2.1.

3 Digital archive
We collected as much data as possible on all the
community planning projects. Our archive comprises
published and unpublished, finished and working
documents, drawings, maps, photographs and
videos on community planning and neighbourhood
recovery programme implementation and other urban
planning efforts. Together, they give direct access to
the original data produced through the community
planning process.
The digital archive also contains selected resources
on other post-earthquake urban planning initiatives for
Port-au-Prince that were outside of community planning
in informal neighbourhoods, as well as background
documents on planning and urban development in
Haiti. The ‘more information’ table below has links to the
digital archive as well as links to other relevant material.
The archive is structured as follows:
• Neighbourhood folders (community planning):
folders for each of the 28 informal neighbourhoods
(A1–28), with information on:
– Diagnostics and assessments
– Plans and strategies
– Implementation details
– Reports and evaluations, and
– Communication materials.
The availability of documentation varies greatly per
neighbourhood.
• City folders (strategic planning): contain
information from planning projects for a larger scale
that did not follow a community planning methodology.
These include:
– three plans for the downtown area (B1-3)
– plans for a new settlement, Canaan (C1)
– plans for new sites, and
– institutional development: programmes that were
meant to support the government in developing
planning capacity.
• Background: contains documents with a wider
scope, divided into academic work, emergency
phase-related documents and recovery
phase-related documents.
• Media: contains links to videos that was produced,
music that were composed, maps and websites.
There are many cross-references in the archive — for
example, information about certain neighbourhoods
can also be found in an evaluation in the background
folder, and some videos in the media folder are about
a sub-set of neighbourhoods. Mostly, the information
in the neighbourhood folders is specific to that
neighbourhood only. Anything that pertains to more than
one neighbourhood is in the background folder.
Figure 10. Diagram of the archive structure
Credit: Laura Smits
Learning from community pLanning foLLowing the 2010 haiti earthquake
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 MORE INFORMATION: digital archive folders and
online maps

Folder Description Link

The digital archive

is made up of
Haiti 2010 four folders:
earthquake: neighbourhood http://bit.ly/
community (community IIED-Haiti
urban planning planning), city archive
archive (strategic planning),
background and
media

Google Maps
Google Map
showing
showing
community plans
neighbourhoods, https://goo.
by neighbourhood
project gl/rzeHpi
and project; plus
boundaries and
landmarks in the
landmarks
city

2.2 Recovery programmes

framing community
planning
The 28 projects are in neighbourhoods affected by
the earthquake. Key overarching programmes and
tranches of institutional funding initiated or progressed
groups of community planning projects at different
stages in the recovery period. The timing, objectives
and resources involved in these programmes were
major factors in the direction of the community planning
effort and in developing the associated plans. We have
not categorised the projects by programme, however,
as many started under one programme and continued
under another. Table 3 summarises the programmes.
2.2.1 Programme overviews on video
The digital archive contains videos that introduce the
context and provide an overview of each recovery
programme. Watching these videos provides a good
introduction to the city, the informal neighbourhoods,
the aftermath of the earthquake and key stakeholders
in community planning, which will help contextualise
this research.
While most of the videos in the table introduce the
broader scope of neighbourhood recovery programmes,
the last entry is a video produced by the Debris 2
project that focuses on the specific activities involved
in community planning in Haiti and the experience of
stakeholders involved in the process.
This additional video focuses on the specific activities
involved in community planning in Haiti and the
experience of stakeholders involved in the process:
https://youtu.be/MwazlYxzkvw
2.2.2 The Housing and Neighbourhood
Reconstruction Support Programme
The HNRSP aimed to reinforce institutional mechanisms
at national and municipal levels to manage housing and
neighbourhood reconstruction and future urbanisation.