CHF

Final report of the grantee, the Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF), on a project (9/93-5/95) to provide emergency assistance to clean up accumulated solid waste in targeted areas of Port-au-Prince, providing employment to low-income Haitians. Although initiated under very difficult conditions and during a period of grave economic hardships in Haiti, the Cooperative Agreement between USAID and CHF successfully addressed the solid waste management crisis in Port-au-Prince and had a direct and positive socioeconomic impact on the lives of its residents. The project produced a hitherto unknown cooperation among various interests, personalities, organizations, and activities, which worked together to bridge difficult barriers between the local public and private sectors, in the process producing Haiti's first sustainable model of decentralized urban service delivery. CHF created 8,640 person/month of employment for low-income Haitians, of whom more than 35% were women. CHF also provided pragmatic leadership to achieve the objectives of the grant. Through innovative approaches such as TA, training, and institutional development CHF was able to strengthen local institutional capacit

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABM-619 (1996). The source's own text.