General Information
Project description
In Haiti, more than 96 percent of the population is exposed to two or more natural hazards in theirlifetime. The human and economic impacts of these hazards, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and landslides, have been severe. Between 1961 and 2012, the country experienced more than 180 disasters, causing the death of more than 240,000 people. Many disaster-related fatalities are preventable if people evacuate to a safer place in a timely fashion. However,in Haiti, due to a variety of structural and behavioral barriers, people often do not do so.
Detailed information
Final report: Is there a final report presenting the results and conclusions of this project?
Final report
How hypothesis was tested
In an effort to provide actionable solutions to safe
evacuation, the World Bank, with support from
the EU-funded ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
Program, managed by the Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery, conducted qualitative
research, including:
• An extensive desk review, which helped inform
our understanding of EWS, disaster preparedness,
and evacuation behavior in the Haitian context as
well as in other developing countries.
• Key informant interviews complemented these
findings. Key informants included the Civil
Protection Directorate (Direction de la Protection
civile – DPC), development counterparts working
with the DPC, international partners working on
disaster risk management, and NGOs.
• Qualitative fieldwork included six Focus Group
Discussions and 16 Semi-Structured Interviews
with Civil Protection Committees (Comités
Communaux de Protection Civile – CCPC),
community leaders, and the general population
in Paillant and Les Cayes municipalities. Sites and
respondents were intentionally selected to allow
for a comparison of evacuation behaviors in rural
and urban areas and between those that had
previously evacuated or not.
Who is behind the project?
Project status:
Completed
Methods
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Date published:
25 June 2021