Less than an hour after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday last week we were already at the National Emergency Operation Center of the Direction Générale de la Protection Civile discussing how the International Development Association (IDA) can help strengthen the country’s disaster risk management capacity. Remarkably, the center was launched in May 2024 despite the ongoing security and political crisis at the time, demonstrating the resilience of the IDA program implementation in Haiti. We witnessed similar results in other programs and during the field visit to the Southern Peninsula, where IDA projects are having a visible impact on the lives of the Haitian residents of that area.
The World Bank’s IDA is maintaining its steadfast commitment to Haiti as the country faces a far-reaching and multifaceted crisis. Like many other fragile and conflict-affected states, Haiti is contending with a deteriorating economy, food insecurity, political volatility, and natural disasters.Severe gang violence in the …