Lessons from Habitat for Humanity's Work in Haiti: Securing HLP Rights for Disaster Preparedness
Summary: This 2025 World Bank Land Conference deck summarizes Habitat for Humanity's Haiti experience with HLP rights and disaster preparedness.
Key Findings
- Adds Haiti-specific evidence from Land Portal's broader Haiti keyword search.
- Supports research on land administration, land tenure, cadastre, housing reconstruction, territorial information, rural land management or property-rights programming.
- Metadata was authored manually from local PDFs and recovered source records.
Full Description
The deck frames land as a barrier in Haiti's transition from disaster response to recovery. It highlights complex and costly transactions, limited legal counsel, unclear actor roles, informal practice, manual processes, lack of land information systems, weak georeferenced documentation and weak legal, justice and control systems.
How to cite
Habitat for Humanity International; World Bank Land Conference; Land Portal, 2025, Lessons from Habitat for Humanity's Work in Haiti: Securing HLP Rights for Disaster Preparedness, https://landportal.org/sites/default/files/imported_files/WB2025_LP_0173.pdf