BASSETERRE, St Kitts – The Ministry of Sustainable Development, in partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is pleased to announce that Biesha Christian, one of its recent scholarship awardees, has graduated.
Christian worked at the Department of Agriculture and was awarded a post-graduate scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Sustainable Lands and Cities at the University of Edinburgh in 2023. She completed the program in one year and graduated in November 2024.
The Sustainable Lands and Cities programme focuses on the fundamental nature of land and how it can be defined, understood, managed and used. It equips students with the skills to influence and create resilient and sustainable relationships between lands and cities.
The scholarship program was established to build the capacity of public servants in specialized areas, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Land Use Planning, and Natural Resource Management.
Seven students from St. Kitts and Nevis received the scholarship under the Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded project, “Improving Environmental Management through Sustainable Land Management”.