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Seated at the Signing Ceremony for Petro Caribe Sanitation Project (from left) Wayne Bartley, President of the Tivoli Gardens Benevolent Society, Scarlette Gillings,
Managing Director-JSIF; Bruce Golding, Prime Minister; Andrea Sweeney, President of Downtown Kingston Rotary Club and Sharon Weber, Manager of the Petro Caribe
Development Fund, Standing - Ryan Bourne, General Manager for Procurement, JSIF and Dawn Allison Programme Officer, JSIF.

To work efficiently to benefit the national interests, JSIF has implementation challenges. It is a symbiotic connection which
forged valuable partnerships with line ministries, government provides mutually satisfying benefits to all parties.
agencies and departments, private sector entities, Non-
Government Organizations, as well as members of the The JSIF continues to believe in, and advocate for strong
beneficiary communities. Collaboration allows JSIF and partnerships with all its stakeholders; in order to streamline and
its partners to more effectively take advantage of available enhance its ability to offer services to as many Jamaicans as
expertise and experience in addition to reducing project costs possible. Partnerships also facilitate the future sustainability
and preventing duplication of activities. This approach enables of the investments made and encourage cohesiveness and
JSIF to assist the various agencies with which it collaborates effective utilization of scarce resources. JSIF recognizes that it
to have a better understanding of the need for community is not just the level of financial investment that is significant, it is
involvement and empowerment. JSIF continues to believe in, also imperative to form partnerships that foster a commitment
and advocate for strong partnerships with all its stakeholders; to technical expertise, collaboration and ingenuity, in order
in order to streamline and enhance its ability to offer services to ensure that projects have lifespans that last for decades.
to as many Jamaicans as possible. Partnerships also facilitate According to Omar Sweeney, JSIF’s Managing Director, “We do
the future sustainability of JSIF’s investments and encourages it this way because we know that sustained investment and
cohesiveness and effective utilization of scarce resources. innovation are critical to meeting the demand of the country’s
most underserved communities.” JSIF’s inclusive vision for
As a social development agency, the most significant community development, continues to be supported by the
partnerships are with the communities that the Fund assists numerous partners who also aspire to make the mission of
as they are the reason JSIF exists. The relationship with poverty reduction a viable pursuit, with goals which are not only
the communities provides insights on project design and achievable, but within sight.
sometimes guides the team on the best way to address

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