The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development
(AECID) announced this month that it will provide €1 million
of continued funding for community recovery and development
projects to benefit displaced and vulnerable residents in the
south-western coastal town of Petit Goâve and surrounding
areas.

The funds will support ongoing IOM efforts to facilitate
economic and social rehabilitation of communities through the
return and reintegration of displaced individuals. The projects
selected for this funding were prioritized by community committees,
local leaders and humanitarian organizations present in Petit
Goâve.

The projects will rely on employment-creating Cash for Work
activities to carry out works including: rubble clearance and
material recycling; watershed rehabilitation to prevent soil
erosion; irrigation canal dredging and development; repair and
construction of water and sewer drainage infrastructure; and
implementation of flood-risk mitigation strategies. The projects
are to start at the beginning of August.

The AECID-funded projects will benefit 1,320 families including
displaced individuals and host communities. AECID supports similar
activities in Jacmel including rubble removal from schools and
houses to facilitate the return of displaced families.

The AECID funding comes to strengthen the IOM community
stabilization activities implemented since 2004 in Haiti with the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

For more information, please contact:

Leonard Doyle

Media and Communications Haiti

Tel: +509 370 25066

Skype Leonard.Doyle

Email: "mailto:ldoyle@iom.int">ldoyle@iom.int

or

Christina Burwell

Grant Management Haiti

Email: "mailto:cburwell@iom.int">cburwell@iom.int

Tel: +5093702 7869