Study of Human Insecurities Linked to Natural Disasters in Five Departments of Haiti
- Sets the disaster record against GDP: the 2008 storm season cost losses put at 15 percent of GDP, the January 2010 earthquake 120 percent, and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 22 percent.
- Attributes the exposure to relief: 75 percent of the territory is mountainous with slopes above 40 percent, which drives torrential runoff onto the narrow plains below.
- Treats insecurity as human insecurity across five departments rather than as a hazard map, so food, health, housing and livelihood dimensions are assessed together.
- Produced under a project to increase human security in the face of disaster risk, dated May 2019.
The study applies the human security framework to disaster risk, which means it reports what people in the Sud, Grand'Anse, Nord, Nord-Est and Nord-Ouest say they fear and what they say they need, rather than assessing physical exposure alone. That makes it a rare source of stated needs at department level. It was published on UNDP's page as one of nineteen files attached to a single entry, most of which are project annexes; this is the study itself.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Direction de la Protection Civile (DPC), 2019, Study of Human Insecurities Linked to Natural Disasters in Five Departments of Haiti, https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/etude-sur-les-insecurites-humaines-liees-aux-catastrophes-naturelles-dans-5-departements-sud-grandanse-nord-nordest-et-nord-ouest