After three months of delivering water, shelter and health services in Haiti, the federal government agency in charge of international development is planning its next phase of relief efforts: rebuilding the country’s economy.

“And we rarely get to work with the members of Congress,” said Phil Gary, who works for USAID as chief of staff of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance.

On this rare instance, he was referring to Rep. Yvette Clarke.

Presenting in a second-floor, sterile-beige room of about 70 businesspeople at the Calvary Cathedral of Praise in Brooklyn, Gary outlined new relief efforts to break down camps and build up commerce in Haiti.

“Haiti needs more than relief economy, it needs a rebuilding economy,” Clarke said.

The USAID meeting Saturday, hosted by Clarke, was a “How To” briefing for businesses interested in helping rebuild Haiti – an agenda that seems to increasingly define the politics of a fledgling congresswoman.

“I have a real bias,” Clark said, adding a little hip action and humor to her speech. “I love the Caribbean. I can’t help it. It’s in my blood.”

She said her Jamaican heritage and her large Haitian constituency make this relief effort “a family affair.”

“I’m focused on the 11th Congressional District, but I’m very mindful of the Haitian community,” Clarke added.

Her successor in city council, Mathieu Eugene, who, according to his website, is the first Haitian-born official elected to New York City Council, turned to Clarke at the meeting and said: “We in the Haitian community are lucky to have you.”

Indeed, they might very well be.

In February, Clarke introduced the Haitian Emergency Life Protection Bill, which would allow Haitians with already approved immigration petitions to come to the U.S. She then visited the devastated country early March, followed by her introduction of the Haitian Private Sector Encouragement Act, which would spur investment in small and medium-sized businesses owned by Haitian citizens.

(Republican Sen. Richard Lugar and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy introduced a similar encouragement act in the Senate earlier this month.)

And now Clarke has brought contract work opportunities with USAID into her district.

“We mean business here,” she punctuated.

At this rate, she’ll soon be sharing a national stage with, say, Bill Clinton and his Global Initiative on efforts to help Haiti.

She just has to make sure there is no shady contracting activities or other dubious transactions that will call into question her leadership to rebuild a country known for its poverty and corruption.