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Addressing Education and Skills Gaps for Vulnerable Youths in Haiti: Promoting rural socio-economic development in South and Grande Anse Departments - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2582

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2582

location:

country:

Haiti

region:

Americas

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eval_title:

Addressing Education and Skills Gaps for Vulnerable Youths in Haiti: Promoting rural socio-economic development in South and Grande Anse Departments - Final Evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2021-07-04 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Organizational issues

category:

Planning and programme design

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action_plan:

En realidad, de las cuatro cadenas de valor valoradas en la nota conceptual para el nuevo proyecto, solo dos han sido finalmente seleccionadas, por su potencial de desarrollo en el departamento Grand'Anse, seleccionado para la intervención del proyecto: Cacao y Fruta pan. Con esta intervención en el marco del proyecto PROFIT se persigue el doble objetivo de, en primer lugar, fortalecer el sector del cacao fermentado de calidad, y promover la cadena de fruta pan. El fortalecimiento del sector del cacao requiere el establecimiento de infraestructuras que permitan la formación de los distintos actores y el aumento de las cantidades tratadas pos cosecha. La promoción de la cadena de fruta pan generará ingresos sustanciales para los pequeños productores. Este sector también permitirá luchar contra la desnutrición infantil y los riesgos alimentarios. El proyecto también generará decenas de empleos directos e indirectos y, por lo tanto, ganancias para gran parte de la población del departamento. I cannot be in full agreement with this recommendation because on the one hand to be able to meaningfully help in the area of fisheries you need sizeable investments in terms of cooling equipment to ensure adequate fishes cconservation and in boats that allow fishing in deep seas as shore fishing is saturated. With regard to mango, the problem came from a severe increase in insecurity that prevented the identified responsible company from visiting Haiti, something that was completely unforeseeable when we first initiated the project. Now, henceforth we selected 4 promising products on which we commissioned a market-oriented study and we precisely chose among the 2 selected value chains for the PROFIT project one (cocoa) that had already some sizeable existing market penetration in Europe, hence introducing a great factor of sustainability in our intervention.

management_response:

Rejected

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

DWT/CO-San Jose

title:

Technical focus of a successor project A concept note for a new project has been developed promoting four new value chains. In the concept note it is not explained why fisheries and mangos are no longer being considered as there is an opportunity to learn lessons and consolidate. The processing and marketing side of fisheries which is a women’s domain could benefit enormously from a formalization, professionalization and enterprise support package. Even if it is decided, based on research, that the new project will focus on different value chains, there should be a consolidation package for the 18-25 year old skills trainees in FOPRODER who require some further support on the path to professionalization, given that the expected pathway of employment placements for certified skills trainees never materialized. This could come in the form of an enterprise kit or grant. If FOPRODER trainees remain disappointed or feel “short-changed” by ILO then this will negatively affect the image of a new project. It is also recommended in the SOCIODIG study into the 4 value chains that a strongly balance approach supporting local, national and international aspects of value chains, as Haitian producers highly favour local sales as a rational approach to reducing risk. As the FOPRODER project proved, it is hard to consolidate the presence of new international buyers to break the pattern of the existing Haitian monopsonistic export houses that have adapted their practices to the local situation over many decades to reduce risk on their side. Exports is a high risk, high reward endeavor which should be the icing on the cake of establishing greater product quality and processing options at the association level.

project_symbols:

HTI/16/01/NOR

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/14494

information_source:

Country Office

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