented support systems
  • Complex multi-stakeholder coordination
The response

How RIISE Helps

  • How RIISE helps

    RIISE provides targeted support to help countries overcome implementation challenges and advance resilient infrastructure priorities.

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  • Providing rapid access to specialized expertise

  • Supporting project implementation and delivery

  • Strengthening institutional capabilities

  • Facilitating knowledge exchange

  • Connecting governments with regional expertise

  • Capturing and sharing implementation lessons