Asset: USAID/Haiti

Under the USAID/ASSET program in Haiti, DATEX is currently working closely with NGOs and community groups as they form partnerships with local governments to provide essential urban services, especially sustainable community-based sanitation services and controlled sustainable environmental projects. Continuing financing for activities will be through user fees, sale of services and by-product reclamation, and from local tax revenues. DATEX also collaborates with other donors for capital investments to replicate successful pilot projects financed under an ASSET/DATEX managed urban grants program.

The ASSET Project also involves developing criteria and grantee selection methods for urban and rural subgrants to local NGOs and community organizations. Focusing on environment-related activities, the subgrants will be used to create locally controlled sustainable environmental projects that will generate local employment and create public and private partnerships. Many of the grants provide material support to local communities engaged in small scale efforts to encourage reforestation and local environment clean-up and sustainable waste management.