In addition, there are government bodies charged with furthering various aspects of sustainable development, such as the Sustainable Development Unit of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, the National Environment and Planning Agency, and in recent years the assignment of the environment as an explicit ministerial portfolio. The most recent extension has been to add ‘climate change’ to the portfolio of the ministry13 with responsibility for the environment. In the early 1990s, the government implemented a National Poverty Eradication Programme that sought to bring coherence to a disparate set of projects to fight against poverty.