1. USAID's Disclosure of Local Partner Info Raises Troubling Questions
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, reconstruction, chemonics, dai, aid)

Following a request from HRRW, USAID yesterday released information on the amount of relief and reconstruction funds that have gone to local partners in Haiti. The info, available here, is a positive step ...

2. Venezuelan Support to Haiti Under Chávez: Petrocaribe and Beyond
(Matching tags: aid, debt relief, Haiti, petrocaribe, Chavez)

... difficult times.” It’s not the first time Martelly had such kind words for the Venezuelan president. Last year, Martelly told the press that it was Venezuelan aid that was “the most important in Haiti ...

3. Chávez in Haiti, a Clear Alternative to the “International Community”
(Matching tags: coup, aristide, aid, venezuela, petrocaribe)

... the press that it was Venezuelan aid that was “the most important in Haiti right now in terms of impact, direct impact." In February, Martelly attended the 11th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the ...

4. Three Years Later: Three Answers to Haiti's Predicament
(Matching tags: usaid, minustah, sanitation, ngos, haitian government, aid, accountability, clinton)

... the past week. It’s usually said with a resigned, slight shake of the head. In English, this means “The country has completely crashed.” Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 168 people fleeing ...

5. Haiti, D.R. to Present $2 Billion Plan to Improve Health and Sanitation Infrastructure to Fight Cholera
(Matching tags: minustah, haitian government, aid, ijdh, cholera)

... Republic. As Jonathan Watts of The Guardian reports, the plan “will be unveiled with the backing of foreign aid groups and the UN, which is accused of one of the greatest failures in the history of international ...

6. Group Warns of Inadequate Cholera Response as UN Concedes “Band-Aid” Approach is Ineffective
(Matching tags: minustah, sanitation, aid, cholera)

... of the cholera epidemic. The surveillance system, which is supposed to monitor the situation and raise the alarm, is still dysfunctional, MSF said. The number of people treated by MSF alone in the capital, ...

7. Fear and Loathing in Port-au-Prince (and Beyond)
(Matching tags: contractors, relief coordination, haitian ngos, aid, public sector, recovery)

... may be much less-often noticed by foreign journalists): foreign aid workers and contractors’ disconnect from the local people where they work. Many foreign organizations prohibit staff from traveling ...

8. Kolbe: Political and Social Marginalization Behind Increases in Crime
(Matching tags: security, minustah, human rights, aid, fanmi lavalas)

... residents of low-income neighborhoods where the population has experienced “social and political marginalization.” The ending of aid programs has also had a “profound impact on the people who need the ...

9. PDT Survey Looks at Efforts to Improve and Increase Local Procurement
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, ngos, haitian ngos, aid, economy, job creation)

Peace Dividend Trust (PDT), an organization that has been in Haiti since 2009, released a study last week (PDF) on the construction sector in Haiti based on surveys with both procurement officers of international ...

10. Why Doesn't the American Red Cross Want People to See "Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?"
(Matching tags: tarps, latrines, red cross, american red cross, aid, camp conditions, idps)

... aid workers, and others, and through other background research, Mitchell examines why so many people (currently half-a-million) remain stuck in tent camps with few services, despite the billions of dollars ...