AMURT's Approach
Participatory Community Based Development
AMURT’s strategy in all of its work is to develop projects in close collaboration with local community networks and in the process, reinforce the capacity of these networks to manage their own projects. A key element in AMURT’s community approach is the training of organizational leadership and the organizing of community networks. To this end, the bulk of AMURT’s project portfolio is dedicated to the management of small-scale community projects.
 AMURT has formed and trained community organizations throughout the NW in a variety of competency areas. For example, AMURT trained six community associations in Bio-sand filter production and distribution, three associations in construction and placement of ecological, fuel- efficient “rocket” stoves (pictured at right), seven associations in the creation and management of tree nurseries, three associations in the construction and management of community clinics, eleven committees in the construction and rehabilitation of community schools, and in strengthening of school management structures, and one association in construction and management of modern salt production facility. These are only a few examples of the micro projects that AMURT has initiated through its community network spreading over 65 villages and resulting in the organization of more than 1,000 peasants in the NW of Haiti.
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