Project management blog
Coming soon to our website is the launch of a project management blog. Real life examples of project management hurdles, including people, finances and change management. Stay tuned for launch dates in January 2024.
Managing Director talks SMEs and Gender Lens Investing
The Managing Director for Kochi Consulting Ltd., Ms. Kizzann Sammy, who is also a Senior Associate at E.T. Jackson and Associates, took part in UN Women’s Expert Group Meeting: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes. The virtual three-day meeting (EGM) took place from 11 – 14 October 2021, and featured experts from the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. Ms. Sammy presented on the topic “Gender Lens Investing and Green Financing: The role of women-owned small and medium businesses in climate vulnerable communities”. All papers from the discussion are posted on the UN Women website. The recommendations from this group will inform the discussions at the Sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 66) that will take place in 2022.
Commitment to Gender Equality
Generation Equality Paris 2021
Raising Our Voices
Programmatic and Advocacy Commitment
Kochi Consulting Ltd. recognizes the significant challenges faced in Small Island Developing States and take particular interest in the development of women and girls in the Caribbean and Pacific Island nations. These territories face both economic inequalities created by competition within a global economy, alongside high levels of Gender Based Violence / Intimate Partner Violence (GBV/IPV) and the effects of Climate Change. As livelihoods are threatened and access to resources change, our team will be heavily focused on:
1. Advocating for policy, legal and institutional changes that promote the elimination of GBV against women and girls, particularly advocating for action against sexual exploitation and human trafficking within and across borders. We will also advocate for an acknowledgement that men and boys need to be part of the conversation and approaches.
2. Promoting economic justice and rights under our programs, projects, and services by:
a. Supporting transformation of the care economy
b. Promoting gender lens investing and access to decent work and employment, both formal and informal
c. Advocating for and supporting capacity development and accountability of local leaders (elected and civil) that promote participatory planning, equitable access to land and other natural resources, sustainable community frameworks for men and women,
d. Recognizing that corruption, fraud and illicit financial proceeds erode available resources for economies and undermine the growth of the formal economy
e. Defining human trafficking as a financial crime that affects women and girls physically, mentally, financially and socially
f. Elevating the voices of women and girls in all their diversity that promote targeted stimulus programs and gender-transformative economies
3. Investing in feminist technology and innovation that:
a. Increases access to networks, training and customers for micro, small and medium enterprises led by women or that have a focus that is beneficial for women and girls
b. Prevent and eliminate online and tech-facilitated mediums in advertising and social media that increase the risk of sexual exploitation, mental and physical violence, and human trafficking of women and girls
