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. USAID-Funded Parliament Building Still Vacant 4 Months After “Inauguration”
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, chemonics, dai)

Jacob Kushner and Jean Pharés Jérôme of Global Post report today on the high-profile USAID project to build a temporary building for Haiti’s parliament. Although the $1.9 million building was “inaugurated” ...

3. With Poor Track Records For-Profit Development Companies Team Up to Fight Reform
(Matching tags: usaid, chemonics, dai)

... report, however, is that Chemonics and Development Alternatives International (DAI), another for-profit development firm, were operating in Haiti with no oversight. The IG report found that USAID/OTI had ...

4. Haitian Companies Still Sidelined from Reconstruction Contracts
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, dai)

In December 2010, the AP conducted an analysis of Haitian earthquake contracts given out by the US government, finding that only $1.60 out of every $100 went to Haitian companies. In the story, USAID responded: ...

5. USAID/OTI's Politicized, Problematic Cash-for-Work Programs
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, aristide, chemonics, dai, fanmi lavalas)

... with USAID, Chemonics and DAI, two companies we had previously reported on. The AP article cites a USAID Inspector General (IG) report that showed that both Chemonics and DAI were hiring significantly ...

6. Haitian Companies Bypassed in Favor of DC Area Contractors with Poor Track Records
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, chemonics, dai)

... Development Alternatives Inc.(DAI) and Chemonics, both based in the Washington, DC area. We first reported on these two organizations and the millions in contracts they had received back in February and ...

7. Contractors in Haiti, Readying to Profit from Disaster?
(Matching tags: contractors, chemonics, dai, fluor)

*This post has been edited slightly for accuracy. With the Inter-American Development Bank saying that the reconstruction of Haiti could cost upwards of $14 billion, and with billions in aid already ...