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Haiti Earthquake Response - Phase III
Phase III activities focus on reinforcing household and community security, economic recovery, and livelihood development. Phase III’s “security, recovery and development” programming is assisting an additional 20,000 people by expanding Phase II home and sanitary facility construction and short-term employment programs, as well as beginning new youth and gender empowerment, micro-credit, agriculture and renewable energy initiatives.
Water and Sanitation
Phase III of Episcopal Relief & Development and CEDDISEC’s sanitation work includes ongoing construction of household pit latrines and external showers for families within CEDDISEC’s provisional home program. The construction of latrines and showers makes CEDDISEC’s provisional home program unique from other shelter programs, by contributing to people’s restoration of a sense of privacy, security, and protection from gender-based violence, as well as prevention of the spread of diseases such as cholera. Read more
Shelter
Phase III of Episcopal Relief & Development and CEDDISEC’s shelter work continues the construction of provisional homes with families whose houses were destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake. The impetus for this work comes from the continued need for shelter, the absence of other shelter construction projects, and/or the presence of families displaced and voluntarily relocated from heavily-hit urban centers. In 2011, CEDDISEC is continuing to build shelters in the suburban communities of Carrefour, and the rural communities of l’Acul and Léogâne (including Matthieu, Buteau, Trouin, and Grand Colline). Read more
Employment
Phase III of Episcopal Relief & Development and CEDDISEC’s Cash-For-Work (CFW) economic relief program includes an expansion of employment opportunities to an additional 4,290 individuals. Through parish- and community-identified recovery projects, people engage in helping their communities recuperate from the devastating effects of the earthquake and/or seasonal storms, while also earning a daily wage. The wages earned help people regain a sense of agency in situations where much appears to be out of their control, and enables them to pay for food, school, home reconstruction and other necessities. Read more
Community Recovery
The engagement of Haitians and Episcopal parishes in community-led recovery is one of the key objectives of Episcopal Relief & Development and CEDDISEC’s Cash-For-Work (CFW) employment program. In Phase III, 330 work teams have engaged in an additional 130 recovery projects that are foundational to the country’s continued recovery. These projects include rubble removal from markets, schools, health centers or churches, rehabilitation of agricultural irrigation and drainage canals, and hurricane preparedness through the repair and rehabilitation of roads, ditches and retaining walls. Sixty of the Phase III community recovery projects are in communes heavily affected by the earthquake, such as Port-au-Prince, Carrefour, Léogâne, Grand Goâve and Croix des Bouquets. The remaining 40 projects are in communes in the north and south of the country, where many families are hosting individuals who were displaced by the 2010 quake. Read more
Micro-credit
To improve the economic security of rural and urban households affected by the January 2010 earthquake and currently excluded from institutionally based finance services, in Phase III CEDDISEC, with support from Episcopal Relief & Development, has launched a micro-credit program in the communes of Port-au-Prince, Carrefour, Léogâne, and Croix des Bouquets. Through CEDDISEC, a mix of new entrepreneurs and returning CEDDISEC clients are accessing credit in amounts ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 gourdes (US$120 to $625), to reinforce or restart their micro-businesses. Read more
Agriculture
To improve the availability of food and increase the economic security of urban households affected by the January 2010 earthquake, in Phase III CEDDISEC, with support from Episcopal Relief & Development, has launched a kitchen garden (Jardin pré-Kay) program in the communes of Carrefour, Gressier, Léogâne, Croix des Bouquets and Tabarre. Through CEDDISEC, an estimated 365 families are learning new techniques and engaging in urban vegetable cultivation that is not dependent upon their access to expansive or traditional plots of agricultural land. Read more
Protection and Empowerment
To promote a culture of peace that both protects and empowers those displaced by the January 2010 earthquake and currently living in tent camps, in Phase III CEDDISEC, with support from Episcopal Relief & Development, has united a Youth Brigade to address the high incidence of gender-based and sexual violence in urban camps. Through the work of this Youth Brigade, made up of 18 university students, an additional 160 youth (current residents of the urban camps) are engaged in dramas, music production and debates that challenge their friends and neighbors to recognize and prevent violence in all its forms. Read more
Green Schools
To encourage Haiti’s recovery with a greener focus, Episcopal Relief & Development has teamed up with ACT Alliance partner Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Anglican Office for Education (BAEH) to launch a pilot renewable energy and water and sanitation program at three Episcopal Schools in earthquake-affected communities of Léogâne and Grand-Goâve. NCA’s greener schools system involves the installation of a bio-digester septic facility that will produce methane cooking gas for school canteens from decomposing waste in the school’s sanitary latrines. A rainwater harvesting and solar pump scheme will support flush toilets and hand washing. Additionally, access to safe water will be improved by the installation (or repair) of a borehole near school grounds. Read more
Food (dry and wet)
To assist Episcopal schools in the provision of hot meals to their student populations, CEDDISEC, with support from Episcopal Relief & Development, is supplementing several existing school canteens with a variety of food that is Haitian-produced or otherwise locally procured. Read more
Institutional Strategy
In addition to supporting the program work of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and CEDDISEC, Episcopal Relief & Development is also assisting these institutions with technical and operational support. Read more
