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The member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), like many other small states around the world, face many challenges to their sustainable advancement including the buffeting effects of climate change, diminishing flows of international aid and concessional development financing, rising unemployment, sluggish economic growth, unsustainable debt, ageing infrastructure and now debilitating pandemics such as Covid-19. The urgent need for new, and relevant, sustainable development strategies that build resilience and rest on a ‘triple bottom line of economic prosperity, social inclusiveness and environmental sustainability has been acknowledged by all the OECS Member States, either collectively through the various OECS Councils1 or in public policy pronouncements by individual leaders2.