Building Markets - Haiti :: Buy Local, Build Haiti

For the second year in a row, Peace Dividend Marketplace – Haiti cosponsored the “Buy Haiti, Restore Haiti” Conference hosted by Partners Worldwide on January 26. The theme of the conference centered on the goal of creating 100,000 jobs in Haiti by 2020 by supporting business development.

More than 350 people attended the event at the Karibe... Read more

Le sondage réalisé par PDT, entre les acheteurs internationaux et les fournisseurs locaux sur le secteur de la construction en Haiti, continue de faire parler de lui. Le Nouvelliste, le journal le plus lu du pays, a publié un étonnant article à propos des résultats du sondage, trouvé à travers notre Communiqué de Presse... Read more

Flooded with tents, the once lush and tree-lined Place St. Pierre in Petionville became a post-earthquake symbol of Haiti’s destitution.  However, the 500 families who called the park home have recently been relocated and compensated as part of a government neighborhood restoration initiative, and a Haitian engineering firm, SECCA, has been called in to restore the park to its natural beauty.Read more

“Reputation is everything,” notes Sacha Blanchet, Director-General of General Maintenance, a Haitian construction firm. “Haiti is like a small town—word gets around fast.”

Blanchet should know. General Maintenance has been at the forefront of the construction boom in the two years since the January 2010 earthquake. But though the company... Read more

Building a solar-powered school strong enough to resist earthquakes and hurricanes would be a daunting project anywhere and by any standard. But Finn Church Aid was determined not only to build such a school in Haiti right where the earthquake struck two years ago, but also to use a local contractor for construction.

“Investing in local industry... Read more

In three short years, TEMPO Construction has grown remarkably, but none of its projects can match the prestige associated with the one completed in November 2011:  reconstruction of the Haitian Parliament.

The previous parliament building partially collapsed during the January 2010 earthquake, killing two parliamentarians and 32 staff members. ... Read more

Pour publication immédiate:

Port‑au‑Prince, Haïti, le 23 janvier 2012 – Les fonds d’aide circulent enfin en Haïti, et un sondage révolutionnaire sur le secteur critique de la construction au pays constate que les entreprises haïtiennes jouent un rôle important dans les efforts de reconstruction.

« Les entrepreneurs haïtiens sont en mesure de faire concurrence. Et surtout, ils sont les seuls à pouvoir mettre... Read more

For Immediate Release:

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 23, 2012 – With aid dollars finally flowing in Haiti, a groundbreaking survey of the country’s critical construction sector finds that Haitian businesses are playing a major role in the rebuilding effort.

“Haitian entrepreneurs can compete. More importantly, only Haitian entrepreneurs can break the cycle of aid and poverty,” stated Scott Gilmore, Chief Executive... Read more

The Haitian government, national and international organizations, and private sector firms have joined to sponsor the Sixth Annual Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival from January 20–28, 2012. For the first time, this year’s festival also includes an event outside the capital, the inaugural concert in Les Cayes featuring Haitian stars Claude Carré and Thurgot Théodat.

Festival sponsors include the Ministry of Culture and... Read more

Peace Dividend Marketplace-Haiti is closed today, which has been declared a national holiday to mark the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake that shook this nation to its core as the world watched in horror.

Haitians make up 90 percent of our staff here, and I’ve made a point as I’ve gotten to know my colleagues to ask where they were and what happened to them and their families two years ago. Most seem to want to share their... Read more

Did You Know?
· PDM-H has facilitated $32 million in transactions between buyers and suppliers as of December 2011.
· More than 3,500 local suppliers from all over Haiti are listed on our online business directory
· More than 500 Haitian businesses have won con-tracts from international organizations through our website.
· PDM-H has trained more than 1,000 Haitian busi-nesses on international procurement... Read more

After more than 25 years spent consolidating its democratic gains for the respect of the political rights of its citizens, Haiti today is resolutely engaged on the path to achieve its economic and social rights, the first one being employment. Watch this video about successful Haitian businesses and the government’s efforts to support private sector development as part of the country’s reconstruction. The video is produced by Haiti’s... Read more

Haiti has one of the lowest rates of electricity coverage in the Western Hemisphere, but Georges Deschamps doesn’t let the country’s 12.5% coverage rate slow him down. He explains confidently that his firm, Maison Henri Deschamps’, plans to use solar-powered... Read more

Moins de 5 % de l’argent de l’aide internationale qui est destinée à aider les pays en besoin, est vraiment dépensé dans ces pays.  Cliquez sur le lien de la vidéo (en créole et français) ou regardez le montage photo en créole ci-dessous pour savoir pourquoi et surtout comment on peut changer cette situation.  (pour voir la vidéo en anglais, cliquez ici Read more

We’ve got a lot of exciting things planned at PDT Haiti in 2012.  We’ve also had some staffing changes that will have a big impact.  On 31 December, we said goodbye to Salim Loxley, our Haiti Country Director and fixture of Haitian TV (see below).  Sal and the Haiti team confirmed $30 million in contracts facilitated for Haitian SME last year, among other things.  We’re... Read more

The business community in Jacmel turned out in force to participate in Peace Dividend Trust’s Business Training and Networking Event on December 15. Nearly 100 business owners received training about international bidding procedures and other critical business topics, then spent the afternoon networking with international organizations that could be potential buyers of their goods and services.

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For the first time in decades, Patricia Acra, managing director of N. Acra Fils and Company, asked her father-in-law to leave work early. They had a funeral to go to, so they closed the ACRA Department Store in downtown Port-au-Prince an hour early. Thirty minutes later, the earth shook and the building collapsed.

The family’s survival of the January 2010... Read more

In Haiti, women are known in Creole as poto mitan, or the pillars of society. Inspired by a recent training session for women entrepreneurs at Peace Dividend Marketplace-Haiti, a group of these pillars have now established a committee to help Haitian women business owners become more successful.

“Being a businesswoman in Haiti is a series of... Read more