http://www.fao.org/rural-employment/en/ Presentations delivered on the 7th of September 2015 in Barbados, during the launch of the new FAO project “Strengthening decent rural employment opportunities for young women and men in the Caribbean”, developed in collaboration with the IFAD. The project will operate for 3 years in 9 countries of the Sub-region, namely: St. Lucia, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Haiti, Belize, Cuba and Dominican Republic. The programme is an example of effective inter-agency cooperation and aims to promote rural youth employment opportunities in the Caribbean by facilitating the development of targeted policies, partnerships and investments. The project will be implemented by the FAO Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean, in Barbados. The presentations show the perspectives and contributions of the different partners involved in the project. ©FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. LAUNCH AND POLICY DIALOGUE
REGIONAL FAO-IFAD Project
STRENGHENING DECENT RURAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
FOR YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN IN THE CARIBBEAN
7 - 9 September 2015
Bridgetown, Barbados
The state of youth employement and participation in the agriculture.
Jean Maurice Dejean ,Ing.Agr (MARND)
Willina Luckensie Ambroise Aristil ( PROMODEV)

2. The Haitien Flag

3. Map ( relief)

4. General information
• The capital of Haiti is Port-au-Prince and the
size is: 27 750 km2 and 75% of them are
mountains.
• French and Creole are considered as the
official languages of Haiti.
• Population approximatively 10-11 millions.

5. 1-Global situation of the Haitian population
• The population of Haiti is relatively young .
• More than the half are less than 21 years,
less than 15 years represent 36,5%.
• From 15 to 64 years represent 58.5% ,while
65 years up are 5,1% according to the Haitian
Institute of statistique and information.
• Youth is define as people who are 15-24 years
as it was defined in the U.N

6. 2-The employment situation of Haiti
 60 % of the active population are in
unemployment.
 This population consists of:
54,4% are 15years and more
47,7 are more than ten years and more.

7. 3-The youth employment of HAITI
• 35% of young people from 15 to 24 are
unemployment . They are 21% of the global
population.
• 200000 are 15 years every year.
• 1/3 are in business , 1/3 in agriculture and 1/3
in working poor.

8. 4- Haitian youth policy and action plan
• In the past until the end of 1980, there were
some programs directed by the MARNDR as:
farm-schools , vocational school, average school
of agriculture, some centers for the women and
the 4C movement .
• Actually those activities are directed by some non
governmental organization but the finality is
different than the MARNDR. For this reason
MARNDR in collaboration with some
organizations, is working on the reopening of
those school and activities.

9. Other perspective
The ministry has a partnership with
PROMODEV(promotion for development). They
work in pairs in some project like:
• Agriculture briefing :for the most educated
people.
• Allo Agro : a radio broadcast that discuss about
the agricultural program and problem in Haiti.
• Youth commitment: an educational project.
• Koze Plante: is to go to the rural areas and have a
chat with the farmers about the agricultural
problems

10. Some actions

11. 5-The main challenge for youth in agriculture
a)Land acces
Generally the best way to have access to land is
by succession, but the law of succession is not
appropriated. Because most of the time the
quantity will become too small after making the
plots.
b) Credit access
Credit for agriculture is very difficult.
c) Vocational education access.
In Haiti there are a lot of vocational school, but
the access is difficult. The youth cannot pay the
tuitions. There are too expensive.

12. 5-The main challenge for youth in agriculture
d)Organisation producers.
It is possible , they can easily join
producers’organisation. It depends on

13. 6-The main partners
The Haitian government has a lot of partners such as:
Promodev
INFP
The universities
FAO
BID
BM(world Bank)
USAID
Canadian COOPERATION
Cooperation Francaise
SORE
Promodev
Anatraf
CESVI
AVSI
HEIFER
DCCH
• CARITAs
• CRS
• Elvetas
• Cooperation Tawain
• ACCLAM
• And so on..

14. THANK YOU