Haiti Sustainable Energy Roadmap. Harnessing Domestic Energy Resources to Build a Reliable, Affordable, and Climate-Compatible Electricity System

Haiti Sustainable Energy Roadmap. Harnessing Domestic Energy Resources to Build a Reliable, Affordable, and Climate-Compatible Electricity System

There is hardly a place on Earth where the advantages and tremendous potential of domestic renewable power are as evident as in Haiti. Today, the country’s electricity system, which relies largely on dirty, expensive, and unreliable fossil fuel generators and an aging infrastructure, faces two urgent and interwoven challenges.

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Haitian Construction Workers in the Dominican Republic: An Exploratory Study on Indicators of Forced Labor

Haitian Construction Workers in the Dominican Republic: An Exploratory Study on Indicators of Forced Labor

Construction work is the second most important labor sector for Haitian migrant men in the Dominican Republic, following agriculture. Though it is relatively better paid than agricultural work, and therefore a more desirable option for many young Haitian men, construction work is also known for having dangerous and exploitative conditions, including pay far below minimum wage, longer working hours, and no days off.

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Value Chain Tools for Market-Integrated Relief: Haiti’s Construction Sector Guided Case Studies in Value Chain Development for Conflict-Affected Environments

Value Chain Tools for Market-Integrated Relief: Haiti’s Construction Sector Guided Case Studies in Value Chain Development for Conflict-Affected Environments

This case study documents the use of the value chain approach to channel infrastructure program design from a direct implementation approach toward longer-term, market-integrated relief 1 in Haiti’s most conflict-prone cities. Worldwide, donor-funded infrastructure and housing programs focus primarily on completing projects without examining how they might work through markets and private-sector actors, which risks undermining local businesses and slowing economic recovery.

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Haiti : Plan de Développement du Secteur de l’Energie 2007 – 2017

Haiti : Plan de Développement du Secteur de l’Energie 2007 – 2017

Haïti fait face à une crise énergétique grave malgré le fait que ses ressources énergétiques locales (en particulier la biomasse et dans une moindre mesure l’hydroénergie) satisfont à environ 80% de ses besoins énergétiques. Cette crise est caractérisée par de nombreux facteurs...

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