Through programmes like Jamaica Social Investment Fund and Lift Up Jamaica , the face of our communities is being changed and the quality of life of our citizens improved.

• Thousands of young people are being employed and trained, while providing vital community infrastructure to improve the quality of life at the local level.
    
• JSIF has expended $1.2 billion on 282 projects throughout the country, including:
  - Social infrastructure
  - Schools
  - Homes for children, the aged and the disabled
  - Inner-city upliftment
  - Feeder roads and
  - Water supply.
    
• Lift Up Jamaica has implemented over 300 projects in:
  - Town upgrading
  - River training
  - Forestry
  - Repairs to schools and community centres
  - Sidewalk building and
  - the Zinc Fence Replacement Programme in inner-city communities.
    
• The Social Development Commission (SDC) is now coordinating capacity building for 5,190 Community-Based Organisations islandwide.
   
• In collaboration with the Sports Development Foundation , the Social Development Commission is expanding opportunities for training and competition in sports.