Engage for Change
Historical
Parler / Agir is an international non-governmental organization co-founded by agricultural engineer Wilbert Georges, Prophet Charlotin and his wife Guirlène Jean in June 2017. This initiative is taken, first, to follow up on reflections on the socio-economic situation of Haiti, on the contributions of Haitian citizens in Haiti and those from overseas to national development. We have deduced that, despite the multitude of interventions made by international bodies, change for a livable and prosperous Haiti is a Haitian affair. We proposed a reflexive intervention on the ground based on the famous Haitian saying: “Grès kochon kwit kochon”, as a starting point. The training and experience profile of each founding member guided the basic objectives: 1) to work for the economy and the health of women, girls, and children; 2) encouraging social entrepreneurship and green technology; 3) promote agriculture and environmental protection.
Legally recognized in Canada since 2017, Parler / Agir has carried out several activities in Haiti, more particularly in La Gonâve, such as:
Establish a partnership with….
Training
Domestic garden activities
Initiate the child-rearing mentoring process
Realization of an action research in La Gonâve
Promote the creation of an entrepreneurship network in La Gonâve
Initiate the Aksyon Fanm Vanyan Ayiti in Gonâve
In 2021, Parler / Agir with the same philosophy of "Grès kochon kwit kochon", began its restructuring. The organization's vision and mission have been reviewed, as have its values and ideology. In this sense, a new board of directors has been set up composed of employees living in Canada and Haiti. A board of directors made up of seasoned professionals has also been put in place to implement activities enabling the organization to achieve its objectives in accordance with its new mission.
Our mission
The mission of Parler / Agir is to fight, together with our partners, poverty by stimulating collective and innovative socio-economic initiatives.
Our vision
Promote economic strengthening, gender equity, women's rights and emancipation, health, education and environmental management.
Our values
The main values of Parler / Agir are: Responsible administration, fairness, non-confessionalism, civic responsibility.
Our ideology
We believe :
In the ability of our members to promote development through their support, including oriented and contextualized external assistance;
That the success of development projects depends on the degree of involvement of local populations, taking into account their expertise, their know-how and their cultural specificities;
That gender equality is essential for sustainable and inclusive development.
Strategic axes or pillars of intervention
Our mission will materialize by setting up an integrated system of interventions around the 3 main axes of sustainable development such as:
economic strengthening;
Promoting social equity;
Environmental management.
To these 3 axes, is added:
Citizen responsibility , a way to sustain the achievements of development projects by facilitating their ownership through the involvement of individuals in the activities of their communities.
Our main activities
-Social entrepreneurship,
-Agriculture
-Health
-Environmental Protection
-Feminine promotion
-Vocation-oriented education
-Training
- Supervision of young people.
Intervention strategies
In order to ensure that projects meet the real needs of recipient populations, Parler / Agir implements strategies to guide its interventions during all phases of the project life cycle (identification, planning, implementation, control , closure and evaluation, operation). Through sociograms, Parler / Agir facilitates the involvement of local populations in the analysis of problems by identifying causes, effects and consequences. The organization decides to integrate a gender perspective at all levels of the design and implementation of projects in its areas of intervention in order to ensure that they can benefit both men and women.
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Prophet Charlotin
Email: sta@parleragir.org
I am trained in the development of social organizations, project management, business administration, international intermodal logistics. I am finishing a Masters in Social Innovation, Graduate Diploma in Organization Development (Saint Paul University, Ottawa).
I have been involved since 1990 in grassroots community development in Haiti. I motivated, as a facilitator, members of the Archelois and Gonâvienne communities to organize themselves into groups of women, young people and women-men groups for their emancipation. I am a former primary and secondary school teacher in Haiti from 1992 to 2001. From 2001 to 2005, I worked for World Vision Haiti. I co-founded and directed a primary school, Center de Formation des Frères Unis CEFU), in La Gonâve in 2000. Together with Guirlène Jean and Agronomist Wilbert Georges, I founded Parler Agir, in June 2017. I led action-research, in 2020, under the banner of Parler Agir, which led to the creation of an entrepreneurship network in Gonâve. In November 2020, together with Louisine Edmond, I initiated the movement “Aksyon Fanm Vanyan Ayiti (AFVA)”.
My area of interest is the social and solidarity economy (Social entrepreneurship, Social entrepreneurship network).
President's word
Happiness is the application of love for oneself. Love engenders harmony in its immediate environment. Harmony fosters understanding and creates an unshakable family, a strong community and an emancipated country. At Parler / Agir , we are a family and we advocate a culture of harmony between employees for a better future.
Managing Director: Frantz Hyppolyte
Email: fhyppolyte@parleragir.org
Admitted to the doctorate in applied social sciences, I hold a master's degree in project management obtained at the University of Quebec in Outaouais and a master's degree in international development and globalization obtained at the University of Ottawa. I also have a bachelor's degree in international development obtained at the University of Quebec in Outaouais also a diploma in economics and a license in accounting obtained in Haiti respectively at the Institute of Higher Commercial and Economic Studies and Infotronique d'Haiti . All this is in addition to the many years of experience accumulated in various fields, more specifically that of cooperatives (credit union) and the banking sector, where I was able to access positions of great responsibility.
I had the opportunity to carry out a university research internship in Haiti on the following theme: Haitian women in rural areas, their empowerment, their rights, their involvement in the development of their communities. This research internship allowed me to better understand the important role that farmers, women in particular, can play in the development process of their regions. I also had the privilege of presenting, at the invitation of professors, several conferences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais and at Saint Paul University on the following themes: the economic empowerment of women; women and community development; interculturality and development; international development project management; rural Haiti. I also had the privilege of being part of the ad hoc committee set up by the rectorate of the Université du Québec en Outaouais to work on inclusion and diversity within this university, and also to have served as a member of the 2021 Honors Selection Committee.
Word from the General Manager
Developing countries face internal structural deficits that drastically limit any development process in many of their regions. Thus, the intervention of an organization like Parler / Agir is very important in the development of programs and projects aimed at supporting development among the most disadvantaged communities in rural areas where the majority of the poor population of these areas lives. country. This involves the implementation of methods and techniques to contribute to the success of these programs and projects with a view to improving living conditions, protecting the environment, reducing poverty and existing inequalities, through constructive exchanges that respect the cultural specificities of these countries.
In this order of ideas, it is a question of working to promote, in our areas of intervention, sustainable socio-economic development, reduce poverty, establish egalitarian relations between women and men, and increase the security of most vulnerable populations. In collaboration with the local administrative and customary authorities, it is a question of raising the awareness of the peasants or the local actors on the need to gradually assume their responsibility, to participate in the associative life in their communities by grouping together and above all by committing in local associations. More specifically, it is necessary to encourage the active leadership of women in the socio-political life of their communities / regions, to come together in cooperatives and associations, to fight against abuses linked to patriarchy, such as: violence, impunity, discrimination, etc. This will require, in addition to economic, material, human and informational resources, close collaboration with local authorities, but also the establishment of mechanisms so that the organization's projects can benefit equitably as much as to men and women.
As the defense of the rights of women and young girls is at the center of all our interventions, we will support them in their economic empowerment efforts and contribute to setting up, together with local actors, mechanisms to protect their rights. , by defining in our areas of intervention, strategies to promote equity and gender equality.
Director of Women's Affairs: Louisine Edmond (Vana).
Email: elouisine@parlerargir.org
I am an education trainer at the Mare Terre Noir Community School in addition to being a community development facilitator. I am also secretary of the executive committee of the Entrepreneur Network for the Development of Gonâve (REDEG). Female entrepreneur, I have skills in several areas including: Pedagogy (classical school, andragogy), Open Forum method, ESK Reflection round, animation, training, accounting, education, sewing, cosmetology, agricultural technique, literacy, women's rights and children. I am particularly interested in the emancipation of women and the banishment of the “restavèk” phenomenon (child servants) in Haiti.
I am very well known in Gonâve and in certain regions of the country in terms of education training for teachers. I have also been known in female leadership for over 20 years. I have trained several women in domestic garden techniques, women's rights, and worked with other groups against "Restavèk". I am co-founder of the Aksyon Fanm Vanyan Ayiti movement, under the banner of Parler / Agir .
Director of Community Development: François John
I am trained in Accounting, urban planning and land use planning, personal leadership development, organizational strengthening, women empowerment, agricultural sciences, risk and disaster management, popular education. Currently, I am responsible for training and social capital for Heifer Project International Haiti and member of the management of training and community development within Parler / Agir .
For 20 years we have had the chance to work in several positions through three organizations in Haiti, first as an investigator who gives us a global view of the reality of urban and rural families in the country as well as to discover the opportunities and the gaps of several regions that should be used as Haiti's development pole.
We work in the training of several thousand producers, young people in the fields of production and animal health (veterinary agents), environment (plant multiplier agent), agricultural extension (extension agents), in organizational strengthening (promoters and community leaders), and agricultural entrepreneurs. We also work in the personal development of participants, in animal and plant production.
Despite many development projects that benefited Haiti, we are still unable to see the improvements in the lives of households. To achieve the desired development, it will first be necessary to go through social and spiritual development, which will play the role of catalyst towards the improvement of personal development. As a result, only solid, well-oriented and applied training will do the trick.
Haiti is more than 70% rural, the communities, often full of grassroots community organizations (CBOs) are not really able to take charge of the destiny of their community for lack of valid, competent and serious community leaders. From the perspective of the country's development, a structure working in community development through the Talk / Act organization is more than important to bring cement and harmonization between the different sectors that interact within the same community without any synergy.
Information Technology Director: Jean Evens Midy
I have a specialization in information technology, particularly in the SAP integrated management software package, a bachelor's degree in operations management and a certificate in business administration obtained at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). I also have a technical background in automation and industrial robotics, electrical engineering and telecommunications. I am currently a Performance Improvement Consultant and Information Technology Advisor.
With more than fifteen years of experience in several positions in electrical engineering and telecommunications, I worked for more than 5 years as a technician at Bell Canada and had the opportunity to learn and master the best telecommunications technologies at Quebec. Throughout this course, I acquired skills in fiber optics, high-speed internet as well as television and IP telephony. In addition, in my previous jobs, I have used and worked with computer and cellular applications as well as software in order to be able to control and analyze various technological platforms.
I was vice-president of the student association of the Teccart Institute, a school of technology located in Montreal. Through this mandate I organized in collaboration with the management team, several activities which aimed to make the passage of students in college more pleasant.
In the perspective of community development advocated by the Parler / Agir organization, we will be constantly exchanging information with various local and international stakeholders. In fact, in order to be able to support our various processes and activities through these exchanges, and in order to make our collaborations and communications between our members and our various partners effective, it is necessary for the organization to adapt to the digital age. Consequently, information technologies become essential to optimize operations as well as to better manage and collect data.
Hence the importance of my role as IT Director, who will be committed to advising and proposing appropriate technological tools to each department of the organization so that it becomes effective in their mandates.
Thereby, By equipping ourselves with better technologies to supervise our competent team within Parler / Agir , our activities will be better structured and optimized so that we can always innovate in our mission to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the populations in our areas of operation. intervention.