Haiti Observatory News
Editorial
Training course: Evaluating the quality of humanitarian projects
Study - “Community Approaches in Urban Contexts”
Study - “Reconstruction & the Environment in Urban Contexts”
First issue of "Learning Through Evaluation – The Haiti Observatory Newsletter"
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Evaluation of projects funded by Swiss Solidarity in Haiti (September 2010 – June 2012)
Groupe URD is conducting a 2-year iterative evaluation of projects implemented in Haiti by the Swiss partners of Swiss Solidarity, following the disaster of 12 January 2010.
Training course on Programme Evaluation from 23 to 27 April in Port-au-Prince
Review of Cash Transfer Programmes in Haiti (February – March 2012)
Lessons learnt
Migration and urban governance: two fundamental and related issues in the reconstruction of the city of Port-au-Prince
Housing reconstruction: boxes to sleep in or Lakou houses to live in the Haitian way in rural environments two years after the earthquake
Implementation of a micro-zoning project in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince
A major project to map rock types and states, known as micro-zoning, is being implemented in the metropolitan zone of Port-au-Prince. |
The central role of cash transfer programmes in the response to the urban disaster in Haiti: lessons learned
Managing Health in large-scale disasters
Does humanitarian coordination exclude local actors and weaken their capacity?
 | Many reasons have been given to justify the exclusion of local actors from the humanitarian response in Haiti, such as the weakness of local institutions, human losses caused by the earthquake, the Presidential election, the cholera crisis and the partisan nature of Haitian organisations. |
Marginalisation & Sexual Vulnerability in the IDP camps of Port-au-Prince
 | The recent study by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), “Yon Je Louvri”, gives an idea of the close correlation between access to vital resources and basic services and vulnerability to all forms of exploitation, including sexual violence, in IDP camps. |
Eviction & Rehousing of Displaced People in Port-au-Prince
 | The number of people living in camps in Metropolitan Port-au-Prince at the beginning of 2012 is estimated to be 490 545 [...]. According to the predictions of the IASC and on the premise that commitments made for 2012 are respected, by the end of the year there will still be no less than 74 405 families for whom no rehousing solution will have been found. |
