The small island Caribbean country of Saint Lucia faces major challenges to ensure its future prosperity. Central to addressing these challenges is the country’s infrastructure, which provides services including energy, water, transport, waste management and flood protection. In response, Saint Lucia has developed a framework for a “National Infrastructure Assessment”, which equips decision-makers in government with a robust approach to infrastructure planning.
This case study illustrates Guiding Principle 1: Strategic Planning and is part of a series of ten case studies which aim to inform the forthcoming wave of global infrastructure investment. Collectively, they specify and demonstrate how environmental, social and economic sustainability must be integrated right across infrastructure policymaking at the systems-level. The individual principles and case studies were developed via ongoing global consultation and inputs from experts and UN Member States, as part of implementation of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) Resolution 4/5 on Sustainable Infrastructure.
These publications have been made possible by the financial support of the Global Environment Facility, the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy.
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