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Monitoring and Planning Mission
Integrated Community Development Project
Petit-Goave, Haiti
April 2009
| Team of Volunteers from Ontario International Development Agency visited local partner Haiti Vision Inc, Petit-Goave, Haiti during April 2009. Mission was scheduled to collect baseline data establish indicators to measure success and failures of the project. Volunteers visited all 12 sections of the Petit-Goave and met community members and leaders. They discussed challenges and possible difficulties to implement Integrated Community Development in Petit-Goave. Community leaders agreed provide unskilled labour for the project. OIDA volunteers finalized the civil construction and design for the project. Project will meet all Canadian guidelines including food safety and environmental legislations. Haiti Vision Inc staff were trained to manage their project and financial, food safety training will be scheduled prior to start production. OIDA will monitor the project for three years and project will be handed over to community. Haiti Vision Inc may able to manage their project own and then OIDA continuous improvement program in placed. |
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For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. Although tremendous strides have been made, approximately one in four people in developing countries continues to live below the World Bank’s international poverty line of US$1.25 per day. Progress has also been markedly uneven, ranging from the dramatic success experienced in East Asia (notably China), to relatively slower progress in South Asia and Latin America, to deeper poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Material deprivation based on income and consumption measures forms only part of the picture. Understanding and measuring the well-being of the poor also requires a more multi-faceted approach that takes into account other kinds of deprivation, such as health, education, access to public goods and services, security, freedom, and human rights. While national and global accounts are critical benchmarks, poverty and inequality are more accurately measured and understood within the specific geographical, economic, social, and political contexts in which people live, at household and community levels. |