Protecting Our Watersheds and Coastal Areas (2011)

In this publication, you will find a series of tools which can be used to empower groups and communities to take matters into their own hands, in relation to water management. The publication has been designed to be highly interactive, taking advantage of the latest technology and recognizing that today’s youth need a different type of stimulation, if they are to show interest in environmental education.

 The publication is engaging, visual, and informative. It encourages and facilitates group activities and sharing of ideas, towards identifying solutions to common water resource management problems of SIDS. It is however not an academic text book. Nor is it designed for technocrats. It focuses primarily on communities and schools and seeks to make science “fun”. It also uses real-life examples from the Caribbean region to bring the topics “downto-earth”. This guideline document, although prepared with the Caribbean in mind, can be used in other SIDS regions, as a reference document when engaging groups in discussions on water management. 

It has been produced through the Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management in Caribbean SIDS (IWCAM) Project with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It is however a “work in progress” and can be improved or otherwise augmented by others over time. The GEF, through support for development of tools and aids such as this, seeks to promote collaboration in order to address issues of global significance. It is our hope that this publication contributes to the global effort to improve management of water and coastal areas.

Area of interest: Grenada

Year: 2011