Programs

There is an urgent need for a civic education program built around four key objectives — information, education, mobilization and advocacy to ensure the diaspora community understands their new rights and obligations and the enormous opportunity they now have to participate in shaping Haiti’s destiny. . We will work in partnership with organizations in the diaspora and in Haiti around the following goals:

1. Work for the full integration and inclusion of Haitians living abroad (HLA) in the life of Haiti (from right to vote to representation in Parliament).
2. Propose programs and policies that promote and protect the interests of HLAs.
3. Propose programs and policies to help channel the resources of HLAs to support Haiti’s national production.

It is our belief that any program that promote civic responsibility must be accompanied with real tangible opportunity for the citizen to actively participate in and provide benefits to country.  It is in this in mind that we developed the Community and Partnerships for Collective Response (CPCR) program.

Haiti is exposed to hurricane, tropical storms, earthquakes and severe environmental degradation.  Additionally, given the weakness of the state and its ability to respond to the population's basic needs, Konbit has created the Collective Response program, which is based on the principle of collective work and responsibility to respond to the inevitable crises.  We have integrated the South Korean's Saemaul Undong model to engage local communities in all aspect of a project toward their own development.

This program is about OUR collective response to crises but also collective planning and actions for development.  Through the Collective Response program, Kombit's members and partners work directly with impacted community to assess their immediate needs and identify resources (human and capital) to respond during the initial stage of a crisis.  However, our work is to seek solutions to tackle of root causes of poverty and exclusion and keeping with a focus on long-term solutions.  Our work one of solidarity and all projects are carried, not for but with the community. 

This program is central to our pursuit of partnerships as we aim to ensure that partner organizations especially those community based become stronger organizationally, and tangible results/ benefits are realized at the people or community level. While we are committed to building the capacity of a diverse range of partners to increase their effectiveness both in implementation and policy support, we also recognize that capacity building is a two-way learning process, whereby Kombit staff gains knowledge and experience from its partners.  

Kombit will also promote people’s participation and access to resources at the policy level by providing policy support to policy makers (local and national) and implementers as well as our partners in the formulation, review and application of policies aimed at addressing these issues.  

This program will be delivered by the Center for Innovation and Management and will focus on Governance, Management and Entrepreneurship.