USAID reforestation project

This cooperative agreement from the United States Agency for International Development Haiti (USAID - OM) provided $37,779,741 to Chemonics International, Inc. to implement the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas grant for reforestation projects in Haiti from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2022. The scope of work under this grant included converting households from charcoal to Liquefied Petroleum Gas cooking, establishing a domestic LPG cookstove assembly unit, planting mangrove trees and facilitating income generation activities, building capacity for ackee farmers, promoting reforestation and improved agroforestry through tree seedling production and capacity building, supporting tree cover expansion and agroforestry on 120 hectares, establishing three nurseries and an agroforestry system on 38.5 hectares, reducing impacts on mangroves and supporting fisheries, increasing tree cover and agroforestry on 1000 hectares, establishing woodlots, tree orchards and agroforestry on 100 families' lands, improving agroforestry on 229 hectares, supporting a plant nursery and establishing woodlots, restoring 200 hectares of vegetation cover, facilitating rural code workshops, developing wood energy and beekeeping sectors and