3.
The north of the country cannot
sustain tourism with only visits of
monuments.
There is a need for a more inclusive
development of Tourism by involving
local communities
Experience it, the baseline, as a moto
to have the tourists experience all
what Haïti has to offer: culture,
seaside, culinary specialties, crafts etc.
RATIONALE
4.
Establish a Creative Village with three
scopes:
-‐ Be a touristic Experience: crafts,
cassava, rhum etc.
-‐ Be a day to day business center where
local communities purchase and sell
goods and services
-‐ Be a training center in skills and
entrepreneurship for the local
community
OBJECTIVE
5.
Establish within the Village workshops:
-‐ Cassava making
-‐ Distillery
-‐ Textile products
-‐ Light Jewelery
-‐ Wood handicrafts
-‐ Papier Maché
OBJECTIVE
6.
The strategy will be based in the model
UNIDO uses in the Creative Industries i.e.:
-‐ Setup of a Business Growth Center: sort
of hub for trainings, show-‐room and in
this case a part could be the restaurant.
-‐ Connection of the Village with the
Pedagogic sector (Office National de
, Ecole Nationale des Arts) and
Private Sector.
STRATEGY
7.
The strategy will be based in the model
UNIDO uses in the Creative Industries i.e.:
-‐ Creation of an Image Bank of the various
symbolic representations of Cap Haitian
(connection with ISPAN, Bureau National
).
-‐ Setup the quality standards of the Made
in Haiti brand for the Cassava and Rhum.
STRATEGY
8.
-‐ Local Comunities that are at the same
time consumers (cassava bread,
distillery) and actors (producers and
craftman.
-‐ Labadie cruise:
-‐ From 137 boats in 2010 to 160 in 2014
-‐ 600,000 tourists / year
-‐ A first target 10% of the previous total/
year to spillover Cap Haitien and the
Creative Village (i.e. 5,000 tourist/month)
TARGET
9.
The project will ensure a strong
ownership by the national authorities in
order to integrate the promotion of this
pilot experience at a national and
regional level and, potentially, replicate
the project experience on a wider scale.
OWNERSHIP
10.
The project will directly benefit to the
community of Milot by integrating the
local artisans to their unique cultural
heritage as well as being an enabler for
manioc and sugar cane farmers to plant
more so as to use the Cassaverie and the
Distillery of the Creative Village for
processing and sales.
Moreover, the project will provide
trainings of trainers as an initial phase
and the Business Growth Center will
sustain these trainings after the end of
the project.
BENEFICIARIES
11.
1. Setup of the Infrastructure and
processing workshops of the creative
village
2. Trainings in crafts and food processing
conducted
3. Trainings in Entrepreneurship (basic
marketing, basic finance) conducted
4. Preparation for the quality label:
made in Haïti completed
5. Dissemination of results to all
stakeholders
EXPECTED RESULTS
12.
TOURISM & EXPERIENCE
THE IDEA BEHIND
THE CRAFT VILLAGE
TECHNICAL DETAILS
SPECIFIC POINTS
13.
Artisanal tradition represents regional and local creativity. Its
richness and uniqueness are expressed in the difference of
techniques, materials and formal systems. It is the interpreter of
history and culture and reflects the positive characteristics of the
local reality.
Enhancing the physical and intangible manifestations of artisanal
tradition in the different tourism destinations constitutes a
strategic option to create competitive advantages and
differentiate a destination from the competition. It also
contributes to the achievement of the sustainable and responsible
of a new kind of tourism that generates opportunities and wealth
among local populations and assists in the preservation of cultural
heritage.
TOURISM & EXPERIENCE
14.
The craft village will be one stop destination in the route between the
port of Labadee and the Historic Parc of Sans Souci & Citadelle. There,
tourism and entrainment will match with the Haitian cultural creativity.
Innovation and knowledge will work for a sustainable development
project. Compared to the very small historical sites in other islands of
the Caribbean where cruise lines usually take tourists, the Citadelle
Laferrière (sometimes considered the eighth wonder of the world) and
the Sans-‐Souci Palace are far and away larger and more historically
instructive.
By visiting just these two sites, tourists would have the opportunity to
learn about the history of the first black free republic in the world.
THE IDEA BEHIND
15.
Crafts and culture are the only differential today that distinguishes country &
regions. Crafts & cultural products are consumed by millions of people all over
the globe in form of luxury, ultra-‐luxe, still they face hand to mouth situation
and are bound to leave their traditional work.
Modern lifestyle has enabled comfort living yet vast repertoire of knowledge
and wisdom that sustained and nurtured these communities are fast
disappearing. There is urgent need to preserve and revitalize these crafts and
contemporize them.
This crafts village aims to build a unique set-‐up to revive traditional skills and
techniques to make a sustainable living. An estimated 600.000 tourist from the
Cruise circuit are the Craft Village possible clients. A good part of the
inhabitants find the craft & tourism production like a option to earn a
livelihood.
THE IDEA BEHIND
16.
The Craft Village will offers trans-‐
disciplinary approach to improve the quality of life
of Milot's inhabitants by providing touristic
services, craft training, cooperative production,
business empowerment and product development
through design training / workshops on regular
basis.
THE IDEA BEHIND
17.
Generate employment and income to the communities of Milot & Cap Haitien area.
Realize a link between the Historical Park of la Ferriere, the cruise tourism and the
local craft production.
Prevent loss of precious skills transferred and gained over thousands of years.
Create a strong local cultural development .
Contribute to preserve the local environment with low energy consumption
project, low carbon footprint, and using natural and organic materials.
Women empowerment and livelihood.
Generate a business culture in the tourism & craft activities
Preserve historic crafts and heritage
IMPACT
18.
Every one of the spaces of the Craft
Village will have a dual function: during
the morning will works as touristic
demostration areas , the rest of the day
the space will be used as production
and training area.
For example the restaurant will also
work as a school of gastronomy, as well
the ceramic factory, the distillery, the
cassaverie and the rest of the space, as
a school of ceramics, alchool and
derivate's trainings , etc..
DUAL FUNCTION
19.
Restaurant
Craft Shop
Auditorium
Administration
Cutting and sewing workshop
Silk Screen workshop
Papier Maché workshop
Natural Jewellery workshop
Business Grow Centre
AREAS
Brickyard
Distillery
Cassaverie
Ceramic factory
Open air concert hall
20. The Village Areas:
Restaurant-‐school of gastronomy : 750m2
Craft School : 1500 m2
Business Grow Centre: 500m2
Brickyard / school: 750m2
Distillerie / school: 500 m2
Cassaverie / school: 250 m2
Shop : 250m2
Welcome area: 250m2
Administration: 250m2
Total built-‐up area : 5750m2
Green space and gardens : 14.000 m2
Open concert hall: 1000 m2
Tourist parking: 1000 m2
Service parking : 500 m2
AREAS
23. ARCHITECTURE
The architectural project is inspired on traditional Haitian rural
home , the lakou .
In Haitian Creole , the lakou means the common space at several
nearby houses where resident members of the same family,
gathered around the house of the patriarch. Lakou the name
comes from " the court." It is a space used by all , where are the
places of everyday life such as kitchen, latrine , the ancestral
tomb or temple dedicated to the loa ( voodoo spirit) of the family.
The lakou can take different forms depending on whether it is in a
very isolated rural area or near a city. Today, with family
breakdown and fragmentation of land, traditional lakou tends to
disappear to give way to small patches containing a single
detached house .
24. ARCHITECTURE
The buildings will be made according to the models of
antiseismic and antihurricanes constructions made by
"entrepreneurs du monde" and approved by the
Haitian governement. These buildings (see the next 3
slides), Gingerbread kind, respect indeed a type of
traditional construction with the addition of seismic
technology and the use of recycled materials
The village will be built with a modular structure of
houses of 250m2 (25x10 mtr).(to be defined after final
approval with all the counterparts)
45. ESTIMATES
Estimated cost:
$3,332,611
Included in the cost
Building
Equipements
Trainings
Management of the project
Support Costs (13%)
Excluded
Space arrangement (water,
sanitation, electricity etc)
