Saint Lucia’s National Adaptation Plan Second Progress Report 2022–2024

Saint Lucia's second NAP progress report (2022–2024) documents the transition from planning to implementation across eight priority sectors. While five sectoral plans (water, agriculture, fisheries, resilient ecosystems, and health) are complete, three others (infrastructure, education, and tourism) are being finalized via GCF support. The report highlights achievements in water resource management, climate-resilient agriculture, and blue economy initiatives, while recommending a standardized, simplified monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system to address data gaps and staffing constraints.

• Saint Lucia has completed and adopted five of its eight planned Sectoral Adaptation Strategies and Action Plans (SASAPs), specifically for water, agriculture, fisheries, natural resource management/resilient ecosystems (REASAP), and health.
• The remaining three priority sectors—infrastructure and spatial planning, education, and tourism—are currently in the final stages of SASAP development, supported by Green Climate Fund (GCF) NAP Readiness Support, with completion expected between 2025 and 2026.
• The enactment of the Climate Change Act of 2024 provides a new legal and institutional framework to ensure coordinated national adaptation planning and accountability.
• In the water sector, progress includes the update of the National Water Policy, the installation of a 20,000-gallon tank storage system at Plain View Primary School, and the development of a Water and Wastewater Climate Resilient Masterplan with an investment pipeline to 2050.
• Agricultural adaptation efforts have focused on diversifying crops (including sour sop, dragon fruit, and cabbage), rehabilitating over 200 acres of cocoa, and trialling weather-index based insurance for bananas and plantains.
• Fisheries adaptation progress is highlighted by the 'Unleashing the Blue Economy of the Caribbean' (UBEC) project and the development of sustainable sea moss farming methods on the southeast coast.
• The health sector's H-NAP focuses on building capacity to manage climate impacts on public health, with projects including the 'SMART Health Care Facilities' project which retrofitted 15 facilities for better resilience.
• Cross-sectoral progress includes the integration of youth into climate governance, with the National Youth Council and the Caribbean Youth Environment Network now official members of the National Climate Change Committee under the 2024 Act.
• The report identifies significant challenges in monitoring and evaluation due to varying depths of data across sectors and limited human resources in small government departments.
• The government recommends standardizing the reporting process across all priority sectors and designating specific DSD liaisons to consult quarterly with sectoral focal points to improve M&E efficiency.

APA

NAP Global Network (2026). Saint Lucia’s National Adaptation Plan Second Progress Report 2022–2024. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/saint-lucia-nap-second-progress-report-v2.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Saint Lucia’s National Adaptation Plan Second Progress Report 2022–2024. 2026. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/saint-lucia-nap-second-progress-report-v2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2026saint, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Saint Lucia’s National Adaptation Plan Second Progress Report 2022–2024}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2026}, month = mar, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/saint-lucia-nap-second-progress-report-v2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }