The annual meeting of the Advisory Committee of the KR 2017 program, was held at the Office of Monetization of Development Assistance Programs (BMPAD) between a Japanese Commission chaired by Taisei Inoue 3rd Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Haiti, representing the Ambassador Mitsuaki Mizumo and Jean Ronald Legouté representing Fils-Aimé Ignace Saint-Fleur, the Director General of BMPAD, in the presence in particular of the representatives of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH), the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Agriculture.

This meeting took place around the 2017 KR Program, with the aim of keeping the course in the right direction for the optimization of the results. It provided an opportunity to review the operations inherent in the marketing and use of counterpart funds generated by BMPAD's local market rice sales.

The Technical Department of the Office of Development Assistance Programs took the opportunity to project images of the projects already carried out and also those that are currently being implemented, an initiative appreciated by the Japanese representatives.

The Government of Japan, expressed satisfaction with the projects already completed and promised to continue to support the Haitian people through other programs that will start in the coming months as part of the KR 2018 signed at the end of January 2018 between the two governments https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27166-haiti-japan-signature-of-a-$36m-grant-agreement-for-rice-purchase.html . This cooperation, which has lasted for more than half a century, will enable the Haitian State to carry out other major projects in the fields of education, health, agriculture, food security and food security, the sanitation among others.

Jean Ronald Legouté warmly thanked the people and the Japanese Government for this generous cooperation, faithful in its desire to support the collective growth through the many interventions carried out within the framework of the KR program within Haitian communities.

Recall that the first KR program was implemented in Haiti in 1986.

HL/ HaitiLibre