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SEKONAPA Sekretarya Pemanan Kongrè Nasyonal Peyizan Ayisyen (The Permanent Secretariat of the National Peasants Congres

SEKONAPA Sekretarya Pemanan Kongrè Nasyonal Peyizan Ayisyen (The Permanent Secretariat of the National Peasants Congress). January 20, 2011 American Jewish World Services, New York, NY Loretta Pyles, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, SUNY In partnership with: SEKONAPA .

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SEKONAPA Sekretarya Pemanan Kongrè Nasyonal Peyizan Ayisyen (The Permanent Secretariat of the National Peasants Congres

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  1. SEKONAPASekretarya Pemanan Kongrè Nasyonal Peyizan Ayisyen (The Permanent Secretariat of the National Peasants Congress) January 20, 2011 American Jewish World Services, New York, NY Loretta Pyles, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, SUNY In partnership with: SEKONAPA

  2. Introduction to SEKONAPA • Sekretarya Pemanan Kongrè Nasyonal Peyizan Ayisyen (SEKONAPA) was founded after the National Peasant Congress in 2008, a gathering of peasant leaders from across Haiti, held in Fondwa on the 20th anniversary of APF • Objectives of SEKONAPA are to: • Build the capacities of peasant communities throughout the 570 communal sections of Haiti • Improve living conditions through the creation of wealth and infrastructure • Strengthen community leadership and partnerships so that communities can be their own agents of liberation

  3. Transforming Rural Haiti for Sustainable Grassroots Development: A Participatory Action Research (PAR) Project with SEKONAPA • Partnership between SEKONAPA and UAlbany • Strives to connect grassroots communities, peasant leaders, technical specialists, universities and NGOs • Empowerment approach affirms grassroots communities as the principal actors of their own development • Invites donors to finance projects that respond to the real needs of the communities after the earthquake • Implemented by the communities themselves, advancing the goals of Haitian rural peasant movements

  4. PAR Philosophy “Do not dream for us, Dream with us! Do not do for us, Do with us!” SEKONAPA

  5. ZON DELEGE SEKONAPA YO SOTI

  6. PAR Project Sites 1st Communal Section Bas-Cap-Rouge – Jacmel (Sud-Est) 4th Section Agua et John rive gauche – Hinche (Centre) 1st C S Bobert – Cap-Haitien (Nord) 2nd sec. Piby – Petit- trou (Nippes) 1st sec. Garcin – Trou-du-Nord (Nord-est) 1st sec. Bion – Chansolme (Nord-ouest) Martineau – Lachapelle (Artibonite) Camathe – St-Michel (Artibonite) 10th C S Fondwa - Leogane (Ouest) 3rd sec. - Moron (Grand-Anse)

  7. PAR Steps Completed in Aug 2010 • Popular Education Workshop on PAR with 11 delegates in PAP • Delegates mentor others on PAR back home in communal sections • Delegate-led interview teams conduct interviews with 5-10 organizations in each communal section; 79 interviews completed • De-briefing with delegates in PAP Funding Source: UAlbany

  8. PAR Workshop and Popular Education Methods

  9. Practicing Interviews

  10. Delegates at the APF Solidarity Guest House, Port-au-Prince– Aug 11, 2010

  11. Interview in Communal Section - Nippes

  12. Interview in Communal Section - Tobek

  13. De-Briefing in PAP

  14. Impact of Earthquake in Rural Communities • Damaged agricultural infrastructure - tools, storage, irrigation systems, and livestock • PAP food markets negatively impacted farmers – destruction of markets and food aid surge • Reverse migration from PAP brought more families to the countryside putting constraints on food, seed supplies and housing • Children’s loss of schooling

  15. PAR Steps In Progress • Transcribing and translating interviews (providing service learning opportunities for UNIF and UAlbany students) • Analyzing interviews • Preliminary reports for each community • Searching for funding Funding Source: UAlbany

  16. Next Steps • Conduct community action planning and project management workshops • Publication of findings to yield linkages between rural grassroots actors and technical assistance from universities and other institutions as well as funding from donors for community-identified projects • Implement projects with technical consultants (esp. water and micro-business) • Reflect on and evaluate projects Funding: Searching

  17. How to Support SEKONAPA • Go to Fonkoze website - www.fonkoze.org and click on Donate Now and specify in the blank provided that your donation is for SEKONAPA • To learn more about SEKONAPA and its efforts toward grassroots development • Josue Andre - sekonapa@yahoo.com • Loretta Pyles - lpyles@albany.edu

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