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AidSource replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"'In a country where land tenure issues are overwhelmingly screwy misses the point'....Simon Levine, me and some folks from URD are coming out with a paper next month that says that in about 40 pages. Lots at play - humanitarian system not…"
Breanna R replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"Hi Angela,
I couldn't agree more about the donor angle. Humanitarian donors are especially impatient - I always find it odd that the same donors fund long-term development projects that take years to get results.
In many ways this is why I am a…"
Angela Huddleston replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"Lauren, Brenna,
You both bring up some interesting points - specifically around working with beneficiaries and also with donors.
Involving beneficiaries IS hard, mostly because it takes time and staff resources that, Brenna you are correct in…"
Breanna R replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"PS - Involving beneficiaries is NOT hard! It's under-resourced and de-prioritised, but it is not hard. Yeah, it takes time and requires effort - and it destroys our oversimplified notions of who "beneficiaries" are and what they…"
Breanna R replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"Interesting that you bring this up. I spent 2 years working on a post-conflict land tenure programme in East Timor (another little half-island state that has a lot in common with Haiti, in all the wrong ways). I remember being on a bid for a similar…"
Nathan Yaffe's discussion was featuredInternational Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out
Many of the ideas in this piece about the ludicrous international effort to address the post-quake housing crisis aren't new. But they're presented in a way that clarifies 3 central problems.1) As J. reminded me in a dialogue on twitter,…See More
J. replied to Nathan Yaffe's discussion International Effort to Address IDPs in Haiti: 3 Strikes and You're Out in the group Humanitarian Practice"Nathan - really good. And as you might expect, I totally agree. This is more of a blog post or article, but since you started it as a discussion thread...
For me this whole situation (housing in post-earthquake Port-au-Prince and the totally wack…"
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- Aid/NGO worker based in HQ or a Regional Office, Student, Cynic, Watchdog
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- Interested in rights-based approaches to development. Trying to find a place for myself in the international aid landscape. Always open to re-evaluating my current beliefs.
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Building "An Army of Super-Humanitarians"?
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:03am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I'm curious to get the AidSource take on this profile of Michael VanRooyen of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
Professionalizing the humanitarian sector is, of course, something that I've read many of you on before. VanRooyen has an interesting take on what that means. Knowing little about him other than the fact that he's infatuated with that Satellite Sentinel nonsense in Sudan, I wanted to see what my older, wiser…
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The free-time narrative
Buried in an earlier thread is a discussion about the free-time narrative being missing from most…See More
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