Post-Cyclone Recovery Plan: Commune of Roseaux, Grand'Anse
- Zones the commune by hazard into red land that may not be built on, orange land buildable only after mitigation works and green land buildable under conditions, at 1:10,000, built from the commune's risk reduction plan with UNDP technical support on ECHO and DFID funds.
- Names the most vulnerable settled areas where assistance should go first, the precarious housing at Gommiers, Fond-Cochon and Bonne Gens in the 4th section and at Plaine d'Eau in the 2nd.
- Identifies specific state land at Haut Gommiers and Somache that sits in the green zone and could be leased by the commune for new building, subject to clarifying tenure through a survey record and a model lease.
- Turns cash-for-work toward housing and urbanization rather than generic cleanup: drainage, ravine correction, road works, spring rehabilitation and the transport of construction materials.
- Proposes group purchase of cement, blocks, roofing sheet and timber by several families together to obtain preferential rates, addressing the cost of materials directly rather than through distribution.
- Asks for a full communal development plan from MPCE and for the risk reduction plan and multi-hazard mapping to become the basis for issuing building permits, which is what converts the zoning from a document into a control.
One of six communal recovery plans prepared for the Grand'Anse after Hurricane Matthew, this one for Roseaux. The plan opens with a statement from the mairie and the list of local participants, which is a record of who took part in the planning, then sets out the commune's exposure to natural hazards and a regulatory zoning of its territory: red for land that may not be built on, orange for land buildable subject to mitigation works, green for land buildable under conditions. Recovery priorities follow, agreed with the commune. On the publisher's page the plan is accompanied by its own zoning regulation, a 1:10,000 zoning map, a hazard sheet and a presentation. Read with the Matthew PDNA sector volumes, which assess the same event nationally.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MICT), 2017, Post-Cyclone Recovery Plan: Commune of Roseaux, Grand'Anse, https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/plan-de-relevement-post-cyclone-commune-de-roseaux