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Electoral constituency N · East

Micoud North

Area covered

A long east-coast seat from Praslin and Mon Repos through Patience and Micoud town to the Troumassee River boundary. It links coastal fishing/sea-moss communities, agricultural hinterland and Micoud's principal town services.

2022 household population
8,097
provisional Census
Private households
3,102
2022 Census
2010–22 reported change
+16.0%
household population
Named community entries
34
official descriptions and polling records

“Household population” is not total resident population. It counts people recorded in private households in the provisional 2022 constituency tables and excludes people outside private households.

Read this number carefully

Use the provisional Table 7/A.8 headline: 8,097 people in private households and 3,102 private households. Table A.10 prints 3,105 households, while its visible settlement rows sum to about 8,095 people and 3,101 households and several sex subtotals do not reconcile. Settlement rows are indicative only. Micoud district, Agriculture Region 4, facility catchments and polling divisions are different units and are not constituency estimates.

How to read this profile

Facts, analysis and open questions are kept separate. A proxy is a stand-in from a different geography. A project announcement is not proof of completion or results. Questions are prompts for local checking, not findings of neglect.

The short read

What stands out in Micoud North?

Local economy

What supports work and livelihoods

  • Agriculture is a major district livelihood, including crop and livestock production; the census documents extensive agricultural activity for Micoud district but does not allocate current output or jobs between North and South.
  • Praslin's fishing and sea-moss activity supports primary production, value-added food/cosmetic products and community-event potential. Current production, earnings and producer counts were not found.
  • Micoud town and Mon Repos provide public services, schools, health care, retail, transport and small-business employment for the eastern corridor.
  • Praslin Protected Landscape, Frigate Island Nature Reserve and Mamiku/Praslin heritage/nature assets offer low-impact community-tourism potential, subject to conservation and local benefit sharing.
  • No current constituency inventory of major private employers, business employment, farm/fish/sea-moss output or visitor expenditure was found.
  • Praslin is a trial site for lower-impact floating sea-moss methods within a wider national programme. National farmer and training counts are not Praslin totals; local production, quality, income and buyer results remain unreported.
Strengths

What this area can build on

  • Micoud town is a service centre with a modern wellness facility, secondary school and road access serving a broad east-coast catchment.
  • Agriculture, fishing, sea moss, protected landscapes and heritage assets provide multiple locally rooted economic bases rather than a single-sector economy.
  • Water investment has mobilized regional finance and a clearly defined ten-community service package.
  • The Praslin coast, Fond River–Patience water system, Mon Repos service node, Micoud town institutions and farm belt form a connected east-coast platform with national food, water, health and biodiversity value.
  • Current official water, sea-moss and ecosystem-planning records provide unusually clear targets and site roles, creating an accountability base even where operating results are still missing.
Pressure points

What needs attention

  • Sargassum creates recurring livelihood, amenity and health costs along the Praslin/southeast coast, with no published local service standard for removal or safe handling.
  • Several capital projects lack a located final completion or operating-performance report, making it difficult to distinguish substantial completion from fully functioning service.
  • WASCO classifies the Patience redevelopment as in progress and targets reliable service by 31 December 2026, but commissioning, pressure, continuity, quality and loss results are not yet established.
  • The 2022 Census reported 13.7% unemployment in the wider Micoud administrative district, including 13.0% male and 14.5% female. These are contextual district rates, not Micoud North estimates.
  • Sargassum, storms, swells, dry-season scarcity and wet-season turbidity can affect coastal livelihoods, roads, farms, water and health services together.

The numbers in context

Population, participation, local action and source types.

Household populationProvisional Census comparison
20106,982
20228,097

+16.0% reported change

Official published turnoutPublished-register denominator · constituency and 17-seat median
Micoud North50.5%17-seat median50.5%

4,080 ballots cast against 8,085 published register entries. Register-quality concerns can affect this denominator; do not read the comparison as a resident-adult participation estimate. Why this matters →

Local action tracker13 constituency-linked records in this research base
Delivered or operating3
In progress5
Planned or funded2
Status needs checking3

Status labels organise the record. They do not score performance.

Source types39 records linked on this page
Official / primary
26
Institutional / older
11
Specialist / community
2
Other / needs checking
0

These labels show where each source came from. They do not score whether a project worked.

Micoud North intelligence brief

A growing coast–catchment–service corridor at a delivery inflection point.

SLPA synthesis · evidence reviewed 27 August 2026. The boundary includes Praslin, Mon Repos, Patience, La Pointe and Micoud town; wider Micoud and Region 4 facts are not silently imported.

Observed trajectory6,982 → 8,097private-household population · 2010 to 2022

+16.0% is an observed provisional Census-table change, not a forecast. The strategic question is whether unfinished capital becomes reliable water and services while farms, fisheries, sea moss, heritage and biodiversity retain productive value.

SLPA synthesis
Functional corridorFour connected operating zones.Schematic dependency view—not a map, scale or administrative boundary.
01Working coastPraslin Bay · sea moss · protected islands

Livelihoods, landing access, habitat and seasonal sargassum

02Service + heritageMamiku · Mon Repos · Lombard

Wellness, schools, farms, heritage and corridor access

03Source + productionFond River · Patience · La Pointe · La Tille

Water intake, treatment, storage, farms and dry-season stress

04Town anchorMicoud town · highway · Troumassee link

Health, education, emergency, retail, jetty and transport services

The diagram is read from the Praslin coast through Mon Repos and Patience to Micoud town. It shows functional dependencies only.

01National natural asset
Blue economy + biodiversity

Praslin Bay, island and protected landscape

Fishing and sea-moss livelihoods sit beside dry forest, seagrass and offshore habitat of national importance. Praslin is also a trial site for lower-impact floating sea-moss systems; site-level producer results remain unpublished.

02Critical infrastructure
Water + public health

Fond River–Patience–Lombard system

The intake, treatment plant, pump station, mains and reservoir are intended to serve ten communities. The current test is commissioning and sustained household service—not construction percentage alone.

03Service node
Health + access

Mon Repos service catchment

The wellness centre sits on the main east-coast corridor near schools, community facilities and shops. Its published catchment reaches roughly 2,975 people, but renovation completion and current operating performance still need verification.

04Regional anchor
Town + emergency services

Micoud town service hub

The wellness centre, secondary school, fire post, police station, jetty, shops and public transport make Micoud a strategic east-coast anchor. Reliable hours, staffing, backup utilities and route continuity determine its real reach.

05Productive landscape
Food + climate resilience

Patience–La Pointe–La Tille farm belt

Crop and livestock activity, rivers and the La Tille rainwater/drip pilot connect water management to food supply and income. Region 4 statistics span both Micoud seats, so local output and producer counts remain a data gap.

06Living heritage
Heritage + visitor value

Mamiku, La Tille and Sesenne heritage

Gardens, waterfall and forest experiences, historic estate landscapes and the legacy of Dame Marie “Sesenne” Descartes can support a locally retained visitor circuit if access, safety, habitat limits and benefit sharing are explicit.

Scope lock: Agriculture Region 4 spans both Micoud constituencies, while the South-East Coast ecosystem programme extends well beyond Micoud North. Their totals are context, not local counts. Check the official constituency description ↗

Current decision · Patience water

The project is in progress. The next threshold is verified service.

Current official WASCO record · not commissioned service. WASCO states an outcome target of 31 December 2026 while the same page retains an older March 2025 estimate and a TBC completion field.

Latest authoritative classificationIn progressWASCO projects-in-progress register · reviewed 27 August 2026
Known now
Engineering scope, service communities, capacity and targets are public.
Still unproven
Commissioning, sustained pressure, quality, continuity, losses and household results.
Next evidence
Acceptance tests plus zone results through dry and wet operating periods.
Open the project ledger
Estimated people served≈4,700

WASCO project estimate

Customer accounts1,729

across ten communities

Treatment capacity1,200 m³/day

two packaged units

New mains22.8 km

published HDPE scope

Lombard storage150k gal

568 m³ reservoir

Published targets—not achieved resultsThree numbers for the commissioning scorecard.Every target needs a dated baseline method and post-commissioning operating series.
Non-revenue water56% → 35%
Published baseline · 56%
Target · 35%

Baseline and target published by WASCO; local measurement method should be disclosed.

Turbidity disruption44 → 4 days/year
Published baseline · 44 days
Target · 4 days

About a 91% target reduction; not a report of current performance.

Shortage disruption−90%
Published baseline · 100%
Target · 10% of baseline

Target reduction in annual shortage-related disruption days.

Gate 1 · financedInitial + supplementary CDF support

Official public values vary as scope and finance evolved. Preserve each source-dated figure; do not collapse them into false precision.

Gate 2 · active worksFond River intake, pump, plant, mains and reservoir

WASCO reports construction and procurement activity. “In progress” is the current defensible stage.

Gate 3 · commissioningHydraulic, quality, power and operator tests

Acceptance requires the connected system—not isolated components—to pass under realistic demand.

Gate 4 · service proofPressure, continuity, quality and losses by zone

Publish household and critical-facility results across dry and wet periods before calling the outcome achieved.

Schedule and value caution: official project pages contain evolving cost figures—from a US$1.462m component table to roughly US$2m or US$2.1m after supplementary financing—and inconsistent completion fields. This profile reports the range and the current stage; it does not invent a reconciled contract value.

Read WASCO’s current project record ↗Read the WASCO progress update ↗Current supply-management notice ↗Open SLPA’s water review →

Praslin coast + blue economy

A cleanup is only successful when the whole operating chain is safe.

National equipment deployment and local procurement signals are inputs. No public Praslin series yet establishes response time, worker exposure, fisher downtime, load destination or ecological outcome.

  1. 01Forecast + confirm

    Turn regional forecasts into local shoreline checks and documented dispatch triggers.

  2. 02Protect people

    Use trained crews, PPE, heat controls and hydrogen-sulphide monitoring where decomposition warrants it.

  3. 03Keep access open

    Protect fisher lanes, the jetty, boats, fuel movement, residents and emergency routes.

  4. 04Remove carefully

    Match method and timing to beach, habitat and decomposition state; record sand loss and downtime.

  5. 05Transport + destination

    Trace every load, prevent road spills and leachate, and use a lawful receiving site.

  6. 06Verify effects

    Publish cost, volume, response time, health incidents, fisher access, complaints and habitat observations.

Known local foundation

Jetty access + sea-moss capability

  • Micoud’s wooden jetty and washroom were inaugurated in June 2024.
  • Praslin was a trial site for lower-anchor floating sea-moss methods.
  • Women-led Praslin producers have demonstrated an export pathway.
Do not overclaim

National counts are not Praslin counts

  • More than 130 sea-moss farmers across four associations is a national programme figure.
  • More than 50 farmers trained is also national, not a Praslin result.
  • Equipment presence does not establish response, safety, disposal or livelihood performance.
Highest-value next evidence

One seasonal operating ledger

  • Producer volume, loss, quality, buyers and net income.
  • Sargassum dispatch, load, cost, destination and incidents.
  • Fisher-access days, jetty condition, seagrass and island biosecurity.
Read the 2026 sea-moss update ↗Read the national equipment record ↗Open SLPA’s sargassum sentinel →

People, distribution and trajectory

Growth is clear; the settlement cross-tab is indicative, not exact.

Headline values use the provisional Census constituency table. Derived indicators are labelled SLPA arithmetic. District utility and labour figures remain broader proxies.

2022 rank#11 of 17

by provisional household population

Absolute change+1,115

household residents · 2010–22

Mean household size≈2.61

SLPA arithmetic · 8,097 ÷ 3,102

Reported area20.83 sq mi

about 53.95 km² · conversion derived

Derived density≈389

household residents per sq mi

Official electoral organizationN1 to N5 corridor

Polling divisions organise elections; they are not Census settlements or service zones.

  1. N1Praslin VillageCoast and landing
  2. N2Mamiku · Mon Repos · Lombard · Mt EoleService and heritage node
  3. N3Patience · La Pointe · Malgretoute + four named areasWater and farm corridor
  4. N4Micoud Village North · Mahaut · La Teille + six named areasTown north and connections
  5. N5Micoud Village South + thirteen named areasTown south to boundary
Indicative provisional settlement cross-tabNine largest published rowsPopulation · published labels preserved · rows do not fully reconcile
Village – Micoud2,124
La Pointe – Micoud1,265
Mon Repos1,212
Micoud771
Praslin623
Patience599
Lombard322
New Village – Micoud299
Volet269
Proxy boundary

The 2022 Census reported 13.7% unemployment in the wider Micoud administrative district: 13.0% male and 14.5% female. It is an internally coherent contextual proxy, not a Micoud North rate. The page withholds the CSO’s 2025 district sex comparison from headline analysis because its published total and sex rates do not reconcile with the same table family’s labour-force counts.

Scenario A · reliability-driven hub

Capital becomes a productive platform.

Water is commissioned and measured; facilities operate; farms and coastal enterprises reach buyers; habitat and land-use limits hold.

Leading signs
  • Water targets become verified service results
  • Local income and buyer measures rise with asset uptime
  • Health, school, shelter and access continuity improve
Scenario B · asset-rich continuation

Buildings improve, service remains uneven.

Projects reach physical milestones while staffing, maintenance, pressure, transport, buyer access and public reporting lag.

Leading signs
  • More delivered labels without operating measures
  • Household coping and service complaints persist
  • Training and equipment lack placement or income evidence
Scenario C · option loss

Climate exposure compounds weak operations.

Demand outruns water performance, emergency work crowds out prevention and coastal or hillside commitments precede ecological evidence.

Leading signs
  • Fixed investments before commissioning or habitat gates
  • Repeated sargassum, road and source disruptions
  • Rising public liabilities with falling local option value

These are decision scenarios, not forecasts. They identify observable signs that should alter sequencing, investment and operating choices.

Improved policy programme

Eight packages with operating measures and scale/stop gates.

These are SLPA proposals for co-design—not adopted policy. Costing, legal review, institutional capacity checks and resident validation are required before commitment.

Strengths

A diversified east-coast base

  • Agriculture, fishing, sea moss, heritage, health, education and town services reduce dependence on one sector.
  • The Patience project has named service communities, engineering components and public outcome targets.
  • Micoud and Mon Repos provide a decentralised health, school, emergency and community-service spine.
  • Praslin and Mon Repos sit within active biodiversity and land-use planning work.
Weaknesses

Capital is ahead of operating proof

  • Water interruptions and turbidity are documented, while commissioning and service results are not yet public.
  • A long, dispersed corridor raises transport, drainage, utility and facility-access costs.
  • Several assets have an inauguration or percentage-complete record but no current use, condition or maintenance series.
  • Constituency employment, income, business, farm, fisheries and visitor-spend data are missing.
Opportunities

Turn separate assets into one platform

  • Use WASCO’s own water targets as a public commissioning and operating contract.
  • Join sea-moss methods, tenure, quality, processing and buyer access while protecting seagrass and island biosecurity.
  • Connect farm water, extension, aggregation, standards, feeder access and contracted buyers.
  • Build a small-scale heritage and nature circuit with published local revenue shares and ecological limits.
Threats

Climate shocks can disable several systems together

  • Dry-season scarcity and wet-season turbidity can alternate at the same water source.
  • Storms, swells, warming and sargassum can disrupt fishing, sea moss, roads, health and visitor activity at once.
  • Habitat conversion, extraction, pollution and invasive species can erase water and coastal option value.
  • Maintenance finance, operators, inspectors and spare parts may lag behind new physical assets.
01
Policy package

Patience Water Reliability Compact

Finish the project through commissioning, service-zone proof and a funded operating regime—not a ribbon-cutting threshold.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionWASCO · Public Utilities Ministry · NURC · WRMA · Health · Education · NEMO · service-community representatives

First 100 days
Reconcile cost, scope, contract and schedule versions; publish the current critical path; independently inspect works; baseline pressure, continuity, quality, treatment and pump uptime, complaints, losses and critical-site storage.
Build and sequence
Commission intake, plant, pump, mains, reservoir, telemetry and operator routines as one system. Publish zone-level results monthly through the first dry and wet seasons and name maintenance and emergency-recovery owners.
Public measures
Customer-days meeting standard; quality pass rate; interruption duration; notice lead time; pressure; plant and pump uptime; NRW; complaints closed; school and clinic disruption; maintenance work orders.
Scale / stop gate
Accept only after engineering, water-quality and zone tests pass. Hold nonessential expansion after two failed reporting periods; never hold safety repairs or basic-service restoration.
02
Policy package

Praslin–Micoud Sargassum Operations Cell

Move from episodic equipment deployment to a seasonal service with health, access, transport and destination controls.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionFisheries and Agriculture · Health · Labour · Solid Waste · Sustainable Development · fishers · local response partners

First 100 days
Map hotspots and access routes; set forecast-to-dispatch triggers; train a local crew; issue PPE, gas and heat protocols; protect jetty access; identify lawful destinations; baseline equipment and haulage capacity.
Build and sequence
Operate a traceable forecast–confirm–protect–remove–transport–destination chain. Test methods at bounded sites and publish delays, loads, cost, worker incidents, sand loss, complaints and equipment downtime.
Public measures
Confirmation-to-dispatch time; fisher-access days; worker exposure; full cost per load; equipment uptime; traceable destinations; ecological incidents; road spills; complaints resolved.
Scale / stop gate
Stop an affected method after any health, sand-loss, leachate or destination breach. No permanent processing plant without safe batches, conversion yield, signed offtake, residual management and full-cost economics.
03
Policy package

Praslin Blue Economy and Biosecurity Zone

Grow sea-moss and fisheries value while protecting seabed, seagrass, island habitat and fisher access.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionSea-moss and fisher groups · Fisheries · Forestry · Standards Bureau · SLUNCF · TEPA · buyers and finance partners

First 100 days
Create a site-specific producer, tenure, method, loss, quality, buyer and habitat baseline; publish who may use which sea space and how conflicts, storms and gear loss are handled.
Build and sequence
Scale lower-impact rafts where they work; add batch testing, cold/clean handling, shared processing, product standards, women-led export support, storm-loss tools and invasive-species controls for Praslin Island.
Public measures
Active producers; net income; storm loss; compliant batches; repeat buyers; local value retained; gear recovery; seagrass condition; biosecurity incidents; fisher access.
Scale / stop gate
Expand only where income and habitat indicators improve together. Move or stop any method that damages habitat, blocks access or cannot meet safety and buyer standards.
04
Policy package

Farm Water-to-Market Climate Cluster

Link irrigation and rainwater assets to saleable output, reliable buyers and farmer income.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionAgriculture Region 4 · Micoud North farmer groups · WRMA/WASCO · Marketing Board and TEPA · buyers · logistics and finance

First 100 days
Build a constituency-locked farmer, parcel, crop, water, buyer and loss baseline; audit the ten La Tille tank/drip packages; establish drought and allocation rules; choose one buyer-backed pilot.
Build and sequence
Add soil-water scheduling, repair stock, aggregation, low-energy cooling or processing, standards, feeder-access fixes and prompt-payment contracts. Keep crop choice farmer-led.
Public measures
System uptime; water per saleable unit; yield; spoilage; contracted and delivered volume; farmgate price; on-time payment; net income; reach by sex, age and tenure.
Scale / stop gate
Expand after one dry and wet production cycle shows added saleable output, income, equitable reach and water efficiency. Stop crop expansion without buyers or within a stressed water floor.
05
Policy package

Ridge-to-Reef Land and Water Compact

Manage rivers, farms, slopes, highway drainage, coast, seagrass and protected islands as one resilience asset.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionWRMA · Forestry · Fisheries · DCA · Infrastructure · Agriculture · NEMO · landholders and community stewards

First 100 days
Publish one versioned layer of intakes, riparian buffers, farms, unstable slopes, culverts, outfalls, habitats, access and extraction incidents, with evidence vintage and legal responsibility.
Build and sequence
Restore priority catchment and coastal sites; enforce buffers and quarry/charcoal/development controls; coordinate drainage and utility cuts; finance local monitoring and rapid incident referral.
Public measures
Source turbidity and downtime; buffers restored; culverts cleared; repeat road failures; sediment and habitat indicators; extraction cases resolved; paid stewardship roles.
Scale / stop gate
No irreversible coastal, quarrying or hillside commitment without water, access, habitat, recovery and cumulative-impact evidence plus funded monitoring.
06
Policy package

Micoud East Service and Access Guarantee

Make wellness, school, shelter, fire, police, transport and digital services function as one reliable network.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionHealth · Education · NEMO · Infrastructure · Fire and Police · utilities · transport operators · facility managers

First 100 days
Verify Mon Repos works, SMART-wing use, shelter status, accessibility, staffing, service hours, referral routes, backup water/power/comms and the roads, bridges and drains on critical access routes.
Build and sequence
Coordinate service days and transport; fix access by network consequence; equip facilities for continuity; provide assisted digital access; require 30- and 180-day defect checks after works.
Public measures
Staffed hours; medicine/equipment availability; referral completion; SMART-room use; backup endurance; shelter drills; closure hours; emergency travel time; access failures resolved.
Scale / stop gate
Add buildings, hours or road scope only with workforce, supply, drainage and maintenance evidence. Remedy safety, accessibility and essential continuity defects immediately.
07
Policy package

Placement-Backed Blue–Green Skills Pathway

Connect school and training to paid work in water, health, food, marine enterprise, conservation, digital services and maintenance.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionEducation and TVET · Micoud Secondary · employers · Youth and Commerce · SLDB · TEPA · producer groups

First 100 days
Validate labour barriers locally; map vacancies and contractor needs; secure paid placements before training; include transport, disability, childcare and mentoring support.
Build and sequence
Offer short, stackable credentials around confirmed operating needs: water testing and maintenance, care support, ag-tech, safe food processing, marine monitoring, guiding and digital export.
Public measures
Enrolment; completion; paid placement; six- and twelve-month retention; earnings; progression; employer retention; results by sex, age, disability and settlement.
Scale / stop gate
Scale only placement-backed modules. Pause and redesign persistent completion or placement failures; do not continue generic training because money has already been spent.
08
Policy package

Living Heritage and Local-Value Circuit

Join Mamiku, La Tille, Sesenne heritage, Praslin nature, food and craft through small, bookable products with local benefit rules.

Open designClose design

Delivery coalitionCommunity culture and enterprise groups · Tourism · Culture · Forestry · landholders · guides · transport and conservation partners

First 100 days
Verify access and ownership; co-design two pilot routes with prices, safety, visitor caps, insurance, paid guides, supplier roster, revenue split and habitat rules.
Build and sequence
Coordinate booking, transport, interpretation, food and craft standards and a visible conservation contribution. Preserve resident access and keep infrastructure light and reversible.
Public measures
Paid local roles; retained spend per visitor; supplier share; repeat bookings; guide income; resident acceptance; safety incidents; water/waste load; habitat-limit breaches.
Scale / stop gate
Scale only if local retained value and ecological condition improve together. Pause products that crowd out residents, breach carrying capacity or leak most value away.
RIPPLE-4 application

Water reliability through four causal orders.

Open the full RIPPLE-4 method →
  1. O1
    Direct incidenceWho gains service, who bears works and finance?

    Trace 1,729 customer accounts, tankless and end-of-line households, renters, schools, clinics, farms, firms, construction disruption and public borrowing.

  2. O2
    AdaptationHow do households, farms and WASCO respond?

    Storage, private trucking, expanded demand, crop choices, operator routines, repair practices and trust can amplify or mute the engineering benefit.

  3. O3
    PropagationWhat moves across the seven ledgers?

    Track households, firms, government, external account, finance, institutions/trust, and natural or infrastructure assets—not one project headline.

  4. O4
    Inherited stateWhat system does Micoud North hand forward?

    Catchment quality, network losses, operator skill, maintenance finance, debt, settlement form and trust determine the next shock’s starting point.

Critical-tail screenDrought + turbidityPower or sparesStorm accessAffordabilityDemand reboundMaintenance failure
Sovereign Option Test

Proceed with essentials; stage uncertain expansion.

Open the full SOT framework →
Fixed floor

Safe basic water; health, school and emergency continuity; fisher access; worker safety; ecological integrity; local livelihood access.

Minimum first commitment

Continue enabling works, reconcile records, define commissioning tests, baseline zones and establish a bounded seasonal coastal operation.

Keep provisional

Tariff sequence, distribution expansion, crop mix, visitor volumes, permanent sargassum processing and high-impact coastal development.

Next decision gate

Expand after verified operation through the relevant dry, wet or sargassum cycle with affordability, habitat and maintenance evidence.

Logic Engine checks

Eight rules that guard the page’s conclusions.

Rule 446Scope conservation

Do not relabel Micoud district, Agriculture Region 4 or the wider South-East Coast programme as Micoud North evidence without a bridge.

Open rule →Rule 451Unit-of-analysis lock

Keep the constituency, district, agricultural region, polling division, settlement and facility catchment distinct.

Open rule →Rule 452Denominator integrity

Household residents, customer accounts, district households, electors and programme participants answer different questions.

Open rule →Rule 459Evidence-path audit

Keep announced, financed, procured, built, accepted, operating and maintained as separate project stages.

Open rule →Rule 477Mechanism to implementation

A plant, centre, classroom, jetty or machine matters through reach, adoption, fidelity and persistence—not presence alone.

Open rule →Rule 480Leakage and displacement audit

Check whether cleanup, tourism or production moves health, ecological or fiscal harm outside the measured site.

Open rule →Rule 486Value-of-information gate

Collect evidence that can change the next decision; do not delay urgent safety or basic-service restoration for perfect data.

Open rule →Rule 489Option preservation

Keep coastal, processing, visitor and land-use commitments modular until demand, habitat and operating evidence resolve.

Open rule →
Deep-dive source notesInspect the focused evidence behind the briefOpen focused sources
Patience project specificationWASCO · current projects-in-progress record

Engineering scope, 1,729 accounts, estimated population, outcome targets and internally inconsistent schedule fields.

Sustainable sea-moss methodsGovernment of Saint Lucia · June 2026

Praslin trial role is local; producer and training totals in the release are national and remain labelled that way.

South-East Coast ecosystem planningGovernment consultancy record · September 2025

Identifies Praslin Island and Mon Repos Peninsula as priority areas; planning evidence is not proof of completed site protection.

Mon Repos Wellness assessmentMinistry of Health · September 2024

Describes location, services and an estimated 2,975-person catchment; current renovation and operating results require verification.

Micoud jetty inaugurationMinistry of Agriculture · June 2024

Establishes physical delivery and the sargassum-related access problem; current condition and use are not reported.

La Tille water and drip equipmentGovernment of Saint Lucia · September 2024

Ten farmers received practical water-storage and drip assets; uptime, output, buyer and income results remain open.

People and places

The communities inside Micoud North.

These names come from official electoral descriptions and polling-place records. A community may cross everyday social or service boundaries.

34 selected place labels

  • All Souls LaneN4 · N5
  • Ave Maria StreetN5
  • Back StreetN5
  • Dix StreetN5
  • Downing StreetN5
  • Fond DevauxN3
  • Fond EstateN3
  • French RowN5
  • Jn Baptiste HillN4
  • La PointeN3
  • La Tille / La TeilleN4
  • Lady Mico StreetN5
  • LombardN2
  • MadoirN3
  • MahautN4
  • MalgretouteN3
18 additional named entriesOpen listClose list
  • MamikuN2
  • Micoud Village NorthN4
  • Micoud Village SouthN5
  • Mon ReposN2
  • Mt EoleN2
  • Myers GardensN5
  • New ExtensionN5
  • New RowN5
  • New VillageN4
  • Over The BridgeN4 · N5
  • Pater Noster RowN5
  • PatienceN3
  • Philadelphia RowN5
  • Praslin VillageN1
  • Riverside DriveN4
  • Rotten RowN5
  • St MarcN3
  • Up The LineN4

34 of 34 entries carry a polling-district code in this release. A missing code means it was not present in the assembled source rows, not that the place sits outside a polling district.

Boundary resources

Check the official description and reference map.

Micoud North reference map (PDF)Central Statistical Office · map vintage 2010 (opens in a new tab)Current constituency descriptionSaint Lucia Electoral Department · site availability can vary (opens in a new tab)

The CSO PDF is an older official reference map with a 2010 map vintage. It may not show later boundary or coding changes. Use it alongside the current official Electoral Department description when that page is available.

Services and resilience

Schools, health, safety and climate information.

These notes identify assets, service gaps and risks. They do not turn the number of notes into a performance score.

Education

Schools, skills and community buildings

  • Micoud Secondary's planned SMART wing was designed as resilient, accessible teaching and emergency-shelter space. The World Bank recorded construction 95% complete in November 2022, with expected completion 30 December 2022; no later authoritative completion notice was located.
  • A multimedia smart classroom was handed over in November 2022. The Prime Minister's 100-day report in March 2026 said work had advanced on Mon Repos and Patience Combined School, but did not provide scope, budget or milestone detail.
  • Current enrollment, attendance, attainment, TVET/agriculture/marine pathways, disability access and building-condition data were not found at constituency level.
Health

Care and service access

  • Micoud Wellness Centre opened in July 2022 as a primary-care and chronic-disease facility with dental capability, AED/ECG equipment and disaster-resilient construction; project cost was reported as EC$6.1 million.
  • Procurement was being completed for Mon Repos Wellness Centre improvements in July 2025. No authoritative completion notice was found by the research cutoff.
  • No constituency-specific disease burden, staffing, medicine availability, wait-time, referral or ambulance-response data were found.
Safety

Public safety and emergencies

  • A formal disaster committee and multiple shelters strengthen readiness, but current capacity, accessibility, backup utilities and drill performance were not published in the sources reviewed.
  • No constituency-level crime data were found.
Climate and environment

Hazards, coast and resilience

  • Water service is vulnerable to drought, low dry-season flows, intense-rainfall turbidity and storm damage; the Patience project is an active response but completion is unverified.
  • Sargassum affects the southeast coast from Praslin toward Vieux Fort, disrupting fisheries, tourism, public health and livelihoods. Government began deploying cleanup equipment in late 2025 and later reported procurement for Praslin, but operational performance was not published.
  • Praslin Protected Landscape/Frigate Island and the Mamiku-Patience dry-forest corridor are ecological assets sensitive to poorly planned development, erosion, fire and invasive pressures.
  • The Ministry's Region 4 agricultural profile, which spans Praslin River to Canelles River and therefore both Micoud seats, reports a distinct February-May dry period with coastal areas especially prone to dry spells, while floods, storms and hurricanes scar the agricultural landscape from June-November.
  • Current planning identifies Praslin Island and Mon Repos Peninsula as priority biodiversity areas, but regional programme progress is not proof of completed local restoration or current habitat condition.

SLPA discussion priorities

Ideas to test locally in Micoud North.

These are SLPA proposals for discussion and local validation. They are not an official plan, ranked mandate or finding about what residents want.

  1. 01

    Complete and independently verify the Patience water system, then publish service reliability, water quality, pressure and loss indicators.

    SLPA synthesis

    Water unreliability constrains households, farms, institutions and enterprise across multiple communities.

    S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. 02

    A locally contracted sargassum service with safe work protocols, fisher-access guarantees, disposal standards and response-time targets.

    SLPA synthesis

    Equipment helps only if operations are predictable and environmentally safe.

    S041Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS042Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. 03

    Youth and women's livelihood pathways that connect school, health, agriculture, fishing/sea moss, digital tools and entrepreneurship finance.

    SLPA synthesis

    The constituency has productive assets and institutions, while local transition, placement and earnings data are missing; the wider Micoud district's coherent 2022 unemployment proxy was 13.7%.

    S004CSOS036Govt. of Saint LuciaS038Government of Saint Lucia / S039Government of Saint Lucia / S043Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
  4. 04

    Low-impact, locally owned community tourism around Praslin/Mamiku/protected landscapes with conservation limits and transparent local benefits.

    SLPA synthesis

    Natural and heritage assets can diversify income if ecological pressure and external value leakage are controlled.

    S044Government of Saint Lucia / S054Government of Saint Lucia /
Existing assets and reported action

What the current evidence says is in place

  • Micoud Wellness Centre combines primary care, chronic-disease management, dental capability and resilient design in one local facility.
  • La Tille farmers received practical rainwater-storage and drip-irrigation equipment, a targeted adaptation measure rather than a generic training-only intervention.
  • A district disaster committee and identified shelters provide an organizational base for community preparedness.
  • The Micoud wooden jetty and washroom were physically inaugurated, directly addressing a documented sargassum-related access and fisher-safety problem rather than remaining an announcement.
  • The Patience project now has a current official in-progress classification, defined engineering scope and published service targets; those inputs make commissioning and household results testable.
  • Praslin's sea-moss trial role and the active South-East Coast planning programme create a base for lower-impact production, tenure and conservation work, while local results still need measurement.
Questions to check locally

Open questions for local checking

  • Non-revenue water, intake/watershed management and routine treatment performance may be overlooked if the Patience project is treated mainly as a pipeline build.
  • Sargassum policy may focus on beach removal without measuring worker safety, disposal impacts, fisher access or predictable response times.
  • Youth pathways connecting school technology to agriculture technology, marine livelihoods, health and local enterprise may be weaker than the infrastructure base suggests.
Open 5 testable policy questions
  1. Hypothesis

    Reliable water is the constituency's highest-leverage economic intervention, but only if the project also reduces losses and manages source-water turbidity.

    How to check: Baseline outage hours, turbidity shutdowns, pressure and non-revenue water; publish the same indicators quarterly after commissioning.
  2. Hypothesis

    A sea-moss/fisheries enterprise cluster with quality standards and shared processing could generate more stable coastal income than periodic festivals alone.

    How to check: Map producers, volumes, buyers, margins and constraints; pilot traceable products and measure repeat sales and net income.
  3. Hypothesis

    School-to-work programmes in ag-tech, water operations, health support and marine enterprise could retain more young talent locally.

    How to check: Survey final-year students/employers; run paid placements and compare certification, retention and earnings after six and twelve months.
  4. Hypothesis

    A Praslin sargassum operating standard with public response metrics would protect livelihoods better than episodic equipment deployments.

    How to check: Track landfall, removal time, worker incidents, fisher downtime, disposal method and resident complaints through one season.
  5. Hypothesis

    Micoud town can function as a stronger east-coast service hub if transport schedules, digital access and public-service hours are coordinated.

    How to check: Map origin-destination trips and missed appointments; pilot coordinated bus/service hours and measure access and footfall.

Projects and public action

Current stage of projects and commitments.

Status reflects the latest clear source in this research base. “Planned,” “under way” and “operating” are different claims.

Project stageDelivered or operatingA source reports that the project opened, was handed over or is operating.Open 3 recordsClose 3 records
2022-07-14

Micoud Wellness Centre

Latest sourced status: operational

Opened to provide resilient primary/chronic/dental services; reported cost EC$6.1 million.

S036Govt. of Saint Lucia
2024-09-13

La Tille climate-smart irrigation support

Latest sourced status: delivered

Ten La Tille farmers each received a 450-gallon water tank and drip line.

S039Government of Saint Lucia /
2024-06-08

Micoud wooden jetty and washroom facility

Latest sourced status: complete/inaugurated

Wooden jetty and washroom unveiled in Micoud Village to improve safe, efficient boat access where heavy sargassum had forced fishers to wade/swim and manually move equipment.

S055Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
Project stageIn progressA current source shows construction, procurement, commissioning or another active delivery step.Open 5 recordsClose 5 records
Reviewed 27 August 2026; outcome target 31 December 2026

Patience Water Supply Redevelopment Project

Latest sourced status: WASCO's current project register classifies the redevelopment as in progress; commissioning and sustained service are not yet established.

Published scope: Fond River intake and pump station, 1,200 m³/day packaged treatment, 22.8 km HDPE mains and a 150,000-gallon Lombard reservoir for 1,729 accounts and an estimated 4,700 people across ten communities. A 29 July secondary report attributed roughly 80% overall physical progress to WASCO; it is not commissioning. Official values and schedule fields vary as finance and scope evolved.

S175Water and Sewerage Company IS176Water and Sewerage Company IS186St. Lucia TimesS033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
2026-03-24

Praslin sargassum-response equipment

Latest sourced status: equipment procurement/deployment reported; outcomes unverified

Agriculture Ministry began a southeast equipment programme in 2025; the 100-day report later named Praslin equipment procurement.

S041Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS042Government of Saint Lucia /
Reviewed 27 August 2026

South-East Coast ecosystem planning and restoration programme

Latest sourced status: A wider GEF/UNEP programme remains active through March 2027, with Praslin Island and Mon Repos Peninsula identified as priority planning areas.

Programme finance and completion percentages apply to a much wider South-East Coast geography. Current Micoud North allocation, completed site restoration, habitat condition and community benefits are not established.

S179Govt. of Saint LuciaS180United Nations Environment P
10 June 2026

Praslin sustainable sea-moss practices pilot

Latest sourced status: Praslin is a trial site for lower-impact floating sea-moss methods within a wider programme that reported ongoing training, standards and tenure work in June 2026.

National participant and training counts are not assigned to Praslin. Local producer numbers, raft count, yield, loss, quality, buyer, income, tenure and habitat outcomes remain unreported.

S178Govt. of Saint LuciaS185Govt. of Saint Lucia
Reviewed 27 August 2026

Mon Repos cemetery expansion

Latest sourced status: Official commencement is established and the 2026/27 Estimates retain cemetery expansion as a priority, but no current handover or operating record was located.

The national budget envelope is not a Mon Repos allocation. Verify local share, phase, capacity, drainage and groundwater controls, governance, fees and opening.

S184Govt. of Saint LuciaS006Government of Saint Lucia, M
Project stagePlanned or fundedFunding, a budget line or an announced plan exists, but delivery is not yet established.Open 2 recordsClose 2 records
29 July 2025 procurement record; reviewed 27 August 2026

Mon Repos Wellness Centre improvements

Latest sourced status: Procurement was reported as being completed in July 2025; later notices show the centre operating but do not establish completion of the major renovation.

The facility assessment describes a roughly 2,975-person catchment. Verify award, local cost, start, completion, accessibility and resilience outputs, recommissioning and current service performance.

S020Government of Saint Lucia / S181Government of Saint Lucia /
Project stageStatus needs checkingThe latest public source does not establish the current stage clearly enough.Open 3 recordsClose 3 records
30 November 2022 latest detailed record; reviewed 27 August 2026

Micoud Secondary SMART wing

Latest sourced status: The last detailed authoritative record reported 95% construction at 30 November 2022; no later handover, occupancy or shelter-certification record was located.

The separate November 2022 smart-classroom handover does not prove completion of the wing. Verify practical completion, occupancy, accessibility, emergency-shelter certification, equipment use, defects and maintenance.

S023World BankS037Govt. of Saint Lucia
16 April 2026 latest located account

Pointe Vierge, Malgretoute and Mon Repos access works

Latest sourced status: A secondary April 2026 account reported road, bridge and drainage works in progress; responsible-agency contract, scope and handover records were not located.

Verify each asset separately: award, contractor, design, bridge and drainage standard, start/finish, road-safety review, handover and post-rain performance.

S183Saint Lucia Daily Post
31 January 2024 latest located source

Patience Playing Field upgrades

Latest sourced status: Floodlights were reported complete in January 2024 and toilets were planned; later commissioning, toilet completion and current operation were not located.

Verify field drainage and surface, electricity and maintenance owner, toilet delivery, accessibility, booking, use and operating cost.

S182Govt. of Saint Lucia
National programmes relevant to this areaNational envelopes are not local allocationsOpen 3 recordsClose records

These programmes apply across Saint Lucia. The amounts below are national 2026/27 budget envelopes; this research base does not establish how much is allocated to or spent in Micoud North.

National programme

Community Development Programme

National envelope · EC$20,879,136

Budgeted in 2026/27 Estimates; no constituency split supplied in this dataset

S006Government of Saint Lucia, M
National programme

Community Tourism Programme

National envelope · EC$3,000,000

Budgeted in 2026/27 Estimates; no constituency split supplied in this dataset

S006Government of Saint Lucia, M
National programme

Tourism Enhancement Programme

National envelope · EC$5,565,900

Budgeted in 2026/27 Estimates; no constituency split supplied in this dataset

S006Government of Saint Lucia, M

Sources and missing information

Review the findings, sources and missing information.

The notebook keeps sourced facts, institutional context and SLPA analysis visible as different kinds of evidence.

How the evidence labels work
Published fact

A sourced official or primary record

Institutional context

An older or broader institutional source

SLPA synthesis

Analysis that must not be read as an official finding

Hypothesis

A testable question that needs local evidence

Research notesKey numberOpen 7 findingsClose findings
  1. Published factconstituency-specific; provisional

    Household population: 8097; unit: people (2022 census night; geography: Micoud North electoral constituency; scope label: constituency-specific; provisional; notes: Table 7/A.8 reports 8,097, up 16.0% from 6,982 in 2010.).

    Table 7/A.8 reports 8,097, up 16.0% from 6,982 in 2010.S004CSO
  2. Published factconstituency-specific; provisional

    Private households: 3102; unit: households (2022 census; geography: Micoud North electoral constituency; scope label: constituency-specific; provisional).

    S004CSO
  3. Published factconstituency-specific

    Land area: 20.83; unit: square miles (2022 census geography; geography: Micoud North electoral constituency; scope label: constituency-specific).

    S004CSO
  4. Published factconstituency-specific

    Official 2025 register: 8,085 published entries. This is an administrative register, not a resident-adult or population count.

    Updated to the Electoral Department’s current official 2025 results surface.S002Electoral Dept.
  5. Published factconstituency-specific

    Official 2025 result: 4,080 ballots cast against 8,085 published register entries; 50.5% published turnout; 39 rejected ballots.

    Updated to the Electoral Department’s current official 2025 results surface.S002Electoral Dept.
  6. Proxyolder administrative-district proxy; not constituency-specific

    Poverty headcount: 31.2; unit: percent (2016; geography: Micoud administrative district; scope label: older administrative-district proxy; not constituency-specific).

    S015CSO
  7. Census consistencyPublished factMicoud North constituency

    The provisional headline table reports 8,097 people and 3,102 households. The settlement cross-tab prints 3,105 households, while its visible rows sum to about 8,095 people and 3,101 households; use settlement rows only for indicative distribution.

    Headline statistics use Table 7/A.8. Several settlement sex subtotals also do not reconcile.S004CSO
Research notesEconomyOpen 6 findingsClose findings
  1. ProxyMicoud administrative-district and Ministry Region 4 proxy spanning both constituencies

    Agriculture is a major district livelihood, including crop and livestock production; the census documents extensive agricultural activity for Micoud district but does not allocate current output or jobs between North and South.

    S004CSOS039Government of Saint Lucia / S057Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
  2. SLPA synthesiscommunity-specific, older programme evidence

    Praslin's fishing and sea-moss activity supports primary production, value-added food/cosmetic products and community-event potential. Current production, earnings and producer counts were not found.

    S030Govt. of Saint LuciaS043Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
  3. SLPA synthesisfacility/geographic evidence; employment unquantified

    Micoud town and Mon Repos provide public services, schools, health care, retail, transport and small-business employment for the eastern corridor.

    S012Electoral Department of SainS036Govt. of Saint LuciaS037Govt. of Saint Lucia
  4. SLPA synthesisinstitutional asset evidence

    Praslin Protected Landscape, Frigate Island Nature Reserve and Mamiku/Praslin heritage/nature assets offer low-impact community-tourism potential, subject to conservation and local benefit sharing.

    S044Government of Saint Lucia / S054Government of Saint Lucia /
  5. SLPA synthesisdata gap

    No current constituency inventory of major private employers, business employment, farm/fish/sea-moss output or visitor expenditure was found.

  6. Labour proxyProxyMicoud administrative-district proxy

    The 2022 Census reported 13.7% unemployment in the wider Micoud administrative district, including 13.0% male and 14.5% female. These are contextual district rates, not Micoud North estimates.

    The profile withholds the published 2025 district sex comparison from headline use because it does not reconcile with the same table family's labour-force counts.S004CSO
Research notesInfrastructure and servicesOpen 7 findingsClose findings
  1. WaterSLPA synthesis

    The Patience Water Supply Redevelopment Project is designed to serve ten communities including Patience, Mon Repos, Lombard, Mamiku, Praslin, La Pointe and Malgretoute through intake, treatment, storage and about 22 km of pipeline. The 2024 project announcement described weeks-long interruptions, dry-season shortage and rainy-season turbidity.

    S033Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. WaterSLPA synthesis

    Government announced supplementary CDF finance in July 2025, bringing the project package to nearly US$2 million; an additional loan authorization was pursued. No authoritative completion notice was found by 11 August 2026.

    S034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
  3. Roads Transport DrainageSLPA synthesis

    The seat depends on the East Coast Road/highway spine plus hillside/local roads. The World Bank recorded the Micoud/Canelles national-highway road and culvert works complete by November 2022, but did not disaggregate benefits by constituency.

    S023World Bank
  4. Fisheries And WaterfrontSLPA synthesis

    A new wooden jetty and washroom/convenience facility in Micoud Village were inaugurated on 8 June 2024. The Ministry said the jetty allowed fishers to reach boats and move fuel/equipment without wading or swimming through heavy sargassum, improving landing safety and efficiency.

    S055Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
  5. Digital And CommunitySLPA synthesis

    Micoud Secondary received a multimedia smart classroom in 2022, adding an instructional digital asset. Household broadband quality and affordability by community remain unknown.

    S038Government of Saint Lucia /
  6. EmergencySLPA synthesis

    The 2024-25 shelter list included Mon Repos RC/SDA, Praslin Community Centre/Bible Baptist, and multiple Micoud facilities. Micoud North also had a newly elected district disaster-management committee by May 2025.

    S022Government of Saint Lucia / S040Government of Saint Lucia /
  7. WaterOfficial recordTen-community Patience service system

    WASCO currently classifies the Patience redevelopment as in progress and publishes targets of a 90% reduction in annual shortage-disruption days, 44 to 4 turbidity-disruption days per year and non-revenue water from 56% to 35%. These are targets, not achieved results.

    The page contains conflicting schedule fields and evolving cost values; commissioning remains the next evidence gate.S175Water and Sewerage Company IS176Water and Sewerage Company I
Research notesEducationOpen 3 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Micoud Secondary's planned SMART wing was designed as resilient, accessible teaching and emergency-shelter space. The World Bank recorded construction 95% complete in November 2022, with expected completion 30 December 2022; no later authoritative completion notice was located.

    S023World BankS037Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. SLPA synthesis

    A multimedia smart classroom was handed over in November 2022. The Prime Minister's 100-day report in March 2026 said work had advanced on Mon Repos and Patience Combined School, but did not provide scope, budget or milestone detail.

    S038Government of Saint Lucia / S042Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    Current enrollment, attendance, attainment, TVET/agriculture/marine pathways, disability access and building-condition data were not found at constituency level.

Research notesHealthOpen 4 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Micoud Wellness Centre opened in July 2022 as a primary-care and chronic-disease facility with dental capability, AED/ECG equipment and disaster-resilient construction; project cost was reported as EC$6.1 million.

    S036Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Procurement was being completed for Mon Repos Wellness Centre improvements in July 2025. No authoritative completion notice was found by the research cutoff.

    S020Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    No constituency-specific disease burden, staffing, medicine availability, wait-time, referral or ambulance-response data were found.

  4. Mon Repos catchmentOfficial recordFacility catchment estimate, not constituency total

    The 2024 facility assessment describes Mon Repos Wellness Centre as serving a local population of roughly 1,212 and an estimated catchment of 2,975 across nearby communities, with weekday primary-care clinics and pharmacy services.

    The assessment describes the service base; it does not prove completion of the later renovation or current service performance.S181Government of Saint Lucia /
Research notesSafetyOpen 2 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    A formal disaster committee and multiple shelters strengthen readiness, but current capacity, accessibility, backup utilities and drill performance were not published in the sources reviewed.

    S022Government of Saint Lucia / S040Government of Saint Lucia /
  2. SLPA synthesis

    No constituency-level crime data were found.

    S001Govt. of Saint Lucia
Research notesEnvironment and climateOpen 6 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Water service is vulnerable to drought, low dry-season flows, intense-rainfall turbidity and storm damage; the Patience project is an active response but completion is unverified.

    S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia /
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Sargassum affects the southeast coast from Praslin toward Vieux Fort, disrupting fisheries, tourism, public health and livelihoods. Government began deploying cleanup equipment in late 2025 and later reported procurement for Praslin, but operational performance was not published.

    S041Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS042Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    Praslin Protected Landscape/Frigate Island and the Mamiku-Patience dry-forest corridor are ecological assets sensitive to poorly planned development, erosion, fire and invasive pressures.

    S044Government of Saint Lucia / S054Government of Saint Lucia /
  4. ProxyMinistry agriculture Region 4 proxy spanning Micoud North and South

    The Ministry's Region 4 agricultural profile, which spans Praslin River to Canelles River and therefore both Micoud seats, reports a distinct February-May dry period with coastal areas especially prone to dry spells, while floods, storms and hurricanes scar the agricultural landscape from June-November.

    S057Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
  5. Coast and sea mossOfficial recordPraslin site role; national programme counts

    Praslin is a trial site for lower-impact floating sea-moss methods within a wider programme. National participant and training totals cannot be treated as Praslin counts.

    Local producer numbers, output, income, storm losses, tenure and habitat outcomes remain unreported.S178Govt. of Saint LuciaS185Govt. of Saint Lucia
  6. Protected landscapeOfficial recordPriority sites within a wider regional programme

    Current South-East Coast planning records identify Praslin Island and Mon Repos Peninsula as priority biodiversity areas for zoning, marine buffers and conservation finance.

    Programme activity and completion percentages are not evidence of completed restoration or current habitat condition at either site.S179Govt. of Saint LuciaS180United Nations Environment P
Research notesStrength / assetOpen 3 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Micoud town is a service centre with a modern wellness facility, secondary school and road access serving a broad east-coast catchment.

    S012Electoral Department of SainS023World BankS036Govt. of Saint LuciaS037Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Agriculture, fishing, sea moss, protected landscapes and heritage assets provide multiple locally rooted economic bases rather than a single-sector economy.

    S004CSOS055Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS057Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS043Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS044Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    Water investment has mobilized regional finance and a clearly defined ten-community service package.

    S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
Research notesWhat is workingOpen 5 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    The Patience water project defines its service communities, engineering components and financing pathway publicly, enabling basic accountability even though completion still needs confirmation.

    S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Micoud Wellness Centre combines primary care, chronic-disease management, dental capability and resilient design in one local facility.

    S036Govt. of Saint Lucia
  3. SLPA synthesis

    La Tille farmers received practical rainwater-storage and drip-irrigation equipment, a targeted adaptation measure rather than a generic training-only intervention.

    S039Government of Saint Lucia /
  4. SLPA synthesis

    A district disaster committee and identified shelters provide an organizational base for community preparedness.

    S022Government of Saint Lucia / S040Government of Saint Lucia /
  5. SLPA synthesis

    The Micoud wooden jetty and washroom were physically inaugurated, directly addressing a documented sargassum-related access and fisher-safety problem rather than remaining an announcement.

    S055Agriculture, Fisheries, Food
Research notesChallengeOpen 3 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Water unreliability is a binding household and business constraint in the Patience/Mon Repos/Praslin corridor; financing has progressed, but delivery completion is not publicly verified.

    S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS034Government of Saint Lucia / S035Govt. of Saint Lucia
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Sargassum creates recurring livelihood, amenity and health costs along the Praslin/southeast coast, with no published local service standard for removal or safe handling.

    S041Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS042Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    Several capital projects lack a located final completion or operating-performance report, making it difficult to distinguish substantial completion from fully functioning service.

    S020Government of Saint Lucia / S023World BankS037Govt. of Saint Lucia
Research notesPotentially neglected issueOpen 3 findingsClose findings
  1. SLPA synthesis

    Non-revenue water, intake/watershed management and routine treatment performance may be overlooked if the Patience project is treated mainly as a pipeline build.

    Official descriptions emphasize shortage and turbidity; long-term operational indicators are absent.S033Govt. of Saint LuciaS052Adaptation Fund Board
  2. SLPA synthesis

    Sargassum policy may focus on beach removal without measuring worker safety, disposal impacts, fisher access or predictable response times.

    Equipment procurement is documented; local operating protocols and outcomes are not.S041Agriculture, Fisheries, FoodS042Government of Saint Lucia /
  3. SLPA synthesis

    Youth pathways connecting school technology to agriculture technology, marine livelihoods, health and local enterprise may be weaker than the infrastructure base suggests.

    Facilities are documented but transition and employment outcomes are missing.S036Govt. of Saint LuciaS037Govt. of Saint LuciaS038Government of Saint Lucia /
Open evidence gaps

What we still need to know

  1. 01

    Authoritative commissioning/completion and operational-performance data for the Patience Water Supply Redevelopment Project.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  2. 02

    Final completion/occupancy status for the Micoud Secondary SMART wing and current status of Mon Repos Wellness Centre works.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  3. 03

    Current constituency labour, poverty, business, agriculture, fisheries, sea-moss and visitor-economy data disaggregated by sex/age.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  4. 04

    School enrollment, attendance, outcomes, TVET pathways and disability access by facility.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  5. 05

    Health staffing, service utilization, disease burden, medicine availability, referrals and ambulance response.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  6. 06

    Sargassum landfall, cleanup cost, removal time, disposal location, worker safety and livelihood-loss metrics.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  7. 07

    Current shelter capacity/certification, disaster drills and community warning coverage.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  8. 08

    Crime, road safety, domestic violence and emergency-response data at an appropriate safe geography.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  9. 09

    Current jetty condition, maintenance responsibility, utilization, washroom operations and measured effects on fisher safety/landing efficiency.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  10. 10

    Region 4 farm production, irrigation access, extension reach and climate-loss data disaggregated between Micoud North and South.

    Needed to distinguish evidence-backed need from a planning hypothesis and to support map-ready local analysis.

    Useful next source: Community validation, agency administrative data or constituency-level release
  11. 11

    No commissioning and operating series for the Patience water service zones: pressure, continuity, potability, treatment and pump uptime, losses, notices, complaints and critical-site storage.

    Physical progress and published targets do not establish reliable household service or identify who remains at the end of the line.

    Useful next source: WASCO acceptance tests, as-builts, water-quality results, zone telemetry, NRW method, outage notices, complaints and dry/wet-season operating returns.
  12. 12

    No current constituency extract for employment, income, poverty, education, disability, utilities, internet access, commuting or business activity.

    Micoud administrative-district and Agriculture Region 4 statistics cover different geographies and cannot be relabelled as Micoud North estimates.

    Useful next source: CSO constituency and settlement extracts with boundary vintage, consistent denominators, revisions and uncertainty notes.
  13. 13

    No joined Praslin fisheries, sea-moss and sargassum operating ledger covering producers, volume, quality, prices, income, fisher access, response time, worker exposure, equipment uptime and load destination.

    Equipment, training and an inauguration do not show livelihood value, health protection, ecological effect or maintenance capacity.

    Useful next source: Fisheries, producer-group, contractor, health, standards, laboratory, buyer, jetty-maintenance and solid-waste records across one full season.
  14. 14

    No reconciled delivery and operating record for Mon Repos wellness works, the Micoud Secondary SMART wing, current shelters, roads, bridge, drainage, playing-field facilities and cemetery expansion.

    Announced, financed, procured, percentage-built, handed over, certified and functioning are separate states with different public obligations.

    Useful next source: Contracts, completion and occupancy certificates, shelter certification, facility schedules, backup-utility tests, asset registers, maintenance budgets and post-rain inspections.
  15. 15

    No current site-level habitat, visitor-access or local-benefit baseline for Praslin Island, Mon Repos Peninsula, Mamiku, La Tille and related heritage or nature assets.

    Regional programme activity and tourism potential cannot establish present condition, carrying capacity, tenure or retained community value.

    Useful next source: GEF outputs, Forestry/Fisheries monitoring, DCA decisions, land and sea tenure, access audits, visitor counts, local supplier payments and community review.
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  1. S042
    100 days of action, relief and results (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Office of the Prime Minister · 2026-03-24

    Primary political/executive progress summary; claims lack project-level performance details.
    Official / primary
  2. S002
    2025 General Election Results (opens in a new tab)

    Saint Lucia Electoral Department · 2025-12-01

    Official / primary
  3. S041
    Agriculture Ministry deploys new tools to combat sargassum impacts (opens in a new tab)

    Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Climate Change · 2025-11-06

    Primary regional response source; does not quantify constituency exposure or results.
    Official / primary
  4. S030
    Budget Address 2024-2025 (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 2024-04

    Primary policy/budget statement; commitment does not establish completion or impact.
    Official / primary
  5. S006
    Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure 2026/2027 (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia, Ministry of Finance · 2026

    Official / primary
  6. S035
    Government backs CDF-funded loans for water infrastructure projects (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 2025-08-05

    Primary forecast, not proof of actual completion.
    Official / primary
  7. S001
    House of Assembly (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · Current as accessed 2026-08-11

    Official / primary
  8. S012
    Micoud North (N) Information (opens in a new tab)

    Electoral Department of Saint Lucia

    Primary electoral geography.
    Official / primary
  9. S020
    Ministry of Health embarks on strategic infrastructural improvements to enhance primary health care delivery (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Ministry of Health · 2025-07-29

    Primary status update; no later completion source was found.
    Official / primary
  10. S040
    NEMO issues statement on the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / National Emergency Management Organisation · 2025-05-30

    Primary preparedness statement; committee activity/outcomes not measured.
    Official / primary
  11. S057
    Region 4 Anse Ger Micoud (opens in a new tab)

    Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Sustainable Development

    Primary ministry regional profile. Region 4 is an agricultural service geography, not an electoral constituency; no publication date is displayed.
    Official / primary
  12. S055
    Ribbon-cutting Ceremony for Micoud Jetty (opens in a new tab)

    Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Sustainable Development · 2024-06-08

    Primary completion/inauguration report; no later maintenance or outcome data.
    Official / primary
  13. S004
    Saint Lucia Provisional Census Report 2022: Release 2 Rev. 2.7 (opens in a new tab)

    Central Statistical Office of Saint Lucia / CARICOM mirror · 2025

    Official / primary
  14. S034
    Saint Lucia secures XCD 18.4 million from CARICOM Development Fund to upgrade water infrastructure (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Office of the Prime Minister · 2025-07-25

    Primary financing announcement; not completion evidence.
    Official / primary
  15. S033
    Sod turned on Patience Water Supply Redevelopment Project (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 2024-03-12

    Primary announcement; consumer count is a project estimate.
    Official / primary
  16. S039
    Taiwan Technical Mission donates water tanks, drip lines to La Tille Farmers Group (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Taiwan Technical Mission · 2024-09-13

    Primary delivery report; handover venue was Anse Ger but named beneficiaries were La Tille farmers.
    Official / primary
  17. S014
    Unemployment Rates by District and Sex (Annual) 2010 to 2025 (opens in a new tab)

    Central Statistical Office of Saint Lucia · 2026-04-02

    Current primary labour-force table. The site displays the ambiguous raw date 2/4/2026; normalized here as 2 April 2026 under Saint Lucia's day/month convention while retaining the raw value. Districts are not constituencies.
    Official / primary
  18. S023
    Implementation Status & Results Report: Saint Lucia Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project (P127226) (opens in a new tab)

    World Bank · 2022-12-15

    Credible institutional implementation report, but later completion/operating status must be separately verified.
    Institutional / older
  19. S038
    Micoud Secondary receives multimedia smart classroom (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Ministry of Education · 2022-11-23

    Primary equipment handover source; current utilization/outcomes unavailable.
    Institutional / older
  20. S022
    New list of emergency shelters per district for 2024-25 (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / National Emergency Management Organisation · 2024-06-30

    Primary but supersession/certification must be checked for 2026. Shelter district grouping may not exactly follow electoral boundaries.
    Institutional / older
  21. S037
    New SMART wing for Micoud Secondary (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 2020-12-10

    Primary but old announcement; use World Bank status for later progress.
    Institutional / older
  22. S044
    OECS Regional Health Project: Environmental and Social Management Framework, Saint Lucia (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / World Bank · 2019-06

    Credible official/institutional environmental baseline, but older and not a current management-performance report.
    Institutional / older
  23. S036
    Opening of the Micoud Wellness Centre (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 2022-07-22

    Primary but older opening release; current staffing/performance not established.
    Institutional / older
  24. S052
    Proposal for Saint Lucia: Replicating Resilient Water Supply Systems Project in St. Lucia (Re-Water St. Lucia) (opens in a new tab)

    Adaptation Fund Board · 2025-03-17

    Primary multilateral proposal/review document; diagnostic and proposed outputs are useful, but funding/delivery status must come from Board decisions.
    Institutional / older
  25. S054
    Saint Lucia Forests and Lands Resources Department Strategy 2015-2025 (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Forests and Lands Resources Department · 2015

    Official but older strategic baseline; use for landscape significance, not current ecological condition.
    Institutional / older
  26. S015
    Summary Report: Saint Lucia 2016 National Report of Living Conditions (opens in a new tab)

    Central Statistical Office of Saint Lucia · 2018-12

    Official but old and geographically broader than the constituencies; not a current poverty estimate.
    Institutional / older
  27. S043
    World Food Day / Praslin Sea Moss Fiesta report (opens in a new tab)

    Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Climate Change · 2022

    Official content with inconsistent URL metadata ('2020'); useful for sector existence, not current production.
    Institutional / older
  28. S175
    Patience Water Supply Redevelopment Project (opens in a new tab)

    Water and Sewerage Company Inc.

    Classifies the project as in progress and publishes scope, capacity, service population and outcome targets. The same page contains an older March 2025 estimate, a TBC completion field and a 31 December 2026 outcome target; these dates should not be collapsed.
    Official / primary
  29. S176
    WASCO advances Patience water-system upgrades (opens in a new tab)

    Water and Sewerage Company Inc.

    Reports ongoing intake-site works and pipeline procurement and gives a revised approximately US$2.1 million value. It does not establish commissioning or sustained household service.
    Official / primary
  30. S177
    Water-supply management on Patience and Belle Vue networks (opens in a new tab)

    Water and Sewerage Company Inc.

    Documents dry-season supply management and low pressure at higher elevations. It is a point-in-time operating notice, not a long-run reliability series.
    Official / primary
  31. S178
    Supporting Saint Lucian sea-moss farmers through sustainable practices (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 10 June 2026

    Identifies Praslin as a trial site. The 130-plus farmers, four associations and 50-plus trainees are national programme counts and are not treated as Praslin totals.
    Official / primary
  32. S179
    South-East Coast integrated ecosystems management consultancy (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · September 2025

    Identifies Praslin Island and Mon Repos Peninsula as priority areas and calls for zoning, marine buffers and conservation finance. Planning evidence is not proof of completed protection or site outcomes.
    Official / primary
  33. S180
    Integrated ecosystem management and restoration on Saint Lucia's South-East Coast (opens in a new tab)

    United Nations Environment Programme / Global Environment Facility

    The programme area and finance extend beyond Micoud North. Programme-level completion does not establish restoration results at Praslin or Mon Repos.
    Institutional / older
  34. S181
    Environmental and Social Code of Practice: Mon Repos Wellness Centre (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia / Ministry of Health · September 2024

    Describes the facility, services, hours, roughly 1,212 local population and an estimated 2,975-person catchment. It does not establish completion of the later renovation.
    Official / primary
  35. S182
    Upgrades underway at Patience Playing Field (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 31 January 2024

    Reports floodlights completed and toilets planned. A later official commissioning, toilet-completion or current operating record was not located.
    Official / primary
  36. S183
    Micoud North infrastructure works update (opens in a new tab)

    Saint Lucia Daily Post · 16 April 2026

    Reports Pointe Vierge road, Malgretoute Bridge and Mon Repos Highway drainage activity. Agency contracts, values, technical scope and handover evidence were not located.
    Specialist / community
  37. S184
    Sod turned on site of new cemetery for Mon Repos (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · 25 January 2024

    Establishes commencement intent and proposed local management. Current phase, capacity, cost, environmental compliance and opening are not established.
    Official / primary
  38. S185
    Saint Lucia National Conservation Fund closes subgrants programme (opens in a new tab)

    Government of Saint Lucia · March 2026

    Reports adoption of lower-impact sea-moss methods and reduced rough-sea losses at programme sites. Praslin-specific farmer, output and income values are not published.
    Official / primary
  39. S186
    WASCO shares progress on projects to improve water supply (opens in a new tab)

    St. Lucia Times · 29 July 2026

    Reports roughly 80% overall progress, intake complete, pump station about 85%, about 40% of pipe installed and treatment-plant civil works complete. These attributed milestones are not commissioning or verified service.
    Specialist / community