There are many barriers to successfully working as a foreign NGO in Haiti, some of which are due to not having an obvious local organizational and legal infrastructure to conduct business in the country. There is also the future potential for problems in accessing funds that were raised in Canada, if the organizational structure and the majority of the board of the CCRP are not in country, as will temporarily be the case at the end of this year.
To overcome these barriers and to ensure that all work in Haiti is clearly Haitian-led, the CCRP is currently in the process of establishing a Haitian non-profit that will be responsible for all of the CCRP’s Haitian activities, and will be directed by a board constituted of a Haitian majority.
The creation of this organization will be a big step in our work in Haiti, as the mandate of the organization will then be recognized by the Haitian government, and the accountability of the organization will officially be in the hands of the Haitian people who are working with the CCRP.
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