THE cooperation between the Governments of Saint Lucia and Mexico for a project to build capacity in the design and update of coastline geographic information through the Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AMEXCID) is nearing completion.
This capacity building initiative included a series of online training programmes geared to broaden the skills base set of technical personnel from the Ministries of Agriculture, Physical Development, Infrastructure, Home Affairs, Equity, Finance and Office of the Prime Minister, as well as the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, The Water Resource Management Agency and the National Emergency Management Organisation.
The Project to Strengthen Saint Lucia’s Capacities for the Design and Update of the Coastline Geographic Information – Technical and Scientific Programme between Saint Lucia and Mexico, helped the trainees to develop competencies in the areas of;
• Register of Continental and Insular Geographic Names;
• Geographical Names of the Underwater Relief Forms;
• Digital Elevation Models;
• Coastline Generation;
• Generation of Digital Elevation Models; and
• Bathymetric Information.
The final installment of training, will be held face to face and will focus on the use of Quantum GIS (QGIS) which is an open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data.
The said training is scheduled to take place from September 25 to 29, starting at 8:30am in the Conference room of the Ministry of External Affairs.