The Northern Development Corridor, Haiti Urban Development and Climate Change Study

This February 2015 final draft of the study, prepared by Environmental Resources Management for the IDB's Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, runs to 414 pages with appendices. The Northern Development Corridor has about 500,000 people in the Nord and Nord-Est departments, and the 49,391-hectare study area lies between Cap-Haitien and Fort-Liberte near the Caracol Industrial Park, which may bring up to 25,000 jobs. The report gives baseline land cover, hazard and risk assessments for flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes and drought to 2040, and growth projections, including 387,339 people in northern Haiti in 2009 and 51,607 in the park node. It builds a geospatial suitability model, assesses the townships of Trou-du-Nord, Limonade, Terrier Rouge, Caracol and Jacquezy, and recommends a smart development scenario. The eleven appendices hold GIS maps, climate studies, hazard profiles, exposed asset data, loss estimates, restriction, attraction and future development maps, cost-benefit analyses and an IDB water study simulation model.