The need
Haiti faces overlapping crises: recurrent natural disasters — earthquakes, hurricanes, floods —, armed insecurity, population displacement, food insecurity and epidemics. These shocks strike communities whose capacity to cope is already stretched thin, in a context where humanitarian access is often difficult. Vital needs — shelter, food, essential household items, protection — can evolve very quickly and call for responses that are at once prompt, coordinated and respectful of people's dignity.
Our approach
HASDI defines and steers its programmes from France; local Haitian partner organisations carry out implementation. This choice rests on a conviction: Haitian organisations know the communities, the contexts and the access constraints better than anyone. Our role is to design responses grounded in needs assessments, mobilise the necessary resources, support our partners and guarantee the quality and accountability of every intervention. We anchor each response within existing humanitarian coordination mechanisms, taking care not to duplicate the work of other actors.
How we intervene
Every intervention is governed by a partnership agreement setting out objectives, responsibilities, budget and accountability requirements. Monitoring combines remote management — narrative and financial reporting, regular exchanges, review of supporting documents — with field visits whenever security conditions allow. Lessons learned from each response feed into the preparation of the next.
The standards we apply
Our emergency work is guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, by the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards of the Sphere Handbook, by the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), and by the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief (1994).
Stand with us
HASDI is building its first programmes with its Haitian partners. Your support makes this work possible.