The research presented in this report was commissioned by the RTI project, Local Enterprise and Value Chain Enhancement Project (LEVE), part of a USAID–USDA program working with the Haitian Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development (MARNDR) to rehabilitate three vocational schools. The goal was to assess the technical skills in demand in St. Marc and the Bas Artibonite. The data was intended inform planning for instruction at one of the schools to be rehabilitated, l’Ecole Moyenne d’Agriculture de la Vallée de l’Artibonite (EMAVA) outside of St. Marc. EMAVA plans to train its technicians through a learning-by-doing approach. It was therefore considered critical to determine which trades are in demand, so that the school can design its course offerings to ensure that graduates will enter the workforce equipped with knowledge and skills employers seek. As MARNDR leaders said at the launch of research, the ministry does not want to train people to join the ranks of the unemployed, it wants to help them enter the workforce with skills they need to succeed. This qualitative research and report was accomplished by Harold Maass on behalf of Socio-Dig. I wrote the questionnaires, managed the survey, and edited the final report. The Socio-Dig team did the survey research.
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