Value Chain Tools for Market Integrated Relief Haiti’s Construction Sector

This case study seeks to apply and document the use of the value chain approach to channel infrastructure program design from direct implementation to a market-integrated relief model.

The market-integrated relief approach addresses the needs of crisis-affected populations by working through local markets, rather than crowding them out, to deliver needed aid and to leverage opportunities to strengthen these markets and fuel economic reconstruction.

This study looks at KATA, a USAID-funded infrastructure and job creation program that aims to mitigate conflict in some of Haiti’s most conflict-prone urban communities