1. USAID Takes Credit for Tarps Over Tents
(Matching tags: usaid, shelter, tarps, tents)

In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the Haitian government called for some 200,000 tents to help shelter the countless Haitians that had been made homeless. However nearly a month after the quake, ...

2. CBS Evening News: Relief Efforts "Certainly Not Good Enough"
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, sanitation)

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric continues their Haiti coverage by looking at conditions in the IDP camps. Couric speaks with Dr. Louis Ivers of Partners in Health, who argues that sanitation, shelter, ...

3. Is the US Overstating What it's Done for Shelter?
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, usaid, shelter, chemonics, iom, chf international)

... size tents that will help 185,000 families out of the estimated 260,000 families in need of shelter assistance.  ...

4. Only 7.5% of Tents Requested are in Haiti
(Matching tags: shelter)

The head of an emergency commission to provide shelter, Charles Clermont, says only a limited number of the 200,000 tents requested by the government have been delivered. Agence Haitienne de Presse reported1 ...

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

... Titanyen. Sonny Jean, showing off the DINEPA sewage treatment plan in Titanyen; Hundreds of shelters dot the background in Kanaan. Like many of those who lost their homes, Sonny settled with his family ...

6. The U.S. State Department’s Uninspiring Report to Congress
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, shelter, agriculture, debt relief, cholera)

The Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator under the U.S. State Department has issued a new report to the U.S. Congress as required under the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010. The new report covers ...

7. Haiti by the Numbers, Three Years Later
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, shelter, ocha, imf, garment factories, idps, cholera, housing)

En français Number of people killed in the earthquake in 2010: over 217,300 Number of people killed by cholera epidemic caused by U.N. troops since October 19, 2010: over 7,912 [i] Number of ...

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

... observers have noted, in many cases “transitional” shelters have become de facto “permanent.”  ...

9. Official Displaced Population Decreases, but Where Are They Going?
(Matching tags: shelter, iom, forced evictions, idps, housing)

... shelter. The IOM touts a 75 percent reduction in the camp population since July 2010, amounting to a decrease of over 1.1 million people. Yet as of April 2012, only 12,000 rental subsidies were given ...

10. 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 ...