1. 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 ...

2. Blacklisted Contractor Continues Receiving Government Money Through Haiti Contracts
(Matching tags: contractors, usaid, us military, relief efforts, oversight, military)

... relief effort, eventually totaling over one billion dollars. But the lead agency in the immediate aftermath was not the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as is typically the case when ...

3. Haiti Falls from the Headlines, But Situation Remains Dire
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, media coverage, relief efforts)

... or in vogue and too many relief efforts are being shortchanged. Virtually nothing is being done by either the Haitian government or international actors for those who will be flooded out of their squatter ...

4. Scrutiny of Red Cross Effort Grows
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, sanitation, red cross, relief efforts)

... harsh words for the organization, saying, "That's not disaster relief, that's long-term recovery, and that's not the Red Cross' mission and not the donor intent either." Robles reports that Cummock, after ...

5. Does Camp Corail Demonstrate How Haiti Relief Can Be Done Right?
(Matching tags: shelter, relocation, relief efforts)

Jonathan M. Katz reports for the Associated Press on the glaring gap in services between two camps; Camp Corail and Camp Obama. Camp Corail is the recently opened camp which is housing those that have ...