Haiti Observatory News
Training course: Evaluating the quality of humanitarian projects
Study - “Community Approaches in Urban Contexts”
Groupe URD is going to run a project involving operational research and the development of tools, on the community-based approach and concept in urban environments.
Study - “Reconstruction & the Environment in Urban Contexts”
Lessons learnt
Migration and urban governance: two fundamental and related issues in the reconstruction of the city of Port-au-Prince
 | Haiti’s internal population is growing and meanwhile all the models predict that the rural exodus is going to accelerate, and thus that the population of the capital will continue to grow. |
Housing reconstruction: boxes to sleep in or Lakou houses to live in the Haitian way in rural environments two years after the earthquake
 | “A house is four walls and a roof - not very complicated!”. Such a limited view of housing is the cause of many errors observed during evaluations. |
Implementation of a micro-zoning project in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince
 | A major project to map rock types and states, known as micro-zoning, is being implemented in the metropolitan zone of Port-au-Prince. |
The central role of cash transfer programmes in the response to the urban disaster in Haiti: lessons learned
 | Now that we are in the transition phase, it seems essential to identify and share lessons and good practices from the humanitarian response to the Haiti earthquake, and notably concerning cash transfer programmes which were central to the urban response. |
