Haiti’s Southern Region, or ‘Grand Sud’, is one of the Government’s priority regional development poles. As such, it was selected by UN Environment, together with Norway, to be a demonstration region for sustainable development and resilient economic growth through the development of a protected areas network to support ecosystem services, sustainable production in agro-ecological value chains and access to sustainable energy sources for rural areas disconnected from the main national electric grid.
UN Environment Haiti’s work in the Grand Sud has the following six main interlinked components:
