MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL-CULTURAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES HAITIANOS (MOSCTHA)
PROJECT BY: American Jewish World Service
PARTNERS: N/A
ESTIMATED COST: $10,000
ANTICIPATED LAUNCH: October 2008
PROJECT DURATION: 2 months
WEB SITE: www.ajws.org
AJWS has an ongoing relationship with MOSCTHA to contribute to the economic, social and cultural improvement of Haitian immigrants and their descendants. MOSCTHA applies the values of economic solidarity, unionism, and cooperation in order to further education, respect for human rights, social justice, and improve work and living conditions. With AJWS emergency relief MOSCTHA could conduct community education sessions on health education and disease prevention; provide health services through their mobile clinic; and coordinate community clean up campaigns. Community leaders in each bateye will be organized and trained to establish community disaster risk reduction teams who will be equipped to conduct community vulnerability assessments and to design mitigation plans. The disaster risk reduction community committees will also carry out monthly health education and clean up campaigns, and MOSCTHA’s mobile clinic will visit each bateye weekly until the crisis is over.
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Additional funds would allow MOSCTHA and the community disaster risk reduction committees the ability to implement their action plans which will include establishing future shelter sites, stock piling of supplies such as blankets, tarps, and flashlights and designing an early warning system. Further financial collaboration is needed to equip the mobile clinic with medicine and personal hygiene supplies, and to fund more frequent community visits for health service provision.
MUSIC STUDIO IN CITÉ SOLEIL
PROJECT BY: Yéle Haiti
PARTNERS: Bernard Mevs Foundation, ONE x ONE
ESTIMATED COST: $1,200,000
ANTICIPATED LAUNCH: November 15, 2008
PROJECT DURATION: 12 months (after which the project
will be self financing)
WEB SITE: www.yele.org
Yéle Haiti commits to creating a new public-private alliance in which one for-profit and three non-profit partners will create and operate a music and video studio in the Cité Soleil section of Port-au-Prince. The goal is to utilize music and video as tools for development. While this could be addressed by simply outsourcing private businesses for services, the alliance partners are combining resources, expertise, innovation, brand recognition, and market access in pursuit of a common objective.
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
The business model for this project is based on shared responsibilities for management, operating expenses and income. Three non-profit sources, Yéle Haiti, Bernard Mevs Foundation, and ONE x ONE, provide the facility and outfit it completely as a world class music and video studio. A new for-profit company is in the course of being created that will manage the facility. The for-profit gets to use half the studio’s time for its own business activities in exchange for managing the other half of the time for non-profit activities that are under the auspices of the non-profits. In order to initiate the process though, Yéle Haiti is looking for financial contributions to bring about this business.
NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION IN HAITI
PROJECT BY: The Pan American Development Foundation (PADF)
ESTIMATED COST: $2,500,000
ANTICIPATED LAUNCH: November 1, 2008
PROJECT DURATION: 3 years
WEB SITE: www.padf.org
The Emergency Response, Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness Project (PUGRD in French) fosters disaster mitigation through rehabilitation of areas affected by recent natural disasters, reinforces the Haitian Government’s Office of Civil Protection (DCP), and facilitates disaster management and reduction of community vulnerability. It trains local emergency response committees throughout the country. This includes the involvement of the public and private sectors in developing response plans, carrying out simulations and table-top exercises. It will also equip municipal authorities through a small grants program, providing up to $50,000 for prevention, structural mitigation and civil works aimed at reducing community vulnerability.
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Program implementation will build on current Government of Haiti disaster mitigation work being financed by the World Bank. Partners will also include the private sector through the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti, churches, and local schools.
RECAPITALIZING HURRICANE VICTIMS THROUGH MICROFINANCE
PROJECT BY: Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance institution
ESTIMATED COST: $7,000,000
ANTICIPATED LAUNCH: Immediately
PROJECT DURATION: 1 year
WEB SITE: www.fonkoze.org
Fonkoze commits to putting new, interest-free (or reduced interest) loans into the hands of 27,000 poor and extremely poor women who have lost all their merchandise in the recent floods caused by Gustave, Hanna, and Ike to allow them to recapitalize their businesses and put their families back on track in their struggle against poverty by strengthening their businesses and developing themselves through better education and better health care.
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Fonkoze works closely with the health care delivery systems available in each of the 10 departments of Haiti to ensure that these families can maximize their access and utilization of appropriate health services. Partners include Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health – Paul Farmer), Maison de Naissance, and others throughout the country.
RURAL WATER AND SANITATION IN HAITI
PROJECT BY: The Pan American Development Foundation
ESTIMATED COST: $5,000,000
ANTICIPATED LAUNCH: November 1, 2008
PROJECT DURATION: 4 years
WEB SITE: www.padf.org
Water, and most specifically potable water, is a scarce resource in Haiti. Barriers to water access and lack of adequate sanitation systems affect the quality of life for most Haitians, creating an environment conducive to illness, and impacting the population’s capacity to contribute to sustainable socio-economic development, especially in rural areas. PADF will work to identify peri-urban and rural communities and municipalities that are willing and able or have the potential to become involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of water and sanitation systems. To ensure sustainability, the program will include not only a comprehensive approach of community involvement in the design and construction/rehabilitation of water and sanitation systems but also extensive training and long-term technical assistance on systems operations via community water associations and municipal governments, and the implementation of community-designed tariff and cost recovery systems.
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
PADF has over 25 years of experience developing and strengthening community-based organizations in Haiti, regarded as the most difficult working environment in the LAC region. Our 130 local staff, located in seven offices throughout the country, can ensure the rapid start-up, effective implementation, sustainability, and proper maintenance that no other organization can achieve. PADF has a proven ability to mobilize the best technical, engineering, and community development staff in Haiti who have prior experience with rural water and sanitation projects, as well as community-based methodologies and prior Haitian experience which will maximize impact during the course of the project.
