Haiti Beyond the Playbook: Rethinking What Works in Fragile Contexts

​About the session
This session is for anyone working in or interested in Haiti, and for those grappling with what it means to create social impact in places where the usual development playbooks do not apply.

​Haiti is often absent from global conversations, or treated as too complex, too fragile, or too difficult to engage. Yet it is also a place of deep fortitude, long-term commitment, and hard-earned lessons about what it takes to keep going when conditions are constantly shifting.

​This session brings together frontline leaders from Fonkoze, Anseye Pou Ayiti and trusted funder, Haiti Development Institute, for an honest and interactive discussion grounded in lived experience.

​The conversation will open with firsthand accounts of adapting programs in real time, including the difficult decision to close an internationally recognized health initiative and the challenge of building new approaches in the midst of ongoing crisis. Speakers will transparently share mistakes, pivots, and the tension between holding on to what has worked and knowing when change is necessary.

​The session will combine candid discussion with interactive elements, including live polling to surface who is in the room and where opportunities for connection and partnership may lie.

​At its core, this is a conversation about what it really takes to work in complex environments, how to adapt when nothing goes as planned, and how funders, implementers, and local leaders can better support one another.

​Speakers

• ​Nedgine Paul Deroly, Co-founder and CEO, Anseye Pou Ayiti

• ​Pierre Noel, Executive Director, Haiti Development Institute

• ​Carine Roenen, Executive Director, Fonkoze Foundation

• ​Dr. Erlantz Hyppolite, Executive Director, Fonkoze USA

​Who this is for
This session is for funders, practitioners, and leaders working in or interested in Haiti, as well as those operating in fragile or complex environments where standard approaches are not sufficient.

​What you will get out of it

• ​Firsthand insight into what it takes to adapt programs in highly complex contexts

• ​Honest reflections on failure, pivots, and long-term commitment

• ​A clearer understanding of how partnerships can function in the absence of typical systems

• ​Opportunities to connect with others working in or interested in Haiti

​This session invites participants to move beyond assumptions and engage with the realities of working in Haiti, not as an exception to be avoided, but as a place with lessons that can inform how we approach complexity everywhere.