The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries

COUNTRY INDICATOR ANALYSIS

a)

Energy units in the lead government ministries have the responsibility to develop appropriate linkages and relationships with the funding agencies to build projects of interest to attract funds. This happens now but to varying degrees of success. Funding agencies do have criteria that guide their interests towards certain type of projects and ministries would do well to develop their capacity to pursue and mobilize such funds. The capacity gap for this stakeholder group is shown in Figure 4.17 below. It shows that this stakeholder group in most countries’ performance fell below their potential to deliver their mandate. That is, they did not deliver as much of their mandate as they could achieve.

GOVERNMENT POTENTIAL VS PERFORMANCE

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Haiti

Belize

Guyana

Jamaica

St. Lucia

Grenada

Bahamas

Barbados

Dominica

Suriname

St. Kitts & Nevis

Trinidad & Tobago

Antigua & Barbuda

Dominican Republic

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

GOVERNMENT POTENTIAL

GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE

Figure 4.17 | Potential Vs Performance for Government

The Renewable Energy Industry in CARIFORUM Countries

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