IDB Settles Accountability Case in Haiti, Granting Land to Farmers

Nine years after a devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti, a group of Haitian farmers won a settlement with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian government after demonstrating they were adversely impacted by a bank-financed industrial park built on land seized in 2011. The Caracol Industrial Park in northeast Haiti was funded by IDB to spur development following the 2010 earthquake. The group of farmers, known as the Kolektif Peyizan Viktim Tè Chabè, filed a formal complaint to IDB’s accountability arm, the Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism or MICI, in January 2017 with the help of ActionAid Haiti and a local NGO, Action for Reforestation and Environmental Defense, or AREDE.

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