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Cooperation Day 2025: Caribbean partners join forces for a more resilient future

Each year, Interreg Cooperation Day celebrates collaboration across regions that share a common goal: working together for a safer, more sustainable, and more united future.
This year, the spotlight turns to the Caribbean, where cooperation has taken very concrete shape through two flagship initiatives - the creation of a Regional Humanitarian Warehouse and a regional awareness campaign to prepare communities for natural hazards.

A regional humanitarian warehouse ready to serve the Caribbean

After more than eighteen months of planning and construction, the Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean (PIRAC) is preparing to open a regional humanitarian warehouse in Guadeloupe - a project supported by Interreg Caribbean through the #READYTogetherExtension programme, the AFD - Agence Française de Développement, the Guadeloupe Region, and the CMA CGM Foundation.

 

This new facility is designed to withstand the region’s most severe weather events. Built to Category 4 hurricane standards, it can remain fully operational even after a major cyclone or earthquake. But resilience here goes beyond structure: the warehouse follows bioclimatic principles, limits energy consumption, uses solar panels to power part of its operations, and collects rainwater for reuse - all making it a sustainable and environmentally responsible hub.

 

Its purpose is clear: to strengthen preparedness and emergency response throughout the Caribbean. The warehouse will allow humanitarian organisations, including the Red Cross Movement, CDEMA (Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency) and the OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States), to store essential equipment and deploy it rapidly wherever disaster strikes.

 

More than a logistics base, this warehouse is a symbol of solidarity and shared responsibility, demonstrating how cooperation can translate into faster, smarter, and greener humanitarian action.

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“It’s your move!” – A regional awareness campaign for everyone

Cooperation also takes another form, raising awareness together.
Through the “It’s Your Move!” regional campaign, disaster preparedness is becoming a shared mission across the Caribbean. Co-developed by a broad partnership of regional organisations - including CDEMA, OECS, national Red Cross societies, meteorological services, scientists, health professionals and inclusion advocates - the campaign delivers simple, unified messages to help communities get ready for emergencies.

 

One of its key tools is the Emergency Kit, a practical guide showing what every household should have to stay safe and self-sufficient for 72 hours after a disaster.

 

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The campaign is part of the Ready 360° – Phase 2 project, co-financed by the INTERREG Caribbean programme through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and supported by AFD, CDEMA, and OECS.

 

Together, these partners are making preparedness messages inclusive, accessible, and relevant to all Caribbean citizens - proving that collaboration makes communication stronger.

 

One Cooperation Day, many ways to build resilience

These two initiatives, presented as part of Interreg Cooperation Day 2025, show that cooperation is more than a principle, it’s a practice.

 

Whether through infrastructure that accelerates humanitarian aid or through campaigns that empower people, regional partners are working side by side to make the Caribbean ready, connected, and resilient.