HAITI OUTREACH
Working Together Building Communities
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Over 40% of Haiti's 10 million people do not have access to potable water. Over 70% of the population do not have improved sanitation facilities, even simple latrines. About 50% of the wells and water systems in the country are dysfunctional or contaminated. So not only is there inadequate clean water infrastructure in Haiti, very little of that infrastructure is being managed in a sustainable way. In order for this situation to change, Haiti needs development, sustained by the people themselves and not by outside organizations or relief organizations that give for a day but not for a lifetime. Haiti Outreach works primarily to address this problem. We have also worked to create public schools, also sustained by the government of Haiti and not by us. Haiti needs development, and not relief (except of course when there are humanitarian disasters that warrant immediate relief for survival). We are committed to provide sustainable development so Haiti becomes a developed country.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Access Project
After mapping all water points in 3 of Haiti's 10 departments in 2016, categorizing them as potable or not and functional or not, in addition to mapping all buildings and homes, plus the geological potential for subterranean water, we drew up a 5 year plan to bring the population of 6 communes to about 90% of the population within 500 meters of potable water and under management. Likewise we committed to 90%+ or rural households with latrines.
Mapping 7 Departments in Haiti for Water Access
We have already mapped 3 of Haiti's 7 department to map every water source, both natural and man-made, and classifying them as functional or not and potable or not, and managed or not. This project is to do this for the remaining 7 departments of Haiti. In addition we also map the location of all homes and buildings, and map the geological potential for finding subterranean water so we know the probabilities for find potable water in geographic areas where people live.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Health, Family relationships, Social and economic status
Related Program
Access Project
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
These are the number of individuals who live in communities where we have developed a community managed clean water well. We also repaired town water systems in 2015-2017 that increased access.
Percentage of community wells where we have intervened still functioning after 10+ years
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Family relationships, Health, Social and economic status
Related Program
Access Project
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Percentage of households in a community where we have intervened that now have their own latrine.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Family relationships, Health, Social and economic status
Related Program
Access Project
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
As previously mentioned, our vision is that Haiti becomes a developed country, with adequate food and clean water, improved sanitation and infrastructure like paved roads and electricity, and education and employment opportunities for everyone. Most of our work has been in the area of clean water and sanitation. Our specific goals that we are working on in that area are that the entire population of Haiti has potable water that is managed in a sustainable way by the people of Haiti, and that everyone has improved sanitation. Our more immediate goals are that at least 90% of the population has access to potable water within 500 meters of their homes and that everyone has at least a latrine. As described in our Access Project, we are targeting 6 specific communes in the next 5 years, with our limited resources, to bring this about. In addition, we hope to map the remaining 7 departments of Haiti, showing every water point, both natural and man-made, and classify them as potable or not, functional or not, and managed or not. This would also include the mapping of every house and building, plus producing geological maps showing the potential for finding subterranean water. With these maps we will then make rational decisions as to where the new wells and piped water systems can be made to get to the 90+% goal for access to clean water. We also intend to analyze the possibility of creating sustainably managed piped water systems in towns and locations where that is a more efficient way to provide potable water than borehole wells. We will continue to work with DINEPA, the division of the national government for potable water and sanitation, to move them towards greater responsibility for this area. So far they have not really committed to the goal of managed potable water for the whole country. And we will be using our work, which we make very public, to enroll other partners, other NGO's involved in water, who can use our model of development and our maps to bring managed potable water access to everyone in Haiti.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our primary strategy is to carry-out our 5 year plan, raising funds to cover the cost for working in rural communities to bring 6 communes to as close as possible to 90% of the population having access to managed potable water, and 90%+ of households to having latrines. We have developed a model for doing this that has given us the results that 90% of the managed community wells we have created in the last 15 years are still functioning. That model includes the following; (1) people of the communities must request our assistance to create a community managed well by writing a letter to us, signed by at least 6 people who are unrelated, half of which are women, and also signed or stamped by the local mayor and/or KASEK, another layer of elected government that covers their community. (2) we then send a trained animator to that community to find out their circumstances: what is their current water source, is the request a representation of the community as a whole, are they willing to elect a volunteer water committee to be trained on maintaining a well and willing to set up a sustainable system for managing the well, and is the community willing to contribute such things as the land for it, help bring water and sand, things they are able to do that create a feeling of ownership, to help create the concrete to build the well platform and well house, etc. (3) then the approximate 3 month training of that community's well committee occurs (4) an economic system is created, a subscription required for each household, to contribute a little money that is set aside in a transparently managed savings account so money is available for paying the guard and future maintenance and repair costs. (5) once trained, then we drill the well, hopefully finding water, and complete the well house. (6) after the well is inaugurated, we then send an inspector monthly for 2 years to make sure everything is operating smoothly, problems are solved etc. The strategy for doing the mapping for the remaining 7 departments of Haiti includes raising the funds for the cost, which is around $1.7 million, and then executing a plan like we did for the 3 departments we already mapped. That includes hiring contract workers to go out into a community with smart phones to record and upload the data about each water point they find, also working with local officials so they all get located. They are managed by our staff, who also use Google Earth to map the location of all houses and buildings. Then we hire a hydrogeological company, who has done work for us in Haiti before, to map the geology for potential subterranean water. Our strategy for enrolling partners like DINEPA and other NGO's is to share all of our data, our model for engaging communities, and advising and coaching them on the best practices and most efficient ways to create sustainable, community managed potable water.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have created community managed water wells and basic water systems for over 270,000 people in our first 23 years. With continued funding at the rate that we have in the past, we have the capacity to execute the 5 year plan as described. Of course the main goal is to engage the entire country with this activity so that 90% - 100% of the people have access to clean water and improved sanitation. In order to accomplish that larger goal, we would need to enroll additional partners and raise additional funds to a much greater extent that we currently have the capacity to do. But there are funds out there by the World Bank and others, much larger organization than ourselves, that may be enrolled to help bring about an accomplishment of that magnitude.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
As already mentioned, we are a 24 year old organization. To date we have created over 500 community managed wells and 12 water systems, giving access to 270,000 people for managed potable water. In the last 15 years, in which we have been keeping closer statistics, around 90% of those wells and water systems are still functioning. Also, in the last 5 years, in which we have been more proactive in promoting our sanitation education and the creation of household latrines, we have achieved about 95% success with the households having latrines in the communities where we have intervened.
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