EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The industry apparel in Haiti creates jobs for roughly 53,000 workers and 90 percent of the country’s exports earnings. The workforce is composed of 68% of women and their income support several family member. Better Work Haiti (BWH) is currently active in 36 factories and only one factory registered with BWH counts 7248 women workers. Some factories offer basic medical service but there is no breastfeeding corners or child daycare.
Considering the high proportion of women in reproductive age in the garment industry in Haiti and specific needs of lactating women and their infants, it is important to provide additional services to working mothers that would benefits to both mother-baby dyad and factories. Breastfeeding, as simple as it can appear, can save numerous lives and increase the rate of survival of infants and young children.
The promotion of breastfeeding, especially in developing countries, is a public health issue of critical importance. BWH is concerned about lactating women’s experiences, including barriers and facilitators that surround exclusive breastfeeding.
The world Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding until the age of six months, and thereafter continued breastfeeding with the addition of complementary foods for up to two years.
However, maternity leave periods expire before the WHO recommended period of exclusive breastfeeding, and hence workplace arrangements to enable women to continue to breastfeed upon return to work are important to meet international recommendations and are in the best health interests of mother and child.
It is in this context that Better Work Haiti would like to support a project name Baby Friendly Corner in the Industrial Park of Caracol in the North East of Haiti. This project has for objective to transform a physical space into a day care to support 200 lactating women workers and their infants.
The Centre for Promotion of Women Workers, better known by its French acronym CPFO will implement this project. The Centre has been working with women workers since 1985. UNICEF, a world leader in promoting global healthcare for children, will offer technical support for that project.
This present work has been developed as a contribution to support the weakness in the area of project management methodology reveals in the discussion with the implementing partner. Without a project management plan, the project will not be able to give the expected results and stakeholders will not be satisfied.
.The general objective for this project is to develop a project management plan for the project Baby Friendly Corner to facilitate CPFO to manage effectively the resources and maintain stakeholder engagement with respect with donor’s quality requirements.
The specific objectives are to create a project charter that authorizes the project and give authority to the project manager to use the organizational resources to the project ; to develop a scope management plan to ensure that the project includes all the work required to complete successfully the activity of the project; to develop a workable schedule management plan to assign the duration of work packages create a cost management plan to assign costs to work packages, develop an effective quality management plan to shape the minimum standard of the stakeholders, develop a resource management plan to identify and acquire resources needed for the completion of the project; develop a communication management plan to define communication strategies; create a risk management plan to identify risks and plan risk responses; develop a procurement plan to acquire goods and services that are external to the project team; create a stakeholder management plan to identify stakeholders and their requirements and develop a stakeholder engagement plan to define how each stakeholder could affect or be affected by the project.
The methodology for the research was a combination of the three approaches, specifically the analytic, qualitative, and quantitative methods. Structured group discussions, interviews, and literature reviews were carried out during the research. Information was found in an assortment of sources including interviews, meetings minutes, and via internet sources but the Project Management Knowledge Guide (PMBOK® Guide) the sixth edition, was the main sources to collect information for this work. Before the selection of each tool for the management plan of the Baby Friendly Corner all the information was reviewed, verified and anayzed.
The sixth edition of the (PMBOK® Guide) provides new approach an new methodology to the Project team in the development of that project management plan that will serve not only for the Baby Friendly Corner Project but for other projects that CPFO will have to manage in the future.
The methodology from the (PMBOK® Guide), a model for each of the processes responding to the different objectives of this work has been achieved. These results were achieved with to the support and collaboration of each of the stakeholders in this project. The project management plan allowed them to improve their way of managing project, by providing them with a methodology that they could adapt to the liking of the CPFO.
It is recommended that training on Quality and Quality requirements and on tools necessary for the institution to manage project in a more effectively be provided to the team to enable them to better meet the donors’ requirements. This will allow them not only to grow as an institution but also to better serve the community.
At the end the enthusiasm of the project team was remarkable and they admit that the tools will help them to better manage other projects and to fulfill donor’s requirements.
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Estudiante : ROSE ANNA JEANTY MICHEL
Tutor: Carlos Brenes Mena
Lector: Sara Fonseca
Lector: Paula Jensy Villalta Olivares
