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Port-à-Piment

The Port-à-Piment Millennium Village: Structure and Scope (Part 2)

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Source:http://www.haitiregeneration.org/mvp_scope
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Health

At the launch of the MVP, Port-à-Piment faces severe obstacles to achieving the health-related MDGs, as is the situation for much of Haiti. Although basic health facilities already exist within watershed– there are four community clinics and one government-built hospital– access to the limited institutional capacity and health care services provided by the clinics and facilities is further limited by the steep topography and lacking infrastructure of the watershed.

There is great potential for the new government-built hospital in Port-à-Piment. Though the hospital requires support with staffing and resources, it  could have the capacity to provide necessary services such as inpatient care, caesarean sections, HIV/AIDS testing, counselling, and treatment.

Port-à-Piment has also been impacted by the recent cholera epidemic. The Red Cross is currently operating a Cholera Treatment Center in the town of Port-à-Piment and interim stabilization centres operate in Randel and Guillame. There remains a great need for education, proper sanitation and improved waterpoints in the upper watershed areas to help reduce the number of cases.

The health program also works closely with the agriculture sector to improve nutrition in the region. Currently, the South Department is considered to have one of the highest levels of food insecurity in the country, with estimates that over 23.7% of the population suffer from malnutrition.

Strategies to Achieve MDGs 4, 5, & 6: Reduce Child Mortality, Improve Maternal Health, and Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases.

To address the double burden of disease and lack of access to quality health care, interventions in the health sector will focus on improving access to medical services, particularly in the areas of child and maternal health. Interventions will also aim to provide a comprehensive package of diagnostic and curative services for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. It is necessary to improve the quality of healthcare both locally and regionally, which includes improving health data records and systems using a healthcare software from Foresee Medical. Implementing a mobile telephone-based record management system can provide real time access to health data for the Haitian government, and also allow for immediate monitoring of health outcomes. 

Nouvelles en bref.

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07 Novembre 2011,- Les prix de certains  produits alimentaires continuent d’augmenter sur le marché portapimentais. Le mais, le petit-mil et le pois sont à la hausse.  Le tableau ci-dessous illustre bien la situation.

PRODUITS GOURDE US DOLLAR GOURDE *US DOLLAR
DATE 26/10/11 26/10/11 26/09/11 26/09/11
1 Marmite de Riz  156.00  3.90 180.00 4.50
1 Marmite de Mais  72.00  1.80 60.00 1.50
1 Marmite de Farine 108.00  2.70 96.00 2.40
1 Marmite de Sucre 180.00  4.50 180.00 4.50
1 Marmite de Pois 200.00  5.00 130.00 3.25
1 Marmite de Petit Mil 120.00  3.00 84.00  2.10
1 Gallon d’Huile  300.00  7.50 300.00 7.50
1 Marmite de Blé 75.00 1.87 84.00 2.10
1 Marmite de Pistache 80.00  2.00 80.00 2.00
1 Livre de Poisson 100.00  2.50 100.00 2.50
1 Livre de Viande 100.00  2.50 100.00 2.50

 

The Port-à-Piment Millennium Village: Structure and Scope – (Part1)

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Source:http://www.haitiregeneration.org/mvp_intro_wsubs

The Millennium Village in Port-à-Piment will provide a basis and model for integrating and scaling up commune and subcatchment level best practices in agriculture, nutrition and health, education, energy, water and sanitation, environment, infrastructure, information technology, community development and disaster risk management. The HRI team has collected a broad baseline of information about the watershed and the sectors on which PaPMVP will be focusing, the highlights of which are found below. To acheive the Millennium Development Goals, the PaPMVP team will work work on strategies within these sectors in a cross-cutting and integrated manner.open all sections

Agriculture

The steep topography in the Port-à-Piment watershed limits the availability of highly fertile land, yet there is still the potential for a highly productive agricultural market in the area. The area, once known for its high quality coffee, mango, and bean production, is now caught in a vicious trap of poverty and environmental degradation.

Within the watershed, 67% of the topography has slopes of greater than 30 degrees. An initial land degradation survey shows the overall soil fertility continues to decrease due to extensive cultivation and insufficient soil treatment. Based on initial surveys, over 54% of the land is used for cropland, despite the challenges of steep slopes and lack of access to roads and market infrastructure.

The largest cash crop is locally-produced charcoal. Some of the charcoal produced within the watershed is extracted illegally from Macaya National Park, which borders the watershed to the north. Though the Port-à-Piment watershed borders the Caribbean Sea on the south, sea fishing incomes are negligible and aquaculture is essentially non-existent.

Strategies to Achieve MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

To increase the efficiency and optimize the potential of the agriculture in this region, the project will provide immediate support to farmers. Initial strategies will aim to enhance farmers’ ability to increase the yields and quality of their products, including the nutritional composition, food safety, and food storage capacity. The MVP aims to achieve these goals through access to improved seeds, improved agro-forestry seedlings and grafts, nutrient inputs, and irrigation. Further, the MVP will work with the community to find long term plans to optimize production based on land potential and efforts to improve market access.

The Port-à-Piment Millennium Village: Introduction

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Source:http://www.haitiregeneration.org/mvp_intro_wsubs

Within the Côte Sud Initiative, the Port-à-Piment watershed will become the first Millennium Village Project (MVP) in the Western Hemisphere.

After two years of research, consultation and collaborative assessments, the community, government, and academic and international organizations identified the town of Port-à-Piment and its accompanying watershed as a community and environmental zone with complex and severe challenges but also immense local capacity. This vital combination offers the right setting and components to demonstrate how to achieve sustained growth and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The general focus is on achieving large-scale lasting and measurable improvements in all of the MDGs at the village to household level – preceded and accompanied by extensive research and technical development that will provide lessons learned and examples ready for rapid scale up throughout the region and the country as a whole.

Working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underpin the global push to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. The MDGs are eight quantitative time-bound targets for reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half and improving education, health, gender equality and environmental sustainability. Detailed information on the MDGs can be found at the United Nations website for the Millennium Development Goals.

The latest assessment (August 2011) indicates that currently Haiti is only on target to meet one indicator for MDG 6, related to combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases – however, with the recent and ongoing cholera epidemic, even this achievement may be threatened.

Within this context, the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) offers a bold, innovative model for helping rural communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty. Anchored in science-based and community-driven strategies, the MVP model offers a holistic, intersectoral development approach to address key dimensions of extreme poverty – low income, hunger, disease, gender inequality, lack of education, and inadequate shelter. The model is designed to prove the concept that the MDGs can be attained through a holistic, multisectoral integrated approach to development, with a minimum of $100 per capita investment in direct interventions carefully allocated across a number of sectors such as agriculture, health, education and infrastructure. Other key features of the MVP model include detailed quantitative monitoring and evaluation and high levels of innovation in design, local partnership development and implementation.

 

The MVP has built up six years of practical experience implementing ambitious and integrated programs in Africa and Asia. The objective of the MVP is simple – to demonstrate practical approaches to achieving the MDGs in the poorest parts of the world. The early results have been dramatic, with major gains in poverty reduction and elimination of hunger, along with important achievements in the health sector, in the fourteen villages found throughout ten sub-Saharan African countries. These impacts have led to major scale-up programs initiated by host governments in a range of locations, including Nigeria, Mali and Timor L’Este. Additional details on the Millennium Villages project can be found at the Millennium Villages Project web site.