F.a: Strengthening resilience to climate change for improving food security

1. Awareness of local populations, organisations and authorities is raised on climate change and food security: Awareness-raising campaigns through 50 community radios and network of SAKS CBOs; Preparation and distribution of outreach materials in C reole. 2. Stronger Haitian CSOs undertake advocacy and participate in the development and extension of Government’s plans and policies on Agricultural Adaptation (PANA), Climate Resilience (PNRC) and Food security (PNSAN): Financial support for the oper ation of Civil Society Platform on Climate Change (PSC-CC); diffusion of policies; mapping of interventions on Climate Change in Haiti; Advocacy activities at national level with parliament, political parties, CSOs and universities. 3. Local people’s res ilience is improved by enhancing production systems, strengthening the technical capacity of small farmers and dissemination of best practices and relevant information: A call for proposals for projects on community adaptation to climate change and food se curity; evaluation of proposals; development of baselines; monitoring tools for community projects; their monitoring and evaluation, auditing.4. Strengthened organisational and technical capacities of local partners of community projects: Assessment of org anisational and administrative capacity; Development of training plans; organisation of training sessions.The rights-holders of the community projects are farmers on small plots (1 ha or less), vulnerable families, single-parent households and members of c ommunity-based peasant organisations. The target groups of the awareness-raising workshops will be of two types: 1) The central and local authorities and managers of the decentralised state institutions on central, departmental and communal level; 2) Organ isations and Civil Society Networks and community media.The project is coordinated jointly between several members of ACT Alliance Haiti Forum members, through the Forum’s Climate Change Working Group. A local member, Service Chrétien d’Haiti (SCH), i s in charge of the practical project coordination and implementation, and supporting to local partners that implement community projects with CBOs.