Long-term Goal: The mitigation of land degradation and promotion of ecosystem integrity and stability, with enhanced ecological functions and services through capacity and policy development and mainstreaming of sustainable land management. Project Objective: To strengthen capacity of people and institutions and establish an enabling and conducive environment for; sustainable land management, more effective participation by stakeholders, better utilization of scientific and socio-economic data and enhanced capacities to address priority land degradation issues.

The long-term goal of this project therefore is to ensure sustainable management of the land resources of St. Lucia in order to enhance ecosystem health, integrity, stability, functions and services while contributing directly to the environmental, economic and social well-being of the people of Saint Lucia. The specific objective is to strengthen capacity for sustainable land management at the individual and institutional level and to mainstream SLM concepts into national development strategies and policies.

This proposed project will: i.Strengthen Palau’s institutional and human resource capacity to improve sustainable and equitable land management planning and implementation; ii.Strengthen Palau’s regulatory, policy, and economic framework to facilitate equitable and wider adoption and implementation of sustainable land management practices across sectors; and iii.Improve the economic productivity of land through sustainable management and strengthen the preservation and/or restoration of ecosystem stability, functions, and services with equitable participation of vulnerable communitie

The objectives of the project are to improve the system of land administration and decision-making and ensure that Government at the highest level considers the long-term environmental health of land resources and the adverse effects of land degradation when making economic and development decisions; and to build capacity for SLM horizontally across sectors and vertically from the individual landowner, to community leaders, to provincial and national governments.

Capacities for sustainable land management are built in appropriate government and civil society institutions/user groups and mainstreamed into government planning and strategy development.