EnvironmentResearch Ideas

Port-au-PrinceMarch 2016

Working with 30-50 economists including Nobel Laureates, 100+ sector experts, government, donor organizations, civil society, development agencies, businesses, youth, across rural and urban areas to identify, analyze and prioritize interventions that will deliver greater benefit per gourde spent, helping move Haiti towards a more prosperous long term future.

Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions

with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic

issues facing Haiti.

These roundtables are one of several sources

for research ideas.

Research Ideas

Governance;(1 of 3)

• Strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Environment in order to be able to fulfill its regulatory function and benefit from bi- and multilateral resources: Investing in equipment, tools, materials and frameworks, including regional directions for environmental impact studies; Enforce laws and regulations, and to impose sanctions or other coercive measures; Increase the number of staff in the MdE; Increase salaries of departmental managers; Create a space for dialogue between the Ministry of Environment and other ministries so that they can coordinate their programs; Increase the budget of the Ministry of Environment from 0.7% of national budget currently.

Governance; (2 of 3)

• Develop a plan for the national territory that includes: a population management plan, a plan for the use of soil, zoning regulations, urbanization studies, a development plan and rules and use these policies to guide the vocation and use of land.

• Strengthen the capacity of Town Councils, CASEC and ASEC to employ coercive measures against actions and interventions harmful to the environment.

• Develop regulations and performance standards for grassroots organizations involved in the environment sector: standards in terms of management and in terms of the scope of their interventions / actions in a sub-sector.

Governance; (3 of 3)

• Create consumers and citizen protection agency.• Displace and relocate people in disaster-prone and

precarious areas e.g. riverbanks. • Conduct obligatory environmental impact studies for

medium and large-scale projects.• Make data on the environment, and information about

interventions being implemented available to the public• Establish a judicial unit to investigate environmental

crimes.• Study the potential profitability of land and marine

ecological systems to attract private investment.

Agroforestry; (1 of 1)

• Strengthen value chain of agroforestry so that this sector becomes an engine of economic growth: form cooperatives and association; Set performance standards and regulations for operators in the sector; Invest in research and development of trees that have a short period to maturity; public investment to encourage the creation of companies agroforestry.

• Modify the coal market: Increase the price of coal; Increase timber production (agroforestry); Reduce the import of propane and petroleum products.

Management of risks and disasters; (1 of 1)

• Invest in climate adaptation to develop appropriate ecological systems.

• Create a co-decision mechanism (the state and the nation) in risk management and disaster.

• R & D to develop seeds / crops resistant to drought.• Co-creation of a Bill and a strategic plan on the

management of risks and disasters conducted through holding regular simulation exercises throughout the country to reduce the impact of disasters.

Renewable Energy; (1 of 1)

• Develop a renewable energy policy to ensure energy sovereignty of the nation.

Educational Measures; (1 of 1)

• Public awareness on waste management, agriculture and ecosystems: Create a weekly radio program on the environment; Integrate / add environmental courses in the national curriculum from preschool to the graduating class and integrate young people in the implementation of interventions developed to meet the specific needs and priorities of each area / region.

Waste Management; (1 of 1)

• Monetizing or value environmental i.e. waste plastic materials, paper, metal and glass.

• Develop legislation based on the polluter-pays principle.• Implement coercive measures reduce environmental

degradation.• Develop legislation or policy on the establishment of

waste management centers throughout the country to process liquid, solid, industrial, biological, chemical and other waste.

• Develop a public-private partnership policy for waste management including garbage collection, sorting and treatment.

Green business; (1 of 2)

• Create a public company to transport and package of agricultural products in cooperation with the "madan sara" to reduce crop losses and improve the living conditions of "madan sara".

• Commercializing natural parks and forests such as Park Makaya.

• Commercializing environmental products.• Establish a revenue generation plan for the Ministry of

Environment including the pricing of technical services provided to the non-public sector.

Green business; (2 of 2)

• Plan of Exploitation of the Sea: structuring the value chain, conservation, transport, access to urban markets, the development of norms and standards on the operation, support to formalize the sector and its operators and building construction storage.

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