SALISES
PROJECTS AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OVER THE YEARS

Gender relations, conflict management and reproductive health
Researchers: Wilma Bailey, Elsie Le Franc, A.Henry-Lee
Funded by: USAID

Reproductive Health Management - Phases I, II & III
Coordinator: Wilma Bailey
Funded by: Ford Foundation

Sexual decision-making among Jamaicans
Coordinator: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: Family Health International, USAID

Family and School determinants of aggression in Jamaican children
Researcher: Julian Meeks-Gardner
Funded by: World Bank through Planning Institute of Jamaica

Review of Public Expenditure on basic children's services in Jamaica
Researchers: Aldrie Henry-Lee and Dillon Alleyne
Funded by: UNDP

Poverty and Social Policy
Researcher: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: Caribbean Development Bank

Development of a framework to evaluate financial reform models applied to the Health Sector
Researcher: Andrea Yearwood
Funded by: ISER

Feasibility study on the link between MAPS and Health Sector Reform
Researcher: Andrea Yearwood, Kristin Fox, Dillon Alleyne
Funded by : IDRC

Mapping study and private physicians survey: opportunities for expanded family planning services in Jamaica
Researcher: Wilma Bailey
Funded by: Futures, USAID

Community Development Participation in Jamaica
Researcher: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: UNDP

Society and Education in Jamaica
Researcher: Errol Miller
Funded by: IDRC

Impact of Hurricane Gilbert on rural communities
Coordinator: Deryck Gordon
Funded by: IDRC

Management of sectoral linkages between tourism, agriculture and the environment in the OECS region.
Researcher: Helen McBain
Funded by: European Centre for Development and Policy Management

Community power and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Coordinator; Maxine Henry-Wilson
Funded by:IDRC

Assessing the impact of information on policy formulation
Researcher: Audrey Chanbers
Funded by: IDRC

Sexual decision-making among Jamaicans (AIDS/STDs Issues)
Coordinator: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: Family Health International/USAID

Protecting the medically indigent under Health Insurance:  A case study of Jamaica
Researcher: Aldrie Henry-Lee
Funded by: Abt Association Inc.

Contraceptive use dynamics study of public sector family planning clients
Researchers:  Kristin Fox, Elsie Le Franc, Aldrie Henry-Lee
Funded by: Family Health International, USAID

ISER Self Study
Coordinators: S. Ryan, J. Massiah, H. McBain
Funded by: Ford Foundation Endowment Grant

Urban Low Income Women and AIDS in Jamaica
Coordinator: Denise Eldemire
Funded by: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Evaluation of the Quality of Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions data sets
Researcher: Dillon Alleyne
Funded by: Planning Institute of Jamaica

Health care, policy, planning and management
Researcher: Karl Theodore
Funded by: OECS, USAID, John Snow Inc.

Economic Performance and sustainable development in Jamaica
Researchers: Dillon Alleyne, Ian Boxill, Alfred Francis
Funded by: World Wildlife Fund for Nature

Socio-cultural aspects of the Oysterculture industry in Jamaica
Researchers: Peter Espeut, Stanley Lalta
Funded by: IDRC

Small and Micro enterprises in Jamaica
Coordinator: Helen McBain, Gordon Shirley
Funded by:  Government of the Netherlands, USAID, UNIFEM

The Educational under-achievement of Caribbean males in Jamaica, Barbados and St. Vincent and the Grenadines:  A qualitative study of high school education
Researcher: Odette Parry
Funded by: UNICEF

Review of Health Related Modules of the Survey of Living Conditions and other Poverty Assessment Household Surveys
Researcher: Andrea Yearwood
Funded by: ISER

Migration policy and the Caribbean family
Researcher: Eleanor Wint
Funded by: Ford Foundation Endowment Grant

A profile of health research in Jamaica, 1991 - 1995
Researchers: Peter Figueroa, Aldrie Henry-Lee
Funded by: Council on Health Research for Development

A register of social policy research
Researcher: Audrey Chambers
Funded by:  Planning Institute of Jamaica

Environment and trade: a case study of Jamaica
Researchers: Dillon Alleyne, Ian Boxill, Alfred Francis
Funded by: UNCTAD

Sugar and change:  a comparative study of institutional governance and competitive performance in the Caribbean sugar industry: a proposal.
Researcher: Patricia Northover

Bargaining and Planning in the Bauxite Aluminium Industry by a small medium-seized country
Researcher: Paul W. Ashley
Funded by: Norwegian Agency for Development

Unions and partners in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago:  A cohort analysis
Researcher: Jack Harewood
Part of the World Fertility Study

Study on Small Farm Enterprises
Coordinator: Omar Davis
Funded by: Small Enterprise Development Co. and Michigan State University

Trade and Development in the Caribbean and Americas
Researcher: Compton Bourne
Funded by: IADB

Socio-economic indicators and change in the Caribbean, 1985-86
Researchers: J.E.Greene, Desmond Thomas
Funded by: IADB

The Socio-economic situation of the English-speaking Caribbean during the 1980s with particular reference to the situation of children and their families
Researcher: Donna McFarlane-Gregory and Alicia Taylor
Funded by UNICEF

Socio-economic trends in the English-speaking Caribbean
Researcher: Desmond Thomas
Funded by: IDB

Air Jamaica - Contribution to the Jamaican economy
Researcher: Wilberne Persaud
Commissioned by Air Jamaica

Informal Distribution Network in the Kingston Metropolitan area
Researcher:: Elsie  Le Franc, Donna McFarlane-Gregory, Alicia Taylor
Funded by: Population Council, UNESCO

Population, mobility, and development
Researcher: Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, Patricia Anderson, Derek Gordon
Funded by: IDRC

Comparative aspects of structural adjustment in the Caribbean
Researcher: Adlith Brown

Contribution of Building Societies to the Development of the Jamaican Economy
Researcher: Joe Woolcock
Funded by: Building Societies Association of Jamaica

Social Organization and Social Relations in the Informal Sector in Kingston
Co-investigators: Patricia Anderson and Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: UNESCO

Social Security Reform in Jamaica
Coordinator: Derek Boyd
Funded by: IDRC

Community Development and Participation in Jamaica
Coordinator: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: UNDP

Survey of Attitudes to the Environment
Coordinator: Peter Espeut
Funded by: Commonwealth of Learning

Education and Gender Relations in Jamaica
Coordinator: Errol Miller
Funded by: IDRC

Future of the Caribbean - Phase I & II
Coordinators: J.E. Greene, N. Girvan, S. Ryan
Funded by: Ford Foundation

Multi-sectoral study for Health in Jamaica
Consultant: Elsie Le Franc
Funded by  PAHO/WHO in collaboration with ISER

Health Development Planning and Management
Coordinator: Omawale
Funded by PAHO

Social and Economic Adjustments and Health care in the Caribbean
Coordinators: LeRoy  Taylor, Elsie Le Franc
Funded by: PAHO

Recurrent costs to the Health Sector in Jamaica
Coordinator: LeRoy Taylor
Funded by: WHO

Contraceptive use and its impact on fertility in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
Researcher: Norma Abdulah

Family Planning in Jamaica
Researcher: Edwin Jones, Elsie Le Franc, Sylvan Alleyne, Doris Haberman

Family Life study in Jamaica
Researcher: Beverly Marsh, Margaret Bernal
Funded by: UNESCO

Female labour force participation and fertility in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
Researcher: Norma Abdulah

Financial Management and Policy in the National Planning Process
Researcher: LeRoy Taylor

Comparative Study of the Caribbean Countries:   Identification of  cultural values
Researcher: Erna Brodber
Funded by: UNESCO

Development of a Programme of Legal literacy in Jamaica: An evaluation
Researcher: Aubrey Fraser

Inter-Ethnic relations in the Caribbean
Researcher: Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
Funded by   UNESCO

Marginalisation of the Black Male:  insights for development of the Teaching Profession
Researcher: Errol Miller
Funded by: IDRC

21st Anniversary Faculty of the Social Sciences
Funded by: Ford Foundation

Documentation and Data (DOERS) Project
Coordinator: Reive Robb
Funded by: IADB and European Development Fund

An Evaluation of the National Documentation, Information and Library Systems of Jamaica
Researchers: J.E. Greene, B. Andrea Okwesa
Commissioned by IDRC/NACOLADS

 Directory of Research and Organizations engaged in Studies of Women in the English-speaking Caribbean
Researchers: Gloria Greene and Reive Robb
Funded by: UNESCO

Survey of Library and Information Manpower needs in the Caribbean
Researchers: Gloria Greene and Reive Robb
Funded by: UNESCO
 

Factors Influencing antenatal Health Care in Jamaica
Researcher: Joan Rawlins
Funded by: ICRW

Transfer of Technology in the Caribbean - Phases I and II
Researcher: Norman Girvan
Funded by: IDRC

Caribbean Technology Studies Project
Coordinator: Trevor Farrell
Funded by  IDRC

Caribbean Public Enterprise Project
Coordinator: Adlith Brown
Funded by: IDRC

Man and the Biosphere
Researcher: J. E. Greene
Funded by:

Women in the Caribbbean
Coordinator: Joycelin Massiah
Funded by: Levershulme Trust, Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation

Impact of Bauxite-Alumina Transnational Corporations on Rural Economy and Society in Jamaica
Coordinator:  George Beckford
Funded by: Swedish Agency for Development (SAREC)
 

Impact of Tourism in Jamaica [part of a wider study on the Caribbean]
Coordinator: Adlith Brown and R. Bastin-Coombs
Funded by: IDRC

Foreign Investment in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Researchers: Alister McIntyre and Beverly Watson
 

National Income: A survey of St. Lucia
Researcher: H.O. Neale

Special survey of foreign investment in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Researcher: ISER staff
Commissioned by:  CARIFTA Council

Location of Bauxite-alumina aluminium industry
Researcher: H.D. Huggins

Regional Programme of Monetary Studies
Coordinator: Adlith Brown

Social structure of Trinidad and Tobago
Researcher: Lloyd Braithwaite

Social structure in a Jamaican society
Researcher: R.T. Smith

Social structure in island communities
Researcher: M.G. Smith

Social structure in British Guiana
Researcher: R.T. Smith

Kinship in Carriacou
Researcher: M.G. Smith

Land tenure and settlement in Carriacou
Researcher: M.G. Smith

Land use study
Researcher: David Niddrie

Employment in an economically underdeveloped area
Researcher: W.F. Maunder

Labour demand and supply in Jamaica
Researcher: M.G. Smith

Labour productivity and the sugar industry in Jamaica
Researcher: G.E. Cumper

Employment Study - Barbados
Researcher: G.E. Cumper

Economics of small farms study
Researcher: D.T. Edwards

Credit in agriculture
Researcher: C.S. Morris

Report on the Rastafarian movement in Jamaica
Researchers: M.G. Smith, F.R.Augier, R. Nettleford
Commissioned by the Government of Jamaica

Religious cults of the Caribbean - Trinidad, Jamaica, Haiti
Researcher: G.E. Simpson

Preparation and Analysis of National Accounts of the West Indies and British Guiana
Researchers: C.O'Loughlin (British Guiana, Montserrat, Antigua, St.Kitts-Nevis-
Anguilla) Jeanette Braithwaite (Barbados)
Funded by Carnegie Corporation

National Accounts - Jamaica
Researcher: A.P. Thorn
Funded by: Carnegie Corporation

Education of West Indians abroad
Researcher: L.E. Braithwaite

Jamaica General Elections
Researcher: F.R.Augier

Investment flow and economic growth
Researchers: H.D. Huggins and R.E. Chang

 Kingston Public Passenger Transport
Researcher: W.F. Maunder

Population Studies - Trinidad
Researcher: G. Roberts, L. Braithwaite