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

... contradictions began to arise about whether tents or tarps would be used for relief efforts. We wrote on February 4:  ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Illegal Evictions and Violence Are No Solution to Haiti’s Post-Earthquake Housing Problem
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, tarps, tents, relocation, evictions)

... camp of battered tents and tarps here in the neighborhood of Barbancourt in Port-au-Prince, a confrontation was underway. A landlord who claimed ownership of the land on which some 75 families had been ...

5. Inspector General Slams USAID on Provision of Housing in Haiti
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, shelter, tarps, tents, ngos)

An audit by the USAID Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that looked at USAID efforts to provide transitional housing in Haiti was published a few weeks ago and has yet to receive any attention from ...

6. Hundreds of Thousands of IDP's Likely to Still Be in Camps by 2012
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, tarps, ngos, idps)

Although much of the recent press coverage of Haiti has focused on the election, there remain serious humanitarian concerns that have yet to be adequately addressed. A cholera epidemic continues to spread ...

7. "Haiti: The Great Fear" - Mark Weisbrot in The Sun Sentinel
(Matching tags: aid distribution, shelter, doctors without borders, tarps, tents, elections, fanmi lavalas)

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot writes in Ft. Lauderdale's Sun Sentinel today: The controversy over the return of the infamous dictator, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, to Haiti, is in many ways a ...

8. Hurricane Roulette
(Matching tags: aid distribution, usaid, un, shelter, tarps, ngos)

Haiti may have dodged a bullet as tropical storm Gaston – which meteorologists had feared might hit Haiti – dissipated late last week. But the scare was a reminder of just vulnerable hundreds of thousands ...

9. Dangers in IDP Camps Underscored by Deaths of Two Boys, New Report on Rapes
(Matching tags: rainy season, shelter, tarps, tents, gender based violence, ijdh)

The death of two young boys after a brief storm swept through their makeshift camps is "another reminder of the perilous conditions of an estimated 1.6 million people living under tarps and tents on dangerous ...

10. As Tropical Storms Threaten Haiti, International Community Can, and Must, Do More for Shelter
(Matching tags: aid distribution, rainy season, shelter, tarps, tents, hurricane season)

... Adding that in Haiti, "Most of the shelters available to refugees today consist of tarps and tents that may not be able to withstand extreme weather." In fact, many on the ground in Haiti have been provided ...