Bankable development projects, the Southern Peninsula: pre-feasibility studies (deliverable 4, volume III)
- Presents pre-feasibility studies for three bankable projects in the Southern Peninsula, the Jérémie to Tiburon road, the expansion of Les Cayes airport, and a water retention structure on the Grande Ravine du Sud, each carried through context, justification, technical description, concept layout, environmental framework, cost estimate and expected economic effects.
- Breaks the Jérémie-Tiburon road into three separate projects, Jérémie to Dame-Marie, Dame-Marie to Les Irois and Les Irois to Tiburon, so each section can be financed and built on its own terms.
- Judges the existing Dame-Marie to Les Irois alignment not passable, in mountainous terrain with slopes reaching 20 percent, crossing several substantial and fast-flowing rivers with sectors that flood, unpaved, with erosion threatening the roadbed itself and several dangerous small-radius curves.
- Records existing carriageways averaging 6.70 meters wide, and states its own limits: the visual inspection and cross-section measurements were not accompanied by verification of pavement thickness or degree of compaction.
- Locates every proposed correction on the ground rather than in principle, with numbered survey points carrying coordinates, existing road width, the realignment required in meters and direction, and the culverts and guardrails needed, each tied to a numbered photograph.
- Is volume III of deliverable 4 of the MPCE's public investment strategic management support project, so it belongs to a programme for building the state's own project-preparation capacity rather than to a single road study.
Volume III of deliverable 4 of the MPCE's project supporting strategic management of public investment, prepared by Groupe IBI/DAA (project 38625) and dated December 2010, eleven months after the January earthquake. It carries six pre-feasibility studies for capital projects in the Southern Peninsula, each worked to a common template: context, justification and objectives, technical description, concept layout with detailed sketches, environmental framework, execution costs and budget estimate, expected economic effects, and conditions for success and partnership.
The six are the reconstruction of the Jérémie to Tiburon road; the expansion of Les Cayes airport, costed at US$29,968,155; a water retention structure on the Grande Ravine du Sud; the redevelopment of Gelée beach at Les Cayes; the development of the Port-Salut and Saint-Jean-du-Sud priority tourism zone; and the development of Pointe Abacou. The costings are broken into direct wages, materials and site expenses so that the share reaching the domestic economy is visible: the retention structure alone is put at US$23,974,524 injected into the national and local economy. The purpose of the volume is to make each project bankable, that is, documented to the level a financier requires rather than a concept note.
How to cite
Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE); Groupe IBI/DAA Inc., 2010, Bankable development projects, the Southern Peninsula: pre-feasibility studies (deliverable 4, volume III), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/mpce-2010-projets-bancables-peninsule-sud