Registration Surge Aims to Identify Displaced, Decongest Haiti Camps
IOM is supporting the Haitian government in a new surge to register
people displaced by the earthquake and to identify their home
areas.
The registration is part of a broader strategy to address the
issue of congested temporary settlements throughout Port-au-Prince.
The objective is to enable as many people as possible to return to
their places of origin.
The registration exercise will focus on priority temporary
settlements, which have been identified as suffering from
over-crowding. It will begin in the Champ de Mars settlement, a
large public park which faces Haiti’s destroyed presidential
palace.
Champ de Mars is currently home to an estimated 16,000 people,
many living in shelters made from plastic sheeting and local
materials. They have access to water and latrines, but camp
management experts warn that the situation is unsustainable in the
long term.
This afternoon, teams of IOM staff will fan out through the
Champ de Mars and distribute colour coded tokens, signifying age
bracket, to every resident.
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Heads of families will be asked to go to a series of
registration points with their tokens on Wednesday, where they will
provide their family details and home address, as well as details
of whether they were owners or tenants. They will also be issued
with a temporary identification card.
Organizers stress that the cards are purely for the purpose of
denoting place of origin and do not imply any other entitlement at
this stage.
This latest strategic surge reflects a sense of urgency ahead of
Haiti’s rainy season, which begins mid March.
The goal is to find shelter solutions for as many Haitians as
possible, focusing upon priority areas, before the rains begin.
Solutions include:
- Where possible, the government and partners will enable
displaced people to return home and rebuild. - People should seek shelter in the premises of a host family,
such as relatives or friends. - If neither of the above is possible, the government and its
partners will plan and sanitize the largest ad hoc settlements
where people have gathered since the earthquake. - Where none of these alternative options are possible, IOM will
support the government in the establishment of new planned
sites.
To date, 415 spontaneous sites with a total population of
551,140 individuals (110,285 families) have been identified in the
following communes: Bel Air, Bourdon, Carrefour, Cite Soleil, Croix
des Bouquets, Delmas, Deprez, Grand Goave, Gressier, Kenscoff,
Lasile, Leogane, Nazon, Petionville, Port-au- Prince and
Tabarre.
This represents an increase of 84 sites since the last report,
as identification is progressing. In addition, nine sites with a
total population of 48,074 individuals or 9,715 families have been
identified and designated by the government as transitional
settlements sites.
Out of the total 415 sites, 21 sites have been prioritized for
decongestion. The total population in those sites is 217,960
individuals and 44, 470 families, which is about half the size of
the population in all the spontaneous sites identified so far.
In Leogane, 83 sites have been identified, with a total
population of some 51,095 individuals (9,679 families). In Jacmel,
approximately 80,000 families are living without shelter on four
large sites, as well as many smaller ones. In Petit Goave, 98,989
displaced people are living in 367 sites. A further 88 sites have
been identified in Grand Goave.
For more information, please contact:
Mark Turner
IOM Port-au-Prince
Tel. 509 3643 79 14
509 3490 66 78
E-mail:
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or
Jean-Philippe Chauzy
Tel. 41 22 7179361
E-mail:
"mailto:pchauzy@iom.int">pchauzy@iom.int
For more information on the latest cluster reporting and data
from Haiti, please go to the following link:
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