1. Donor Disbursements Slowing According to Latest Data from Special Envoy
(Matching tags: aid distribution, reconstruction, haitian government, aid pledge, donors, cholera, haiti reconstruction fund, petrocaribe)

... in budget support to the Government of Haiti -          $295.6 million (11.9 percent) to the World Bank, IDB and UN through the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) -          $196.9 million (7.9 percent) in ...

2. 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 ...

3. Unions Urge Respect for Workers' Rights in Haiti Reconstruction
(Matching tags: reconstruction)

... made it clear the reconstruction and future development of Haiti must include social protections, creation of decent work and respect for workers’ rights."  ...

4. The Role of Haiti's Elite
(Matching tags: reconstruction, elite)

...  lobbying President René Préval as lawmakers in Washington -- is positioning itself for business opportunities emerging from their country's reconstruction.  ...

5. 2 Important Video Reports from Haiti
(Matching tags: reconstruction)

Watch Aljazeera’s Fault Lines for an examination into the debate over reconstruction plans for Haiti. Unlike too many reports, Fault Lines presents perspectives from Haitian economists and other experts ...

6. From Camp to Kanaan to One of Haiti’s First Sewage Treatment Plants
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, displacement, idps, cholera, public sector, dinepa)

Port-au-Prince - It “shook the house, like this” he says, violently rocking back and forth, acting it out. He yelled to his wife to get out, grabbed the children and went to the street. “Ten minutes later ...

7. Haiti’s Increasingly Hidden Displacement Disaster
(Matching tags: aid distribution, reconstruction, forced evictions, displacement, idp, housing)

Over the next month, Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blogger and CEPR International Research Associate, Jake Johnston will be in Haiti following up, on the ground, many of the issues this blog has ...

8. Durable Housing Solutions Hampered by “the Project Syndrome”
(Matching tags: reconstruction, aid coordination, idps, housing)

... of dollars in reconstruction aid, the most obvious, pressing need — safe, stable housing for all displaced people — remains unmet. In what international officials term a protracted humanitarian crisis, ...

9. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park, Part II
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, new york times, jobs, minimum wage, labor)

This is the second installment looking at the New York Times in depth investigation into the Caracol industrial park. For part one, click here. Jobs at What Cost? Sontag reports that while concerns ...

10. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, iadb, new york times, garment factories, economy, jobs, unions, environment, minimum wage, accountability)

... takes a detailed look at the new Caracol industrial park being built in northeastern Haiti, finding that in their rush to show reconstruction progress the plan’s backers have overlooked labor and environmental ...