PAST REPORTS

This study was commissioned by CNSA with the financial and logistic support of WFP and FAO. The objective was to examine the processes that NGO and governmental agencies employ to select beneficiaries of social assistance programs in rural Haiti. The task responds to needs associated with current humanitarian aid and development programs such as: Ede Pep, with the Ti Manman Cheri assistance program to mothers with children in primary school and managed under the Economic and Social Assistance Fund (FAES); Kore Fanmi,, also managed under FAES, a World Bank-supported Family Development Plan that connects vulnerable families to the services and information provided by government, NGO, and international agencies and tracks progress of participant households; and Kore Lavi, a five-year US$79,996,200 USAID financed plan that includes a pilot safety net program targeting 18,150 of the poorest households in 23 of Haiti’s 140 communes (total population is 315,400 households), carried out under the auspices of CARE International, WFP, and ACF.

This document is a summary of CNSA’s more comprehensive, Report on Beneficiary Targeting in Haiti: Detection Strategies. It is meant as a summary of that report and a beneficiary selection guide for organizations working in the humanitarian aid and development sectors. With input from Haiti’s CNSA, the World Food Program (WFP), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), USAID, Oxfam, and a long-list of other Humanitarian agencies, the guide refines the fundamental best practices of beneficiary targeting in the Haiti. The discussion begins by defining what is meant when we say targeting. Focus then narrows to the following specific challenges encountered in Haiti,  Definition of Targeting  Basic Tenets  Characteristics of a Robust Targeting Strategy  The Humanitarian Aid Targeting Chain  Best Practices in Haiti

The study described in this report was funded by the American Peanut Council (APC), and carried out under the guidance and auspices of EDESIA, a social enterprise with the goal of preventing malnutrition for the world’s most vulnerable children through a four-pillar strategy, 1. Produce high-quality Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods 2. Collaborate on research and development to improve distribution systems 3. Support local producers of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods in the developing world. 4. Engage in educational efforts and direct advocacy to raise the profile of global malnutrition in the United States.

Food preparation specialists have helped popular class Haitians adapt to the increasing obstacles to preparing meals at home and increasing poverty while still allowing them to obtain high calories at low cost. In the process they also earn income to support themselves and their families and invigorated the local economy. But food alternatives have emerged over the last two decades that compete with the local food preparation economy and arguably lead consumers away from success in the quest for affordable and if not nutritious, at least, high caloric value foods. This new option involves snack foods such as cookies, salted crackers, and cheese puffs. They are not part of an integrated local adaptation to poverty but rather a global one. Most are prepared not in impoverished Haiti, and not with Haitian produce but rather low cost ingredients from industrial producers in other countries. Perhaps somewhat ironically, they are almost all prepared not in developed countries but others poor countries, some close by, such as the Dominican Republic and Guatemala; others on the far side of the world, such as India and Pakistan. They are imported and sold on the streets, in open-air markets, and in stores, where they come into competition not only with local produce, but also with the cottage food preparation industry seen in the previous section.

The primary objective of this report is to respond to the question, “How well attuned was the Haiti Hope project strategy to promoting an increase in present and future revenues for Mango farmers and other mango supply chain actors.” The answer is, If assessed in HTG (Haitian Gourdes), income for all project participants and control groups increased over the life of the project. Income increased for Inactive Members by 57%; for Non sellers by 33% and for Sellers by 67%. If we add 7 HTG premiums paid to those who sold through the project, increased income from Haiti Hope sales of certified Organic and Fairtrade mangos is an additional 14 percent—for income specifically from those Haiti Hope sales for a total of 81%. Even survey control groups—that 2015 controls taken from outside the project area-- increased income in HTG by an estimated 40% over the life of the project.