Green Jobs in Haiti through Enhanced Resource Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Waste Management in Industrial Parks

Project Summary:

The grant aims to support the greening of Haiti’s industrial sector and generating green jobs by improving the country’s competitiveness in the garment value chain through economic circularity and eco-industrial parks (resource efficiency, renewables, and waste management). As such, this activity will contribute to the World Bank Group (WBG) COVID-19 response, which supports the Government of Haiti (GoH)’s post COVID-19 recovery program (PREPOC) that seeks to support job creation and economic diversification. Indeed, the pandemic has adversely impacted the Haitian economy given the supply chain disruptions and the global economic downturn. The grant will support the pillar of the WBG’s response that focuses on saving livelihoods, preserving jobs, and ensuring more sustainable business growth and job creation, while at the same time providing opportunities for a greener and more resilient recovery. As Haiti continues to undertake industrial development efforts, the WBG approach to recovery focuses also on supporting Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development (GRID). Accordingly, the grant will help promote environmental sustainability by demonstrating the technical and commercial feasibility of greener manufacturing practices and technologies in Haiti. Improved sustainability of industrial parks’ operating model in Haiti can, in turn, contribute to investment retention and attraction that would offer inclusive and formal job opportunities to low-skilled workers. The grant is linked to US$105 million Private Sector Jobs and Economic Transformation (PSJET) project, leveraging the PSJET activities by informing how to mobilize potential financing of green solutions through matching grants from the collective window and by building consensus around the potential implementation of quick win regulatory reforms and public-private dialogue as well as donor coordination.

List of Activities:

• Activity 1: Value chain study and identification of solutions to green industrial parks. 
• Activity 2: Selected business cases for greening industrial parks.
• Activity 3: Study for the implementation of green solutions at the selected industrial park. 
• Activity 4: Advice for the piloting of green solutions at a selected park.

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• A report with conclusions and recommendations on how to improve the environmental sustainability of industrial parks
• A workshop for the dissemination of findings and consensus building with stakeholders

Output 2

• An assessment report with recommendations on feasible and commercially attractive solutions
• A workshop for the dissemination of findings and consensus building with stakeholders
• Training to the Center for Facilitation of Investments and industrial park managers on the conclusion of the assessment

Output 3

• The study completed in the selected parks for the specific solutions
• Communication of the results, possibly through a garment buyer roadshow by the Center for Investment Facilitation

Output 4

• Advisory support provided to implement the piloting of a green solution
• A booklet on lessons learned and recommendations to roll out of green solutions in fragile countries

Outcomes

• Reduction of CO2 and other toxic gases through savings in energy and material use
• Increased efficiency in natural resource consumption and use will reduce the environmental footprint of existing economic activities and boost competitiveness
• Long-term economic sustainability of parks, textile and garment firms and associated jobs, through investment retention and attraction thanks to the management of reputational risk
• Technology and knowledge transfer through foreign technology use, training and direct investment that will build the Haitian’s private and public sector capacities
• Creation of new business opportunities from byproducts and waste recycling that generate additional incomes for participating companies and contributes to job creation
• Demonstration effects locally, with spillovers expected from the pilot.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

(Tentative) 

• Korea Environment Corporation
• Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute
• Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
• Korea Energy Agency
• Industrial Ecology Depart of Yale University
• USAID
• IDB