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Completed project

Local Governance for Risk and Disaster Management

Haiti
Adapting to climate change
Date

July 2011 to November 2012

Budget

CAD$ 4 648 134

Funding Sources and Amounts: 

CIDA : CAD $ 3 510 632 

UMQ : CAD $ 536 690 

CECI : CAD $ 600 812

Impact for

93 000 direct beneficiaries

600 000 indirect beneficiaries

Consortium partner

Comités communaux de protection civile (CCPC)

Comités départementaux de protection civile (CDPC) 

Le CECI led this projet.

Local Governance for Risk and Disaster Management in Haiti

The project on Local Governance for Risk and Disaster Management in Haiti aims at improving the capability of the decentralized services of the Directorate of Civil Protection (Direction de la protection civile [DPC]), such as the Departmental and Municipal Civil Protection Committees (Comités départementaux et communaux de protection civile[CDPC and CCPC]), to deal with climate change and the risks of natural disasters. All the activities of the project must contribute towards reinforcing the capacities of the communities from the 21 targeted municipalities, so that they are in a position to deal with climate change and natural disasters.

In order to achieve this result, the work of the project has been structured around three elements:

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Awareness and information for the authorities and local communities;

The element aims at setting up tools, strategies and methods to be used during the project, to mobilize the local agents around the objectives of the project and to make them aware of its stakes. This work is done essentially through meetings with the locals. It also consists of setting up a continuous information plan for people having access to means such as communal radios. The project’s information strategy picks out messages as well as the means of communication to reach women and men, as well as young girls and boys.



The reinforcement of the capacities of the local agents such as the CDPC and the CCPC;

The work for the element takes place in three important stages. First, after an analysis of the needs and the organization of equipment, training is offered to members of the Departmental Civil Protection Committees (Comités départementaux de la protection civile [CDPC]), guarantors for carrying out national projects, and to the Municipal Civil Protection Committees (Comités communaux de la protection civile [CCPC]). These trainings are completed by the supply of rescue equipment so that these committees can be in a position to deal with future calamities. In the third stage, the authorities are trained and assisted in drawing up hazard maps and community plans to manage risks and disasters so that they can be prepared for the cyclonic seasons to come. The different needs and specific contexts of women and men, in pre and post disaster situations, are taken into consideration while developing tools.

The emphasis on setting up community programs for risk and disaster management, including the establishment of sub-projects for risk mitigation and adapting to climate change.

The element comprises of the planning, management and establishment of 21 sub-projects (one per municipality) for risk mitigation or adapting to the mode of life or adapting to climate change. The project presses the departmental and municipal committees, through training and assistance, to adequately fulfill their role of identifying, prioritizing, executing, appropriating, monitoring, maintaining and promoting the sub-projects of mitigation.

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