Haiti: Overview & Impact

Launched
2009

Country Facts

Population: 9.7 million (UN, 2010)

Languages: French, Creole

Monetary unit: Haitian Gourd

Main Exports: Light manufacturers, coffee, oils, mangoes (CIA World Factbook, 2012)

GNI per capita: US $995 (World Bank, 2009)

ODA received: $1.12 billion (OECD, 2009)

Human Development Index ranking: 149 out of 189 (UN, 2010)

Estimated GDP growth: -7% (World Bank, 2010)

Market Research

Rebuilding Haiti: A Survey of Buyers and Builders Two Years after the Earthquake
Buy Local. Build Haiti. A General Overview
Haiti First: Promoting Local Business in Procurement
Haiti Marketplace Results to Date: March 2012
Regional Verification
Market Information on the Haiti Marketplace
Marketplace Profile: Haitian Women in Business
Doing Business in Haiti's Food and Beverage Sector
Haiti Impact Report 2012
Rapport Impact Haiti 2012 (French)
$28,763,865
3,966
1,023

Since its inception in 2009, the Sustainable Marketplace Initiative in Haiti has supported local market development. This initiative has achieved the following results.

  • Helped facilitate 1,332 local contracts and redirected more than $28 million into the Haitian economy.  
  • Through verification surveys and registration on the Local Business Directory, the project team has brought online visibility to 3,966 Haitian businesses, including 972 that are female-owned.
  • Tender Distribution Services have collected and disseminated more than 1,000 tenders to local businesses, creating transparency in contracting and increasing access to new business opportunities.
  • 1,023 businesses have received training, helping to improve their knowledge about procurement processes and their ability to successfully compete for and win contracts. 
  • Created 570 matchmaking reports for buyers looking for verified local businesses in the Haitian marketplace. 

*Source: Building Markets, June 2012

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