21. Killed by Bureaucracy: A Story of Neglect in a USAID/OFDA Supported Camp
(Matching tags: usaid, shelter, ngos)

... audit, the audit team visited a camp where USAID/OFDA was funding the construction of 800 shelters. There we met a resident who was dying of breast cancer. The woman’s entire right breast was an open wound, ...

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

... of planned transitional shelters by the onset of last year's hurricane season (June 2010). By November 2010, just 22 percent of shelters had been completed. The audit notes that grantees will not be able ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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. ...

25. OCHA Bulletin Highlights Massive Shortcomings in Relief Efforts
(Matching tags: rainy season, un, shelter, ngos, us)

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) latest “Humanitarian Bulletin” provides some insight into just how much the relief efforts have struggled to provide results over the ...

26. Failure to Provide Basic Services Behind Decrease in IDP Population
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, iom, red cross)

... into transitional shelters or permanent homes or damaged homes that have now been repaired or because they have received other forms of assistance. Or, it is also because of storms, evictions, fear of ...

27. The Forgotten Story of Cholera and the Upcoming Rainy Season
(Matching tags: rainy season, un, shelter, cholera)

... Red (needing to be destroyed) or Yellow (needing repairs). This is hardly a solution. In terms of transitional shelters, the most recent data show 43,000 of the planned 111,000 having been built. Even ...

28. 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 ...

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

A new report "Met Ko Veye Ko: Foreign Responsibility in the Failure to Protect against Cholera and Other Man-Made Disasters" by Mark Schuller, Ph.D, City University of New York and Faculte d'Ethnologie, ...

30. "Haiti: The Great Fear" - Mark Weisbrot in The Sun Sentinel
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, doctors without borders, tarps, tents, elections, fanmi lavalas)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in Ft. Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel today: The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a ...

31. Relief and Reconstruction: The Year in Review, Part II
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, disease, ngos)

Various journalists who have covered Haiti over the past year have published essays today with their thoughts, reflections, sentiments, and recollections. Notable among them is this one from the AP’s Jonathan ...

32. As Tomas Bears Down on Haiti, Authorities Hide “Usable Shelters” From Tent Camp Residents
(Matching tags: un, shelter, tents, relocation, evictions, hurricane season)

... was most significant, there are 400 shelters available in and around Port-au-Prince and these shelters can accommodate close to 1 million people, and we’ve been encouraging the people of Haiti to move ...

33. Relief Efforts' Failure to Provide Shelter Has Haiti Reeling as Tomas Approaches
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, ngos, evictions, idps)

Nearly 10 months since the earthquake, the lack of adequate shelter has again been thrown into the spotlight as Haiti is under red alert in the face of tropical storm Tomas, which could still strengthen ...

34. Haitian Elections: Less Parties Allowed, Less Voters Expected
(Matching tags: shelter, tents, elections, fanmi lavalas)

An Inter Press Service article this week reports on widespread discontent with the planned November 28 elections. Surveying people in Port-au-Prince from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, journalist ...

35. Hurricane Igor Threatens Haiti as IDPs Demand Right to Housing, Education
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, hurricane season)

AFP reports this morning that the Haitian Civil Protection Agency "declared an "orange alert," warning that several regions could be prone to flooding as a result of heavy rains expected in the next 48 ...

36. Hurricane Roulette
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, un, shelter, tarps, ngos)

... of displaced Haitians, who lack adequate shelter, are. Aljazeera English reported from Haiti on the country’s lack of hurricane-preparedness. Beginning its report with IDPs’ “bat teneb” protest of forced ...

37. What the US Government Can do to Stop Forced Evictions of IDPs
(Matching tags: shelter, relocation, evictions)

International Action Ties (IAT), who have been monitoring forced evictions of the internally displaced since the earthquake, released a report last week outlining steps the US government can take to ease ...

38. Dangers in IDP Camps Underscored by Deaths of Two Boys, New Report on Rapes
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, tarps, tents, gender based violence, ijdh)

... than an isolated squall." With the Hurricane season underway, and rain a near daily occurence, improving shelter for the some 1.5 million displaced must be immediately ramped up. Thus far only about ...

39. Relocation Camp Floods, Six Injured; Provision of Transitional Shelter Must be Ramped Up
(Matching tags: shelter, relocation, hurricane season)

... into temporary shelters into another sector in the same camp. Those were also the promises that we are still pushing to have go forward, and its something that I want the media to look at everyday. Because ...

40. Venezuela Leads World in Aid to Haiti
(Matching tags: shelter, aid, venezuela, debt relief, pledges)

The Miami Herald reports on the role of Venezuela in the relief and reconstruction of Haiti. The article notes that Venezuela was "the first nation to respond", "became the first country to forgive Haiti's ...