Nature-Based Solutions to Protect Transport Infrastructure Assets in Haiti: Guidance Note
- Haiti is highly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change, with over 96% of the population at risk of two or more hazards.
- The transport sector in Haiti is severely impacted by natural disasters, with significant damage to roads and bridges.
- Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to hard engineering solutions for protecting transport infrastructure.
- Integrating NBS into road infrastructure projects can enhance resilience, reduce disaster risk, and provide multiple socio-economic and environmental co-benefits.
- Hybrid interventions, combining NBS with hard engineering solutions, are often the most effective approach in Haiti's context.
This guidance note provides a framework for integrating nature-based solutions (NBS) into transport sector investment projects in Haiti. It highlights sustainable, evidence-based approaches to ensure that current and future road infrastructure investments are resilient against natural hazards and climate change effects in a cost-effective, environmentally responsible, and socially beneficial way. The note emphasizes the importance of considering the landscape in a holistic manner and integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation interventions into existing and future designs of road infrastructure.
How to cite
World Bank, 2021, Nature-Based Solutions to Protect Transport Infrastructure Assets in Haiti: Guidance Note, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/wb-2021-nature-based-solutions-protect