_{The District Court in Gonaïves, Haiti}

Haiti Government to Take Over
ILAC Legal Aid Program

The government of Haiti has committed itself to a gradual take-over of ILAC's main project in Haiti, a nation-wide program of providing legal aid to the poor. With support from the local UN administration and OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie), ILAC is running nine legal aid offices in the country-side, each staffed with three lawyers and ten legal interns. The program, which is coordinated by a secretariat in the capital Port-au-Prince, has been financed since 2006 by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). As a sign of the success of this program, the government has committed itself to a gradual take-over of the program, beginning with a 20% share in 2009, with the aim of having it entirely financed by the state budget in 2014.