International Development Projects - 2026-08-18 8:07:01 PM - all published projects English

CA-3-D004265001 2026-08-18T06:32:38 This initiative seeks to address youth violence in Haiti by engaging and empowering youth, and young adults to have a voice in community decision making. In Haiti youth, who increasingly lack hope for the future, have limited economic opportunities, have experienced interruptions in their education, have broken ties with families and have experienced violence and discrimination. With GAC’s support, Mercy Corps addresses two key drivers of community violence: (1) a lack of voice for youth and young adults in decisions affecting their communities; and (2) scarce social and economic opportunities that offer productive alternatives to crime and violence. Mercy Corps intends to implement targeted activities that address specific drivers of violence for different age groups of the community, which include female, male, and priority youth and adolescents. Closed 2017-03-29T00:00:00 2023-03-31T00:00:00 Haiti 100.00% Mercy Corps Basic life skills for youth and adults 15.00% Vocational training 20.00% Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution 60.00% Informal/semi-formal financial intermediaries 5.00% 8074399.00 The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased partnership between communities and police on achieving security; (2) increased youth participation in community decision-making and peacebuilding processes; and (3) increased demonstration of constructive behaviours and positive participation by youth in Haiti’s Carrefour Feuilles, Canaan and Arcahaie and Miragoane communities. Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2023) include: (1) increased the skills of 108 youth (47 women and 61 men) between the ages of 15 and 30in developing and writing peacebuilding proposals; (2) implemented violence prevention plans that included a gender analysis and incorporated a gendered perspective in five Haitian communities; (3) increased the capacity of 51 women from women-led organizations to advocate for gender equality in governance and peacebuilding processes; (4) produced 51 reports on drivers of violence in communities; and (5) trained 14,160 at-risk youth and their parents (6,615 women and 7,445 men) in foundational life-skills. Project-type interventions Bilateral Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation Global Affairs Canada YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br Foreign Affairs and Trade Gs&Cs Gender equality Children's issues Youth Issues 1549700.00 2103252.00 18.442320 -73.087580 18.646111 -72.273056 18.523060 -72.337780 18.770190 -72.512260 2017200032 Mercy Corps 8074399.00 1132568.00 1884018.92 1290380.08 309698.00 204001.67 336197.45 134231.68 587966.00 1101030.87 690557.33 403749.00