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A roof for my country: emergency and social inclusion

Published title: Un techo para mi pais: emergency and social inclusion

US$ millions unless stated. Haitian fiscal year, October to September. FY2026-27 began October 1, 2026.

Objective

On Tuesday January 12, 2010 Haiti was rocked by an earthquake that resulted in the destruction of large swathes of Port-au-Prince, the deaths of more than 200,000 people and has left over 3 million homeless (30% of Haiti’s total population) and emotionally and socially vulnerable. The proposed project will finance the construction of 2,000 pre-fabricated emergency shelters and the provision of income generating capacity, as employee or entrepreneur, for beneficiary families in Port-au-Prince Haiti by Un Techo para mi País (UTPMP), a Chile-based, youth-led NGO that employs volunteer student labor to build homes for the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean. UTPMP’s development model focuses on the satisfaction of the basic needs of poor populations that lack a stable source of income. It is this poor, un- and under-employed population in Haiti that will most likely encounter the most barriers to accessing the housing and employment opportunities that may arise during the country’s reconstruction. UTPMP begins its relationship with these communities by providing basic wooden 18 square meter emergency shelters. Through the construction of the shelters, UTPMP builds trust and self esteem in the communities it reaches in order to commence with its second stage-support for the integration of beneficiaries into the formal economy through skills training services and community building efforts (habilitación social). UTPMP’s goal is that families, once they secure a stable source of income, will accumulate the necessary resources to make them eligible for permanent housing, stage three of the UTPMP development model.

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Partner

IDB Group, IDB Lab

Sector

Education

Stage

Closed

Approval

April 21, 2010

Closing

Not reported

Instrument

Technical cooperation, Non-Sovereign Guaranteed

Effectiveness

Not reported

Last transaction

April 21, 2010

Operation ID

HA-M1031

Financing

Table 1.Financing, US$ millions

Table 2.Position at the data date by source (stocks), US$ millions

Each amount is given as the source publishes it, converted to US$. Amounts by source

New commitments and disbursements by fiscal year

Table 3.New commitments and disbursements by fiscal year (flows), US$ millions

Records and documents

Partner documents

No document is listed for this operation.

Sources

• IDB project page: terms of use set by the publisher
• Transactions: terms of use set by the publisher
• Operation record: terms of use set by the publisher