VRCP Profile

The St. Lucia VRCP allows Saint Lucia to identify and assess its current vulnerabilities and areas of resilience, including the prioritization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & Samoa Pathway under the following thematic areas:

 

 

The VRCP Map is a numerical score for each priority theme based on a qualitative assessment, which is presented graphically. It is expected that the scores and the VRCP Map can help Saint Lucia understand the situation in terms of vulnerability and resilience and “quickly grasp” the relationship (imbalance/discrepancy/mismatch) between vulnerability and resilience for the different areas of the Samoa Pathway and corresponding SDGs.   This helps to make more informed decisions, prioritizing certain thematic areas in terms of priorities and resource allocation. The Map can also be useful in raising awareness of donors and mobilizing resources for development (reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience). The importance of VRCP Map is that it identifies and displays, within a single graph, vulnerability and corresponding resilience scores - based on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score - for each of the thematic areas.  It is, however, important to be able to interpret and justify the Map to the senior policy-makers and potential development partners.