Burkina Faso

Haiti

Working together with local stakeholders and development partners, EIF is supporting Haiti to incorporate trade into its national development strategy. This includes fostering dialogues between government and the private sector and support and strategies for mobilizing resources.

Trade Institutional Capacity: The EIF has supported Haiti in improving its trade environment and building trade capacities in the following ways:

  • The development of a new Trade Policy, and medium-term plan. The EIF also strengthened the linkages amongst the intersectoral implementation network. The capacity of officials was further enhanced through training on areas such as trade facilitation, trade negotiations, English language skills, and results-based management.
  • Built the capacity in product and systems certification for both the National Bureau on Standardisation and sensitisation for Haitian businesses on legal and regulatory frameworks.
  • Improved coordination of trade-related technical assistance from donors to Haiti with the establishment of an evolving and integrated diagnostic review of trade and investment, as well as support to the organization of a roundtable and follow-up with development partners.

Fisheries sector development: This project is improving the socio-economic conditions of the groups of actors involved in fishing and the production of sea salt through a series of actions to improve the productive capacity and sustainability. Through the project's support sea salt production has increased from 75 metric tonnes to 200 metric tonnes a year.

  • The EIF also supported the establishment and formalization of 11 new fishery and salt producer associations and provided training and coaching to enhance the cooperative management practices of three existing fishery and salt producer cooperatives.
  • Fisherfolks also received fishing equipment to strengthen their capacities and modernize production techniques. Additionally, EIF support contributed to the construction of five units for the transformation and conservation of fish products. 
  • With a view to protecting the coastal ecosystem, over 200 fisherfolks have been trained in sustainable fishery techniques, and the EIF supported the installation of two mangrove nurseries at Pointe des Mangles and Môle-Saint-Nicolas and the production of approximately 5,000 red mangrove seedlings in the Pointe des Mangles unit, waiting to be transplanted.

EIF is working to develop and reinforce Haiti's institutional capacities in the formulation and implementation of trade policies and strategies.

Results:

  • 60 beneficiaries from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, stakeholder institutions and the private sector participated in a training in July 2015 to improve their understanding of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and other topics related to project implementation.
  • Quarterly Joint Committee meetings are now being held aimed at fostering dialogue between the government and the private sector on trade issues and Foreign Direct Investment.
  • Initiatives launched aimed at mobilizing resources and expertise, among them a roundtable workplan, the preparation of project monitoring tools, sector plans for a public investment program and outreach to technical and financial partners.
  • English language trainings held for 19 officials from the Ministry of Trade.

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