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Maps of Haiti Relief Effort
Map of probable flood risk areas (in red)
Map of sites each with more than 5,000 inhabitants, known to the UN
Chart of camps with GPS coordinates
The selection of camps is driven by land tenure, which I have written about extensively. The new camps are on parcels of land the GoH owns. GoH needs money, that they do not have, that the Donor nations may have promised, but they are acting like there is no hurry to pay, this money to compensate the land owners if seize their land for more camps, or for other recovery. It is no secret to the Donor Nations that have collectively pledged $ 10 billion, that this money is needed for this purpose. We have know this for at least 2 months. At the rate things are happening, I would not be surprised if we go another 2 months with nothing happening to resolve this. I do not know how long the legal process if the land owners dispute this. I know that in the USA such disputes can go for many months. If they were to do this in USA, starting today, it could be a year before the land actually change hands. In Haiti the courts are backed up because of quake damage. Thus, if legal process in Haiti like that in USA, plus impact of backed up due to quake damage, then it could be several years before other land is available for reconstruction, after the GoH gets the money to pay for the seized land. Then the paperwork regarding who owns what, at least in Port au Prince and to the South where main quake, was in gov buildings collapsed in the quake, with the paperwork also gone. I agree with the London video that the UN HQ should go out of town in the desert, with the people, who do not have good transportation, getting camps close to where there are potential jobs. But I don't see that happening. In addition to the land tenure issue explained above, there is also the need for building codes in Haiti, which we have also discussed before. Apparently there are still none, but there are Gov of Haiti politicians resisting new construction until that issue is resolved. See my attachment PDF April 5 JOTC with news of that lack of progress.
Haiti insiders call them "the elites." There is a class divide. The darker skinned tend to be the poorer people. The lighter skinned (is mulatto the correct term?) tend to be the upper class. I think Mark Weisz can speak to this better than I. What else do these people own? Are these people part of the solution I have often said the disaster in Haiti is a combination of natural disaster and human disaster. Human disaster is related to this class divide, also the conflict between Christian and Voodoo religions, also the extreme conservative attitude that women are a third or fourth class citizen, that in fact there are several groups of people who are below second class citizen. There is extreme lack of trust across these divisions.
There were some reports on this that I saw over a month ago. It seems to me that management of this is chaotic, and the volume is astronomical. Think WTC times 100, or cities of Europe bombed out at end of WW II. If it was for me to decide priority on removal.
What is the financial and economic picture around the debris removal That's the plan. I think reality is
The classic model of excessive cost in relief and
development ... when it might well be feasible to set up a "business Where the debris is going is another sore point. It seems to me that it is basically being moved out of the way. On HEDR in the first few weeks after the quake, there were many many ideas bandied around about constructive uses, which kind of died down when we recognized the Ground Zero spiritual implications. Among my attachments: PMCC Situation Report which includes where they are on Debris movement
PMCC = Project Management Coordination Cell
You could compare two consecutive reports to see quality of progress impliedCWGER update from end of February with some figures on PAY HAITIANS to do debris removal where · CWGER = Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery
One attachment is 10 page WASH (Water Sanitation Hygiene) cluster PDF report from March 29 (the most recent WASH that I have downloaded). Note that this summary report total is 1,000 camps, not 460. Another attachment is 10 page OCHA (UN agency overall humanitarian efforts) PDF report from April 12 (most recent OCHA that I have downloaded). Note this summary report total is 1,373 camps, not 460. There are several elements of confusion in camp counting.
This is key management information, The last report I saw & shared, the spontaneous camp count was over 1300. This is the number that the NGOs had found, done some kind of assessment of, were trying to service. Amnesty International and other outfits had found numerous camps not on the UN NGO service radar screen. We constantly hear stories on Ushahidi and other places about places not on the relief radar screen. "Red Camps" can be interpreted 2 ways. There are the camps at risk of flooding, landslides, which have already had trouble from rain causing sanitation overflow, or people waking up in the water. There are refugees in red zones, which for a combination of reasons are to be refused any kind of relief.
There are several sets of people in charge of a camp. (a) There is some kind of democratic process in each camp, where the population select people from among their own numbers (volunteers with particular skills) to manage what's needed ... think of them as Village Mayor, Village Town Council, within the camp (b) There are NGOs who are regular visitors to a particular camp ... think of them as teams of workers, who have some team leaders Some camps have both a+b, some have a but not b, some have b but not a, some have neither. (c) There are the criminals who rape girls as young as 2 years old, and engage in other uncivilized behavior, terrorizing the camps. One of my attachments here is attachment is 10 page OCHA (UN agency overall humanitarian efforts) PDF report from April 12 (most recent OCHA that I have downloaded). At the top of page 3 there are some statistics on camp management, and related topics:
Of these identified 1,373 sites, 289 have Camp Management agencies registering an overall coverage rate of 21%.
Relevant to that above figure that most of the camps do not have local management, another of my attachments is April 2 PDF update which talks about training in camp management and gives some mapping info on the first of the relocation places.
There are over 10,000 NGOs in Haiti. The relief work is organized into a dozen industry clusters, some of them with sub-clusters. Most clusters have on the average maybe 100 NGOs cooperating with that cluster, some a little more, many much less. Some NGOs are active in more than one cluster. Figure that maybe 1,000 of the larger NGOs and other actors (UN agencies, foreign governments) are working with the clusters, and over 9,000 NGOs and other actors are functioning totally outside the cluster system. These NGOs are supposed to supply the cluster leadership with weekly reports on what they have accomplished, what is in the pipeline, what is needed. It would appear that not all NGOs in any given cluster are in fact filling out all the paperwork requested. There are also regular meetings of these clusters, where to be effective, an NGO needs a staff member permanently located at the site of one meeting after another, to represent the interests of the NGO there, to inform the cluster management what that NGO doing, and to have good communications with the rest of the NGO staff out in the field. Do the math 10,000 NGOs 20 clusters and sub-clusters = 200,000 relief members assigned to the meetings, get nothing else done other than the meetings. That math is what would be needed for the system to work, to get the info everyone wants. In fact most NGOs are getting a job done, instead of participating in the meetings and cluster paperwork. Because of the disaster situation in Haiti, there are not good alternatives. Then the UN combines their info into these Situation Reports, many of which I have downloaded, some I have shared. Very few of them are structured to easily show what got accomplished since the last progress report. A human being would have to compare data from two consecutive reports. Some NGOs then take that data and issue Progress Reports in which the line is extremely blurred between what that NGO did all by itself, and what credit they are sharing with all the other efforts.
I think the correct spelling is Petionville.
As I have stated earlier, money and resources allocated to Haiti is often fictional compared to what has actually been spent. One of my attachments is the UN Special Envoy financial report PDF March 29 on eve of March 31 donor's conference. It hows money needed, promised, gap (unfunded mandates), actually delivered, spent. One of my attachments is April 9 PDF from USAID that gives a lot of break down of where money expended, through which organization into which community. It is not at the level of detail you want to see, but more like budget of police dept, fire dept, hospitals, etc. for a major city like Brooklyn or South Side Chicago. This is about as good as it gets. The camp on the golf course ... IMAT went there soon after it got started. You might get time line from Stephen. A chunk of its occupants got moved to the camp in the desert because that chunk was on a steep ravine that was getting regularly flooded. I expect the rest will eventually need to be moved because Petionville is a gated community where many of the "elites" live, who do not want a homeless camp in their back yard. At some point, whoever owns the golf course will call on the police to have them all evicted because the economy of the golf course getting back in business will be more important than the homeless currently there, just like what happened with the national sports stadium, and a few other cases I recently cited, under the heading of "war crimes".
The people on the ground are doing what they can, with their hands tied behind their back for many reasons.
The other 10,000 NGOs in which maybe 100 or so are huge like Red Cross. (a) containers ... I saw this proposed almost 10 weeks ago / whatever Lots of people propose the obvious. Getting into Haiti, getting approval to do it, is a whole other subject. Before the quake, Haiti was one of the most hostile nations to capitalism that existed outside of communism, and after the quake it is worse. It is extremely difficult for new volunteers groups to get into Haiti to get anything meaningful accomplished. Even well established groups have trouble. There was one story of a Red Cross relief cargo. The trucker shows all the paperwork to the SINGLE border crossing person, who finds something wrong. The trucker gets that fixed, then gets back in line with the other 50 truckers at the border. Each time the border crossing person finds something different that is wrong. This had been going on for a week, with no end in sight when the journalist visited the border crossing to report on the situation. The suspicion was that the border crossing person was in need of a bribe to let anything through. See my most recent posts to HEDR thread about GoH rule changes, which was triggered by a new member who is about to go to Haiti in a week, and only now asking for guidance getting cargo in. Since our exchange he has called around, found that Fed X says they will ship to Haiti, he has sent 1 test package to see what happens, will let me know. The people on the ground have their way of doing things, usually do not welcome newcomers, viewed as tourists. Well some are, but most are not. (b) prefabricated steel frame buildings ... many proposals for this b+c same as a
If you had to share one toilet with 900 other people, you might disagree about access to toilets not being a priority. I was thinking about this a week ago when I was in toilet with indigestion & thinking how many minutes, over 1 hour accumulated I had been in there that day, and if other people were sharing it, maybe 40-50 people could share it, but I don't know about you, I cannot "hold it" for 20 days until my turn comes again, I would be in the back yard along with many other people, stinking up our neighborhood big time. If it was your wife and daughter getting raped every nite, you might disagree about security not being a priority. ... and temperature and
If the people are moved to camp sites not at grave risk of flooding, landslides, eviction, and in shelter that keeps out the rain water, then supplying them with security against rape, and adequate toilets, that can be carried on by personnel other than those who are supplying shelter from hurricanes. The main issues in the way of both paths is land tenure, and matching promised money with where needed.
The issue of temporary ... or not. Any temporary measures will become Did you see the "expanded" versions of PDNA?
An urgent issue is how to get One of my attachments is an Excel listing Priority Camps for moving people out of danger. It includes
One of my attachments is an Excel on Sanitation issues, which includes
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