International Links by Region and Country
Caribbean

Barbados Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica

St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
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ALEAR is a non-governmental organization that assembles institutions and professionals to support the development and implementation of environmental and natural resource economic instruments in order to contribute to the sustainable development of Latin American countries. Based in Colombia.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat
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Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (CCCCC)
The Center implements projects designed to prepare for and to reduce the harmful effects of climate change and sea level rise and seek ways in which the Community can benefit from any opportunities that may result from climate change.

OECS Secretariat
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Environment and Sustainable Development Unit
The ESDU assists in the management of the sub-region's natural resources by providing technical assistance and by developing tools and techniques for natural resource management.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat
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The Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP)
The project was developed by the Caribbean Community in order to reduce barriers to the increased use of renewable energy thus reducing the dependence on fossil fuels while contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)
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The Caribbean Community concerned with disaster preparedness established (CDERA). The main function of CEDERA is to make an immediate and coordinated response to any disastrous event affecting any Participating State, once the state requests such assistance.

United Nations Caribbean Environment Program (CEP)
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The CEP is a conglomerate of legislative, programmatic and institutional frameworks and entities working together in assisting the nations and territories of the Wider Caribbean Region to protect their marine and coastal environment and promote sustainable development.

Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI)
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The CEHI located in St. Lucia is engaged in laboratory services, information/ intelligence services, consultancy and training.

The Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
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The Caribbean Meteorological Institute was established in 1967 by the member states of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO). Its main function is “to assist in improving and developing the Meteorological and Hydrological Services as well as providing the awareness of the benefits of Meteorology and Hydrology for the economic well-being of the CIMH member states.”

Island Resources Foundation
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IRF is a private non- profit research and education organization founded in 1972. The Foundation specializes in providing development and environmental planning assistance to governments and private non-profit environmental organizations of small tropical islands.

The Nature Conservancy
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The Nature Conservancy is a leading international, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters that plants, animals and natural communities need to survive.

Caribbean Forest Conservation Association (CFCA)
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CFCA is an non-profit NGO and came into being out of concern for issues of deforestation as a result of the devastating forest fires in Trinidad in 1987. The organization “preserves the integrity, stability and beauty of forest ecosystems throughout the Caribbean by promoting the protection of biological diversity and sustainable uses of forest resources by their owners, managers and users.”

CARILEC
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A dynamic Caribbean Association of Electric Utilities and Energy Service Providers that works to build the efficiency and viability of its members and to support their efforts at improving the quality of life of Caribbean peoples, by delivering products and services that are relevant, cost-effective and of the highest quality.

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
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Coordinates the Caribbean region’s response to climate change. Addresses the impact of variability and change on all aspects of economic development through the provision of timely forecasts and analyses of potentially hazardous impacts of both natural and man-induced climatic changes on the environment. Develops special programs for sustainable development. Based in Belmopan, Belize.

Barbados

Environmental Special Projects Unit (ESPU)
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The Ministry of Health and the Environment established the ESPU in 1996. The ESPU works to integrate the natural and built environment through the recognition of past ideas, and by using them to convert projects into workable prospects. One of their working objectives is to protect the quality and integrity of ecosystems including air, water, land and animal components.

Cuba

Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras (CIP)
Spanish
Fishing Research Center MISSION to Investigate, to offer scientific services - technical and to carry out technological transfers on the management, cultivation and industrial prosecution of aquatic agencies, that favor socioeconomic benefits with sustainable criteria inside a plan of self-management and quality

The fishing grounds Investigations Center (CIP) was created in 1952, like company of investigations of the Department of the Industry fishing ground is blamed with the development of research Programs that permit to assess the producers in the sustainable use of the fishing resources.

Fundamental activities... Evaluation of fishing resources and its fluctuations. Development and improvement of biotécnicas of cultivation of marine species. Development and industrial prosecution technologies improvement of the captures. Establishment of programs for the preservation of marine tortoises in the Cuban archipelago. Code of the industry of processes and improvement of its technologies. Management of health in aquatic agencies. Formation of human resources in fisheries, cultivations, aquatic health, coastal management integrated and technology of fishing products. Development of software and services of scientific-technical information

Asociación Cubana de Producción Animal (ACPA)
Cuban Association of Animal Production
Spanish
Founded in 1974, the Cuban Association of Animal Production (ACPA) services the producers, researchers, teachers and technicians dealing with animal science and husbandry. ACPA encourages sustainable development programs in animal production and industrial processing, working to improve community living standards, strengthen food security, and environmental protection. To further these goals, their activities include both technological and academic research on improving animal production, and practical programs to develop animal production. ACPA's 400 grassroots organizations disseminate technological research, run training programs and other projects such as breeding centers which provide start-up materials for families to become small animal producers for family consumption, as well as on a cooperative and collective level. Their events include agricultural and livestock fairs and rodeos as well as scientific and technological conferences such as the combined International Commercial Agropastoral Fair and Pan-American Milk Congress held this March, which focused on feeding, reproduction and handling of calves, buffaloes, rabbits, birds, and pigs. ACPA's projects go beyond animal production, as it strives to addresses the problems in food production brought about by the US embargo and the Special Period on various fronts: urban gardening, organic agriculture, soil management, reforestation, water supply, and even housing construction. In the past ten years, ACPA has developed over 42 projects with NGOs from Europe and Canada.

Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP)
National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP)
Spanish
Founded in 1961 as a mass organization to represent the interests of small agriculturists, ANAP works in cooperation with numerous government ministries, including sugar, education, foreign trade, and culture, but has not received any government funding for over ten years. The organization has 232,000 members, of which 162,000 are private property owners who use its collective services and credit programs. The rest are small producers who work on agropastoral cooperatives. In addition to lobbying assembly and other government offices to obtain polices that benefit their constituencies, ANAP provides numerous resources to its farmers, from social security and retirement funds to various forms of technological assistance and equipment. Since its initiation, ANAP has worked in cooperation with international NGOs, mainly from Canada and Europe. In 1995, they began the Cuban Organic Agriculture Exchange Program with the US organization, the Institute for Food and Development Policy. Contact Information: Mavis Alverez, Director of International Cooperation, Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños, Calle 13, esq. 1 No. 206 Vedado; telephone/fax 32 8586; telephone: 53.7.33.4244; fax: 53.7.24.0591; e-mail: proyecto@anap.org.cu.

Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital
Group for the Integral Development of the Capital
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Founded in 1988, the GDIC addresses foremost issues of urbanity, working to preserve the historic patrimony of the city, address urban problems and promote responsible community and urban development. Their work centers on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Cuban capital, Havana. La Maqueta de la Habana, created and maintained by GDIC, is a city model with a surface area of 144 m2 representing 144 k m2 and took 12 years to produce. The model includes every building in Havana and serves as a reference tool, available to tours of students and senior citizens as well as to commercial and state urban developers. GDIC also conducts investigations on housing and urban development and plays an integral part in advising on new construction and urban projects within the city. Their upcoming International Seminar Toward A Sustainable Habitat: Challenges for the New Millennium, held in May, will address experiences in sustainable habitat around the world, their successes and failures as well as ways to facilitate implementation and possible alternatives for the future, focusing on built environment & social housing, community development, and local development. Contact Information: Migul Coyula, Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital, Calle 28 #113 entre 1 y 3, Miramar, Playa, Ciudad de la Habana; telephone: 53.7.22.7303, 22.2621; fax: 53.7.24.2661; e-mail: gdic@ceniai.inf.cu.

Hábitat Cuba
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Founded in 1974, Habitat-Cuba works on issues of self-help housing, urbanity, the environment, and other problem associated with the habitat. Currently 800,000 to 1,000,000 Cubans lack adequate housing, living either with family or in substandard construction. Habitat looks for alternative, sustainable, participatory solutions with equitable criteria though demonstrative practices of research development, training, documentation, communication, and technical advisory services. Habitat works with communities to create new housing while eradicating preexisting hazardous conditions and neighborhoods. While Cuba has sufficient labor resources, the embargo has resulted in a lack of building materials and other resources. Habitat-Cuba has relations with 50 international NGOs and not-for-profit organizations, which have provided financial and material aid. Habitat looks to these outside resources for assistance, but focuses its efforts on the production and use of local materials and adequate technologies. One recent initiative explored bamboo as an alternative to wood - a material in scarce supply, but needed in housing construction for windows and doors - developing the appropriate technology and planting bamboo groves for harvesting. Contact Information: Selma Díaz, President, Hábitat-Cuba, Ave. 7 #701, esq. a 41 Miramar, Playa; telephone: 53.7.22.7349, 24.0105; fax: 53.7.24.0105; e-mail: selma@habitat.get.cma.net.

Dominica

Dominica Conservation Association (DCA)
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The DCA is helping to turn around the nation's sensibilities and sensitivities about the environment, and preserving and coexisting with the land. These movements are slowly making the word 'environment' an everyday word by advocating the balancing of our man-made world with the natural one.

The Dominica Sustainable Energy Corporation (DSEC)
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Dominica Sustainable Energy Corporation Inc. envisions using renewable, affordable energy technologies to strengthen Dominica's self reliance, spur new high-tech jobs, promote economic development, help in protecting the environment and encourage research and development in all areas of sustainable energy in Dominica and the wider Caribbean.

Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology (ITME)
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ITME is a not-for-profit organization specializing in environmental research & tertiary education that offers academic programs in marine ecology, research and conservation, engaging students in the advancement of marine science. Contact information Box 944, Roseau, Dominica, W. I. Begonia Drive, Belfast, Dominica
Tel: (767) 449 3725; Fax: (801) 504 4369 Email: admin@itme.org

Dominica Youth Environmental Organization Inc.
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Its mission is to improve the quality of life among youth by facilitating their personal development and promoting their full involvement in all environmental issues, by coordinating activities and network with other organization to address the physical needs of the environment.

The organization also encourages and enhances the involvement of its members and society in general in the preservation of the natural environment. In this regard the organization supports and fosters education and training of youth where necessary to develop an awareness and acceptance of the responsibilities of citizenship. Contact; P.O. Box 780 # 3 Charles Avenue Roseau, Saint George, Dominica; Phone: (1) 767-245-3040; Fax: (1) 767-449-2160; Email: tor70@cwdom.dm

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Government-
Secretaría de Estado de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARN)
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The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources was established in 2000 and is now the only public institution responsible for environmental oversight and activity. Its mission is to apply a policy of integral State for the conservation, protection and regulation of the management of the natural resources and environment to reach the sustainable development of Dominican Republic. Particularly through its dependencies for natural resources (SURENA), fisheries (DRP), wildlife (DVS), land and water (DTA), and linkage with Plan Sierra—SEMARN was increasingly active in environmental areas.

SEMARN directs plans, supervises and controls the corresponding activities with regard to the conservation of grounds and waters in the hydrography of the nation. It elaborates norms, regulations and procedures that regulates, delimit and restrict the use of grounds and waters for agricultural aims, cattle, forest and construction of infrastructures. It prepares plans, programs and projects related to the handling and conservation of earth and waters to be executed in the different regions from the country. It grants concessions, permissions and licenses for the advantage of the natural resources. More

Plan Sierra
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Plan Sierra is a crossover institution with both public and private participation, a pioneering Dominican environmental institution, has had profound impacts on natural resources management in the northern central highlands. Plan Sierra has piloted the protection of natural parks and has averted the complete disappearance of the forests predicted for 1990 through a reforestation project started near San Jose de las Matas.

Grupo Jaragua
Spanish
The Jaragua Group, an NGO, cooperated with the DNP for research in the Jaragua National Park. Grupo Jaragua, Inc. is a nongovernmental organization without aims of profit founded on 1987. Its mission is to obtain the effective handling of the resources of the biodiversity of the Dominican Republic through the investigation and the development of projects to solve the problems of local conservation.

The Group puts special attention to the regional development of the areas protected through the processes of communitarian participation, mainly to the Park Nacional Jaragua and the communities bordering to this one. In order to obtain their goal the GJI works in collaboration with governmental organisms and other nongovernmental organizations, as well as with base groups. Contact: Grupo Jaragua Inc. Calle El Vergel # 36 Ensanche. El Vergel Santo Domingo, República Dominicana; Tel (809) 472-1036; Fax (809) 412-1667; E-Mail jaragua@tricom.net

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD)
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Global Foundation for Democracy and Development is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting collaboration between organizations in the United States and the Dominican Republic with an aim to study, research, enhance public understanding, design public policies, devise strategies, offer capacity building, and foster exchange in the areas crucial for the social, economic and democratic development of the Dominican Republic, Caribbean and Latin America. Together with its sister institution Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) in Santo Domingo, and in collaboration with its partners in the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe, designs and implements projects and programs that contribute to the social, economic and democratic development of the Dominican Republic and the Region.

The GFDD accomplishes its goals through research projects, training programs, academic exchange programs, publications, seminars and conferences, as well as joint US-DR task force efforts and development programs. It encourages intellectual and professional development of Dominican general audiences and experts, in the country and abroad, while working to offer viable action plans and solutions to domestic problems for the benefit of Dominicans residing in the Dominican Republic, the United States and Latin America. Contact: Calle Capitán Eugenio de Marchena #26, La Esperilla. Santo Domingo. República Dominicana. Teléfonos: (809) 685-9966, Fax: (809) 685-9926.

Grenada

Government of Grenada - National Biodiversity Strategy- Land and Water Resource Unit (LWRU)
Website - English
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The Government of Grenada has embarked upon the preparation of its Biological Diversity Strategy and Action Plan (GBSAP) in fulfillment of its obligation under the Convention on Biological Diversity and as part of the Government's renewed commitment to sustainable management of the country's natural resources. The actions recommended in this Strategy and Action Plan are not a wish list of all the policies, legislation, plans and programs that are needed for improvement in the various sectors of the country. A practical and easily measurable set of objectives with supporting activities for implementation over a 5-year period are proposed. The first phase project aimed at providing support to the Government of Grenada in the formulation of a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) in order to ensure the most effective use of the country's natural resources. Contact: Forestry Department (within the Ministry of Agriculture of Grenada)
Forestry Officer; Forestry and National Parks Department (FNPD) Queen's Park Saint George's Grenada; Tel.: 440-3934; Fax: 440-6197

Peregrine Fund
The Peregrine Fund is an organization founded in 1970 by Tom Cade who was then the Professor of Ornithology at Cornell University. The Peregrine Fund developed from the shared concern that the Peregrine Falcon might go extinct in the wild if nothing was done. Its initial work was to learn how to breed falcons in captivity, with the idea the young could be released in the wild to re-establish the Peregrine in the eastern United States where it was already gone and to bolster the greatly diminished western populations. Our name came from a financial account at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology--the peregrine fund account.

Grenada Community Development Agency (GRENCODA)
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GRENCODA is a legal registered indigenous not for profit, non -partisan, non governmental development Agency committed to development of Grenada's rural communities.

The agency was started in 1985, and was formally registered as a non profit organisation under the Grenada Companies Ordinance on 13th January, 1986. The registered office is located on Lower Depradine Street in Gouyave itn the Parish of St. John - one of the rural parishes located on the West Coast of Grenada.

The Agency exists "to provide guidance and support to rural individuals, families and communities to improve their quality of life. It does this by encouraging people's participation in community based initiatives, which will build self-reliance particularly among small farmers, low-income workers, women and youth."

Haiti

Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (ORE)
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ORE is a non-profit NGO, established in 1985, to improve environmental, agricultural and economic conditions in rural Haiti by promoting high revenue tree crops, improved seeds, and marketing programs.

ORE is working to improve environmental, agricultural and economic conditions in rural Haiti. Our development projects involve high revenue tree cropsy, improved seeds, cash crops and marketing programs. Working directly with farmers, we are able to provide practical solutions to deforestation and subsistence farming. We offer commercial quality plant materials and the technical assistance needed for successful production and marketing.

The key goals of ORE development projects in Haiti are to increase farmer income, produce nutritionally enhanced food, and to improve the environment with commercial fruit trees. Practical agricultural training and hands-on technical assistance are essential means to achieve these goals. The three core development projects we have developed to achieve these goals are improved seeds, high value tree crops, and vegetable and tuber crops.ORE is also involved in variety of activities designed to improve the quality of life in rural Haiti. These include protection of drinking water systems, promoting schools and low cost housing projects in areas threatened by environmental degradation. Contact: Haitian address: O.R.E. B.P. 2314, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

PANOS
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The Panos Institute Caribbean is a regional organization that works to strengthen civil society by helping journalists to cover sustainable development issues that are overlooked and misunderstood, in particular those whose impact transcends national boundaries.

Panos coordinates seminars and production of print, broadcast and electronic materials on themes such as child rights, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, gender issues and community solutions to development challenges. Panos undertakes these activities in partnerships with local and regional associations, journalists and NGOs.

Additionally, Panos fosters regional alliances and cross-border collaboration among journalists. Panos Caribbean, through investigative teams, targets trans-border issues, collaborating both on the ground and via electronic networks. Panos allows reporters to work across political and language borders and produce new perspectives on under-reported stories. Contact: Panos Caribbean Main Office: 51 Route du Canapé-Vert, B.P. 1595 HT, 6110 Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Tel: (509) 511-1460 / 213-6864; Email: haiti@panoscaribbean.org

Fondation Haitienne de L'Environnement (FHE)
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The Haitian Environmental Foundation (FHE) was created in October 1999 as a private, nonprofit organization responding to the need to seek long-term financing for environmental activities in Haiti. To date, the organization has focused on its institutional development and has financed projects totaling US $31,000 beginning in 2003.

FHE designs specific projects with the assistance of external consultants. Once the projects are designed, the organization issues public calls for proposals in order to select implementing organizations. Since 2003, FHE has supported three projects totaling $31,000 in the areas of environmental education, sustainable energy, and biodiversity conservation and management. The principal criteria applied in project design are: (1) global impact; (2) consistency with the National Environment Action Plan, (3) one- year implementation period, and (4) counterpart support by the implementing organization, amounting to 25% of the project.

To select implementing organizations, FHE established a Project Selection Committee to evaluate proposals and select finalists. The Board makes the final decision. To date, there has been neither monitoring nor evaluation; methods for doing this are in design, and expected to be applied in 2004. FHE has not developed methods for evaluating the impact of its projects or their sustainability after funding ends. Contact: Haitian Environmental Foundation; Gerard Xavier, Executive Director; 42 bis, Rue Magny, Pétion-Ville, Haití; Tel/fax: (509) 257-1988 /510-8480; e-mail: FHE_Haití@yahoo.com

Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversite Marine (FoProBim)
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FoProBiM's objectives include: (i) raising awareness concerning needed changes in regulations and attitudes concerning the environment in general and the marine environment in particular; (ii) increasing knowledge and capabilities at the government, community and individual levels in order to make sustainable improvements in the coastal and marine environment and the lives of people, and (iii) to conduct educational programs as well as scientific research, including environmental monitoring, in order to promote a better understanding, and through this, improved management of resources. Through hands-on activities we create the settings in which people can learn how the marine and coastal environments are being negatively impacted, as well as how they can develop solutions to the problems they find.

Operation Green Leaves Inc.
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Operation Green Leaves is dedicated to the environmental Education of the Haitian Community and the reforestation of Haiti. Operation Green Leaves is committed to working at the grass-root level with the Haitian people to help them create a sustainable environment and promote economic development in affected areas of Haiti. Contact: PO Box 5253; Coral gables, Florida1.877 85 trees 305 644 9000 email: Nadine@oglhaiti.org

Jamaica

National Environment And Planning Agency (NEPA)
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NEPA is a new Executive Agency of the Ministry of land and the Environment that became operational in 2001. It focuses on promoting sustainable development by ensuring protection of the environment and orderly development in Jamaica through highly motivated staff performing at the highest standard.

Jamaica Environment Trust
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The Jamaica Environment Trust is a non-profit, non-governmental membership organization operating in the island of Jamaica. The Trust was formed in 1991 and the main focus is on environmental education and advocacy. They promote awareness of environmental issues, as they are critical building blocks of sustainable development.

St. Kitts and Nevis

Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Environment
English
The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis (GOSKN) places a high priority on the conservation and sustainable use of its natural resources and the resulting economic well being of the Federation. The tourism and sugar-based economy, together with the relatively small, fragile ecosystem - from high mountain forests to coastal and marine areas creates a special need for understanding the potential impacts of global climate change.
The environmental legislative base of SKN was put in place with the passage of the National Conservation and Environment Protection Act (NCEPA) in 1987 and has since been strengthened by the development of a National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) in 1994.

The National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP) analyses the environmental issues affecting St. Kitts and Nevis in a comprehensive, multi-sectoral framework and sets forth a long-term strategy for maintaining the country's natural environment, the health and safety of its population, and its cultural heritage as economic development occurs The NEAP deals with broad issues such as pollution, urban planning, renewable natural resources, tourism and biodiversity conservation. In proposing practical measures to forestall or remedy environmental problems, the analysis considers cross-sectoral links that affect renewable and nonrenewable resources, as well as human activity. The objective is to set forth a long term national environmental policy and investment strategy based on comprehensive environmental analysis.

Nevis Historical and Conservation Society
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NHCS is one of the most respected and active organizations of its kind in the Caribbean. It was established in 1980 to conserve the natural, cultural and historic fabric of the Island of Nevis and her surrounding sea for all its people. The Society is a nonprofit organization whose sources of income include endowments and pledges, Nevis Island Government, admission fees, donations, grants, business and corporations, Museum Shoppe sales, fundraising events and membership fees. Contact: PO Box 563; Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies; Phone: 1-865-465-5786; Fax: 1-869-469-0274.

Island Resources Foundation (IRF)
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The IRF is a Caribbean-based non-profit, non-governmental organization. Island Resources Foundation is a private, non-profit research and education organization with offices in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and Washington DC. Founded by Dr. Ed Towle in 1972, the Foundation is dedicated to solving the environmental problems of development in small tropical islands. The Foundation's revenues are derived primarily from a combination of externally funded grants and contracts. Donor organizations have included the U.S. Government, the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands (the Foundation's home base since 1972), international agencies, Caribbean regional agencies, and private foundations and other non-governmental organizations. Contact: 123 Main Street, Box 3097 Road Town, Tortola, British islands, Phone 284/494-2723 E-Mail: irf-at-irf.org

St. Lucia

St. Lucia’s National Climate Change Website
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The National Climate Change website serves to provide up to date information on climate change and other related issues nationally as well as at the regional and global levels.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Ministry of Health and the Environment
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The Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has declared the 1990s as the "Decade of the Environment." To that end, the portfolio of the Ministry of Health was extended to include the environment, and the Ministry became known as the Ministry of Health and the Environment; a new Environmental Services Coordinator post was created in 1995, with responsibility for coordinating all national plans and activities related to environmental protection and preservation; and a National Environmental Advisory Board was appointed by the Cabinet in 1995 to advise the Minister on policies and programs aimed at the environmental protection.

In responding to these challenges, the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has committed itself to addressing environmental concerns as a matter of priority. The Environmental Coordinating Unit in the Ministry of Health and the Environment has been strengthened and now works in tandem with the National Environmental Advisory Board, Community Based Organization (NGOs) and the Steering Committee of the UNCCD. This harmonized vision supports ministerial mandates and government's policy as expressed in the National Physical Development Plan. Contact: Government Post Office, Ministerial Building Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Tel: +784 457 2807

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The Eastern Caribbean Coalition for Environmental Awareness (ECCEA)
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The ECCA is an independent non-profit making organization, founded in 1995. Its priority action is to coordinate and implement regional conservation programs and the development and preparation of project proposals for national environmental and non-governmental organizations, grass roots movements and communities. These are articulated into common themes specific to the needs of small island states and their ecology. Projects are designed to integrate an environmental dimension into the sustainable development process of the islands and contribute positively to their economic growth. Education; skills training and capacity building are seen as key elements for such initiatives to succeed.
ECCEA has observer status at UN and International Conventions that govern the environment, wildlife, sustainable development and tourism. The Coalition recognizes that in the interest of global cooperation governments, NGO's, civil society and the media have key roles to play in correcting existing imbalances in global environment negotiations.

Trinidad and Tobago

BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT)
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BPTT’s contribution to reducing 2003 greenhouse gas emissions by 53%. BPTT is united around a vision of environmental leadership and recognizes that the challenge to develop cleaner energy must be met. They are committed to the proactive and responsible treatment of our planet’s natural resources.

Asa Wright Nature Center and Lodge (AWNC)
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The AWNC has traditionally been a leader among the conservation NGOs with respect to conservation education and research in Trinidad and Tobago, through support of environmental publications, posters, school tours, tropical ecology research and community outreach programmes.

Environmental Management Authority (EMA)
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The EMA is the statutory body created by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to address the country’s crucial environmental problems. The EMA is committed to protecting and conserving the natural environment to enhance the quality of life by promoting: environmentally responsible behavior, development and enforcement of environmental legislation, encouragement of voluntary compliance, the use of economic and other incentives.

Environment Tobago
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Environment Tobago is an NGO established in 1996 in order to protect and restore Tobago’s fragile environment. Its primary objective is to conserve Tobago's natural and living resources and advances the knowledge and understanding of such resources, their wise and sustainable use, and their essential relationship to human health and the quality of life."

Buccoo Reef Trust
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The Buccoo Reef Trust is a non- profit organization specifically created to assist in addressing the threats facing Tobago’s marine environment and to explore opportunities for the sustainable development of marine tourism, fishing and aquaculture in the Caribbean region as a whole.

Trinidad and Tobago Orchid Society (TTOS)
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TTOS was founded in 1956 and is an amateur non-profit society. It is an affiliated society of the American Orchid Society. The objectives of the organization are to provide education, cultivation and conservation.