What works in Saint Lucia
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Evidence snapshot for Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia has undergone significant digital and economic transformation in recent years. High-quality, low-cost connectivity reached over 78% of the population by the end of the digital transformation project, up from 53% in 2020, while monthly data costs fell from US$3.50 to US$2.23, and over 11,000 people across the OECS region completed IT/ITES certifications with employment rates up to 65% and average salary increases of around 19%. The country has also launched initiatives to address gender-based violence and women's economic resilience, with 42.3% of female-headed households living in poverty serving as a baseline for the Build Back Equal programme, which established Saint Lucia's first National GBV Task Force in December 2024. Additionally, a blue-economy initiative supporting Algas Organics, a Sargassum-seaweed processing company, created 32 new jobs, including 20 for women.
Drawn from: Caribbean Digital Transformation Project: Closing the Connectivity and Skills Gap in Saint Lucia · Build Back Equal: Saint Lucia's National GBV Task Force & Women's Economic Resilience Programme · Turning Invasive Sargassum into Jobs — Compete Caribbean's Backing for Saint Lucia's Algas Organics · Educators Writing Their Own Rules — The Eastern Caribbean's Co-Developed AI Curriculum, Policy and Code of Conduct for Teacher Education · The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund: A Regional Endowment for Protected Areas · InnovaChat — the OECS Commission's AI Assistant for Regional Citizen Enquiries · Soufrière Marine Management Area — User-Financed Co-Managed Reserve Network
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +49 pts 100 here · 51 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +29 pts 67 here · 37 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +25 pts 67 here · 42 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Innovation level +17 pts 80 here · 63 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +10 pts 89 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of impact / measured public value -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -14 pts 17 here · 31 average
Scalability & sustainability -19 pts 44 here · 64 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of learning impact -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -33 pts 17 here · 50 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Evaluated outcomes -85 pts 0 here · 85 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Saint Lucia. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Caribbean Digital Transformation Project: Closing the Connectivity and Skills Gap in Saint Lucia · 92
Build Back Equal: Saint Lucia's National GBV Task Force & Women's Economic Resilience Programme · 74
Turning Invasive Sargassum into Jobs — Compete Caribbean's Backing for Saint Lucia's Algas Organics · 62
The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund: A Regional Endowment for Protected Areas · 53
InnovaChat — the OECS Commission's AI Assistant for Regional Citizen Enquiries · 40
Soufrière Marine Management Area — User-Financed Co-Managed Reserve Network · 33
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Saint Lucia concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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