Share this post: INVITATION TO TENDER – GEF 6 – Integrated Ecosystems Management and Restoration of Forests in the South East Coast Project INVITATION The Government of Saint Lucia, through the Department of Sustainable Development (Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development), is inviting consultants to submit tenders for a consultancy to undertake a detailed socio-economic profile of the communities in the South East Coast to provide agribusiness support services. Project Location Saint Lucia, with particular focus on the South East Coast, from Mandele Point in Dennery to Laborie. TERMS OF REFERENCE 1.0 BACKGROUND 1.1 Integrated Ecosystem Management and Restoration of Forests on the South East Coast of Saint Lucia project is aimed at developing ecosystems management systems and practices, restoring productive landscapes and enabling sustainable socio-economic development by creating avenues for sustainable livelihood in the communities in the South East Coast region of the island. The main problem that the project seeks to address is the lack of integrated protection hectares and sustainable management of ecosystems. This area encompasses some of the island’s dry forest ecosystems, namely, the Mandele Dry Forest, which is critical to the continued survival of some of its threatened endemic species and sub-species such as the White-Breasted Thrasher, Saint Lucia Oriole, Saint Lucia Black Finch, the Saint Lucia Pewee, the Antillean Euphonia, Bridled quail dove, Grey Trembler, three hummingbird species and possibly the Rufous Nightjar (Bird Life International, 2018). Other non- bird biodiversity that can be found in this area are the agouti, the boa constrictor and the fer-de-lance. Point Sables, another key biodiversity area found in the South East Coast is approximately 774 hectares and is home to at least thirty-two bird species (cite Robert L Norton 1989), five endemic species of herpetofauna, two of which are only found in Saint Lucia; they are The Saint Lucia racer and the Saint Lucia whiptail.