Empowering Communities To Build A Just And Sustainable Future
Future Generations Haiti – An Overview
Founded in 2011, Future Generations Haiti promotes community-driven change and accompanies autonomous, successful Haitian communities in their pursuit of sustainable development. Guided by the SEED-SCALE methodology, the organization strengthens local capacities by fostering inter-community exchange, solidarity, and socio-economic empowerment that can scale up to a national level for Haiti’s advancement.
We believe in community-led development, where our facilitators accompany communities along self-determined paths toward empowerment. We see ourselves as learners—listening to and amplifying the successful examples of local change—and as connectors, helping to spread this knowledge and experience across Haiti.
Our approach goes beyond traditional, output-driven development projects to focus on sustainable social change and long-term resilience.
Future Generations Haiti builds resilience and livelihoods across four departments in Haiti, with programs and partnerships contributing to 12 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through initiatives in:
- Success Mapping
- Women’s Empowerment
- Community Development
- Peacebuilding
- Education
- Water Supply, Hygiene & Sanitation
WHY FUTURE GENERATIONS CAME TO HAITI
After the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January of 2010, the world was focused on the destruction and overwhelming need that was so evident. But what was less evident, and often overlooked, was the robust and resilient community response to the earthquake, with neighbors helping neighbors overcome and recover from the disaster. Seeing that few were focusing on Haiti’s strengths after the disaster, Future Generations decided this was an important moment to begin looking for evidence of community empowerment in the wake of the earthquake. By mid-2011, a young social movement named KonbitSoley Leve had begun to form in Cité Soleil, Haiti’s largest ghetto, and was looking for guidance and mentorship. Seeing this example of community-driven social change, Future Generations decided to establish a presence in Haiti to help provide guidance, training, and support to community change agents in Cité Soleil.
WHERE WE WORK:
- With no geographic limitations, Future Generations Haiti has agents based in Port-au-Prince (covering the Ouest Department), Jacmel (covering the Southeast Department), St Marc (covering the Artibonite Department), and Cap Haitian and St Raphael (covering the North Department).
- Our initial pilot projects were in the four above-mentioned departments, and therefore our presence and community contacts are strongest in those regions. However, our contacts and networks are growing every week as we identify new communities and initiatives that are inspiring and instructive examples of change in Haiti.
Work we have done in Haiti
Wozo Ayiti
Future Generations Haiti created a “Success Mapping Initiative” known as Wozo Ayiti where 10 field researchers set out to identify Haitian communities that were successfully driving their own development.