FCDO support to improve resilience in the Caribbean – Evidence Fund Evaluation
Publication date: 14 November 2025 | Report language: EN
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commissioned this meta-evaluation to assess the use and influence of the 2020–2023 Caribbean Resilience Thematic Evaluation. The study explores how findings, conclusions, and recommendations from the thematic evaluation have shaped decision-making, programming, and learning within FCDO, regional institutions, national governments, and partners.
The evaluation of FCDO support to improve resilience in the Caribbean (2023–2024) (referred to in this report as the Caribbean Resilience Evaluation or “CRE”), commissioned by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and implemented by Triple Line and the Global Institute for Climate Smart and Resilient Development (UWI), assessed how UK- funded programmes contributed to strengthening resilience across the Caribbean between 2015 and 2023. The study examined 15 programmes in the Caribbean Development Team(CDT) portfolio, covering areas such as climate-resilient infrastructure (UK Caribbean Infrastructure Fund – UKCIF), renewable energy and energy efficiency, health-system strengthening (SMART Hospitals), disaster risk management and recovery (R&R and CREAD), skills and economic development (SkYE and CEDP), and governance, security and anti-corruption (CSJP3, CACP, SOCAP).
This meta-evaluation did not re-assess the effectiveness or impact of individual programmes directly. Instead, it focused on understanding the use, influence and learning generated from the 2020–2023 evaluation of FCDO support to improve resilience in the Caribbean. Specifically, it sought to examine how evaluation evidence has been taken up, interpreted, and applied within FCDO and by regional partners, and to identify the mechanisms and contextual factors that have shaped this process.
