Completed project

Disaster, Risk and Reconstruction Management (PRGRD)

Haiti
Climate solutions and biodiversity
Date

January 2015 to June 2016

Budget

US $1,217,512.80

financed by: World Bank / ministère de l’Intérieur et des Collectivités territoriales (MICT)

Partenaire de consortium

Mayors of communes in Haiti’s Ouest and Sud-Est Departments, Comités communaux de protection civile (CCPC), Groupe d’initiatives pour un développement durable (GIDE)

Impact for

840 Comités communaux de protection civile (CCPC) members

The magnitude of the damage caused by the January 2010 earthquake and the 2008 hurricanes clearly demonstrated the country’s level of vulnerability, which is a consequence of the rapid degradation of the environment resulting from exhaustion of resources by the impoverished, poor spatial management, weak infrastructure and certain weaknesses in governance.

Risk and disaster management has long been a forgotten cause in public policy, despite the fact that the country has historically faced natural disasters. The Disaster, Risk and Reconstruction Management Project (Projet de reconstruction, de gestion des risques et désastres, or PRGRD) is one of the first actions by the Haitian government to build the country’s institutional and operational capacities in disaster and risk management.



The PRGRD objectives are to:

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Contribute

to reducing people’s vulnerability in the Ouest and Sud-Est Departments in times of natural disaster by strengthening Municipal Civil Protection Committees (Comités communaux de protection civile, or CCPC);

Equip

at-risk populations in the Ouest and Sud-Est Departments need effective and preventive measures to guarantee their security in the event of a natural disaster. The PRGRD Planning and Management subcomponent aims to achieve universal CCPC coverage throughout the country.

CECI’s mandate is to:

Significant increases!

Help

strengthen 30 CCPCs in 30 communes – twenty (20) in the Ouest Department and ten (10) in the Sud-Est Department;

Ensure

that the 30 CCPCs are set up in the 30 targeted communes;

Form, equip and provide

guidance to CCPCs with consideration to a detailed assessment of their needs

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