Local Development Plan for the Commune of Kenscoff, 2008-2015

This plan is a commune-scale development-planning document for Kenscoff. It was prepared after a process that began in 2004, when the municipality and GAFE worked with local elected officials, CASEC and ASEC representatives, community organizations, churches, producer groups and other local actors. The methodology section describes identification of local actors, creation of local coordination committees and a communal management committee, a three-month survey using 25 investigators across the five communal sections, public meetings, sector tables and validation of priority actions.

The diagnostic covers the physical setting of the mountain commune, erosion, landslides, quarrying, demographic pressure, deforestation, municipal organization and finances, population distribution, education, agriculture, health, water, sanitation, energy, communications and transport. The strategy section translates that diagnosis into intervention axes and project sheets across public services, environmental management, agriculture, infrastructure, roads and tracks, institutional strengthening and local mobilization. For HaitiDocs, it fills an important Ouest metropolitan-area planning gap for a highland commune that is environmentally sensitive and functionally connected to Port-au-Prince.