2022 – 2025

A Pathway to a Better Life for Haitians

2022-2025

Fonkoze

Fonkoze works to empower Haitians, primarily rural women, with financial and development services to lift their families out of poverty. Its Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM, or Pathway to a Better Life) programme has empowered over 8,600 ultra poor and extreme poor Haitian families since its creation. We’re funding Fonkoze to reach around 9,500 more people by 2024 and to conduct an in-house impact study on its work.

www.fonkoze.org

CHALLENGE

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Approximately 59% of Haitians live on less than $2 a day and 30% of the population are considered food insecure and unable to meet even the most basic needs.

ACTION

Fonkoze’s Pathway to a Better Life programme is a comprehensive 18-month programme that aims to provide Haiti’s most marginalised individuals – women in particular – with a viable way to lift themselves out of poverty.

Using the graduation out of poverty model first developed by BRAC, Fonkoze’s four-step programme provides participants with:

productive assets, such as livestock or supplies to begin a small commerce business, and materials, to build a nine-square-metre home with a sturdy roof, stable floor, latrine and water filter,
a small cash stipend,
access to free healthcare,
regular coaching in confidence-building, enterprise management and life skills,
loans that enable women who have already established themselves as microentrepreneurs to expand their businesses.

Fonkoze’s main objective is to reach an additional 9,500 people by 2024.

IMPACT

Fonkoze’s Pathway to a Better Life programme has empowered over 8,600 ultra-poor Haitians since its creation.

8,600

households reached since 2007

graduation out of poverty success rate

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Killings, kidnappings, and violence by criminal groups in and around Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, have increased dramatically since the start of 2023. Our emergency funds are allowing Fonkoze to protect and partly regionalize their team while continuing to provide extremely poor individuals with a viable way to lift themselves out of poverty.