Rebati Fund and Accountable Democratic Action for Social Cohesion Program achieve important milestones
Monday, November 23, 2020
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Under the Haiti Rebati Fund,
financed by the United States International Development Finance
Corporation (DFC), DIG has fully disbursed the USD 8 million in committed
loan funds to SOFIHDES (
Société Financière Haïtienne de Développement
S.A.). Throughout 2020, DIG has worked with SOFIHDES to ensure that
the Rebati portfolio remains in good standing and viable amidst the
introduction of COVID-19, political strife, and economic instability in
Haiti.
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More
than 200,500 informal settlers in Zimbabwe are benefiting from the
USAID-funded Accountable Democratic Action (ADA)
Through Social Cohesion Program. A fourth of Zimbabwe’s urban
population lives in urban and peri-urban informal settlements, but these
settlements are not recognized by central and local government authorities
and are often subject to arbitrary evictions and demolitions. DIG, in
close collaboration with its local partner and sub-awardee, Dialogue on
Shelter Trust, is currently implementing the three-year USAID-funded
Accountable Democratic Action (ADA) Through Social Cohesion Program to
equip the urban poor with the knowledge and tools to address
shelter-related human rights violations. The ADA Program
empowers citizens living in informal settlements in five local authority areas
across Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Epworth, Harare, Kadoma, and Masvingo) to increase
local and national decision-makers’ accountability regarding constitutional
provisions that protect the urban poor’s rights to shelter and basic services.
The program focuses on increasing informal settlers’ understanding of their
constitutional rights. Furthermore, through the establishment of anti-eviction
solidarity groups, the program is building the capacity of residents,
particularly women, to work with national and local-level stakeholders to
negotiate land tenure, infrastructure, and housing and livelihood solutions.