CASE STUDY - RESPONSE earthquakes - Haiti

Question 1

little attempt to modify vunerability…

Answer 1

• prior to 2010 there ws no monitoring in place
• due to poverty and focus on freq hurricanes
• continued support by USAID has resulted in a total of 15 seismic stations now operarating in Haiti howevere not enoigh money to staff a 24 hr team
• progress with hazard maps such as areas of liquefaction ..
• however no national disaster rosk management plan
• no education on earthquake protocol
• inability of state to enforce earthquake resistant building design (this has been an issue elsewhere aswell eg. italy and japan but is worse in poorer countries such as haiti)
• no gov approved building code and due to political instability it is unlikely there will be future plans .

Question 2

modifying loss (mainly by NGOs)

Answer 2

due to little input by the state most the loss adaption has been taken over by NGOs
- however this has been heaviliy critisized as there has been little progress made since 2010
- in 2010 NGOs promised the reflection of the haitian needs and inputs which did not happen.
- $5.3 bn aid pledged to haiti’s recovery to be spent across 2 years in partnership with the haitian govt.
However NGOs followed their own agendas. Just 1% of donor funds available for emergency assistance was offered to the haitian govt. and Haitian NGOs where only offered 0.4%

Question 3

data showing the failure of NGOs

Answer 3

1. $468 million raised only 6 houses built
2. USAID built 900/15,000 houses promised
3. 900 houses planned to be buit within 8 miles of capital; in reality 750/900 built 130 miles from capital. with 0 built to earthquake standards
4. 2/3ds money raised for charity remains in the bank accounts of money managers .
   series of scandals surrounding the work of NGOs in Haiti much surrounding the behaviour of senior officials.