Launch of the Haiti Food System Alliance

After years in the making, CLE is proud to announce the launch of the Haiti Food Systems Alliance (HFSA). This coalition is led by Acceso, a Haitian agricultural business Acceso and partner, and brings together 14 established Haitian businesses and organizations working to improve Haiti’s agricultural sector from the bottom up.
The HFSA leverages the expertise, resources, and reputations of local partners. With the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the alliance will take coordinated actions to put Haiti on a path to food security. CLE is proud to join this milestone effort as a service partner in order to strengthen the capacity of the individuals and organizations who will build a stronger agricultural and food system from the bottom up.
Leadership Programs
Our integrated programs combine skills-based training, innovation research, place-based accompaniment and networking campaigns to enhance the capacities of exemplary Haitian leaders. With a focus on women, youth and communities, we tailor our programs and meet leaders where they are, to help them launch new social change focused initiatives and enterprises and bring change to their communities.


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Research
Research initiatives are central to our work. We highlight everyday leaders in Creole-language videos, articles, and publications. We conduct surveys and document local solutions and innovations that address Haiti’s most systemic and engrained issues. These stories inspire others to believe that, they too, can bring much needed change to their own communities.
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Strategic Initiatives
Catalyzing leadership requires taking advantage of new opportunities as they arise. Working with close partners, CLE has launched several strategic initiatives that open up new avenues for advancement to the members of our network. These initiatives are integrated throughout our programs, and are diverse and responsive to their interests and goals. They include an accompanied grant fund called POTE KOLE to support locally-led reconstruction efforts after Haiti’s August earthquake as well as during the coronavirus pandemic, Chanpyon Lakay - CLE’s yearly youth leadership competition, women’s mentorship roundtables and more.

Our Impact
CLE programs have engaged a network of over 6000 leaders in all ten departments of Haiti. We have trained 2150 leaders (40% women) and engaged over 850 local organizations in enterprises in our capacity building work. CLE works to directly support local leaders across sectors, and in their regions where they live and work. We know that supporting these leaders’ vision for change, and improving their skills for leadership and enterprise will create the lasting effect we seek across Haiti.
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%
of our participants
launch new community and economic development activities after participating in CLE programs
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MULTIPLIER EFFECT
Number of additional community members CLE participants engage in community development and progress initiatives, on average, after participating in CLE programs.
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TOTAL REACH
People engaged through participants’ own efforts
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Our Partners and Collaborators
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Our Community
What’s happening here is a change towards greater consciousness.
Change for the countries in our hands
Change for the countries in our hands
Magalie Noel Dresse
CLE Founder and Board Co-President
CLE’s training taught me how to motivate more women to get together in order to explore and exploit resources. I believe we’re too rich to be asking for charity. We need to realize that only we can help ourselves.
Emaude Dumas
CLE program Participant | Pignon
For a long time, they only watched the authorities but now everyone sees that they should engage them in the struggle.
Diony Dejoie
Mayor in Bahon
When you have organizations that really understand their roles as actors and everything that this implies in terms of their behavior and their relationship with community initiatives, this allows organizations to play a new role in the development of their communities.
Cantave Jean-Baptiste
PDL | CLE Partner