21. World Bank Report Finds Allocation of Emergency Food Aid Not Effective in Targeting Most Vulnerable
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, food crisis, food aid, world bank, rice)

... of the earthquake and with the problematic Cash-for-Work programs from USAID/OTI.  ...

22. Barriers to Reform: The Big Business of Shipping Food Aid
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, agriculture, us rice, food aid)

Between January 14 and February 26 2011, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) signed nine contracts with three shipping companies to send 73,000 Metric Tons of rice and other ...

23. IHRC Mandate Ends – 18 Months With Little to Show
(Matching tags: aid distribution, reconstruction, world bank, bill clinton, haitian government, aid coordination, ihrc, haiti reconstruction fund, spending)

... of the decision making process. In response, donors often point to the IHRC. The United States, for instance, said in January 2011 that “[t]o ensure that the reconstruction is Haitian-led, the U.S. Government ...

24. Cholera Cases Down, But Are Past Mistakes Being Repeated?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, cholera, donor)

Although cholera cases decreased by nearly half from July to August following the predictable spike during the rainy season, on average, cholera infected more than 500 people and killed three people each ...

25. Not Doing Enough: Unnecessary Sickness and Death from Cholera in Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, sanitation, ngos, cholera, health)

A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research argues that cholera treatment and prevention efforts in Haiti have fallen woefully behind, leading to thousands of preventable deaths, even ...

26. A Brief History of Failure in Post-Quake Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, shelter, reconstruction, disease, ngos, red cross, cholera)

... Addressing the role of big NGO’s, for example, Reitman writes On top of the earthquake, aid workers in Haiti are contending with a cholera crisis, a disease of poverty spread through poor sanitation ...

27. Inside the Haiti Reconstruction Fund Annual Report
(Matching tags: aid distribution, haiti reconstruction fund)

... aid disbursement and the flexibility with which the HRF can operate, while rightly noting that the wider international community was failing to keep up. As AFP reported: At an international donors conference ...

28. Paul Farmer's "Haiti After the Earthquake" - An Impressive Balancing Act
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, agriculture, ngos, elections, paul farmer)

... to coordinate overseas health initiatives or to run the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Shortly thereafter, former President Bill Clinton, who was appointed UN Special Envoy to Haiti ...

29. "Brazil, MINUSTAH, Need a Timetable for Withdrawal" - Mark Weisbrot in Folha de Sao Paulo
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, aristide, minustah, disease, election, wikileaks)

... U.S. document shows how the United States tried to force Haiti to reject $100 million in aid per year – the equivalent of 50 billion reais in Brazil’s economy – because it came from Venezuela. Because ...

30. Cholera Treatment Funding Lags Far Behind New Infections
(Matching tags: aid distribution, cholera)

...  Yet despite the renewed strength of the epidemic, there are signs that the health sector is being stretched thin: The disease faded in winter and spring, when rain is less frequent, and many aid workers ...

31. Wikileaked Cable Describes How State Department Influenced Aljazeera's Post-Quake Coverage of Relief Effort
(Matching tags: aid distribution, minustah, wikileaks)

As we’ve previously described, State Department cables Wikileaked last year revealed a State offensive against unfavorable media coverage of the U.S. role in the aid effort, with Hillary Clinton instructing ...

32. Over One Million Living in "Extremely Dangerous" Houses According to USAID Report
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter)

A draft report produced for USAID has been circulating online and has generated controversy as a result of its estimates of the death toll numbers from last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti which ...

33. GAO: U.S. Efforts in Haiti Have Begun
(Matching tags: aid distribution, reconstruction)

... aren’t.  Although the report offers no examination of whether the programs implemented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are actually effective, it does shine a light on some ...

34. Members of Congress Want Answers on Lack of Results from U.S. Assistance Effort
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, usaid, un, shelter, sanitation, disease)

An editorial in the New York Times today describes the findings of a UN report that shows the cholera outbreak “may have originated” at a MINUSTAH camp, and says “The fact that the disease is still spreading ...

35. Inspector General Slams USAID on Provision of Housing in Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, shelter, tarps, tents, ngos)

An audit by the USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that looked at USAID efforts to provide transitional housing in Haiti was published a few weeks ago and has yet to receive any attention from ...

36. Will the International Community Stand Idly By While Over 11,000 Haitians Die from Cholera?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, shelter, sanitation, disease, ngos)

In the wake of last week’s letter by 53 members of the U.S. Congress urging prioritizing the needs of IDP’s, Georgianne Nienaber underscores the urgency of the situation in a new piece for Haiti Live News ...

37. IHRC Board Meets Amidst Mounting Criticism
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, shelter, ngos, ihrc)

As Bill Clinton heads to Haiti to participate in the second day of meetings of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), the exclusion of Haitian and civil society input should be on top of the agenda. ...

38. Hundreds of Thousands of IDP's Likely to Still Be in Camps by 2012
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, tarps, ngos, idps)

Although much of the recent press coverage of Haiti has focused on the election, there remain serious humanitarian concerns that have yet to be adequately addressed. A cholera epidemic continues to spread ...

39. House Financial Services Committee Planning to Conduct Oversight of Haiti Reconstruction
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, reconstruction, sanitation)

... by the IMF, the World Bank and other international donors are to be disbursed in a timely manner and used effectively to improve the lives of the Haitian people,” said Congresswoman Waters.  ...

40. New Report: "Foreign Responsibility in the Failure to Protect Against Cholera and Other Man-Made Disasters"
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, sanitation)

...  All of this is to say that much more progress needs to be made, not only in the aid delivery but the coordination. NGOs need to be more transparent and accountable, and the ongoing political crisis stoked ...