History Brief: Site Soley (Cite Soleil)
This post mostly comprises a study I did in 2008 of three Site Soley communities. I want to make it clear that I am by no means trying to portray myself as an expert on Site Soley. I have only visited the place half a dozen times, and done two small surveys in the neighborhood.Read More
History of Beneficiary Selection and Targeting in Haiti
Here I review the history of humanitarian aid beneficiary targeting in Haiti. I begin in the 1950s and 1960s with the Community councils, move through the 1970s and 1980s looking at gwoupman and the liberation theology movement. Very importantly I show how the revolutionary Liberation Theology movement of the 1970s to 1990s that were intendedRead More
History of NGOs and Disaster in Haiti
If there’s a milestone year when NGOs began arriving in Haiti that year is 1954, when Hurricane Hazel struck the island. Hazel would go on record as the most destructive storm in Western history. Haiti got the worst of it. Hazel stalled over the country for three days, pounded the mountains and plains with overRead More
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