Haiti Donor Convening: Championing Community-Led Development
Co-Organized with the Inter-American Foundation, June 12, 2024, Washington, D.C.

Civic Leadership for Development in Haiti

Haiti Development Forum is a platform for convening Haitian and international funders, nonprofit leaders, impact investors and social entrepreneurs to strategize on how best to respond to current crises and pursue long-term development.

Haiti lags behind almost every country in the world in income, employment, infrastructure and access to education, healthcare, energy, internet, financial services and clean water and sanitation. Political instability, insecurity, poor governance and extreme vulnerability to disasters are daunting challenges that have worsened in recent years.

Now more than ever, it is crucial to bring people together to connect, learn, strategize and collaborate on how to achieve transformative impact in communities and systemic change for a more stable, equitable and prosperous Haiti.

The Haiti Development Forum facilitates learning, networking and disciplined conversations:

  • among local stakeholders across communities and sectors within Haiti, and

  • among international actors committed to supporting effective development assistance for Haiti.

PAST CONFERENCES

  • Championing Community-Led Development

    June 12, 2024, Washington, D.C.

    HDI was pleased to co-convene with the Inter-American Foundation an intimate gathering of donors, intermediary organizations and capacity builders to discuss increasing and improving support for community-led development.

  • 5th Haiti Funders Conference

    June 12-14, 2023, Washington, D.C.

    Amid deepening crises and ballooning humanitarian need, the Conference brought together 182 investors, funders, donors, diaspora and nonprofit leaders and other Haiti stakeholders to strategize about how best to support the Haitian people and Haitian-led forces for change.

  • Strengthening Haitian-Led Disaster Response and Preparedness

    June 9-11, 2022, Les Cayes, Haiti

    Local leaders from communities devastated by the 2021 earthquake participated in a conference to strategize how to strengthen disaster response in Haiti and community preparedness for natural hazards.

  • 4th Haiti Funders Conference

    June 5-7, 2019, Miami, FL

    Haiti NOW brought together an engaged community of people and institutions committed to supporting the social and economic development of Haiti to explore how strategic investments can play a pivotal role in supporting true systematic change.