lessons learned: haiti four years after the earthquake
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Lessons Learned: Haiti Four Years After the Earthquake
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF US BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND VOLUNTEERS IN HAITI’S RECONSTRUCTION?
Monday, April 21st 2014 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Presentation prepared by: Kara Lightburn, Executive Director
Social Tap, Inc.’s mission is to provide programs and services through grassroots partnerships to
address the identified and emerging needs of at-risk, vulnerable, and exploited populations,
including those displaced either by natural and/or man-made disasters internationally in
developing countries.
We seek to provide a comprehensive approach
utilizing social capital to fill the gaps and provide support through networks encouraging
transparency, effective communication, evaluation, and collaboration in order to create and
reinforce sustainable communities.
SOCIAL TAP’s MISSION STATEMENT
Social Tap’s THE HAITI INITIATVE (THI)
Ø Jacmel is the artisan capital of Haiti and located in the Sud-Est Department. It was one of the
3 Major Cities which suffered extensive damage during the January 2010 Earthquake, 50-60% of the downtown structures were damaged/destroyed and over 20,000 were displaced to camps (IDPs).
Ø The Pinchinat IDP Camp became the largest with over 6,000 individuals.
Ø Jacmel & the outside rural areas have diverse Livelihood due the ongoing vulnerability of the environment; Live stock and agriculture are the main sources of income, next to commerce and charcoal production, approx 1/3 receive remittances in Jacmel.
Ø Regular risks to livelihoods include the hurricane season, extensive erosion, deforestation & erratic rainfall.
As a volunteer-driven effort we have been based since March 2010 through a capacity building partnership THI has shared an operational hub located in Cyvadier outside the city of Jacmel, with KONPAY “Working Together for Haiti,” our local Haitian partner.
The Haiti Initiative (THI)’s Organic Growth CORE AREAS OF STATEGIC FOCUS
MARCH 2010
Fordham UNI: Haiti/DR Study Tour 2010 Partnership Identified : Konbit Pou Ayiti (KONPAY) Core Area defined
> Agriculture & Environment
JUNE/JULY 2010 HAITI TRIP: Focus on Human Rights & GBV Core Areas defined:
> Pinchinat Camp > Human Rights & GVB
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010
Land Development Delegation: HAE
Core Area Defined:
> Community Development
OCTOBER 2010
Collaborative Cholera Ground Response Core Area Define: > Cholera (Health & Hygiene) NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 Core Area Define: > School Development
Agriculture & Food Security
Community Capacity Building, & Asset Mapping
Environment & Climate Action
Health & Hygiene Human Rights
Pinchinat (IDP) Camp
School Development
Youth Development & Education
Social Tap’s The Haiti Initiative CORE AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS
OUR ENGAGMENT MODEL A GLOBAL ASSET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL
Applies:
ü Asset Thinking
ü Participatory Action
ü Service-Learning
ü Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
ü Collaborative Leadership
ü Knowledge Sharing
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Plan & Identify
Immerse
Act & Serve
Collect DATA
ResourceMOBILIZE
MONITOR & Evaluate
Celebrate
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Outcomes
ü Strategic Plan
ü Community Capacity Development
ü Organizational Capacity Development
OUR VOLUNTEER & LEARNING COMPONENT FOR THE HAITI INTIATIVE o Connects human capital assets to community’s priorities
through grassroots community partners
o Targets the Haitian Diaspora & University Service-Learning Groups
o Promotes a Socio-cultural understanding and exchange through immersion
o Utilizes Reflective service learning component
o Development of long-term reciprocal relationships with communities and their members
SERVICE LEARNING & VOLUNTEER AREAS: Agriculture & Food Security • Farmer-2-Farmer Program • Disaster Risk Reduction • Nutrition Programs
Asset Mapping, Community Mobilization & Capacity Building • Field organizing • Asset Mapping • Professional Skills training organizational
partner organizations • Program administration development
Environment & Climate Action
• Alternative fuel program: Alternative charcoal and clean cook stove
• Tree Planting
Health & Hygiene • Community awareness organizing
and hygiene training • Cholera, Health & Hygiene
Awareness campaign • Community Health Clinics Human Rights • Human Trafficking
• Gender Based Violence (GBV) • Conflict Resolution • Advocacy
School Development • School construction primary &
secondary • Curriculum Development • Teacher-2-Teacher Sponsorship
Program • Multi-Media Knowledge Centers
Youth Development & Education • JDS Saturday Youth Program • English classes • Computer & Multi-Media training • Youth Community Newspaper • Soccer (Jah Lions) • Music Classes • Karate Classes Capacity Building with Our Local Grassroots Partners: • Develop a website • Create promotional material & presentations • Translate websites, promotional materials,
presentations, into English • Apply for grants & funding opportunities • Assist with presentations • Train staff on IT • Solve IT issues & expanding capacity • Teach English to the staff Setting up accounting
procedures • Assist with planning new staff trainings • Develop existing systems to assist with monitor &
evaluate programs
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty & Dependency on International
AID in Haiti
OLD APPROACH VS OUR APPROACH Donor Driven VS Community Driven
Needs Assessment VS Asset Mapping
Dependency VS Sustainability
Opinion Based VS Results Driven: Data Based
Institutional Learning VS Self-Directed Service Learning
Linear VS Non-Linear
Lessons Learned & Applied: Breaking the Cycle of Aid in Haiti
NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS MAP: *Old approach – needs based & focused on
disadvantages*
Local Institutions
Schools
Libraries
Businesses
Parks (Physical community
spaces)
Hospitals/Health Care Facilities
Community Colleges
Local Organizations
Citizen Institutions
Churches
Community Associations (Farmer
collectives)
Cultural Groups
Artesian Collectives
Individual Assets
Artists Labeled People Elderly Youth Income
Local Community
Unemployment
Youth Violence &
Truancy
Illiteracy
Teen Pregnancy
Citizens
Broken Families
Tent Families: Lack of Housing
Recipients of Aid & Welfare
Individual
Child Abuse & GB Violence
Mental & Physical Disabilities
COMMUNITY ASSET MAP
PARADIGM SHIFT Needs Based vs. Asset Based
(ABCD) is a methodology that seeks to uncover and utilize the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development.
Our Methodology:
MOBILIZING COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Asset Mapping
Assess the resources of a community through a capacity inventory (asset map) or through another process of talking to the residents to determine what types of skills & experience are available.
Support Community Coalitions
Support communities to discover what they care enough about to act.
Prioritize
Determine how citizens can act together to achieve those goals.
OUTCOMES:
Strategic Planning Community Development
Local Organizational Capacity Development
Adaptive System – Understanding the Cycle of Change
This is the point where it either goes up & is able to adapt or if unable to evolve it falls into complete chaos.
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It is in the context of global forces that the suffering of individuals acquires its own appropriate context
~ PAUL FARMER
PORT-AU-PRINCE
ARTIBONITE
GONAÏVES
CENTRE
HINCHE
GRAND'ANSE JÉRÉMIE
NIPPES MIRAGOÂNE
NORD CAP-HAÏTIEN
NORD-EST
FORT-LIBERTÉ
NORD-OUEST PORT-DE-PAIX
OUEST SUD-EST
JACMEL SUD LES
CAYES
ü Population: 10.17 million (World Bank:2012 ü 40% of the population of Haiti is under 14 years of age; 50 percent of the population is under 18 years
of age. ü Tropical Climate with Hurricane season June – October ü over 58% of the population works in the agriculture sector, roughly a quarter of which consists of
women, and 66% of the land in Haiti is used for farming crops and livestock.
• 55 percent of Haitians live on less than $1.25 per day. • Per capita annual income is $660. • 58 percent of children are under-nourished. • 58 percent of the population lacks access to clean
water. • Devastating hurricanes in 2008 affected 800,000 people. • Deforestation has left the nation with less than two
percent forest cove
Haiti: Understand the Context COUNTRY PROFILE
Phantom State: One run by International NGO’s prohibiting the government from providing services and connecting with the community.
Healing Haiti? Drawn by: Tjeerd Royaards
HAITI: Understand the Context PHANTOM STATE: The Regime of the NGOs
Photo by Kara Lightburn
Photo by CNN of Jacmel after Hurricane Issac in 2011, Rivers quickly become swollen in Haiti during storms and can block off communities for weeks. There is a large loss of life when individuals try and get across.
Hurricanes & Deforestation Exacerbating Poverty, Food Crisis, Causing Forced Migration and DR Conflict
HAITI: Understanding the Context Complex Emergencies
Agricultural Calendar & Impact of Complex
Emergencies
Environmental degradation, whether caused by deforestation or erosions from farming – it has continued to worsen exacerbating further poverty and food insecurity. (photo: Kara Lightburn
ü Learn & Understand the Content o Cultural Immersion o Global factors
o Root Cause Analysis
ü Build a network of moral strategic partners create an interdependent system o Through community outreach from the bottom up – top down – side ways (non-linear) o Engage the Diaspora Communities & Connect them based on interest, passions, and skills
ü Increase Access of Knowledge o New Media & Technology o Partner with Universities & Learning Institutions
ü Support Community Mapping – Prioritization -- Mobilization o Outcome will be sustainable community development & organizational development of local
resources
ü Build Resiliency o Provide Disaster Preparedness o Integrate Disaster Risk Reduction into all supported programs
OPERATING AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS: SUPPORTING EVOLUTION & SUSTAINABILITY
LESSONS LEARNED: Recommendations for INGOs
CONTACT INFORMATION KARA LIGHTBURN EMAIL: KLIGHTBURN@SOCIALTAP.ORG WEBSITE: SOCIALTAP.ORG
Special thanks to Astrid Andre from the Yale Alumni Association of NY – who not only helped serve over 250 youth in our local communities this past Holiday Season during the “Haiti for the Holidays Toy Drive” but also for the opportunity to share experiences and lessons learned !
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