BARR Report ANNEX (Haiti Post Earthquake Report: USAID 2011)

The BARR survey team set out to conduct a 54 cluster 3,600 residential building survey in Port-au-Prince neighborhoods (cluster was defined by “n” number of houses closest to a selected geographical point). The population were control versus treatment groups. Neighborhoods where rubble clearing had occurred were to be compared to neighborhoods where rubble clearing hadRead More

BARR Report for Ravine Pentad, Haiti (Post earthquake report: USAID 2011)

Building Assessments and Rubble Removal in Quake-Affected Neighborhoods in Haiti To assist and encourage people to return to their homes after the January 12th 2010 earthquake, USAID funded Rubble Removal Programs including demolition of condemned buildings and the removal of rubble from streets and drainage canals. Between February 2010 and February of this year USAIDRead More

Haiti Earthquake Media Exaggerations: Violence, Murder & Mayhem

This is a chapter from a book that I am wrote, the Great Haiti Humanitarian Aid Swindle (2017). I originally published as it is here on Open Salon in 2011. I think it’s important because it summarizes the role that the mainstream media played inciting panic over insecurity after the earthquake. Anyone interested inRead More

Earthquake in Haiti: Questionable Death Toll

Originally publish May 30th 2011 on Open Salon Death Count This is a response to a report that I wrote for USAID regarding the Haiti earthquake death toll. I don’t know if I am even free to discuss the report because it’s not official yet. However, what I can do is discuss the validity of theRead More

Earthquake in Haiti: Explanation for Why USAID Estimated the Death Toll

Here’s the explanation for the death count and why it was done. This is in no way meant to contradict the US Government’s statement on the issue. It is a simple clarification of what they have acknowledged. I would not post this if they did not first acknowledge that the report was in fact commissionedRead More

Earthquake in Haiti: Flawed Understandings and Clarifying the Death Toll Estimate

This blog is meant to clarify what we might call “flawed” understanding of a USAID spokesman regarding the BARR survey methodology and how the earth quake death toll was arrived at. As part of the US government’s effort to discredit a survey that it commissioned and for which it reviewed and approved the methodology, theRead More

Earthquake in Haiti: Reply to Schuller (long version) Death Toll and Camp Population Estimates

December 29, 2011–Professor Mark Schuller’s Smoke and Mirrors in Haiti* opens a window into the twisted truths, exaggerations and self-fulfilling prophecies that still bubble forth from post-earthquake Haiti, mostly from NGOs, UN organizations, and activists like Schuller himself. Putting aside what strike me as an almost personal attack—accusing me of leaking the report and of activelyRead More

Earthquake in Haiti: Reply to Schuller (short version) Death Toll and Camp Population Estimates

Professor. Mark Schuller’s Smoke and Mirrors in Haiti* goes far in opening a window into the twisted truths, exaggerations and self-fulfilling prophecies that still bubble forth from post-earthquake Haiti, mostly from NGOs, UN organizations, and activists like Schuller himself. Putting aside what strike me as an almost personal attack—accusing me of leaking the report and ofRead More

Gender in Haiti Report (CARE International 2012)

The quantitative Gender Survey described in this document was conducted under the auspices of Socio-Dig, a Haiti-based research firm. The survey was part of larger evaluation and exploration of gender in Leogane and Carrefour, two communes (counties) near to Port-au-Prince that were among those most heavily impacted by the January 12th 2010 earthquake. Following theRead More

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