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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY’S Santo Development – Léogâne, Haiti

Contents

• Santo Overview

• Santo Targets

• The Santo Core House

• Scenes of Family Life

• Settlement Planning

• Community Engagement

• Challenges & Lessons Identified • The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project

• The Carter Work Project in Haiti

Santo Overview• A new community designed for families left homeless by

the 2010 earthquake on 14 hectares of land donated by the government of Haiti.

• Funded in large part by the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development bank and other donors.

• Project based on Learning by Doing methodology. Family members are active participants in the design and construction of the community.

• Site plan designed in partnership with Architecture for Humanity and community members. In addition to home sites, includes space for play areas, a marketplace, school and irrigated community garden.

• Water points and solar-powered street lighting provided throughout the community.

• Families trained in construction, disaster-risk reduction, and good governance practices and principals.

Santo Targets

As of May 2012 Projected as of End of 2012

Housing Units with Latrines 155 255

Water Points 15 25

Hired workers from the community (foremen, managers carpenters, construction workers)

267 542

Family members trained in construction and disaster-risk reduction

429 529

Family members trained in good governance

122 150+

The Santo Core House

• Approximately 26 m2 of floor area including a traditional front porch with roof.

• Includes a permanent foundation, combination timber frame / fiber cement siding for walls, concrete floor and a corrugated metal roof.

• Designed for expansion in back.• All houses come with concrete sanitary units consisting of

a latrine and shower section.

Scenes of Family Life• Many families have started their own businesses.

• Others continue to make upgrades to their new homes and landscape their yards.

• The pride of homeownership is omnipresent.

Settlement Planning

Community Engagement

• Intensive community participation in project development and execution.

• More than 100 community members participated in community design charrettes.

• Community members provided ongoing input related to family selection criteria, house design, sanitation and other vital services.

• Beneficiary families are selected through a participatory, community-based process guided, supported and facilitated by Habitat.

• Habitat’s Santo Democracy & Governance project launched in April 2012. Project will introduce and cultivate democratic practices and principles. Participants include members from every Santo household. The community will develop their ‘practices for good governance’ and a related action plan.

Challenges & Lessons IdentifiedThere are many ‘community representative committees’,

navigating the number of groups is time consuming

Essential to hold regular community meetings and public

stakeholder focus groups.

Continued encroachment onto the land allocated for the project – even by selected beneficiaries

Need to secure build site; in our case, we built a fence.

Donors focus upon the housing unit, rather than the settlement

level infrastructure needed

Partner with a range of donors who can complement different

elements of the project

Increasing number of families wanting to be part of the project

Conduct a detailed baseline survey as early as possible to

facilitate identification of ‘new comers’ later on.

Challenges & Lessons IdentifiedSettlements require a significant range of skill sets to develop and

implement

Partner with local and international organizations as well as private

sector (site design, latrines, water points, solar lighting, training etc.)

Which families to prioritize to receive the first phase of homes?

Establish a basic selection criteria, then have the community create a vulnerability criteria to prioritize

selection list

The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project

• Each year since 1984, former President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, give a week of their time to help Habitat build homes and raise awareness.

• The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project shines the spotlight on the critical need for simple, decent and affordable housing throughout the world in both the global south and north.

• The event is held at a different location each year and attracts volunteers, including diaspora, from around the world, including the host country and other neighboring countries.

• Hands-on volunteer participation in our work creates deeper understanding of needs and issues as well as passionate advocates.

The Carter Work Project in Haiti • In 2011, volunteers at the 28th annual Jimmy & Rosalynn

Carter Work Project — along with volunteers from the Irish nonprofit Haven — helped build 155 permanent houses in the Santo community.

• Volunteers worked alongside partner families to construct the homes.

• Community members were hired to prep the site, construct the foundations, and build the latrines and water points.

• The publicity and attention the project receives help to bring renewed focus on the on-going rebuilding efforts in Haiti.

• The Carter Work Project returns in 2012 to help construct an additional 100 homes.