Saint Lucia Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project

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The Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project for Saint Lucia aims to reduce urgent disaster vulnerability and increase long-term climate resilience in Saint Lucia by addressing the multi-faceted risks associated with hydro-meteorological events. The project consists of five components the first one being the risk reduction and adaption measures. This component would support structural and non-structural flood and landslide risk reduction interventions and climate adaption measures to improve Saint Lucia’s resilience against current and future climate shocks. The second is the technical assistance for improved assessment and application of disaster and climate risk information in decision-making would support capacity building for open systems and platforms to create, share, analyze, and use disaster risk and climate change data and information for improved decision making and engineering design for risk reduction and climate change adaption. The third component is the climate adaption financing facility which is designed to establish a pilot financing mechanism meant to promote increased climate resilience under a climate adaption financing facility. The fourth is an emergency response component that is a provisional component that would support carrying out emergency recovery and reconstruction subprojects under an agreed action plan of activities, which is designed as a mechanism to implement the recipient’s response to an emergency. Finally, the management and implementation would support and strengthen the institutional capacity for project management and implementation activities.