Projects in many ways are the means of achieving our global, national and community mandates. In this section you will have access to basic information including results from all ongoing and completed projects. You will also have access to our global website where more detailed information is included about each project.
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This project targets the poor and marginalized children from the Northern and Southern Sections of Saint Lucia who attend school but are unable to participate in summer programmes on the environment because of poverty. The programme is designed to focus on Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation and Pollution from solid waste in a Small Island Developing State. The project’s objectives are to: (i) build the awareness of and educate at least 100 marginalized children in the local school system by the end of the project; (ii) develop and communicate recommendations to the Government of Saint Lucia on the protection of the environment on behalf of present and future generations of Saint Lucians; and (iii) develop the capacity of CYEN-Saint Lucia Chapter, to design, write, negotiate for, manage and implement environmental projects. The project outcomes will be as follows: (i) 100 children understand the impacts of climate change, biodiversity, and chemicals and knows what can be done about them and actions that can be taken to reduce the impacts; (ii) (a) Letter of recommendation published, communicated widely and delivered to the Governor General and Prime Minister of St. Lucia; (ii) (b) Short video serving as an advocacy tool; and (iii) Capacity of 10 CYEN members improves during and by the end of the life cycle of the project. The project has three project components as follows: experiential education programme; advocacy for change; and capacity development.
This project was perhaps one of the most successful yet complex projects implemented by CYEN. The project was significantly an education and awareness project for children which evolved into a policy influencing project by young people. It was implemented in two phases, with phase one including a Green Education Summer Camp for children living with their families in marginalized urban and peri-urban areas; and phase 2, the preparation of a CYEN Declaration on CC for signatures by the public, the presentation of same to the GOSL for delivery at the Samoa Conference on SIDS in 2014 and the organization and convening of a national lecture on CC in SIDS.
This project achieved the following:
(i) organized a Summer Education Camp for 100 children in the North and South of Saint Lucia during which the children learned about biodiversity, pollution, recycling and Climate Change;
(ii) planted over 100 trees with the members of the Summer Camp;
(iii) prepared a children’s environmental declaration in English and Kwéyòl which was submitted to the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia;
(iv) trained over 12 members of CYEN in effective communications with the media and approximately 20 members in the basics of project management and implementation;
(v) convened a national lecture on CC and SIDS under the distinguished patronage of the Governor General of Saint Lucia (Head of State) during which over 200 persons attended. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Roger Pulwarty who is one of the authors of the Fifth Inter-Governmental Panel Report on CC; and
(vi) drafted, finalised and offered the first youth Declaration on Climate Change for signatures among the citizens of Saint Lucia. The Declaration attracted 2000 signatures and was presented to the Minister of Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology in a public ceremony. The Declaration was referenced by the Minister at the SIDS Conference in Samoa in September 2014 and was appended to Saint Lucia’s official submission to the conference and the UN.
Economic Impact: This project was responsible for employing 37 persons (28 men and 9 women) and paying a total of XCD$29,051 (US$10,760) for services which included transportation, catering, facilitation, resource persons, and a consultancy for evaluation.
Capacity Development: In the areas of capacity building the project trained 12 persons in effective media communications and over twenty persons in basic project and event management which included monitoring and evaluation.
The grantee learned many lessons as follows:
(i) Effective Internal Communications means a constant flow of information and feedback in many directions in a timely manner.
(ii) Effective record keeping requires a structure with a system and dependable persons committed to follow through with this responsibility.
(iii) CYEN requires an effective succession plan to ensure that there is no hiatus in its programming now and in the future.
(iv) Without reflection there can be little learning.
(v) The internal conflicts which emerged during project implementation requires CYEN members to be trained in conflict resolution.
(vii) A human resource inventory and assessment should precede such projects in the future, to ensure that there is an adequate pool of people with the requisite skills who are willing to volunteer.
The project ended with an independent evaluation which produced a report titled:
Final Report on the External Evaluation of the GEF SGP UNDP Funded CYEN Green Future Summer Camp Project – Prepared by Brandon Antoine for CYEN.
This report concluded that the project met many of its objectives, informed and sensitized many people and helped to build capacity within CYEN. It also concluded that the shortcomings were due in part to the steep learning curve which the members were going through and the lack of a more robust monitoring and evaluation plan.
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