Completed project

Support for Displaced Haitians in Artibonite (PADA)

Haiti

Adapting to climate change

Date

May 2010 to May 2011

Financial contribution

$ 6,157,524 CAD

USAID : $ 5,402,880 CAD et CECI : $ 754,645 CAD

Consortium partner

Haiti’s Direction de la Protection civile Haiti’s Ministère de l’Agriculture Haiti’s Ministère de la Santé Haiti’s Direction nationale de l’eau potable et de l’assainissement Local elected officials (town hall) Civil society organizations United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Impact for

75 000 people

amongst them 50% women

Following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, CECI drew on its 40 years experience on the ground in the Caribbean nation to take swift and effective action. Through PADA, CECI provided aid to people fleeing the ruins of Port-au-Prince and taking refuge with loved ones, as well as to those who took them in. Many of these families saw their daily living conditions deteriorate further, conditions that were already precarious in most cases. A solution had to be found that would help both host families and victims out of economic uncertainty while increasing agricultural production to respond to increasing demands for food.

Objectives

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Economic recovery

“My children brought home 15 people after January 12. They came with their neighbours and other survivors. I gave them food and drink.” Like Marie-Françoise, thousands of people found themselves lacking the means to give the help they wanted to provide. They didn’t expect the situation would last months, and even years.

Responding to this situation is Cash For Work (CFW) — one of four components of PADA, and has enabled thousands of workers to accumulate capital to meet their own needs and those of their families.

Food infrastructure rehabilitation

Repairing food infrastructures was essential given the rise in demand for food following population increases in the department provoked by the arrival of displaced individuals. Workers built almost 20 irrigation systems, reinforced a dam, and terraced steep hillsides of drainage basins.

Preventing future disasters

To prevent future climatic hazards, the project has facilitated the construction of infrastructure capable of taking in hundreds of people in the event of a natural disaster, encouraged the reuse of building materials and the involvement of affected communities, and conducted a major sanitation campaign. With CECI, reaction and prevention go hand in hand.

Beneficiary of the CFW program