About
In 2022, The Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID) awarded the Ministry of Sustainability & Climate Resiliency and Wellness (formerly known as the Ministry of Sustainability & Climate Resilience) more than €1.2 million (KYD $1.04 million) for two energy efficiency programmes — one to improve energy efficiency in public sector buildings and another to do so in government-built affordable homes.
In collaboration with the European Union’s RESEMBID programme, managed by Expertise France, this initiative sought to enhance the energy efficiency of low-income homes that are part of the Cayman Islands’ National Housing Development Trust (NHDT), thereby making a direct impact on some of the most vulnerable in the Cayman Islands community. The NHDT serves as a critical platform for providing affordable housing solutions in the Cayman Islands, making it an ideal partner for integrating energy efficiency projects aimed at some of the most vulnerable sections of the population.
This programme’s goal was to improve energy efficiency and facilitate retrofits for both existing public sector buildings and National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) homes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide cost savings for homeowners and the Cayman Islands Government.
This holistic programme included retrofits, analyses of existing buildings, developing standards for future buildings, gathering data and developing financing mechanisms to support future projects. The grants supported training components, establishing minimum energy efficiency guidelines for new builds, and an assessment of financing mechanisms to support the retrofit of additional public sector buildings and homes. The programme successfully concluded in January 2025, see the programme highlights below for analysis on the project.
Programme Highlights
To learn more about the outcomes, results, and lessons learned from the Residential and Public Sector Energy Efficiency Programmes please download the programme highlight reports below.
Case Studies
About RESEMBID
The Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID) commenced operations on 1st January 2019 and will be implemented over a period of 58 months. The programme supports the sustainable human development efforts of the 12 Caribbean OCTs, namely: Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, and Saint-Barthélemy.
The overall objective of RESEMBID is to support the sustainable human development efforts of participating countries and territories, with the thematic priorities being: Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity.
To learn more, visit: https://resembid.org/