HAITIAN HANDICRAFT VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYHaiti is known throughout the Caribbean, Americas and Europe for the quality and creativity of its handicrafts, especially metalwork. The capacity of the handicrafts industry to turn that advantage…
Analyse de la filière artisanale en Haïti Haitian handicraft
Haïti est connu dans l’ensemble des Caraïbes, de l’Amérique et de l’Europe pour laqualité et la créativité de son artisanat, particulièrement en ce qui concerne le travaildes métaux. La capacité…
ASSESSMENT FOR HANDICRAFTS VOLUME I
This paper was written as part of the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP)Business Development Services Knowledge and Practice (BDS K&P) research initiative. The AMAPBDS initiative’s major objective is “integrating micro…
The Haiti Handicrafts Value Chain sustainable strategies for development
A Market-Driven, Value-Chain Approach to Economic Development & Poverty Reduction based on: USAID Global Market Assessment for Handicrafts; USAID Haitian Handicraft Value Chain Analysis ; Haitian handicraft development projects; First-hand market experience.
Haitian Handicraft Value Chain Analysis
Haiti is known throughout the Caribbean, Americas and Europe for the quality and creativity of its handicrafts, especially metalwork. The capacity of the handicrafts industry to turn that advantage into a larger and growing market share is constrained by a number of factors. The objective of this assessment is to better understand the constraints and opportunities of the handicrafts industry in Haiti, and to present the findings to key stakeholders in the industry in order to develop a competitiveness strategy focused on greater efficiency, increased differentiation (including quality improvements) and accessing new markets.
La création plastique et le tournant ethnologique en Haïti
The advent of naive art to Haiti in the 1940s upset the «world of plastic language» there. Naive art arose at an «ethnological turning point» and emerged as one of its multiple fecundations. An analysis brings to light two facts. For one thing, the aesthetic judgement that established this new artistic genre in the country did not proceed from the native aesthetics advocated by the Haitian school of ethnology. For another, this school had a difficult time keeping abreast of this genre, thinking about it or even approaching it. Two distinct phenomena were happening within a single framework that made it easy to establish a «kinship» between the two, especially since ethnology proposed a global view of society that served as the basis for working out and justifying explanations of the artistic phenomenon. Haitian «discourse» about art referred to this basis with its strong and weak points.
AID TO ARTISANS SHAPE II PROJECT
SHAPE II began in 1999 with the goal of revitalizing Haiti’s handcraft sector whichconsisted primarily of small, rural enterprises, and craft factories that had beenlong-closed due largely to the international…
SUB-CONTRACTING BETWEEN HANDICRAFT EXPORTERS/MANUFACTURERS AND SMALL PRODUCERS: FINAL REPORT
For the past several months the PRET Project in Haiti has been exploring ways of buildingrelationships between individuals and workshops producing handicrafts in Haiti on the one hand,and manufacturers and…