Haiti project 521-0258 · 1995 · food assistance

Project, follow-on to 5210241, to increase food security among poor families in the most food-insecure areas of Haiti in the short, medium, and long term. The project will: (1) help the Government of Haiti (GOH) to develop policy and information systems for food security; and (2) provide P.L. 480 Title II food commodities. An institutional contractor will implement the first component in cooperation with a Haitian interministerial commission or task force; the second component will be implemented by various U.S. PVOs. The project will help the GOH to develop and implement operational food security policy and information systems by providing the interministerial commission with long- and short-term TA (U.S. or third-country, and local), short-term participant and local training (including roundtables and consensus workshops) and limited commodity support. To improve the collection, collation, analysis, dissemination and use of food security information for decisionmaking by the GOH, NGOs, and international donors, the project will also provide funding for a central information office and for provincial GOH and NGO field operations. Policy efforts will be undertaken in a multisec

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABM-147 (1995). The source's own text.