How an IDB land deal for Haiti’s farmers went wrong

Three years ago, a community in northeast Haiti was jubilant: They had reached a deal with the Haitian government and the Inter-American Development Bank to compensate for harms they suffered as a result of an IDB-financed industrial park that had seized their land for construction.

As part of the agreement, 100 of the most vulnerable families in the primarily agricultural community were supposed to receive the opportunity to buy public or private land to resume farming activities. While most multilateral development banks have accountability mechanisms, it’s rare for complaints to actually result in meaningful reparations, and nearly unheard of for those reparations to include the ability to obtain land.

But more than three years later, many families who were supposed to be compensated are still waiting.

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