1. Red Cross Progress Report Raises Some Questions
(Matching tags: shelter, sanitation, red cross, idps, health, housing)

The American Red Cross has issued a new progress report on its work in Haiti since the earthquake, describing how it has used the $486 million USD that it has raised. The report, while brief, and still ...

2. Will the Red Cross Put Shelter for Paying Tourists and Aid Workers Before IDP's?
(Matching tags: shelter, red cross, american red cross, camps, idps)

A new report by AP investigative reporter Martha Mendoza and Haiti correspondent Trenton Daniel sheds light on the Red Cross' plans to possibly build a hotel on the 10 acres of land near the Toussaint ...

3. 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)

Filmmaker Michele Mitchell presented her documentary, "Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?" at a congressional briefing yesterday sponsored by Rep. Yvette Clarke, Rep. Barbara Lee, and Rep. Donald M. Payne ...

4. Emergency and Transitional Shelter Provision Flawed, New Evaluation Shows
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, reconstruction, tarps, ngos, red cross, aid coordination, relief efforts, american red cross, camp conditions, housing)

An independent evaluation of shelter provision released last week by Estudios Proyectos y Planificación S.A., under commission of the International Federation of the Red Cross, provides perhaps the first ...

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

... and contaminated drinking water. These are all things that NGOs like the Red Cross have expertise in fighting, but larger structural issues often trump their best intentions. Because international NGOs ...

6. Heavy Rains Threaten to Bring More Cholera Cases; What to Do About It?
(Matching tags: aristide, sanitation, disease, ngos, red cross, cholera)

Haiti may thankfully be spared the heavy impact of Tropical Storm Emily, as the storm seems to have weakened as it hit Hispaniola’s mountains. Health workers and others have been tracking the storm’s progress ...

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

... be living in "tent" (tarp) cities at least through 2012." The article focuses on a new report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that dispels the myth that a reduction in camp population ...

8. Relief and Reconstruction: The Year in Review, Part I
(Matching tags: aid distribution, un, doctors without borders, reconstruction, sanitation, disease, ngos, red cross)

... American Red Cross, in Washington, had committed $188-million of its $479-million in private donations. It expects to have committed $245-million by the one-year anniversary of the earthquake this month. ...

9. Elections in the Time of Cholera, Part I
(Matching tags: disease, ngos, elections, red cross)

CORRECTION: Please note that the last paragraph of this post originally mistakenly referred to CRS when it should have referred to the American Red Cross. We apologize for the error, and have corrected ...

10. Will UN's Appeal for Emergency Cholera Fund Fall on Deaf Ears?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, ngos, red cross, catholic relief services, pledges)

The UN Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti has released updated data regarding the status of pledges made by donor countries in New York last March. As a cholera epidemic continues to spread, now claiming ...