Value Chain Study for the ResPeC Project (Pestel and Corail)
- The December 2019 final report studies value chains for the CRS Resilience Pestel Corail project in Grand'Anse.
- It uses CRS's value-chain approach, including focus groups, women's group interviews, household surveys and value-chain prioritization.
- The study covers Corail and Pestel and identifies aging labor, limited post-harvest transformation, motorcycle-taxi penetration in agricultural transport, priority demand for credit and seeds, and gendered commerce roles.
- Annual rainfall in Grand'Anse reaches 1,300 mm at low altitude, 2,000 mm at middle altitude and 3,500 mm at high altitude, while the Corail arrondissement averages 1,600 to 3,200 mm.
- Credit access is limited to moneylenders and a few microfinance institutions, with loan amounts of 5,000 to 25,000 gourdes, annual interest of 30 to 48 percent and maturities of 3 to 6 months.
- The report recommends revitalizing production, processing and marketing associations and cooperatives, with stronger support for women producer groups and agro-entrepreneurs.
Prepared for Catholic Relief Services by consultant Jean-Marc Vital and dated December 2019, this final report studies the value chains relevant to the Résilience Pestel Corail project in the Grand'Anse. It sets out the context, background and justification for the study and the methodology used before turning to the chains themselves. Coming three years after Hurricane Matthew, it records what the chains in those two communes looked like once emergency response had given way to resilience programming, and it is by the same consultant who prepared INCAH's coffee diagnostic update, which makes the two useful to read together on method.
How to cite
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), 2019, Value Chain Study for the ResPeC Project (Pestel and Corail), https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rapport-Final-Etude-Chaine-de-Valeurs-du-Projet-RESPEC-20191223-1.pdf