Imagine being hungry but feeling too scared to go outside your home to buy food. And even if you
venture to the store, you might find empty shelves because farmers and food suppliers dare not stock them.
This is the daily horror many Haitians face as armed gangs rampage in cities and the countryside. Five million Haitians, or nearly half the population, are going hungry and thousands are imperiled by famine.
Less than an hour after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday last week we were 
already at the National Emergency Operation Center of the Direction Générale de la Protection Civile discussing how the International Development Association (IDA) can help strengthen the country’s disaster risk management capacity. Remarkably, the center was launched in May 2024 despite the ongoing security and political crisis at the time, demonstrating the resilience of the IDA program implementation in Haiti. We witnessed similar results in other programs and during the field visit to the Southern Peninsula, where IDA projects are having a visible impact on the lives of the Haitian residents of that area.
Deadline: 01-Jul-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The World Bank is now seeking a consulting firm to build upon CRP4R tool, develop the
version 2.0 and tailor it to the context in Haiti for the implementation of Project P163490. The new tool should also contemplate how to incorporate into the prioritization exercise feeder road segments chosen through Local Mobility Plans (LMPs) in the area of influence of the Project. This new feature of the model, using two different layers of choice, will necessitate several iterations with the Team.
Deadline: 28-Jul-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Was
hington D.C.)
This component of the “Haiti DTIS implementation project” will produce a Feasibility Study for Collection and Treatment Centers or Logistic Platform suitable for perishables crops located in an agribusiness industrial park promoted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This study will include the assessment of the financial, economic, security, engineering, and market demand aspects of the stages in the Logistic Platform (processing, storage and inspection), as well as the required supporting road infrastructure.
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Deadline: 02-May-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The objectives of this consultancy are to: (i) support Haiti’s National Water and Sanitation Directorate (DINEPA) in consolidating existing 
approaches to professionalize the management of water supply systems in rural areas and small towns of Haiti (small private operators); and (ii) identify innovative approaches to expand private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in rural areas and small towns of Haiti.
Deadline: 08-Mar-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
In this context,the WB will hire a consulting Firm to develop:
1. An assessment of the financial sustainability of WSS service providers in urban areas and small towns;
2. A proposal for a set of ambitious but achievable goals to improve the financial performance of WSS service providers in the medium and long term, indicating and costing the required lines of action to support them in achieving said goals;
3. An assessment of the financial sustainability – in the medium and long term of the WSS sector institutional structure in place (both the central & deconcentrated level)
Haiti has been provided with an IDA Grant by the World Bank Board of Directors. This grant, worth a total of $50 million, was awarded in March for the Sustainable Rural and Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project.
The proposed objectives of the Project are to: (i) increase access to improved water supply and sanitation in targeted rural areas and small towns in zones affected by cholera; (ii) strengthen the Recipient’s water and sanitation service delivery mechanism at the deconcentrated level; and (iii) improve the Recipient’s capacity to respond promptly and effectively to an Eligible Emergency.
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