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Children playing outside their home in the small town of Meillac by the Massacre River in the north of theisland.© UNEP• reduce chronic poverty and hunger in theborder zone, while promoting more sustainablelivelihood practices and enhancing the resilienceof the population to shocks and stresses.• preserve peaceful relations between the twocountries through increased national and locallevel bilateral cooperation while reducingtensions over border zone issues.• contribute in a small but useful manner to thenational scale sustainable development andstability of both countries.The recommendations aim to address theidentified key issues and underlying driving forcesthat affect the situation in the border zone. AnnexIV summarizes how the 14 recommendationsdetailed in this chapter set out to address theidentified underlying driving forces. For an analysison how the key issues identified are linked to theunderlying driving forces, please refer to table 3in chapter 9.3.10.3 Bi-national border zonerecommendationsIntroductionThe bi-national and border zone recommendationslisted below apply either to both governmentsor require very close cooperation betweenthe governments to be implemented. Althoughmany of the underlying problems these recommendationsset out to address are originating,or are more severe on the Haitian side of theborder, it is in the interest of both countries to investin their implementation, and to further invest inan integrated strategy for managing the borderzone.The recommendations are in line with theobjectives set out in the Haitian Strategic Plan forthe Development of Haiti: Emerging Country by2030, as well as the Law No. 1-12 on the NationalDevelopment Strategy of the Dominican Republic313, 3142030.108 Haiti – Dominican Republic: Environmental challenges in the border zone
Ten recommendations are provided under threethemes. The individual recommendations aredesigned for minimal overlap in budget andimplementation, however there are many stronglinkages and synergies – the whole is larger thanthe sum of its parts.Practical action1. Protecting and increasing the vegetation cover.2. Sustainable agricultural development.3. Transboundary river flood risk reduction.4. Improve the sustainability of transboundarytrade and the bi-national markets, whilereducing their environmental impacts.5. Border zone economic development anddiversification.6. Address pollution of transboundary rivers.Improving cooperation and governance7. Improve existing transboundary cooperationmechanisms that deal with environmentalissues and transboundary watersheds.8. Environmental governance and regulationand control of the charcoal trade and otherforest products.9. Strengthen the management of marine andcoastal resources in the border zone.Research and analysis10. Lake Azuei and Lake Enriquillo flooding analysis.Practical action1. Protecting and increasing the vegetationcover: Continue to financially and politicallysupport the bi-national reforestation efforts.Reform efforts as needed to improve Haitianand Dominican Government ownership, whileensuring a participatory approach amongaffected communities. Increase technicalassistance to improve the quality, consistencyand sustainability of the re-forestation effortsand implement a more strategic re-forestationprogram.Design & scopea. Focus re-forestation activities to areas mostvulnerable and erosion prone (steep slopes etc)rather than just where land is available.b. Expand the species list targeted for reforestationto respond to local demand and provide selfsustaining livelihood options through strategicplanting of various species of trees (fruit trees,Plant nurseries that have been set up in the border zone furnish the re-forestation brigades with saplings.© UNEPHaiti – Dominican Republic: Environmental challenges in the border zone109
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