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UNDP Barbados and the OECS’s GEF Portfolio is designed to protect and regenerate the environment and natural resource asset
base for sustainable human development, and to protect and regenerate the environment and promote access to natural
resources on which poor people depend. These programmes also promote equity and burden sharing in international co-operation
to protect and enhance the global and regional environment. 3 “UNDP supports the full involvement of communities and
civil society in shaping policy and implementing programmes that bring together good governance, poverty reduction, and
sound environmental management in a seamless tapestry.”
Rosina Wiltshire, Resident Representative
CHEMICALS BIODIVERSITY ENERGY FSSD*
PORTFOLIO
UNDP is supporting OECS countries to build capacities in environmental policy and planning, to respond to the requirements of the Rio
Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification. GEF-funded National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) projects in St.
Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Grenada are working assess the capacity needs of these countries to implement the
Conventions in a holistic manner.
With GEF support, UNDP is assisting OECS countries to prepare to meet their commitments under the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change, through climate change enabling activities in Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, and St. Lucia. The first
phase of the projects are complete and the countries are now carrying out technology needs-assessments.
UNDP’s biodiversity activities in Barbados and the OECS Member States are funded by the GEF and focus on developing National
Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and assessing the capacity-building needs for biodiversity conservation in each country.
In Antigua and Barbuda, UNDP is supporting the assessment of capacity-building needs, while Grenada has completed its national
strategy assessment, having submitted its report to GEF and the CBD, and is now preparing its 3rd report. St.Vincent and the Grenadines
has completed its assessment and submitted its report to UNDP and GEF. Finally, in Dominica, biodiversity enabling activities have culminated
in a report that is currently before the island’s cabinet for approval.
In Barbados, with funding from the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol, UNDP is working to strengthen Montreal Protocol compliance
efforts in the refrigeration sector. In particular, assistance is being provided to the implementation of the RMP through technical
assistance for the mobile air conditioning and end-users sectors, as well as through establishment of a monitoring system that serves
to evaluate impact of the phase-out activities. Implementation of this project will involve both public and private sector stakeholders.
CONTACTS
Dr. Reynold Murray – reynold.murray@undp.org
Tel.: (246) 467-6014
Fax: (246) 429-2448
http://www.bb.undp.org/energyenvir.html
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Barbados MDGR 2004, http://www.undp.org/rblac/mdg/RegionalMDGCaribbean.pdf; 2 UNDP Barbados Country Office Background Document; 3 http://www.bb.undp.org/energyenvir.html;
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