Trusting the Process of a
New Strategic Plan for the
Saint Lucia National Trust
T
he key findings from
months of small group
meetings, an online survey
that was open to the public
and one-on-one interviews on the
path to a new Strategic Plan for the
Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT)
was shared with Councilors and
staff of the heritage conservation
organization on June 18, 2019 at
Bay Gardens Hotel, in Rodney Bay,
Saint Lucia.
According to Yves Renard,
Consultant on the development
of the new Strategic Plan for
the SLNT, the session was useful
as staff and Councilors got an
opportunity “to first agree on what
would be the Table of Contents,
the main elements that we want
to cover in this Strategic Plan and
then the programming framework
-- what are the big things we want
to achieve over the next 10 years,
and the results we want to get.”
The next step is the drafting of the
plan which allows Renard to “put
flesh” on the structure of the Plan
and present a draft to members of
the Trust at the end of July 2019.
SLNT’s Chairperson, Alison
King, said: “We’ve done quite a
lot of engagement outside of
the membership with a view to
understanding what it is the public
expects of the Trust and how the
public perceives the Trust. We see
that we have a lot of work to do
in getting the general public more
involved with what we do and why
we do it, helping us and sharing
that responsibility by taking action
to advance our mandate.”
“The Strategy looks at, among
other things, how is it that we can
mobilize that kind of support at all
levels of the society,” she said.
ABOUT THE SLNT: The Saint Lucia
National Trust is a membership
organization established in 1975 under
King added that the Trust on its
own is a small organization, hence
the reliance on partnerships with
other agencies, communities and
community groups to take action.
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the Saint Lucia National Trust Act,
Chapter 6.02 of the Revised Laws of
Saint Lucia to conserve the natural and
cultural heritage of Saint Lucia, and to
promote values which lead to national
pride and love of country.
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