Haiti has unveiled a comprehensive Three-Year Operational Plan (2024-2027) to address the nation’s escalating vulnerability to natural disasters and complex crises. This landmark initiative represents the first actionable framework derived from the National Disaster Risk Management Plan (2019-2030), emerging as the Caribbean nation faces increasingly frequent and overlapping environmental shocks that outpace community recovery efforts.
The strategic blueprint, developed by Haiti’s National Disaster Risk Management System through its Permanent Secretariat and Directorate General of Civil Protection with international support, adopts a multi-hazard approach to safeguard vulnerable populations. With a sobering 7.2 INFORM risk index rating for 2024, the plan acknowledges that over 93% of Haiti’s territory and 96% of its population face exposure to at least two major hazards simultaneously, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, landslides, and droughts.
This operational framework organizes disaster management around four strategic pillars: enhanced risk knowledge, improved risk governance, strategic risk investment and transfer mechanisms, and comprehensive preparedness and response systems. Unlike conventional development plans, this initiative focuses exclusively on integrating risk criteria into national planning while addressing all disaster management components from mitigation through recovery.
The plan’s implementation will mobilize central government operational levels through specialized committees handling sectoral risk management and emergency response coordination via the National Emergency Operations Center. This coordinated approach becomes increasingly critical as Haiti’s deteriorating socio-economic conditions, including widespread armed violence and mass internal displacement, further exacerbate the population’s vulnerability to environmental threats.
By adopting principles of gender equality, inclusion, human security, and good governance, the 2024-2027 plan aims to build collective and territorial resilience toward the 2030 vision of comprehensive protection for lives and property against Haiti’s multiple risk exposures.