Project Appraisal Document: Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience Project (Report No. PAD3000)
- Over 93 percent of Haiti's surface and more than 96 percent of its population are exposed to two or more hazards.
- Between 1961 and 2012 more than 180 disasters killed over 240,000 people, about 220,000 of them in the 2010 earthquake alone.
- Each 1 degree Celsius of sea surface warming may raise hurricane rainfall by 6 to 17 percent.
- The dry season is projected to lengthen by 8 to 19 percent.
World Bank Project Appraisal Document for Haiti's Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience Project (P165870), an IDA grant of SDR 25.3 million, about US$35 million. Covers the project's design, institutional arrangements and results framework for hydrometeorological services, emergency preparedness and resilient infrastructure. The appraisal sets out Haiti's hazard exposure and the projected effect of warming on hurricane rainfall and dry-season length.
How to cite
World Bank; International Development Association (IDA), 2019, Project Appraisal Document: Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience Project (Report No. PAD3000), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/wb-pad-2019-disaster-risk-climate-resilience