Climate resilient food security for women To support the Economic Empowerment, Leadership and Protection of Haitian women, the project will: i) promote the role of rural women in food security, nutrition, and climate change; ii) increase income generating activities in support of their economic empowerment; iii) reinforce institutional framework and policy for an effective gender response involving local women leadership as peace, humanitarian, and development agent.

The main aim of this project is to strengthen haitian women’s resilience and their economic empowerment in response to the negative impacts of the health, food insecurity and economic crisis as well as climate change in the the South, Grand Anse and Nippe departments. The project targets 15 100 direct beneficiaries including 85% of women and of 15% men. Priority will be given to collaboration with women's organizations and mixed organizations with a strong presence of women, young people, people living with HIV and the disabled, migrant women, women in the informal sector, rural womsen, women and girls’ victims of disasters and women and girls victims of violence for a better resilience of beneficiaries. More than 75 000 people will be targeted indirectly in the South, the Nippes and the Grand’Anse.