Haiti, as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) and the only Least Developed Country (LDC) in the Western Hemisphere, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This vulnerability is exacerbated by multidimensional poverty, persistent macroeconomic challenges, and structural weaknesses in governance.
Climate projections indicate an increased risk of flooding, fueled by more intense and irregular rainfall, coupled with rising temperatures. In response to these challenges, Haiti's National Adaptation Plans have identified sustainable watershed management as a priority, particularly in the North-West and Artibonite regions, where the Trois-Rivières watershed is located.
Although small, the Trois-Rivières basin is home to a vulnerable population spread across six towns and three departments, which face recurrent flooding. This situation is exacerbated by soil degradation linked to unsustainable agricultural practices and massive deforestation for charcoal production. During periods of heavy rainfall, these degraded soils lose their infiltration capacity, intensifying flooding and erosion, which threatens the safety of populations, promotes river sedimentation and degrades water quality, increasing health risks.
In this context, the “Climate Resilience in the Trois-Rivières Region” project supports the Haitian government by adopting an integrated approach to flood risk management, structured around three components:
• Ecosystem restoration and the deployment of agroforestry practices to stabilize soils and strengthen community resilience.
• Improving planning and sustainable land use management at the local level.
• Strengthening institutional and community capacities for integrated water resource management.
This project, co-financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Heifer Project International and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in partnership with the Ministry of Environment (MDE), is aligned with international conventions, notably the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Through the UNCCD, parties commit to monitoring indicators to contribute to the goal of soil neutrality: tree cover to monitor land cover trends, carbon capture to monitor land productivity dynamics, and the balance between surface and subsurface organic carbon stocks.
Measuring carbon sequestration has become one of the standards for soil restoration, in line with the adoption of new methods for assessing restoration opportunities initiated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The baseline for carbon sequestration allows for an analysis of the specific contribution of different types of interventions and changes in land use.

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III. SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the international expert or the firm will work closely with relevant stakeholders and will be required to:
- Propose a methodology aligned with international frameworks, adapted to the Haitian context, combining different tools, including:
o The EX-ACT tool of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
o The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Carbon Benefits tool.
o The USAID AFOLU tool.
- Develop a strategy, guide, and monitoring tools to enable the project team and monitoring and evaluation staff to measure progress every two years and at the end of the project's lifetime.
- - Map areas with the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the different watersheds targeted by the project, using satellite images to map existing carbon distribution in the Trois-Rivières watershed.
- Collect data, delineate sampling plots, and conduct physical field surveys to prepare a baseline assessment for calculating carbon sequestration by species.
- Estimate soil carbon at project sites.
- Estimate the existing and projected carbon sequestration potential (CSP) of trees and other species at project sites and represent the CSP at the area level on maps.
- Propose actions at the municipal level to improve the natural carbon sink, as well as identify potential planting sites, species, etc.
- Prepare a report that can serve as a baseline at the start of reforestation and agroforestry system installation activities.
- Conduct a vulnerability analysis of the Trois-Rivières watershed to the effects of climate change.
- - Estimate net carbon dioxide sequestration and its development potential, identifying at least agricultural soils and forests, considering land use changes.
- Calculate stocks by land use, using benchmarks linking carbon stocks to different land use patterns.
- Inform and guide project implementers on the net CO₂ sequestration potential of different agricultural practices that could be implemented in the study area.
- Develop an initial evidence base on the health and carbon footprint of the Trois-Rivières watershed.
- Propose and implement capacity-building activities related to carbon sequestration for project partners, including training sessions for project technical staff, representatives of the Ministry of the Environment (MdE) and Heifer International.
- Present the results to project implementation partners.