St. Lucia

Marine Program Activities:

The Soufriere, Canaries and Anse la Raye Marine Management Area (SMMA/CAMMA)
Marine Turtle Conservation and Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities at Grand Anse Bay

Terrestrial Program Activities:

Agroforestry: Riverbank Stabilization
Alternative Livelihoods: Trail-Business Linkage
Assessment of the Potentials in the Cashew Value Chains in the Caribbean
Cooperation with the International Water Stewardship Program (IWaSP)
Eradication of Invasive Alien Plant Species
Good Agricultural Practices: Trainings & Plots
Natural Pest Control
Sediment Management of J. Compton Dam - Feasability Study
Solar Equipment for a Seamoss Processing Plant in Praslin
Support to St. Jude Hospital Reconstruction Project
Vieux Fort & Dennery Water Supply Redevelopment Project
Water Utility Management: Focus on Waterloss Reduction & Energy Efficiency

St. Lucia is located 13°43’ and 14°07’ North latitude and 60°05’ West longitude. It is approximately 616 km² in area, roughly 22.5km in width and 43km in length. The island is very rugged with steep mountains and valleys. Mt. Gimie is the highest peak on the island at a height of 950m. St. Lucia is volcanic in origin, with an active volcano located in Soufriere in the South West of the Island. St. Lucia is geologically young and is dominated by andesite, rhyolite and basaltic rocks. St. Lucia’s soils are largely made up by montmorrillonitic clays in the coastal areas and latosolic clays higher up in the watersheds.

Related posts

Project Documentation - WASCO Consultancy Project
- 12/5/2019 11:26:00 AM
After 13 months with 15 in-country missions, 400+ consultancy days and more than 40 deliverables, this important consultancy project on "Institutional and Organisational Strengthening of WASCO Saint Lucia and Regional Water Utilities" comes to an end.The numerous documents produced can be accessed through the links below, so that they can be of use for other water utilities:Organisational Development1. WASCO Strategy for developing a QMS1. Draft Action Plan QMS2. M&E Report - Final...
Regional consultancy project with water utilities coming to an end
- 11/28/2019 11:30:00 AM
With the nearing end of the consultancy project “Institutional and Organisational Strengthening of WASCO and Regional Water Utilities”, an important chapter in the German development cooperation in the Eastern Caribbean comes to a closure.While this current project started in November 2019, the collaboration between WASCO and the CATS programme reaches back several years: a first one-year consultancy project was initiated as part of the first phase of the CATS programme in late 2014,...
Diving in a Coral Forest
- 11/9/2019 3:25:00 AM
Diving in a Coral Forest - click here to watch the video on YouTube!Since early 2019, the CATS Programme collaborates with CLEAR Caribbean on a coral restauration project in Soufriere, Saint Lucia. The project aims at propagating Staghorn Coral and Elkhorn Coral along the coastline in the Soufriere area, reaching from Anse Chastanet Bay to the Pitons.The corals are grown on trees made of PVC pipes and glass fibre bars and are anchored to the ground with ropes. So far, a total of ten trees have b...
Regional Training on Measures and Activities for NRW-Reduction
- 9/27/2019 5:40:00 PM
Staff from a total of 8 Caribbean water utilities participated in the Regional Training on Measures and Activities for NRW-Reduction in Saint Lucia taking place from September 24th to 27th, 2019. The training, which is part of the consultancy project “Institutional and Organisational Strengthening of WASCO Saint Lucia and Regional Water Utilities”, was conducted by two hydraulic modelling and network management experts of Hamburg Wasser and Consulaqua, Germany.The training was the se...
Small business capacity development in Fond St. Jacques
- 9/16/2019 9:46:00 AM
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H2Operator Caribbean - the CAWASA Podcast
- 7/4/2019 8:30:00 AM
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Fond St. Jacqes Agro-Processing groups presenting their businesses
- 5/22/2019 2:30:00 PM
On the occasion of the World Biodiversity Day on May 22nd, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) hosted a fair on Morne Fortune, Castries, and invited various organisations from all over Saint Lucia to create awareness and consciousness about the importance of local and global biodiversity.Under the theme "Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health", almost twenty exhibitors showed their projects and products and how biodiversity affects their work. The Caribbean Aqua-Terrest...
Hands-on Network O&M Training with WASCO
- 5/12/2019 1:33:00 PM
One of the crucial aspects to increase climate resiliency of a water utility is to reduce its water losses. The calculation is simple: with less water being lost in the network, water can be provided to consumers in higher quantity, quality and reliability, especially in times of low availability at the source.In a consultancy project implemented by CONSULAQUA through the CATS programme since November 2018, the Saint Lucian water utility WASCO is supported in, amongst others, improving network o...
Business Simulation with Fond St Jacques Agro-Processors
- 4/18/2019 8:08:00 AM
On Friday, Apr 12th, 2019, the Fond St. Jacques Development Committee hosted a Business Simulation Exercise for two agro-processing businesses located in Fond St. Jacques, Soufriere: Jacq-Co Valley Products Ltd. and Rainforest Foods. The exercise was conducted by professionals of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC), namely by Dr. M. Lashley, Ms. Faye Henry, Ms. M.L. Catty and Mr. E. Ottley.The exercise, also referred to as a Micro Business Game, has been developed as “a highly i...
Drone Training for Environmental Management Officers through the CATS Programme
- 2/8/2019 8:04:22 PM
The Caribbean Aqua-Terrestrial Solutions (CATS) Programme Phase II (Building Climate Resilience from the Ridge to the Reef), during the period of November 19th – 30th 2018, as part of a regional capacity building initiative, trained 18 ecosystems management officers in the operation and application of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS, "drone") technology, for environmental monitoring and management. The training also featured the participation of the Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority (SLASPA)...

Useful Resources

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German-Government of Saint Lucia Water Cooperation Brochure	Government of Saint Lucia & the Federal Republic of Germany Cooperation Projects. Brochure. GoSL/german cooperation/2014	June 16, 2015 6:47 AM	0 KB