Project profile — Cashew, Mango and Gardening Value Chains Development for the Benefit of Women and Youth

• Haiti (100.00%)

• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (10.00%)
Agricultural inputs (31150) (5.00%)
Food crop production (31161) (20.00%)
Industrial crops/export crops (31162) (20.00%)
Agricultural education/training (31181) (15.00%)
Agricultural research (31182) (5.00%)
Agricultural co-operatives (31194) (5.00%)
• Other Multisector: Rural development (43040) (20.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (significant objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (principal objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (significant objective)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project seeks to improve the economic well-being and reduce the vulnerability of Haitian women and men living in rural areas in Haiti’s Sud department. To achieve this, the project activities include training, outreach and participative research, as well as the introduction of innovative practices, techniques and technologies. The goal is to make production systems for mango, cashew nut and some associated vegetable crop value chains more productive, better adapted to climate change and more resistant to shocks. The project also seeks to improve existing farming, management and natural resource development practices and encourage the adoption of agro-ecological practices with a view to environmental sustainability, economic viability and climate change adaptation. Furthermore, the project is also helping to develop agricultural product processing and preparation systems that meet the quality standards required by the markets. The desired professionalization of the targeted value chains depends in part on the presence and strengthening of associations and private businesses in which women play a key role. The project supports 600 producers, particularly women and young people.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) value-added of the targeted agri-food value chains is increased, particularly for women and youth in the targeted regions, while respecting the environment; and (2) agri-food value chains targeted by the project are better adapted to climate change.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) supported 600 people (379 women and 221 men) received support through interventions in the targeted regions. This is done in collaboration with the Sud department’s agricultural directorate and the communal agricultural offices; (2) sown 186.9 hectares of land with vegetable and grain crops that are suitable for climate change adaptation; (3) created a special fund for entrepreneurial initiatives in the past year (2023 to 2024). Entrepreneurial activities as a whole helped 60 women and men participants to implement their individual and collective initiatives; and (4) the Government of Haiti recognized 3 of the 60 initiatives (5%) as legally incorporated entities. The implementation of the project’s entrepreneurial component helped revive economic activities that were in crisis and launched new initiatives in the agricultural sector in the targeted communes. Recipients adopted new procedures to better manage their initiatives.

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