Post-Disaster Needs Assessment in Haiti: Earthquake of August 14, 2021 in the Southern Peninsula, Sector Reports

This volume holds the sector-level evidence behind the PDNA executive summary. After a presentation of the method and the key results, it gives one report per sector, each with context before the earthquake, damage, losses and recovery needs, human and social impact, and a recovery strategy. The productive sectors are agriculture, commerce, industry and financial services, and tourism. The social sectors are housing, health and education. The infrastructure sectors are transport, water and sanitation, and energy. The cross-cutting sectors are disaster risk management, the environment and employment. The document then covers the human impact of the earthquake on five indicators (living conditions, livelihoods and employment, food security and nutrition, gender equality, and social inclusion and protection), the macroeconomic impact, and the structure and composition of the thematic and sector groups.

The headline tables give damage and losses of US$1,620,071,414 and recovery needs of US$1,978,063,102. Housing is the largest sector, with effects of US$815,073,339 and needs of US$1,027,151,142, followed by education with effects of US$325,949,927 and needs of US$401,283,532. Agriculture has effects of US$43.66 million, split between US$24.5 million in damage and US$19.1 million in losses. In housing, losses are estimated at 5,968.7 million gourdes, or US$61.35 million. In transport, the first damage estimate for roads and ports is 11,543 million gourdes, or US$118.64 million, all in the public sector.

The employment report estimates that the earthquake and Tropical Depression Grace affected 1.6 million people, or 363,000 households, in Grand'Anse, Nippes and Sud, and that 10.8 million workdays, equivalent to 91,681 full-time jobs, and about 110 million gourdes of personal income were lost. The human impact chapter was prepared under the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation with about 15 national and international technicians, using data collected from September 1 to 22, 2021. The report states that the earthquake and Grace struck the same departments as Hurricane Matthew in 2016.