Local Development Program

Results achieved by this project which ended in March 2013 include: the project developed strategic tools such as two draft bills three methodological guides one proposal for town boundaries one community classification and one local development community plan. These tools contribute to modernizing the Government's administrative and legal framework for local development and decentralization. The project also helped to develop local development plans in 80 towns throughout the country. These were developed with a participatory approach including local committees and round tables and the dissemination of information via 60 radio broadcastings. In the area of business entrepreneurship more than eighty infrastructure projects were completed in the three-targeted communities of Bombardopolis Gros-Morne and Saint-Michel de l’Attalaye. The projects supported activities such as fishing maritime transportation electrification wells and latrines. They included the construction of 10 municipal administrative centres 16 poultry houses 14 mills 4 warehouses for fish conservation 7 grain elevators many secondary roads and irrigation systems and the expansion of10 schools. Also 19 economic activities were supported and 1 565 Haitians received technical training in subjects such as business administration accounting and veterinary care agriculture and fishing allowing participants to better their chance of obtaining jobs and raising their income. These results have contributed to helping communities better manage their development by creating and implementing local development plans.