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We are newly established after years of preparation and external experience...
The Development Gap (TDG) is a social enterprise located in Jamaica. TDG seeks to create a taskforce of rural women and girls that utilize the principles of sustainable consumption and production to create generational wealth and end gender inequality. This will be achieved by creating innovative and scalable community solutions for sustainable consumption and production. The creation of these solutions will contribute to poverty reduction and gender equality. A learning academy will provide capacity building and training and an e-commerce platform will be available for selling marketable products developed by taskforce members. A percentage of earnings from the academy and e-commerce platform will be used to support TDG.
Sustainability today is inextricable from environmentalism. Development at all costs is no longer a viable model and therefore The Development Gap seeks to solve the issues of development with sustainable solutions made in tandem with the environment in which the problem is situated. Environmentalism, local-economics, and self-sufficiency are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN, and likely to be a clear path towards proper solutions for development.
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FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – MONICA BROWN
With over 25 years’ experience in managing projects for or at the community level Monica Brown has an educational background in Project Management and Marketing. Monica Brown has a passion for development and volunteerism which started in the early 90s. As a garment factory manage in the early 90s the factory served to create employment for women in the rural community , men would be employed by the local aluminum company however it was challenging for women to find work as there were no other major industries in the area the time. This passion for development and volunteerism continued where she volunteered at an AIDS hospice for 3 years. She later volunteered as a docent for church tours and volunteered with an attorney that worked with immigrants especially from the African continent. Here policy knowledge and work was developed while working at the Planning Institute of Jamaica in the European Unit where she managed projects targeting community development such as the Poverty Reduction Programmes I-III. She later moved to the Ministry of National Security where she worked as the Programme Development Officer with responsibility for managing all the donor funded projects focused on national security.
Her current work in the HIV response started in 2012 when she was a consultant and later in 2014, she became a contracted Project Officer of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) which is a Caribbean regional organisation that advocates for the rights and access of persons affected or living with HIV.
Monica Brown is passionate about development, especially rural development and continues to be an advocate for change and development in the Caribbean.