Saint Lucia
05 Mar 2013
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
14 February 2013: The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) has formally launched the Small Grants Country Programme (SGP) in Saint Lucia, at Pigeon Island National Landmark, a key historic site and protected area.
The SGP in St. Lucia will provide grants to civil society organizations (CSOs) with the goal of identifying, replicating and scaling-up best practices in the country and among other Caribbean States. At the launch, Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UNDP’s Resident Representative, noted that...
08 Feb 2013
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
February 2013: The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Global Mechanism (GM) has launched a revamped web-based platform titled “Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – Finance.” The site will support the exchange of information on funding and finance for sustainable land management (SLM) among African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, many of which are also small island developing States (SIDS).
The platform, which is part of the EU-funded Scope|ACP project, a South...
07 Jan 2013
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
December 2012: The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) has coordinated a series of national training workshops to help customs and enforcement officers in Belize, Dominica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Kitts and Nevis prepare for their Montreal Protocol commitments involving hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs).
The national workshops, held in October and November 2012, were supported financially by the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund (...
03 Dec 2012
|
SIDS Policy and Practice
12 November 2012: The Caribbean Fish Sanctuary Partnership Initiative (“C-FISH”), a four-year (2012-2016) project on the management of 15 community-based “no take” zones or marine reserves in five Caribbean countries, was launched on 9 November 2012, in Bluefields, Jamaica.
The five countries are Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
C-FISH will partner with tourism companies to involve the tourism sector in support for the...
22 Nov 2012
This workshop is organized by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Caribbean Regional Fund for Wastewater Management (CReW), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and several Caribbean governments. The workshop seeks to provide participants from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the environmental, finance and utility sectors in CReW’s 13 participating countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana,...
