Profile of the Organization

Goal
The main goal of the organization is to help targeted communities of its sphere of intervention to become sustainable by building a dynamic and balanced local environment that sustains socio-economic betterments for every peasant family in their respective communities.

Mission
GRADEFP's mission is to work towards “educating, transforming and empowering targeted communities on key issues related to sustainable community development and natural resources conservation."

Vision
GRADEFP's vision is that “integrating all concerned stakeholders in the process will help shape a better horizon of sustainable development and welfare for the present and future generations of peasants in the targeted communities.” 

Values
The core values of the organization are sustained by members' beliefs in gender equity, social justice, honesty and social cohesion. GRADEFP believes that every member or stakeholder has the same opportunity to contribute to everyone's empowerment and self-development. GRADEFP doesn't make any distinction among members or beneficiairies based on race, gender, sex, religion, or affiliations whatsoever.

Membership
GRADEFP is a growing organization whose members come from different levels and perspectives, but share common ideas about community development and community resource management. Currently, the organization is composed of 25 active members and a few volunteers.

The organization is led by a steering board (the Executuve Committee) composed of a General Coordinator, a General Secretary, a Treasurer, a Councilor, and a Public Relations Officer. The various activities undertaken by the organization are steered by the Coordination Office, located in Port-au-Prince. The Coordination Office coordinates activities carried out by the following units:

• Unit for Natural Resources Management and Conservation
• Unit for Agriculture and Livestock Development
• Unit for Public Health Protection
  
• Unit for Educational, Cultural and Social Affairs
• Unit for Children Development and Women Empowerment

Considering the various challenges associated with meeting the main objectives of the organization towards its beneficiary communities, it is envisioned the following strategies:

1.     Elaboration of a 10-year renewable community development plan, revisable and adjustable on a 3-year basis, congruent with the current and foreseen situations of the targeted communities within GRADEFP’s areas of intervention

2.     Elaboration of short, mid,  and long-term projects, fit into the community development plan, that should address different sectors of the communities’ lifestyle

3.     Looking for funding to implement the community development plan and carry out the community projects. That fundlooking process is run in accordance with the legal, moral, cultural and institutional values adopted in the Organization

4.     Establishing lasting relationships and partnership between community-development-focused agencies, both public and private, as well as local grassroots, involved in sustainable community development within the prospect of obtaining all kinds of assistance and contributions to the betterment of the socio-economic conditions of the targeted peasant families

5.     Integration of all local community grassroots (traditional or modern, and with no exceptions  of gender, sex or age) involved in local community development, in the different steps that would lead to the envisioned peasant families development

6.     Working with local government officials (Representatives of Territorial Collectivities in those communities) and religious institutions in their decision makings, their mission and their commitments towards the concerned populations, whenever or wherever authorized and possible

7.     Taking all appropriate initiatives that aim to putting the GRADEFP in the right paths towards achieving its mission and vision for the targeted communities of peasant families, within the context of the sustainable and integrated community development process