Pro Huerta Trilateral Cooperation Project

Results achieved as of March 2013 include: more than 13 800 families are able to obtain fresh food directly from their vegetable garden plots. A coordinator 15 technicians and 1 481 promoters (of which 24% are women) were trained and now provide services including access to up to 21 varieties of garden seeds. There are now 12 019 family vegetable gardens exceeding the target of 10 200; 205 community and school vegetable gardens exceeding the target of 180; 2 223 family poultry production units exceeding the target of 1 900; and 34 community poultry production units whereas none were planned. The project also supported the construction of a new administrative building for the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake. These results have contributed to increasing people’s access to local foods diversifying the availability of food products and meeting basic food needs.