Urban Risk Reduction in Haiti: Multihazard Mapping and Territorial Planning

This deck explains how CIAT framed urban natural-risk reduction as a territorial-planning method rather than a stand-alone emergency response. It starts from the objective of protecting people, assets and reconstruction investments by anticipating natural hazards, then presents a sequence of tools: methodological guides, multihazard mapping in Grand'Anse, risk-prevention and risk-reduction plans, post-cyclone recovery plans for communes, and public information products for departments, communes and households. The presentation is especially useful for reading the post-Matthew planning material because it shows how communal recovery plans were meant to be a first step toward longer-term communal development plans, supported by PRR zoning that distinguishes non-buildable high-risk areas, regulated moderate-risk areas and areas where mitigation works could make urbanization possible.