Failure of the HDVI : Beneficiary Criteria, Indicators, and PMT (Proxy Means Test) in Haiti (Human Deprivation and Vulnerability Index)
To identify most vulnerable beneficiaries, humanitarian organizations in Haiti have often used criteria based on expectations from elsewhere in the world, criteria that are often not based on data, and that, more often than not, fail in Haiti. The best and most controversial flood of examples comes from the World Bank/WFP/USAID supported HDVI (Humanitarian DeprivationRead More
FOOD AID Part II: Food Security and USAID, WFP and Destruction of Haitian Ag Economy
In 2008, two events occurred that suggested hope for Haiti’s agricultural sector, hope that the Machiavellian forces seen in FOOD AID PART I would be eliminated and in their place the United States, its allies, and the humanitarian aid agencies that had for four decades carried out politically charged food relief programs would effect newRead More
FOOD AID PART I: Food Security, USAID, WFP and Destruction of Haitian Ag Economy
Orinally published on Open Salon, August 2012, Port-au-Prince I’ve recently been eliminated as a candidate for consultant work in the US Food for Peace Office in Haiti . The reason has nothing to do with the death count report on which I was lead researcher and that has garnered a lot of media attention. ThatRead More
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