MCA-Honduras Social Compensation Program Provides Benefits for Families Living on the Margins of Highway CA-5

In order to promote social coexistence and economic growth for the country’s benefit, MCA-Honduras Compensation Program is aimed at providing institutional strengthening to 173 resettled families on issues regarding community organization and business management.

For the 173 families resettled along Highway CA-5 North, the change is evident. They already own a home and/or business stand to improve their income, and now they will participate in a Social Compensation Program that makes part of the Resettlement Policy promoted by MCA-Honduras.

The Social Compensation Program will allow the creation and strengthening of community organizations within the “Millennium settlements”, will establish basic sustainability regarding compensation and family re-instatement processes in their new communities, and will re-establish and/or improve economic income for persons that have been affected in their business by the resettlement process.

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Members of the 95 families relocated in Millennium settlements will benefit from the Social Compensation Plan.

Business owners are gradually recovering commercial movement in their new business stands.

In the photograph, from left to right, Sonia Alberto president of the Business Center Committee of Las Mandarinas, located in the municipality of Siguatepeque, in the Comayagua Department.

The activities to be carried out have two components: the first is aimed at facilitating organization and at creating a sense of community through action plans designed for each Millennium settlement. The plans will be complemented by additional strategies dealing with social coexistence; institutional organization (community alliances, water councils), designing community plans and projects; training in leadership and human promotion; and, community outreach.

The second component involves economic reactivation and includes drawing strategic business proposals; visibility, image and marketing plans; and, business project profiles.

“I am witnessing something good and positive since, gradually, we are achieving unity and good coexistence for all residents of the Millennium Mandarinas settlement; for me, from living independently to be part of a community represents a great change, but it is also a good opportunity to improve and to learn to live with other persons”, expressed Sonia Alberto, the new president of the Business Center Committee organized in Millennium Mandarinas, located in the municipality of Siguatepeque, in the Comayagua Department.

The Social Compensation Program’s objective is to completely relocate the families and to provide institutional strengthening on community organization and business management in each settlement, in order to promote harmonious social coexistence and economic growth for Honduras benefit.

To this date, several activities have been carried out in areas such as: socialization meetings in each one of the Millennium settlements; training sessions on structuring and operation of local councils, water committees and business commissions; and, approval of statutes and regulations for each group. .

Among the initiatives is planned to develop a "Fair Day" in the colonies Millennium Goals The Mandarins and Pozo Azul, with the aim of reviving the economy of the owners of commercial premises.

 


2009. Millenium Challenge Account. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.