The Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (Cariled) has a new programme directo. Alix Yule will direct the six year CIDA funded Local Economic Development (LED) project within 14 Caribbean countries. She will first be based at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.
Yule brings a wealth of knowledge to Cariled with over 20 years of experience in the field of international development in a number of countries in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. She has managed several LED and local governance bilateral projects, and has had extensive experience in Results Based Management.
She also joins the team at the start of a local area economic profile (LAEP) mission in Trinidad. The mission runs until April 26, and mission teams are made up of Caribbean and Canadian volunteers and consultants, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and relevant stakeholders.
In January, Cariled completed Local Area Economic Profile (LAEP) missions in five of seven demonstration countries that will be the focus of the first two programme phases. The LAEP missions will continue in Jamaica and Tobago later this year.Yule will be based at Cariled's Headquarters in T&T, and will manage operations there and at the two sub-offices in Saint Lucia and Ottawa, Canada.