Who is involved?

HRI Partnerships

open all sectionsThe Haiti Regeneration Initiative operates as four groups of semi-formal partnerships, one for each major component: Côte Sud Initiative, Port-à-Piment Millennium Village, Sustainable Development Solutions, and Haiti 2040. The partnerships are designed to operate autonomously for efficiency but also cooperate wherever appropriate to achieve common goals.

At present, the United Nations Environment Programme coordinates all of the four partnerships and also ensures strong linkages between partnerships. As each component and partnership matures, the coordination and overall responsibility will be transferred to national partners. Each of the four partnerships of the HRI will eventually have its own terms of reference and specific benefits.

Structure and goals of HRI Partnerships

HRI Partnerships are free, voluntary, non-legally binding and semi-formal. The general purpose of each Partnership is to significantly increase the total impact achieved by all of the Partners. They will achieve this through substantive and continuous cooperation towards common goals.

BENEFITS TO PARTNERS

Organizations benefit in two major ways through becoming Partners:

  • Increased impact. The HRI approach is organized, well coordinated, collaborative and is endorsed by the Haitian government and the UN. This can significantly increase the impact that each organization can achieve with limited engagement costs.

  • Support. Partners gain access to the pooled support services of the HRI, which include logistical support for travel, office, and fieldwork in Port-au-Prince and the South Department, high level technical assistance, meeting facilitation, and pooled communication and fundraising services. Provision of this support is at the discretion of the Coordinator of each Partnership and the HRI Coordinator, and will be confirmed and detailed in writing.

Partnerships for rural development The best partnerships match Haitian knowledge and capacity with international expertise and financial support to deliver practical and lasting benefits. Nursery projects such as these introduce higher productivity subsistence and cash crop varieties into the rural economy and also assist farmers in recovering from crop losses due to floods.

Each Partnership has a named Coordinator and over time will develop and formalize a coordinating body of representatives of key Partner organizations and tailored Terms of Reference for use within the Partnership. The level of formality in each Partnership is kept to the minimum necessary to achieve efficient cooperation. The cooperation workload is also kept to the minimum necessary to encourage participation and allow each partner to focus on their core business while ensuring adequate levels of cooperation.

Alongside the four Partnerships, there are and will be many additional and standard 1:1 Memorandums of Understanding and other legal agreements between individual Partners, which translate the spirit of cooperation into practical contracts for project implementation. One of the goals of the HRI is to improve the quality and targeting of such agreements through matchmaking and pre-contract guidance.

Organizations can become formal Partners to one or more of the four Partnerships of the HRI only through receiving and accepting a written invitation from the Coordinator of each partnership. Membership of any of the HRI Partnerships can be dissolved at any time upon mutual agreement of the organization and the Partnership coordinator.

CRITERIA FOR PARTNERSHIP
  • Legal status. Only legally recognized organizations can be Partners. They may be governments, NGOs, agencies or companies.

  • Haitian engagement. The organizations must have an active and significant investment of organizational time, funds and institutional credibility in Haiti or for the benefit of Haiti.

  • Sustainability. The investment must contribute to the sustainable development of Haiti.

  • Added value. The current or planned scope of work of the organization must clearly add significant value to the specific Partnership. To avoid duplication and reduce fragmentation and internal competition, the emphasis will be the development of Partnerships formed of organizations with very different but complementary skills, resources and needs.

  • Teamwork. The organization must commit to and maintain a collaborative approach to working with other Partners. A particular emphasis is based upon transparency and equitable relations between large and small and international and national Partners.

A current list of Partners, organized by each entity of the HRI, is found below. Prominent on the list of Partners include the United Nations, the Government of Haiti, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and other vital partnerships with foreign governments and both international and locally-operating NGOs.

HAITI REGENERATION INITIATIVE PARTNERS

COTE SUD INITIATIVE PARTNERS
PORT-A-PIMENT MILLENNIUM VILLAGE PARTNERS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTION PARTNERS
HAITI 2040 PARTNERS