Every project sector initiative below is endorsed by Jamaica's Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. Each is a multi-year national infrastructure programme with institutional partners already in place, open to a defined number of founding partners.
Endorsement
Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment & Sport, Jamaica
The Process
What happens, in order, before anyone signs anything.
01
Review
Read the initiative brief and confirm strategic fit.
02
Express Interest
Register interest and receive access to the confidential brief.
03
Proposal Drafted
Scope, contribution and rights drafted with the advisory.
04
MOU
Terms recorded in a memorandum of understanding.
05
Procurement & Legal
Institutional procurement and contracting completes the partnership.
Steps one and two are self-serve. Nothing is committed until the memorandum of understanding stage, and no partnership completes outside institutional procurement and legal review.
The Initiatives
Five project sector initiatives, open to founding partners.
SSIMusic
The Sound System Initiative
Founding round open · Year 1
Turning a music industry the world already loves into formally defined, protected, investable national infrastructure.
Partners take a founding position across education, digital and policy workstreams, from production and sound engineering training through to rights, royalty and financing reform. Commitments are structured as multi-year programme partnerships, not one-off sponsorship.
Already on board
UNDP, UNESCO and the Planning Institute of Jamaica; Abbey Road Institute with Edna Manley College; Howard University and JHUAN; the Recording Academy and GRAMMY GO in active discussion.
The ask
Three-year programme partnership · founding window Year 1
YTWSport
Yard to the World
Founding investment round · 2026–2028
Jamaica's national sport-economy architecture, built for LA28 and every Olympic cycle after it.
Partners underwrite the first official Team Jamaica digital platform, the Foundation and the association infrastructure behind it, with category rights across sponsorship, broadcast, licensing and e-commerce. Founding partners are contracted for the full 2026 to 2028 cycle.
Already on board
Endorsed by the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and the Jamaica Olympic Association; Sport Economy Concept Paper submitted to Minister Olivia Grange.
The ask
Founding investment round · category rights to LA28
MIJCraft & Fashion
Made in Jamaica
Anchor capital sought · Garmex Phase 2 approved
Turning an already-active craft and fashion production cluster into certified, financed, export-ready sovereign infrastructure.
Partners anchor one of five pillars: shared production infrastructure, the digital trade and e-commerce rail, the training ecosystem, the collective finance mechanism, or the Made in Jamaica quality mark. Technology and capital partners are being appointed on a founding basis.
Already on board
Factories Corporation of Jamaica, HEART/NSTA Trust, JBDC and JIPO with WIPO; Fashioning Jamaica and JAMPRO engaged.
The ask
Founding technology partner and anchor capital
HTOArts, Film & Cultural Heritage
Honouring the Origins
Horizon One live · partners being appointed
Cultural sovereignty for film, arts and heritage: protection, proof, workforce and story, built as one architecture.
Partners support the certification and registry framework, the Jamaica Film Skills and Export Programme, and the co-production treaty activation that moves Jamaica from filming location to production and training destination. Institutional partners join through MOU; commercial partners through programme agreements.
Already on board
MCGES, JAMPRO and the Jamaica Film Commission as the institutional home; CARIMAC and HEART/NSTA on the skills pipeline; the UK–Jamaica co-production treaty active.
The ask
Institutional MOU partners and programme capital
TCXNew Creative Industries
The Complex
Investor round open
The physical and digital home of Jamaica's new creative industries: studios, technology and enterprise under one roof.
Partners take positions across the build, the technology stack and the enterprise programmes that will occupy it, alongside naming and category rights. Terms are set through the investor process run by The Complex.
Already on board
Developed with N.F. Orange Economy Advisory as delivery partner; investor round administered at thecomplexja.com.
The advisory runs a single introductory session across the full portfolio, so partners can see where music, sport, craft and fashion, arts and film, and the new creative industries connect before choosing a position.