The Edge Worldwide, a Florida-based communications shop that operates in the Caribbean and Latin America, has picked up a $325K pact with the United Nations to guide a campaign surrounding the "16/6" program to resettle Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
The UN released an RFP for the work in May to develop outreach and message development for the Haitian government’s ongoing program, started in 2011 and dubbed The 16/6 Project after the 16 neighborhoods where 1.5M people were left homeless to live in six large tent camps after the quake.
TEW is based in Mulberry, Fla., but has an office in Petion-Ville Haiti led by Baphtol Joseph, a former COO of the Haitian American Foundation.
The firm has worked for the US State Department and US Agency for International Development in Haiti, including a two-year pact to develop media programs and public outreach touting US involvement in Haiti.
Edelman is providing communications support to Panama’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries under an agreement capped at $97,100 per month.
Ballard Partners has recruited State Department veteran Matt Bryza as a senior policy advisor.
Teneo has extended its contract with the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation for an additional four months to July 31, adding another $1.8M in fees to the New York firm’s coffers.
The Syrian Kurdish militia recruits Jim Dornan Strategies to press Congress for continued support in their battle against ISIS and Syrian president Bashar Assad.
The Government of Hungary has hired Strategic Improvisation Inc. to generate positive media coverage and combat negative press coverage of the Central European country. (6 reader comments)
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