Experiences in Urban Sanitation in Haiti: The Last Twelve Years
- The 2009 reform of the drinking water and sanitation sector has since brought together all public operators under the control of a single regulatory body, DINEPA.
- The disasters caused by the January 2010 earthquake and the outbreak of cholera in October of the same year directed the first sanitation actions towards emergency response and the construction of the country's first wastewater treatment plant.
- The national sanitation strategy of DINEPA is based on three pillars: education, service and regulation.
- Most municipalities in Haiti do not have the capacity to manage the sanitation service chain.
This report compiles 12 years of experiences in urban sanitation in Haiti, including lessons learned for the future application of reforms in the water and sanitation sector. The study on urban sanitation was conducted to answer four questions that would assess the interventions and their effectiveness in providing sanitation services in urban areas since 2010. The methodological approach used to answer these questions was qualitative with simple structured interview techniques with key sector stakeholders and a review of the literature on the issue of urban sanitation. The answers to these questions, in addition to the reflections from workshops with stakeholders, constitute the essence of this document.
How to cite
National Directorate for Drinking Water and Sanitation (DINEPA); United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2021, Experiences in Urban Sanitation in Haiti: The Last Twelve Years, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/dinepa-2021-experiences-urban-sanitation