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Project Partners & Identifying a Problem in St. Lucia

Project Partners & Identifying a Problem in St. Lucia. Charles Kerchner Community Development & Applied Economics. Project partners: Why are they important?. Have ties with stakeholders They tend to know the elements of the problem Long term sustainability. Risks of not having one.

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Project Partners & Identifying a Problem in St. Lucia

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  1. Project Partners & Identifying a Problem in St. Lucia Charles KerchnerCommunity Development & Applied Economics

  2. Project partners: Why are they important? • Have ties with stakeholders • They tend to know the elements of the problem • Long term sustainability

  3. Risks of not having one • Having a negative impact on communities • Decisions without thorough knowledge of culture, geography or history • Not being able to complete intended project objectives • We do not have the resources or contacts that institutions in St. Lucia do

  4. Project partners from top to bottom

  5. Example of project partners: IWCAM • Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries • Permanent Secretary • Chief Planning Officer • Chief forestry, Chief of agriculture, Chief of fisheries • Extension from each of the district • CEHI

  6. Project partners • Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) • Caribbean Natural Resource Institute (CANARI) • Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) • Talvan Water Catchment Group (TWCG) • SMMA

  7. How did we choose a project partner? • Need to choose a problem • Need to familiarize ourselves with the issues • Conduct a literature review • Don’t want to reinvent the wheel • If we’re going to work with stakeholders we need to know what we’re talking about

  8. How do we choose a problem? • Scale • Economy is sustained by the ecosystem • Extraction rates should not exceed regeneration rates • Distribution • Social equality (i.e. GDP doesn’t reflect distribution) • Allocation • Economic efficiency

  9. Process • Identify issues • Identify stakeholders • List alternatives • Define the problem • Define the desirable ends: stakeholders should do this • Objectives

  10. Babonneau Hill 20 water treatment center Photo: Christopher Cox Valuation study with IWCAM project: What’s the problem?

  11. List stakeholders • Consider all stakeholders: Depends on your position • Scuba-dive operator • Hotel owner • Soufriere resident • Fisherman • Farmer

  12. List Alternatives: 1 “win-win” • Farmer receives benefits from selling market goods while still providing positive externalities to downstream beneficiaries

  13. Alternative 2 “reality” • What if markets for unsustainable agriculture pay more? • ‘Social Trap’

  14. Let’s define the problem What are the resource characteristics?

  15. What’s the problem? • Traditionally the value of forests are based on the amount of timber they can provide. • Forests provide many other services that are important to human well-being and economic welfare, but are not valued in the commercial market. For example: • Water filtration • Flood control • Erosion Control • Recreation

  16. Desirable ends • Find a ministry, organization or project that is working on it. • What are the desirable ends? • Signed onto the Millennium Development goals: environmental sustainability • Goal of IWCAM

  17. Goals Overall Goal: Capture the full value of forests and sustainable land use practices for developing an integrated watershed management approach. Project objectives: Place a monetary value on two ecosystem services provided by watersheds in St. Lucia: 1) recreation. 2) erosion control.

  18. Assignment • Handouts • What’s the problem? • Who are the stakeholders? • What are objectives of projects or organizations working on the issue? • How could our class fill a niche within that project?

  19. http://www.slumaffe.org/ • Commerce.gov.lc • http://www.uvm.edu/%7Ejfarley/st%20lucia/stlc2.html http://www.stlucia.gov.lc/ Read the reports

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