The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $100 million grant to support the reconstruction of essential health services in Haiti’s three northern departments, aiming to save lives and prevent disabilities. This funding, endorsed by the IDB’s Board of Executive Directors, will strengthen the country’s health system, conduct critical health surveys and analyses, and advance the digitalization of healthcare, using data to develop a medium-term investment master plan.
The initiative builds on interventions implemented since 2022 through IDB-supported social protection programs and will directly enhance the delivery of essential services targeting both noncommunicable diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, and infectious diseases, including cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, and human papillomavirus. The program will also focus on empowering underserved groups, including internally displaced persons, return migrants, vulnerable women, and people with disabilities, by developing care protocols tailored to their specific needs and preferences.
The majority of the grant will be allocated to strengthening health infrastructure, improving the capacity of facilities serving priority communities. This marks the first phase of a long-term commitment to rebuild the public health network’s response capacity, beginning with the greater northern region of Haiti.
The project will be implemented over 84 months and is expected to directly benefit approximately 750,000 people in targeted communities within the three northern departments, providing more accessible and resilient healthcare services to those most in need.
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