Territorial Planning Perspectives for the North / North-East
- The North / North-East is projected to grow from 665,000 people in 2012 to one million by 2030 at 2 percent a year.
- That growth implies 100,000 additional housing units and 4,000 additional classrooms for 250,000 more pupils.
- The region was already 66 percent urban in 2012, with half its urban population in Cap-Haïtien alone.
- CIAT names rural impoverishment, slumification of towns and emigration as the three mutually reinforcing outcomes of unplanned growth.
This is the CIAT's formal presentation of its North / North-East planning perspective, delivered at the National Palace on 9 November 2012 to the President and the Prime Minister. It sits alongside the fuller Plan d'aménagement du Nord / Nord-Est and states the strategic case behind it. The stated objective is to create living space for one million people by 2030 through six commitments: distributing population evenly across the territory, modernizing the economy and infrastructure, reducing territorial vulnerability, feeding the population without destroying natural resources, guaranteeing access to basic services, and managing the whole coherently.
The demographic section is the sharpest part: the region held 665,000 people in 2012, of whom 66 percent were urban and half of those in Cap-Haïtien alone, with average household size of five and 55 percent of the population minors. Projected forward at 2 percent annual growth the region reaches one million by 2030, adding 350,000 people who will need 100,000 housing units, and 250,000 pupils who will need 4,000 classrooms. The document names the consequences of failing to plan for that growth in plain terms: rural impoverishment, the slumification of towns, and emigration, each reinforcing the others.
The planning proposals treat the coastal system around the Bay of Fort-Liberté, the plains along the Acul-Samedi to Les Perches road, and the hill country between Dosmon and Gens de Nantes as three distinct settlement problems.
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Government of Haiti; Comité Interministériel d'Aménagement du Territoire (CIAT), 2012, Territorial Planning Perspectives for the North / North-East, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/docs/PERSPECTIVES%20D%E2%80%99AM%C3%89NAGEMENT%20DU%20NORD%20NORD-EST.pdf