Final Report of the Grand'Anse Departmental Participatory Workshop on the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (DSNCRP)
Summary: Final report of the MPCE departmental directorate of the Grand'Anse on the participatory workshop held on 14 and 15 June 2007 in Jérémie as part of the consultation for the national strategy for growth and poverty reduction (DSNCRP). It records the poverty profile of the 12 communes, the department's assets and constraints, four strategic axes and priority actions chosen by participants, and their proposals on health, education, drinking water and sanitation.
Key Findings
- The MPCE departmental directorate of the Grand'Anse reports a workshop held on 14 and 15 June 2007 in Jérémie as part of the national consultation for the DSNCRP.
- The MPCE poverty profile, drawn from the 2004 Carte de Pauvreté d'Haïti, placed 9 of the 12 communes (75 percent) in the very low and low categories of access to basic services and 3 (25 percent), including Jérémie and Beaumont, in the moderately low category.
- Participants named agriculture, fishing, livestock, tourism and the environment, including Pic Macaya, as the department's assets, and noted that 9 of the 12 communes are coastal.
- The main constraints are the isolation of the department and the inability of EDH to supply electricity, with weak state resources and weak local governance also raised.
- The four strategic axes are agriculture, tourism, fisheries and environmental protection, and priority actions include road links from Jérémie to Les Cayes, Tiburon and Miragoâne to close the southern peninsula.
- The poverty group proposed measures on health, basic education, drinking water and sanitation.
- The report notes that a moto-taxi ride from a communal section to Jérémie costs 250 to 1,000 gourdes, which it gives as evidence of the department's isolation.
How to cite
Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE), 2007, Final Report of the Grand'Anse Departmental Participatory Workshop on the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (DSNCRP), http://mpce.gouv.ht/rapportgrandanse.pdf
- Rights holder
- Ministère de la Planification et de la Coopération Externe (MPCE)