Five Framings, One Dataset

KONKRET's TapTap agricultural franchise network operates 20 sites across 7 Haitian departments, employing 280 youth aged 16-20 in agriculture, reforestation, and civic training. It has run since 2010. CNN gave its founder a Hero award.

The same operation can be described five ways, each unlocking different funding streams:

One data collection framework feeds all five. One Google Form. One spreadsheet. Five publications, five grant applications, five funding streams.

What TapTap Already Does

The operation (BA YO TRAVAY / Give Them Work):

• 20 franchise farms across 7 departments (Ouest, Sud, Grand'Anse, Sud-Est, Nord, Nord-Est, Nippes)
• 280 apprentices aged 16-20, working 1 hour/day around school schedules
• Three recruitment pipelines: TapTap Lekol (schools), TapTap Legliz (churches), TapTap Lafanmi (families)
• Demwatye (sharecropping) contracts: traditional Haitian arrangement formalized. Landowners provide idle land, youth work it, harvest shared.
• 300-500 plants per youth per month in nursery contracts. 40,000 seedlings/month system-wide.
• Payment via MonCash/NatCash/Manitoks (mobile money). $30/month per apprentice.
• Citizenship training: leadership rotations, conflict resolution, community service, transparency, cooperation
• Agricultural innovation: 2.5x yield, 4x less water, 3x less labor, 60% less land (raised beds, kanari drip irrigation, living fences)

What's missing (and what the research portfolio addresses): No data collection, no financial reporting structure, no worker ownership, no processing/value-add, no governance beyond the founder, no cooperative registration.

The Numbers That Matter

One Form, Five Outputs

The Lascahobas pilot (and eventually all 20+ TapTap franchises) will use a single monthly data collection form. Every metric serves at least two of the five research framings. No metric is collected for only one purpose.

25 Metrics Across 5 Categories

Implementation: Google Forms + Spreadsheet

KONKRET already uses Google Forms for payroll requisitions and partner applications. The data collection framework adds one more form.

Monthly form (filled by franchise manager, 10 minutes):

1. Franchise name + location
2. Youth count (enrolled, dropped, new)
3. Production numbers (seedlings by species, food by crop, kg)
4. Revenue and costs (HTG)
5. Financial report shared this month? (Y/N)

Quarterly additions (15 minutes):

1. School attendance check
2. Progression level updates
3. Hectares under cultivation
4. Water method
5. Community satisfaction survey (5 questions, 1-5 scale)

Annual:

1. CO2 calculation (research team computes from monthly species data)
2. Full Theta analysis (research team computes from revenue/cost data)
3. Import substitution report (research team calculates from production data x USDA import prices)

Total burden on field team: 10 minutes/month + 15 minutes/quarter. Research team does all the analysis. Managers collect. Research team computes.

Haiti's Deforestation Crisis

Haiti has lost 99% of its primary forest. What the FAO reports as 12.6% "forest cover" is mostly secondary growth and scattered trees... not functional forest ecosystems.

The consequences are measured in soil: 15,000 acres of topsoil washed away every year. 60% of Haiti's land area is degraded. Each hurricane season, deforested hillsides amplify flooding that kills hundreds and destroys infrastructure worth hundreds of millions.

The charcoal trap: 66% of Haiti's energy comes from charcoal. Cutting trees is the cheapest cooking fuel. The Dominican Republic solved this with charcoal bans + propane subsidies. Haiti hasn't.

Same island. Same soil. Same rainfall. The DR rebounded from 12% forest cover (1980s) to 42% today. Haiti went the other direction. The difference is policy, not geography.

TapTap as Reforestation Engine

TapTap's 20 franchises produce 40,000 seedlings per month (480,000/year) across five species:

The genius of TapTap's species selection: Every tree does triple duty... carbon, income, and ecology. No monoculture plantations. Each seedling serves the climate brief, the food brief, AND the youth employment brief.

Carbon Sequestration Potential

Conservative Year 1: 16,300 tonnes CO2 (using mid-range species estimates).

Compounding effect: If 480,000 seedlings planted annually with 70% survival rate, by Year 5 there are ~1.68 million living trees. By Year 7+, annual sequestration from all surviving cohorts reaches 50,000-80,000 tonnes CO2/year.

Caveats: Years 1-3 yield 20-40% of mature-tree rates. Full sequestration rates apply from Year 5+. These are conservative estimates using peer-reviewed species data.

Carbon Credit Revenue

Voluntary carbon market prices (2025):

At nature-based premium: $1M+/year by Year 7. Article 6.4 compliance credits (post-Paris) could push prices toward $50+/tonne by 2035.

This is a self-funding mechanism. Carbon credits generated by youth reforestation labor fund the youth employment program. The trees pay for the people who plant them.

Target Funders: GCF, GEF, UNEP

Recommended first move: GCF Readiness grant ($1M) to build the data collection, monitoring, and reporting infrastructure that all other climate funding requires.

Haiti's Gang Crisis in Numbers

Half the gang members in Haiti are children. Child recruitment increased 700% in the first three months of 2025. These are TapTap's target demographic. The same youth aged 16-20 that KONKRET trains in agriculture are the same youth gangs recruit for violence.

The $30 Alternative

TapTap employs a youth for $360/year. One UN peacekeeper costs ~$60,000/year. Prevention is 167x cheaper than intervention.

TapTap is not a DDR program. It doesn't disarm anyone. It doesn't negotiate with gangs. It does something simpler: it provides an alternative BEFORE recruitment happens. Pre-emptive reintegration.

Why it works in Cité Soleil: SAKALA has operated inside one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere since ~2010. Youth who go through SAKALA/KONKRET programs have a structured alternative... income, training, social belonging, civic values, and a progression pathway from Apranti to Direktè Zonn. The gangs offer income and belonging. TapTap offers income, belonging, AND a future.

BINUH Alignment

BINUH's mandate (Resolution 2814, renewed January 2026) includes:

1. Support community violence reduction and DDR (disarmament, dismantlement, reintegration) of armed gangs
2. Facilitate "inter-Haitian national dialogue"
3. Support justice sector issues
4. Coordinate international assistance

TapTap maps directly to mandate item #1. Community violence reduction through economic alternatives. Reintegration through agricultural employment. This is DDR without the D... you don't need to disarm someone who never armed up because they had a better option.

As of March 2026: BINUH is preparing an appel à proposition that aligns with KONKRET's programming. This is the live opportunity.

Target Funders: BINUH, UNDP, PBF

Recommended first move: Draft the BINUH proposal immediately using this brief as the evidence base. KONKRET has the insider intelligence on timing. The research portfolio provides the data framing. Move now.

The Import Trap

Haiti spends ~$970 million per year importing agricultural products (USDA/FAS, FY2021). The total food import bill including processed goods is estimated at $2-3 billion.

Food imports as share of economy: Agriculture is ~40% of GDP and ~60% of employment, but Haiti still imports more food than it produces. Remittances ($3.8B/year, ~30% of GDP) are the primary forex source... and much of that goes directly to buying imported food.

The Rice Story: 80% to 13% in 15 Years

In 1980, Haiti was 80% self-sufficient in rice. Then structural adjustment happened. The tariff on rice imports was cut from 35% to 3% in 1995. American rice flooded the market. Haitian rice farmers couldn't compete.

Today Haiti imports 87% of its rice at a cost of $279 million per year. Haiti produces zero wheat (100% imported). Every kilogram of food grown locally by TapTap farms is a kilogram not imported.

The import substitution math: If TapTap's 20 franchises produce 50 tonnes of food per year, and the average import price of that food is $2/kg, that's $100,000 in forex saved. Scale to 200 franchises: $1 million in forex saved. Add processing (moringa powder, kasav, pikliz): multipliers of 5-45x.

TapTap as Import Substitution

TapTap doesn't grow rice (yet). It grows moringa, peppers, cassava, fruit, and medicinal plants. But the food sovereignty framing still applies:

• Moringa: Complete protein, all essential amino acids. Nutritional substitute for imported supplements. $8.6B global market.
• Cassava (kasav): UNESCO-recognized. Flour substitute for imported wheat. 45x value multiplier when processed.
• Peppers (pikliz): Condiment market. Replaces imported hot sauce. Diaspora demand proven.
• Fruit (preserves): Replaces imported jams/preserves. 8x value multiplier.

The structural argument: Haiti's food dependency is not about agricultural capacity. Haiti has arable land, rainfall, and labor. The dependency was CREATED by policy (tariff cuts). It can be reversed by policy + production. TapTap is the production side.

Target Funders: FAO, WFP, IFAD

2.2 Million Youth, 60%+ Unemployed

Haiti has approximately 2.2 million youth aged 15-24. Official unemployment is 37.5% (ILO 2024). The real rate, including discouraged workers and informal underemployment, exceeds 60%.

Haiti has the highest youth unemployment in the Caribbean. Female youth unemployment is 1.6x the male rate.

NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) rate is estimated at 40-50%+, among the highest globally.

TapTap's Cost-Effectiveness

TapTap is 15-30x cheaper than conventional vocational training programs while producing tangible output (seedlings, food, reforestation) and maintaining school enrollment.

Financial Inclusion via Mobile Money

KONKRET trains every youth to create a mobile money account (MonCash, NatCash, or Manitoks). For many, this is their first formal financial instrument.

"Creating a mobile money account is the first step into a responsible financial culture." — BA YO TRAVAY Manual

For youth under 18: parent phone number with signed consent form. KONKRET tracks to ensure youth receive their payments.

The financial inclusion data point: If 280 youth across 20 franchises each have a mobile money account receiving regular payments, that's 280 new financially included individuals. At scale (1,000 franchises, the 10-year target), that's potentially 15,000+ new mobile money accounts.

Target Funders: ILO, UNICEF, IDB

Measuring Extraction Rate Changes

The EEDTM framework provides a measurable metric for value capture: Theta, the extraction rate. In the current franchise model, Theta = 0.80 (workers capture 20% of value created). In the hybrid cooperative model, Theta = 0.33 (workers capture 67%).

This is publishable. A controlled comparison between franchise and cooperative structures operating the same agricultural model, with the same crops, in the same country, with the same youth population... this is a natural experiment. The Lascahobas pilot creates the treatment group. The existing 20 franchises are the control group.

The Hybrid Model

The full hybrid model is documented in the companion report (From Franchise to Federation: TapTap-Konbit Integrated Vision). Key elements:

• Operations: Keep KONKRET's pipeline (schools, churches, families), progression ladder, agricultural IP, Kreyol documentation
• Economics: Add 51% worker ownership, equity vesting at each ladder rung, elected governance, self-funding trajectory
• Governance: $700/year farm-scale package using Ejido (Mexico), Grameen (Bangladesh), FUCVAM (Uruguay), SACCO (Kenya), Amul (India) precedents
• Processing: $100K shared facility (Nathan Cummings grant). Moringa 12.5x, kasav 45x, peppers 5x value multiplier.
• Legal: Haiti cooperative law (Décret 1981/1983) already requires the exact governance structure designed. CNC registration with 21+ founding members.

The Lascahobas Pilot

Status (March 2026): KONKRET is launching a live pilot with a partner church near Lascahobas. $2,600-$3,000 secured. Partner organization provides partial funding + congregation subscribers ($1/day CSA).

Research design:

1. Months 1-6: Launch as standard TapTap franchise (control period). Collect baseline data.
2. Months 7-12: Convert to cooperative structure. Add equity vesting, governance package. Continue data collection.
3. Month 12: Compare franchise period vs. cooperative period. Same farm, same youth, different structure.

Primary research question: Does cooperative conversion change worker wealth accumulation, retention, and productivity compared to the franchise model?

Secondary questions: Does governance quality improve? Does the cooperative attract different/additional funding? Does the cooperative structure improve community satisfaction scores?

Target Funders: Russell Sage, Academic Journals

Active Multilateral Funding in Haiti

Total active multilateral funding accessible from Haiti: $150M+. TapTap qualifies for funding from every single entity in this table under at least one of the five framings.

Entry Points by Framing

The Stacking Strategy

These framings are not mutually exclusive. A single proposal to GCF can include climate (primary), food sovereignty (co-benefit), and youth employment (social safeguard). A BINUH proposal can include fragile states (primary) and food sovereignty (secondary outcome).

Recommended sequencing:

1. Immediate (March-April 2026): BINUH appel a proposition (Brief 2). KONKRET has insider intel on timing. Move now.
2. Short-term (April-June 2026): Nathan Cummings $100K (Brief 5, processing facility). Draft complete. Hit send.
3. Medium-term (June-December 2026): GCF Readiness grant $1M (Brief 1). Build monitoring infrastructure.
4. Parallel (ongoing): Carbon credit market exploration. Partner with Verra VCS or Gold Standard for certification.
5. Academic (2026-2027): Lascahobas pilot data → Russell Sage paper → Journal of Development Economics submission.

Total addressable funding from all five framings: $2.4M+/year at scale. The data collection framework makes all of it accessible from a single monthly Google Form.