Climate change is one of the crucial issues of the twenty-first century affecting human populations globally. Saint Lucia faces high climate change impacts with vulnerability and adaptation capacity varying widely throughout the country depending on a range of demographic, socio-economic and spatial factors. Women are affected disproportionately by climate change due to existing socio-economic and psycho-social conditions such as poverty and food insecurity (Third National Communication on Climate Change for Saint Lucia, 2017). There is a direct connection between access to adequate social assistance and protection, healthcare, food and nutrition, water and sanitation and education, among
other factors. Systemic barriers also propagate gender-based vulnerability.

This vulnerability analysis focuses on the relationship between climate change and gender-based socio-economic vulnerability in Saint Lucia and uses the Survey of Living Conditions and Household Budgets 2016 (SLC-HBS 2016) as the data for undertaking this analysis.