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Sunday, 12 October 2014
out of this world & back again
7 comments:
- Patty said...
You live in a place of beauty!
Also handsome traveling companions.
Love the powerful music.
- 12 October 2014 at 15:17
- Mo Crow said...
those colours reflecting the water magic of the Netherlands, a liminal land in every sense of the word
- 12 October 2014 at 18:23
- Susan said...
Certainly room to breathe here. : ) What a beautiful place.
- 13 October 2014 at 13:07
- Liz Ackert said...
The music didn't play automatically, but I'm glad someone commented on it ... once I found it on YouTube I totally "got it"
- 13 October 2014 at 13:40
- Marti said...
Saskia, the juxtaposition of Elivor with your serene land photos is spine tingling: Elivor is of another place and time and inhabits the beings of the land with the powerful primal instrument of her voice and her ancient looking drum. I found myself moving to an ancient rhythm around my desk as I listened...thank you for bringing this to us.
- 13 October 2014 at 15:11
- Nancy said...
There she is again...her song & drumming speaks deep, yes? These photos are filled with such light, movement and peace. Nice to see the guy here too.
- 14 October 2014 at 07:27
- Saskia van Herwaarden said...
have to agree Patty, it is very beautiful in it's understated way, I'll mention to himself your comment
oh Mo, you have such a way with words....liminal, I had to google it's meaning, perfectly encaptures
this space
breathing, absolutely! Susan
am glad too you did Liz
quite Marti, thanks to Mo I now have a word for this: liminal
he is nice, Nancy
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LDS Church Ward Boundaries Are A BIG DEAL!
Over here in the LDS South Charlotte Stake… we are ringing in 2014 with a big BANG!
A couple weeks ago we were notified that a ward and stake boundary change was going to take place. The growth of the congregations (wards) here has been phenomenal. And they tell us the projected growth is something like 50% in less than 6 years from now!
I have no idea what the actual numbers are right now. But in the southern half of Mecklenberg county, most of Union county and our little pocket of South Carolina (Fort Mill) there were several wards bursting at the seams.
Let me back up a bit and explain. A ward boundary is pretty solid. I rarely hear of people who cross boundaries and attend church with a different congregation than the one their house is drawn into. It does happen and usually there is a pretty extreme reason. Obviously I can only speak for my family, but when we move we simply look up the ward boundaries online and if our house is in Ward A… there is no decision process we just attend Ward A. It makes more sense that way, since we are assigned to serve and help the people in our ward and the people nearest us are the people we SHOULD be serving!
In our ward I didn't notice so much that our nursery (18 month-3 year olds) was crazy full, and definitely our youth ages 12-18 was kind of small… in fact I think our ward was really well balanced with a lot of families in different ages and situations. But one thing that was making me crazy was that our ward is made up of half of our town boundaries and half from families on the West of us over in Charlotte. So a city as well as a STATE boundary divided us. I think 4 or 5 different high schools were represented and that makes it really hard for the teen youth kids to bond very well? Plus in cub scouts it was hard to schedule things with all the boys in so many elementaries and their school times and calendars clashing often. But like I said we always made it work.
Our family also had this strange issue where my daughter is only one of 2 kids in our ward who attends the other high school in our same town. We live in a tiny northern pocket where our school division is over there… but our ward division is over here… In short, my oldest attends Seminary with kids from a different ward (but same town) and in 5 months just hasn't had a real chance to spend time and bond with the kids on this side of the line. But she's gotten close to the kids in the other ward because she goes to school and marching band with them!
So we attended the 'boundary' meeting Sunday night in an extra 'Stake' meeting. I've never been through this sort of massive re-boundary-drawing ward thing before, it was all very exciting! Okay I was selfish and was really hoping the changes would include maybe combining more families from our whole town and less division across the state lines?
Our New Ward!
Again, selfishly I was very happy when I saw that our new ward basically follows the same boundaries of each of the two high schools in our town. My daughter on the other hand was ecstatic! She will now see about half of the ward kids at Seminary and then all of the kids on youth night once a week as well as Sunday School. Plus all of the girls will attend summer 'Girl's Camp' combined. They see all the congregations in our Stake at youth dances, and during summer youth conferences (both for age 14 and older). I think there are 10 wards in our Stake.
On Sunday we'll find out what our new ward looks like. Plus we now change to 11AM instead of 9AM (yay!). But I'm really sad to think about the families that will not be there. I grabbed a couple women I saw that night and let them know I STILL know their phone numbers and I can stalk them on Facebook! Ward boundaries are a big deal but it won't stop the friendships I've started.
Now to {selfishly} start hoping and praying for a church building to be built closer to our home. We travel about 10 miles to our ward building 2 or 3 times a week! Our nearest temple is about 90 miles away… so I'll work on the ward building first… (haha).
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Nothing against that lovely couple in Jolly Ole' London but when is the Wedding going to be over??
I enjoyed London when I visited back in the day. I even enjoyed riding the "Tube" (their rapid transit system…i.e. subway) and I'm not a fan of public transportation!!! The best part was that I only spent 100 dollars to get to England (I believe in balling on a buget!!) So when I tell you that my disgust with America talking about a wedding (in another country!!!) is not personal, it's not!!! I just believe we have bigger issues to be concerned about right here in America!!!
Right now in our very own country we have:
People that have to make a decision between paying their mortgage or feeding their family.
Politicians that are millionaires arguing over how the middle class and poor folks are going to live..i.e. health care, employment and retirement.
A broken Education System that is more concerned with how you take a test than how you actually learn what you were tested on.
Millionaire Athletes and Billionaire Athletic Team Owners fighting over money.
A pre-presidential race that is overshadowed by investigators combing through hospital birth records.
And don't get me started on our Churches, Local City and State Governments and the fact that every U.S. President (as long as I have been living) says we are going to stop our dependence on Oil but Gas is almost 5 dollars per gallon??
Wedding my arse!!! We got issues!!! The only thing we have in common with the wedding - America is like the bride's father. After all the festivities are over we are alone and left with the bill….
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The Millersville women's indoor track and field team was red hot on Friday at the Ursinus Open in Collegeville, PA. The girls finished the day tied with Ursinus for second place with 89 points. Several Marauders turned in first place finishes including Erin Mason in the 200 Meter Dash. Mason flew past her competitors as she crossed the finish line in 25.99. Also Brittney Martin was first for the Marauders in the 400 Meter Dash, with a time of 1:02. The team of Erin Madison, Martin, Megan Meyer and Amanda Long secured Millersville another win in the 4×400 Meter Relay, which they completed in 4:09. Arianna Camel earned the Marauders final win for the day in the High Jump, with a distance of 1.57m. The girls placed in the top five in several other events including the 60 Meter Dash, where Kiara Allen and Mason placed second and fourth respectively. Allen also ran in the 200 Meter Dash where she placed fifth with a time of 26.80. Meyer also turned in a strong individual performance in the 800 Meter Run, where she finished second in 2:24. Shannon Cruz was just edged out for the win in the 5000 Meter Run, which she completed in 18:39. Madison and Camel earned two more top five finishes for Millersville in the 60 Meter Hurdles. The girls recorded times of 9:51 and 10:08 respectively and placed second and fourth in the event. Long also competed in the 1 Mile Run, which she completed in 5:57, crossing the finish line in 15th place. Nicole Sokira participated in the shot put and finished in sixth place with a distance of 9.66m. Richard Stockton College won first place overall with a combined score of 136 points. Millersville returns to action on February 22nd when they travel to Selinsgrove, PA for the Susquehanna Open.


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Monitoring and Reporting
For information about monitoring and reporting please see our Grouping, Monitoring and Reporting Policy.
Reporting and Assessment at Chew Valley School 'At a Glance'
Here at Chew Valley we have devised an assessment system which provides the following:
- For students:
- Clear assessment of strengths and areas for development
- Clear feedback on areas of success and next steps
- For teachers:
- The ability to track progress through the curriculum
- The ability to identify areas of learning which need development and plan accordingly
- A manageable process which is central to teaching and learning
- For parents and families:
- Clear information about progress and attainment within the curriculum
Our assessment system is based on the curriculum which is taught here at Chew Valley. This curriculum has been substantially revised over the past year to meet the demands of the new national curriculum and to ensure that students are adequately prepared for the more demanding GCSEs, A-levels and other qualifications they will take.
How do we assess students?
The fundamental question we ask when we assess students is:
"to what extent has the student demonstrated that they know, can apply and understand the matters, skills and processes they have studied?"
Those students who can demonstrate that they know, can apply and understand the matters, skills and processes in each subject's programme of study for their year will be assessed at a grade "C". Students who have exceeded the expectations of their year group will be assessed above C. Those who have not yet met the expectations of their year group will be assessed below C.
The "C" grade indicates that students are working at the expected standard for their year group in a subject; grades above C indicate that they are working above the expected standard, and grades below C indicate that they are working below the expected standard. These expectations have been set by staff at Chew Valley in line with the national curriculum to ensure students have the knowledge, skills and processes required to be successful in the relevant GCSE or equivalent programme of study in Year 10 and 11, and in preparation for further study at A-level and beyond.
Feedback to students
The graded assessments are based on a body of work completed by students in class and for homework, including in some subjects formal tests and examinations. Teachers will not routinely provide grades on individual pieces of work. Instead, they will provide feedback to students, either verbally or through written marks and comments, to identify strengths and areas which need development. They will also provide opportunities for students to work on those areas for development to ensure that they can demonstrate mastery of the matters, skills and processes within the curriculum. This approach has been developed in line with research on best practice in feedback summarised by the Education Endowment Foundation.
Monitoring progress
Students are expected to make progress over time in line with the expectations of the curriculum. If a student reaches the threshold assessment level (C grade) in a particular subject in Year 7, they would be expected to maintain that performance in Year 8 and beyond. This will be carefully tracked in school and included on reports to families.
Assessing attitudes to learning
Students in the main school are assessed in each subject on the attitudes they have shown to learning, their response to feedback, their independence and their behaviour for learning. They will be given a grade of E (Excellent), G (Good), I (Insufficient) or P (Poor) for each of the four attitudes. The criteria we will be using to award these grades can be found attached to this letter, and these have been shared with students through their enrichment programme by their tutors. The grades are used to create an "attitude summary" score: all "E" grades would be 100%, all "P" grades would be 0%. This score is included on each report and used to track and monitor students' attitudes to learning over time. We look forward to your support in encouraging these positive attitudes to learning in the students at Chew Valley.
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Active No Availability – Listing status for leases are generally active, expired, leased or off the market. You would put on an active no availability listing on a fully occupied building when you represent an entire portfolio.
Base Rent – The amount of money being asked for the whole space available, not per square foot.
Base Year – The first calendar year (or fiscal year) of the lease. Generally it is used to set the base level of expenses to be paid by the landlord, with the tenant picking up costs in excess of those incurred in the Base Year
CAM Charges – Common Area Maintenance Charges passed on to the tenant, usually on a square foot basis, for maintaining common areas such as hallways, elevators, parking lots and plazas. Also know as Pass Through Costs.
Cap Rate – Capitalization Rate – The return on investment in the first year of ownership. The rate at which the income stream is capitalized. It's calculated by dividing the NOI (Net Operating income) by the purchase price and expressed as a percentage
Common Area Factor – The percentage of common areas in a building. It is often used to calculate rentable square footage to usable square footage. Also known as Core Factor, Load Factor or Loss Factor.
Effective Gross Income (EGI) – This is the income generated by a property. It is calculated by subtracting the vacancy allowance from the income. It does not include Operating Expenses.
Expense Stop – A level of expenses to be paid by the landlord. The tenant will be responsible for paying anything over that amount.
Full Service Gross – (FSG) The landlord is responsible for paying all expenses on a lease
Gross – Landlord covers all base year expenses except Janitorial, Utilities and outside trash removal.
Gross Multiplier – The price of the property divided by the Scheduled Gross Income. Also known as Rent Multiplier and commonly used in Multi Unit Housing (MUH) properties.
Lease Type – Describes the expenses involved with a lease (N, NN or FSG for example.)
Lease Rate/SF – The amount of money asked for per square foot on a listing
Listing Type – Indicates whether the listing is Sublease or Direct.
Modified Gross – (MG) Also knows as Industrial Gross. Landlord covers base year taxes and insurance.
Net – The tenant pays taxes. The landlord pays everything else.
NN – (Double net) – The Tenant pays taxes and insurance. The Landlord pays everything else.
NNN – (Triple Net)– Tenant pays for all expenses (typically everything but Roof & Structure maintenance)
NOI - Net Operating Income – The annual operating income of a property. It is calculated by taking the Scheduled Gross Income and subtracting the total expenses and loss in rent due to vacancy.
New/Existing – Indicates whether the space available is new construction or second generation space.
NOI Method – The type of income used when calculating investment data (i.e.: Current or past rents and expenses, projected rents, Proforma)
Operating Expenses/SF – The amount a tenant will pay on a per-square-foot basis for anything other than a FSG lease
Percentage Rents – Lease agreement in which the rental obligation is based upon the revenue generated by the retail tenant's business.
Pro Forma - a presentation of data, typically financial statements, where the data reflect the world on an 'as if' basis. Typically demonstrating a start up budget for a property, this is an estimate of future performance not a history.
Replacement Allowance – An allowance that provides for the periodic replacement of building components that wear out quicker than the building itself
Scheduled Gross Income – The total amount of revenue generated by a property if all space were leased at quoted rates
Taxes/SF – Amount of money spent on taxes by either the landlord or tenant
TI Allowance – A Tenant Improvement allowance, often quoted on a square foot basis, to be used to improve space, generally expressed as a range.
Vacancy Allowance – For the purposes of calculating the EGI, this is an estimate of the average amount of vacancy in a property over a given time. It is calculated by taking the Scheduled Gross Income and subtracting the total expenses and loss in rent due to vacancy.
Zoning Class – Refers to the general type of zoning, such as Industrial, Office or MUH.
Zoning Code – Refers to the specific zoning for a property, such as M or C-4.
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The study also revealed that 42 percent buyers consider the internet as the most important source of information for shortlisting cars. While 32 percent of the second time buyers make a purchase based on their past experience with the brand and 13 percent take advice from friends and family to make the final decision. Only 12 percent of car buyers make the final decision at the car dealership.
The BCG-Cardekho report also divided the consumer profile into four types - traditional buyer, open-minded buyer, evolving buyer and experienced buyer which are further put on customer archetypes that they are from high or low digital age or they are the first time or repeat buyers.
1. Traditional Buyers: The traditional buyer is the consumer who hardly uses digital platforms during the purchase process. He seeks advice from friends and family and dealership play an important role in the decision making.
2.Open Minded Buyer: The first time car buyer who looks for all sought of information through internet, compares models in the competition and looks for different dealers for discounts.
3. Evolving buyer: This type of buyer is new to the internet and looks for basic information such as price and discounts. He is also dependent upon the dealership to give other details about the car model
4. Experienced Buyer: He is no the first time buyer of the car. Very well knows about what to search from where. Dealership has not a significant role in decision making.


text: When parents decide to home school, one of the first things many wonder is what do I need to teach? Or am I qualified to teach? The teaching is one of the things parents are most afraid of when it comes to homeschooling. Don't let fear rule your life! You are the most capable person on Earth to teach your child. You have been teaching your child since birth. You have already taught your child to walk, talk love, get along with others, pray, feed themselves and many other things I'm sure. Nothing changes when your child reaches school age. You are still more than capable.


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Argentina's Senate rejected a bill Thursday to legalize elective abortion, a defeat for a grassroots movement that came closer than ever to achieving the decriminalization of the procedure in the homeland of Pope Francis.
Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 38-31 against the measure that would have legalized abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. The decision could echo across Latin America, where the Roman Catholic Church has lost influence and moral authority due to secularization, an out-of-touch clerical caste and an avalanche of sex abuse scandals.
For long hours, thousands of supporters, wearing green handkerchiefs that represent the effort to legalize abortion, and opponents of the measure, wearing light blue, braved the heavy rain and cold temperatures in Argentina's winter to watch the debate on large screens set up outside Congress.
The demonstrations were largely peaceful, but after the vote, small groups of protesters clashed with police, throwing firebombs and setting up flaming barricades. Police officers responded with tear gas.
Pushed by a wave of demonstrations by women's groups, the lower house had already passed the measure, and conservative President Mauricio Macri had said he would sign it, even though he is anti-abortion.
"Regardless of the result, today democracy wins," Macri said ahead of the vote.
In Argentina, abortion is only allowed in cases of rape and risks to a woman's health. Thousands of women, most of them poor, are hospitalized each year for complications linked to unsafe abortions. (AP)
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Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch is a blog that tracks multinational aid efforts in Haiti with an eye towards ensuring they are oriented towards the needs of the Haitian people, and that aid is not used to undermine Haitians' right to self-determination.
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The IOM reported this week that over the last three months, some 27,000 people have left IDP camps, bringing the total amount remaining to around 320,000. The IOM credits the vast majority of this reduction, some 74 percent, on relocation programs – most often a one-year rental subsidy. The report's "highlights" section says that "Evictions accounted for a 6% decrease in IDP household population." Yet the data in the report directly contradicts this. Of a reported reduction of 6,401 households, the IOM says 977 were forced to leave due to evictions, representing over 15 percent of the total reduction.
But even this is most likely an underestimate. Over previous months, there has been "a dramatic new wave of forced evictions," according to the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). One camp which has been under the threat of eviction, and from which some families have already been evicted, is Camp Gaston Margon. On March 22, Amnesty International released a statement, warning that:
Approximately 650 families living in Gaston Margon displacement camp in the Port-au-Prince municipality of Carrefour are currently under the threat of forced eviction. Already, on 15 February, 150 families were forcibly evicted from the camp by police officers and a group of men carrying machetes and knives who were accompanied by a local justice of the peace. The armed men began destroying the families' shelters, while some people were still inside, and attacked individuals that attempted to stop them. The police also shot their firearms into the air to intimidate the families. One infant was reported to have suffered injuries when armed men and police damaged a shelter with the child still inside. The men reportedly threatened to burn down the entire camp and to kill the children of families who did not move.
During the previous IOM reporting period, Camp Margon had a population of 3,376. During the most recent reporting period, the population had decreased to 2,327. Given the reports of threats of eviction, and at least a partial eviction, it is clear that this reduction is not simply a case of "spontaneous return," as the IOM report implicitly states.
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In a press release yesterday, DynCorp International announced that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) had awarded the company with a $48.6 million contract. The purpose of the contract is to "recruit and support up to 100 UNPOL and 10 U.N. Corrections Advisors. DI will also provide logistics support to the Haitian National Police (HNP) Academy and each academy class. In addition, DI will supply five high-level French and Haitian Creole speaking subject matter experts to advise senior HNP officials."
While the press release went out yesterday, the contract was actually awarded to DynCorp a year ago, and the first funding through the award was given to DynCorp in November 2012 in the amount of $12.9 million. DynCorp is one of the largest government contractors, receiving well over $3 billion in 2012.
As the company points out, its previous work in Haiti began in 2008 and involved the training of over 400 police officers. That work, part of the Haiti Stabilization Initiative, also entailed increasing the size of the U.N. military base in Cite Soleil. DynCorp, which continues to receive funds through that task order, has received over $23 million since 2008 for its work in Haiti.
One of the primary tasks of the U.N. military mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is to recruit and train members for the Haitian National Police, so that they could eventually take over for the foreign troops. With this latest contract, DynCorp has gone from training police to take over for MINUSTAH, to simply supplying troops directly to MINUSTAH.
But the awarding of the contract to DynCorp is also problematic given the company's terrible track record in the same exact program areas where they will now operate in Haiti.
In Bosnia in the late '90s, DynCorp was contracted by the State Department to provide "peacekeepers" for the U.N. police there, just as in Haiti now. One employee, Kathryn Bolkovac, was eventually fired after blowing the whistle to her superiors at DynCorp on the participation of her colleagues in sex trafficking, among other abuses. The case was the basis for the 2011 Hollywood movie, The Whistleblower.
Unfortunately, these types of abuses have been all too common in Haiti since the arrival of U.N. troops in 2004. And similar to the situation in Bosnia, there have been only sporadic and piecemeal efforts to hold those responsible, accountable.
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The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama administration plans to change the way U.S. food assistance to other countries is conducted. The reforms, according to the Times' Ron Nixon, would notably focus on local procurement of food rather than shipping U.S.-grown crops overseas. This is something we and other groups have proposed be done to both assist Haitian farmers and food insecure people in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Despite some interest from some congressional offices, the proposal never went anywhere.
Nixon notes that current U.S. food aid practices are unique: "The United States spends about $1.4 billion a year on food aid and is the only major donor country that continues to send food to humanitarian crisis spots, rather than buying food produced locally." A recent op-ed by the Center for Global Development's Charles Kenny in Bloomberg Businessweek noted additionally that "The U.S. food aid program… spends roughly an additional $1 billion transporting the crops overseas, in most cases using U.S.-flagged ships."
U.S. food aid to Haiti is emblematic of the program as a whole. As we have previously noted, in roughly the first year after the 2010 earthquake, USAID signed nine contracts with three shipping companies to send 73,000 metric tons of rice and other commodities in Title II emergency food aid to Haiti, at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of over $18 million dollars.
The Associated Press' Mary Clare Jalonick reports on other controversial aspects of the U.S. food aid regime:
Particularly controversial is the process of what is called "monetization," or selling the food once it arrives overseas to finance development projects. A 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office found monetization cost the U.S. an extra $219 million over a three years, money that could have been used for other development projects.
Aid groups are split on the point, since some finance their activities through monetization. But major aid groups like Oxfam and CARE say the process can destroy local agriculture by dumping cheap crops on the market at a price too low for local farmers to compete.
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Today, CEPR released a new report authored by Jake Johnston and Alex Main on USAID in Haiti. The paper looks at the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance, what we know about how it is being administered, to what extent it is adhering to the USAID Forward reform agenda and what steps can be taken to ensure more effective and transparent delivery of aid to Haiti. While one can see who the primary awardees are, the lack of more detailed data creates the impression that U.S. foreign assistance goes into a "black box" where it becomes nearly impossible to tell what happens afterwards.
The report notes that the few audits and evaluations of USAID's programs in Haiti since the earthquake present a "troubling picture of the manner in which U.S. relief and reconstruction efforts have been conducted so far." Contractors have hired far fewer Haitians than promised, Haitian businesses were largely excluded, goals were not met, there was inadequate supervision of grantees, and USAID had not conducted internal financial reviews of contractors.
The paper makes several recommendations for how to improve transparency and accountability around the $1 billion in outstanding obligated U.S. aid funds for Haiti, as well as around any additional aid funding in the future. These include making data available on subcontractors; ensuring awardee compliance with federal regulations and contract requirements; reducing reliance on large, multi-year contracts that favor traditional partners while increasing direct contracting to Haitian entities; strengthening USAID's capacity to carry out effective monitoring and evaluation of assistance programs; making all evaluations publically available; ensuring the involvement of local populations; and making all available information on assistance programs accessible to Haitians – including via translations to Haitian Creole.
"Without transparency, not only is it impossible for U.S. taxpayers to know what is being done with their money, but the Haitian government and the Haitian people have little opportunity to ensure that U.S.-funded projects actually assist Haiti in rebuilding and dealing with ongoing urgent humanitarian needs," paper co-author Alex Main said.
Below are a series of graphs from the report, illustrating what we do know and the limitations of the data available.
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Earlier this week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures in favor of the 567 families that have been under constant threat of eviction in the Grace Village camp. Given the "imminent" threat to those in the camp, the IACHR urged the Government of Haiti:
1. To adopt the necessary measures to avoid the excessive use of force and of violence in any eviction. In particular, to guarantee that the public authorities' actions as well as those of private parties pose no risk to the life and personal integrity of the camp residents;
2. To implement effective security measures, in particular, to ensure that there is an adequate patrol around and inside the camp and to install police stations close to the camp. To this effect, the IACHR asks the Government to provide special protection to women and children;
3. To ensure that the residents have access to the potable water required for basic needs;
4. To consult with the beneficiaries and their representatives regarding the measures that need to be taken. In particular, ensure that the camp residents' committee as well as grassroots women's groups can fully participate in the planning and execution of the measures implemented for the benefit of residents, including measures focused on the prevention of sexual violence and other forms of violence in the camp; and
5. To inform [the public] regarding the adopted measures so as to investigate the events that justifies the adoption of precautionary measures
As we have written previously, the residents of Grace Village have faced significant and on-going harassment, which has included government complicity at both the local and national level. The alleged owner of the land is Pastor Joel Jeune, the founder of a Florida based 501(c)(3) organization, Grace International Inc. As the request for precautionary measures points out, the pastor's close "ties to the mayor's office and the local police force him to enlist the help of Haitian police to carry out illegal evictions. With his private security forces and the Haitian police, Pastor Joel Jeune has orchestrated and participated in violent, forced evictions of displaced families living inside Grace Village."
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The Haitian government's Société Nationale des Parcs Industriels (SONAPI) hired a U.S. lobbying firm in February to draft documents and arrange meetings "with Congressional Members and staff and Administration officials to seek change to trade legislation" and to help "implement" worker rights provisions, according to Foreign Agent registration documents. SONAPI is the government entity which owns the newly-opened Caracol industrial park, and is the institution responsible for locating, organizing and managing industrial parks throughout Haiti. Yesterday, a presidential decree named business owner Bernard Schettini as the new head of SONAPI, replacing George Sassine, the ex-president of the Association of Industries of Haiti and the former Executive Director of CTMO-HOPE, the commission in charge of implementing U.S. preferential trade legislation.
Lobbying disclosures show that Sorini, Samet & Associates has been hired at the rate of $5,000 a month to help SONAPI lobby congress. Andrew Samet, the co-founder and principal of the firm, was the Deputy Undersecretary of Labor under President Clinton and later worked for law firm Sandler Travis and Rosenberg which counted the industry group the American Apparel and Footwear Association as a major client (the Association in turn has supported "free trade" deals such as CAFTA and HELP legislation for Haiti). Samet was hired as a lobbyist by Colombia in 2008 when it was pushing for passage of a "free trade" agreement with the U.S. Samet was hired to provide "a strategy on labor issues directed to support favourable consideration" of the FTA with the U.S. and to assist "the government of Colombia in presenting information on labor issues with relevant U.S. stakeholders, including U.S. Congress, the administration, labor advocacy groups, trade unions and the media." The FTA with Colombia was eventually passed despite the ongoing killing of unionists in the country, which continues to this day. In June 2012 the AFL-CIO issued a report documenting how the Labor Action plan attached to the FTA was failing to prevent labor and human rights violations. For six months of work in 2008, Sorini, Samet & Associates received over $100,000, according to lobbying disclosuredocuments.
The firm has also done previous work for Sassine and the Haitian government during Sassine's tenure at CTMO-HOPE, earning nearly $400,000 from 2008-2010 lobbying Congress for the passage of new trade legislation and the implementation of "worker rights provisions." Industrial parks and garment manufacturing are seen as vital development tools by the Haitian government and many of its international backers. The industry is reliant on trade preferences offered by the United States which started in 2006 with the HOPE act and culminated in the "HELP" act, which was passed soon after the earthquake. According to stakeholders, the HELP legislation, which extended the length of the preferences and increased the amount of textiles that would be subject to benefits, was a key part of bringing in Sae-A Trading, the global manufacturer that recently opened a factory at the Caracol industrial park.
While Sorini, Samet & Associates was previously hired to help implement "worker rights provisions" associated with the HOPE legislation, factories in Haiti are still in violation of a significant number of provisions under the preferential trade legislation. The most recent Better Work Haiti report found that 21 of 22 factories covered in their analysis (Caracol is not covered yet) were non-compliant with minimum wage laws, for example. This past summer, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, in their annual compliance report, found that "there was sufficient credible evidence to conclude that three specific producers were non-compliant with one or more of the core labor standards." This was the first time in four years that the report named specific factories. The violations included non-compliance in: sexual harassment, freedom of association and forced labor.
UN Human Rights Expert: Haiti and International Community Should "Throw Light" on Cause of Cholera Outbreak
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According to reports on Twitter yesterday, the United Nations independent expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, Michel Forst has resigned for "personal reasons," even though his mandate was supposed to continue for another year. In one of his last acts, Forst's report for the U.N. Human Rights Council was presented yesterday, recommending to Haiti and the international community that they "throw light" on the cause of the cholera outbreak and "respond to any compensation requests". The cholera outbreak has killed at least 8,050 and sickened over 650,000 more.
In his report Forst notes that the "question of what caused the outbreak of the epidemic in Haiti remains a burning issue that has attracted significant public controversy." Over the last few years, a number of scientific reports have identified U.N. troops as the source of cholera's introduction. Forst's report, which was issued before the U.N.'s denial of victims' compensation claims, notes "that silence is the worst response."
The U.N. broke their "silence" on the issue by rejecting the victims' claims, yet they have continued to stonewall on the issue of responsibility. While Forst "deplores" the exploitation of the issue by "certain organizations…for political ends," he recognizes the "need that victims or their families have expressed to know the truth and perhaps even to be given compensation."
In addition to recommending shedding light on the cause of the outbreak, Forst also calls on the international community and Haitian government to, "Secure international assistance to combat the spread of the cholera epidemic." The claim against the U.N., in addition to seeking damages, also asks for the U.N. to fund the needed infrastructure to eradicate cholera from Haiti. A 10 year, $2.2 billion eradication plan has been announced, but thus far the funding for it remains in doubt. The plan for the first two years notes that "The total cost for implementation of the Action Plan for 2013–2015 is estimated to be US$443,723,100." So far, little more than half of that - $238 million - has been secured, most of it from existing funds.
On Sunday, the New York Times editorial board added their voice to those critical of the U.N.'s immunity claim, noting that the U.N.'s "handling of cholera is looking like a fiasco." The Times adds:
While it insists that it has no legal liability for cholera victims, it must not duck its moral obligations. That means mobilizing doctors and money to save lives now, and making sure the eradication plan gets all the money and support it needs.
Its record so far is dubious. A U.N. appeal last year for $24 million for cholera programs ended the year only 32 percent financed, and in December, the U.N. said it would contribute $23.5 million to the new 10-year plan — about 1 percent of what is needed.
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An op-ed in Bloomberg Businessweek yesterday lays out the case for USAID reform, highlighting the case of contractors in Haiti (and citing this blog) as an example. The piece, by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development, also examines the politicized nature of USAID practices. Kenny writes:
When it comes to buying friends at the United Nations, or buying crops in the Midwest, or creating jobs around the Capital Beltway, the U.S. foreign aid system is a paragon of effectiveness. Take the goal of buying friends. Eric Werker, a Harvard Business School associate professor, and Ilyana Kuziemko, now a Columbia Business School associate professor and Harvard Ph.D., estimated in a 2006 Harvard paper that countries rotating onto the UN Security Council were likely to see their U.S. aid increase by 59 percent. The aid then fell as the countries finished their terms. In a 1999 study, Illinois State University's T.Y. Wang found that U.S. aid successfully affects UN voting patterns on issues vital to America's national interests.
It is notable that the fifth largest USAID vendor is the government of Pakistan, currently a U.N. Security Council member. (The top four vendors – as September 30, 2012 – were the World Bank, the U.N. World Food Program, Chemonics (whose work in Haiti we have examined on this blog), and John Snow, Inc.)
Kenny also describes problems with USAID's food assistance to developing nations:
The U.S. food aid program, for instance, purchases about $1 billion worth of American crops a year. It spends roughly an additional $1 billion transporting the crops overseas, in most cases using U.S.-flagged ships.
Economics professors Nathan Nunn of Harvard and Nancy Qian of Yale demonstrated in a 2010 paper that what determines the size of U.S. food aid shipments isn't recipient need, but the size of the U.S. crop. And about half the funding is used on shipping. That same money could buy supplies in local markets and help farmers in developing countries.
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The U.N. Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a press statement at the end of last week "express[ing] the grave concern of the humanitarian community in country regarding the recent incidents of forced evictions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from camps in Port-au-Prince."
The OCHA release follows a visit to the Acra 2 IDP camp in Port-au-Prince which "followed evictions of about 1,000 displaced families in camps Acra 1 and 2 (Petionville) and Gaston Margron (Carrefour) in metropolitan Port-au-Prince on 17 February 2013."
The OCHA press statement notes:
Today, a little less than 350,000 displaced people live in 450 camps, most of them unable to find a return solution and without access to appropriate services. The humanitarian community estimates that more than 66,000 internally displaced persons (in 150 camps) have been victims of forced evictions since July 2010. More than 73,000 people living in 87 camps (20 per cent of the total displaced population) are facing threats of eviction in 2013. A forced eviction is the permanent or temporary removal against their will of individuals, families or communities from the homes or land they occupy, without the provision of access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection.
The statement was an improvement over past OCHA mischaracterizations of some forced eviction cases as "voluntary returns."
According to the release, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Ross Mountain "met with the Minister of Human Rights and the Fight against Extreme Poverty, Mrs. Rose Anne Auguste to discuss the issue of forced evictions in IDP camps." Ms. Auguste
stated that a judicial inquiry was ongoing and security presence was being strengthened around camps at risk. She pointed out that President Martelly had on several occasions condemned forced evictions and that the Government-designed 16/6 programme for camp closure remains the way forward. The 16/6 project supports the return and resettlement of displaced persons living in camps, as well as the rehabilitation of the neighborhoods affected by displacement.
But as we have previously noted, the Martelly administration's "16/6" program has failed to assist the majority of Haiti's IDP's. We noted in October that after one year, only some 44,000 people had been resettled through the program, significantly less than had been forcibly evicted, and just 60 of the remaining IDP sites were planned to benefit from return programs similar to 16/6. As we have also noted, there has been no systematic tracking of what has happened to people leaving the camps, and there is a need to examine what will happen to former camp residents once the rental subsidies they receive under the 16/6 program end.
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Last week, after the passing of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, Haiti declared three days of national mourning. President Martelly stated that Chávez was a "great friend of Haiti who never missed an opportunity to express his solidarity with the Haitian people in their most difficult times." It's not the first time Martelly had such kind words for the Venezuelan president. Last year, Martelly told the press that it was Venezuelan aid that was "the most important in Haiti right now in terms of impact, direct impact." In February, Martelly attended the 11th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our Americas, a regional political organization spearheaded by Venezuela, and announced that Haiti was debating joining the group as a full member. While most of the coverage around Chávez's legacy in Haiti and the greater Caribbean has focused on the Petrocaribe initiative, which provides subsidized fuel to the region, Chávez developed close ties to the Haitian people well before Petrocaribe. Following the earthquake of 2010, Chávez, in cancelling Haiti's debt to Venezuela, declared, "Haiti has no debt with Venezuela -- on the contrary, it is Venezuela that has a historic debt with Haiti." As Chávez was quick to point out, it was Haiti that provided a vital safe-haven for Latin American independence hero Símon Bolívar before he went on to liberate much of South America from Spanish rule.
Opposition to 2004 Coup
In 2004, following the U.S.-backed coup against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Chávez was one of only a few voices in the region condemning what had taken place and refusing to recognize the coup government. Chávez told the Organization of American States that, "The President of Haiti is called Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and he was elected by the people." He formally extended an offer of asylum to Aristide in March of 2004. Perhaps the solidarity was in part due to the fact that just two years previously Chávez had been temporarily ousted in a coup, and similar actors were involved in both the Venezuelan and Haitian coups. As detailed in a 2004 investigation by Mother Jones, the International Republican Institute was active in both organizing and training those involved in the 2004 coup in Haiti as well as opposition factions before the 2002 coup in Venezuela, and its point man in Haiti at the time – Stanley Lucas, now an advisor to Martelly – had been in Venezuela some seven times prior to the coup. Senior Bush administration officials Roger Noriega and Otto Reich also actively supported both the Venezuelan and Haitian coups.
One with the People
In 2007, President Chávez traveled to Haiti; Brian Concannon and Mario Joseph described the scene at the time:
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez found a hero's welcome when he visited Haiti on March 12. People from Port-au-Prince's poor neighborhoods lined the streets of the capitol to cheer, to chant, to dance and sing, with the infectious enthusiasm of Haitian celebrations. President Chávez returned the affection. He jumped from his motorcade and joined the party, marching, even running with the crowd. At the National Palace, Mr. Chávez climbed up on the perimeter fence to shake and slap hands, like he had just scored a World Cup goal. He publicly thanked the Haitian people for their hospitality and enthusiasm, and for their historic support for liberty in the world.
President Chávez and the Haitian people hit it off so well for reasons of principle and of practice. Haitians consider Chávez a leader in the global fight against the global power inequalities that keep people in Haiti, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America poor, hungry and uneducated. They see him standing up to the most powerful leader in today's world- President Bush (whose name was frequently invoked that day, not charitably) – and to the World Bank and other powerbrokers. Even better, unlike their President Aristide (whose name was frequently, and charitably, invoked), Chávez keeps getting away with standing up to the powerful.
Of course, while the solidarity between Chávez and the Haitian people has long existed, the more recent direct impact of this solidarity has been through the Petrocaribe initiative. The agreement, which was nearly blocked by the U.S. government and major oil companies, has provided Haiti with 23.6 million barrels of oil since 2008. Through the agreement Venezuela finances part of Haiti's fuel import bill, allowing for a portion to be paid up front and the remainder to be used as a loan with a long maturity and low rates. Since the program's inception, Venezuela has provided oil worth nearly $2.5 billion. Haiti has paid back over $1 billion of that and although Venezuela cancelled nearly $400 million in debt after the earthquake, Haiti retains a debt of roughly $950 million to Venezuela. Most of this will be paid back over a period of 25 years at a 1 percent interest rate. In the meantime, there is a two-year grace period. The IMF estimated fiscal year 2012/2013 external debt payments to be 0.1 percent of GDP, or less than 0.5 percent of government expenditure.
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As of March 4, 2013, cholera has killed 8,057 Haitians and infected nearly 650,000 more. Despite some claims of progress, the epidemic, which was introduced by United Nations troops, has been significantly worse in 2013 than during the same period the year before. From January 1, 145 cholera victims have officially been reported dead, compared to just 22 last year. Worse, this occurred during the dry season, when cases generally taper off. The latest bulletin from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) noted that compared to February 2012, this year "the Centre department has seen an increase of 67 per cent during this period, while the Artibonite and Ouest departments have seen increases of 38 per cent and 35 per cent respectively."
Three weeks ago the U.N., after 15 months of dodging and evading, formally rejected a claim brought on behalf of over 6,000 cholera victims for damages. The claimants had also demanded the U.N. provide funding for the new infrastructure needed for the clean water and sanitation that would eradicate the epidemic. A new, 10-year, cholera eradication plan was announced less than a week later. The ambitious plan, if carried out, would provide lifesaving infrastructure, which previously had been blocked due to political pressure from the United States. Yet, while the plan was welcomed as a positive step forward, there is little funding available for its implementation. The U.N., for its part, committed just $23 million, a far cry from the $2.2 billion needed.
While the infrastructure which is needed may be a long way off, some groups are already looking at new solutions to combatting the cholera epidemic and creating a more sustainable country in the process. Isabeau Doucet reports for The Guardian:
"If we can take all the poop that's making people sick right now," said Dr Sasha Kramer as she stuck a thermometer into a large mound of faecal waste in the middle of Troutier, Port-au-Prince's city dump, "and turn it into this really valuable resource that could be used for reforestation or for increased agricultural production, then you really take a problem and turn it into a solution."
Every week, Soil (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) collects the human waste from 56 dry toilets built in camps for displaced earthquake victims, and mixes it with chips of sugar cane bagasse, a byproduct of local rum production.
And it's not just NGOs which are taking part:
The Haitian government recently built several sewage treatment plants that process traditional pit latrine waste in open-air stabilisation ponds. It and sewage treatment companies such as Jedco are experimenting with the alchemy of transforming a potentially deadly substance into a rich and much-needed fertiliser.
In order to treat human waste safely and kill pathogens, the waste must sit for at least seven days at 50C, according to the World Health Organisation. After six to nine months, the potentially toxic waste is transformed, with low carbon emissions, into fertile soil, simultaneously helping to fight cholera and deforestation, and revive food production.
The government has opened two sewage treatment plants on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince and there are a number planned for other major cities in the coming years. The plants are the first ever in Haiti's history. SOIL is exploring ways to transform their composting process to be able to handle waste from pit latrines, which are currently emptied at the government sewage plants, and not just the dry toilets that they distribute.
In addition to composting, the sewage treatment plants hope to be able to use the water they are treating for irrigation. Together, the reuse of waste could have a large impact on sustainability. Doucet continues:
In Haiti's northern region of Cap Haïtien, where Soil built its first toilets in 2006, there is now a farm and the compost is used to grow peanuts and fight malnutrition. Collaborating with farmers and Scouts, Soil aims to fight Haiti's extreme deforestation – it has only 2% forest cover – by planting 10,000 mango, cashew, orange, lemon and other indigenous fruit trees.
Please see below for a series of pictures from the SOIL composting site in Port-au-Prince and from the Haitian government's two new sewage treatment plants.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General (IG) last week released an audit of a program to provide loans to businesses in Haiti (available here). The audit is just the latest report from the IG to find significant problems with USAID's programs in Haiti, following previous findings regarding cash-for-work programs, shelter provision, food aid and USAID's largest contractor, Chemonics. The Associated Press' Trenton Daniel reports that:
An audit of a U.S. Agency for International Department program that aimed to boost Haiti's economy by providing loans to businesses has found that the program failed to award loans to intended targets, train workers and keep accurate records.
The aim of the audit released in late February by USAID's Office of the Inspector General was to see whether a USAID loan program was indeed introducing lending practices to overlooked areas and borrowers, particularly in the areas of agriculture, construction, tourism, handicrafts and waste management. Most of the loans were supposed to go toward women, first-time borrowers and small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The loan program provided some $37.5 million in guarantees, of which just over $19 million in guarantees have been extended. According to publicly available data, only about a quarter went to woman-owned businesses, less than 30 percent went to first-time borrowers, and 75 percent were concentrated in the West department, though these numbers likely overstate the reality on the ground. In addition to many other problems, the audit found that "the key monitoring data was outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate," for example, information on whether the recipient was a first-time borrower was "recorded incorrectly 41 percent of the time."
The focus of the audit, Daniel reports, was the four largest of the seven guarantees, "worth $31.5 million," of the $37.5 million total. Of these Daniel notes that two were made after the 2010 earthquake:
They were a Haitian bank named Sogebank, a Haitian development finance institution named Sofihdes that USAID helped create in 1983 and an agriculture-focused outfit named Le Levier Federation.
The audit found that few women and first-time borrowers received loans and lenders didn't make much effort to work with them.
And while the loans were intended to target "development corridors," Daniel notes,
Instead they stayed in the Port-au-Prince area.
Ninety percent of Sogebank's loans were confined to the capital and the bank didn't give loans to other parts of the country. Some 81 percent of the Sofihdes loans were in Haiti's capital.
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An op-ed in the Caribbean Journal by HRRW's Jake Johnston reads:
Less than a week after cholera began its violent spread throughout Haiti, a UN military base in the central plateau became the prime suspect for having introduced the bacteria.
The UN was quick to shoot down this theory, claiming the base met international standards. Days later, journalists found sewage tanks and latrines overflowing, with the resulting black liquid flowing into a tributary of Haiti's largest river.
Still, the UN didn't hesitate to defend itself; the head of the UN troops (known as MINUSTAH), said that it was "really unfair to accuse the UN for bringing cholera into Haiti."
But the evidence kept mounting; in January 2011, a scientific journal lent further credence to the theory, in July another, and in August yet another.
Even the UN's own investigation into the outbreak found that the UN base was the likely source, though the results were obfuscated by blaming the spread on a "confluence of factors."
In the meantime, Haitians continued to die. By the end of January 2011, just over three months after cholera's introduction, the official death toll was over 4,300. All the while the U.N. maintained its innocence.
Read the rest here.
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865 days after Haiti's cholera epidemic first began, with over 8,000 dead and some 650,000 sickened, the government of Haiti, with international support, officially launched a ten-year cholera eradication plan today after months of delays. The plan calls for an investment of $2.2 billion in clean water and sanitation infrastructure, with some $485.9 million needed for the next two years. Currently 31 percent of the population does not have access to potable water, while 83 percent lack access to adequate sanitation. By 2022, the plan aims to deliver potable water and improved sanitation services to 85 and 90 percent of the population, respectively.
The plan notes that in the short term, "actions will focus on preventing the transmission of cholera from one person to another through the use of drinking water disinfected with chlorine, and the promotion of hand washing, good sanitary practices, and food hygiene." Resources will also go to capacity building and training for the relevant government agencies, in particular the health ministry (MSPP) and the water agency (DINEPA). Over the long-term, some $650 million will go to DINEPA to build water supply systems in the 21 largest cities in the country, though most of this would start after the next two years. A breakdown of funding needs by sector, program and time-frame can be seen below. Overall, about 70 percent of the needed funds are to go to water and sanitation provision, though just over 10 percent of that is planned to be spent in the first two years.
The objectives, in terms of cholera specifically, are to reduce the incidence rate to below 0.5 percent by 2014, below 0.1 percent in 2017 and below 0.01 percent by 2022. This compares to an incidence rate of over 1.1 percent in 2012, which translates to about 110,000 cases for that year.
The plan also envisions a strengthening of the public health sector and of the coordination between NGOs and the government. To this end, the government plans to "integrate their support into the national health system." Through investments in training, capacity building and by channeling funds through the domestic institutions in charge of each sector, the plan aims to create a stronger public sector overall. This could be especially significant given that aid for the cholera response (and for the overall relief and reconstruction effort) has largely bypassed the Haitian government. According to data from the U.N. Special Envoy, only 2.5 percent of humanitarian spending for cholera went through the Haitian government. As noted in the plan, the "lack of investment coming directly from the country's fiscal budget represents a threat to the stability of the" water and sanitation sector.
There are to be three evaluations of implementation done in 2014, 2017 and 2022 and an audit will be conducted at the half-way point and at the conclusion of the plan. Additionally, a technical committee made up of high-level representatives from relevant government agencies will meet quarterly to assess progress and propose remedies.
Plan Remains Woefully Underfunded
Responding to the plans' launch today, implementing partner PAHO's Director Carissa F. Etienne noted that, "For the plan to be implemented, Haiti's friends in the international community must align their efforts and harmonize around this plan and provide the necessary financial resources." Yet thus far, meaningful support has been hard to find.
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The U.N.'s claim of immunity in response to the legal complaint filed against it on behalf of over 6,000 cholera victims has provoked outrage. Author Kathie Klarreich called it "unconscionable and immoral" in a Miami Herald op-ed yesterday, saying the U.N.'s statement "appears more like an apology for a snake bite than an effective response to what is currently the worst cholera outbreak in the world." Klarreich underscores the urgency of cholera in contrast to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's expressed sympathy:
The World Health Organization expects 100,000 new cases this year alone, and some think that's conservative, given the data. Many, if not most, of the non-governmental organizations that were involved in educating Haitians about the bacteria have scaled back their programs or closed shop, taking with them the chlorine they had been providing to make drinking water safe, and the soap to wash hands, fruits and vegetables.
Writing for the Atlantic, Armin Rosen suggests that "If a multinational corporation behaved the way the U.N. did in Haiti, it would be sued for stratospheric amounts of money." As well "They would have to contend with Interpol red notices, along with the occasional cream pie attack."
Former AP correspondent Jonathan Katz, whose important work in documenting the source of the outbreak is detailed in his book The Big Truck That Went By notes that the U.N. immunity claim is just the latest in a series of efforts to stall and obstruct the efforts of cholera victims to receive justice – and for the U.N. to take appropriate action to stop cholera. Katz writes in Slate:
A more recent tactic has been for the U.N. to shut down talk about the epidemic's cause by discussing its new effort to eradicate the disease—despite the fact that the primary program it is touting is not actually a U.N. effort, lacks clear goals, and remains almost totally unfunded.
Katz notes that "Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon added a generic statement expressing sympathy for the thousands killed and hundreds of thousands sickened or left unable to work by the disease. His spokesman dodged all further questions."
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There were two significant and possibly historic legal developments in Haiti today.
After Jean-Claude Duvalier refused yet again to appear in court today, Judge Jean Joseph Lebrun issued an order for him to appear at the next hearing, meaning Duvalier will be escorted there by the authorities. Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch commented that the "ruling is a victory for Duvalier 's victims who have never given up hope of seeing him in a court of law," adding that the "decision means even Duvalier is not above the law."
In his stead, Duvalier's lawyer, Reynold Georges, appeared in the appeals court today, 90 minutes late, according to AP – after apparently initially saying he wouldn't – and continued to display the Duvalier legal team's contempt for the human rights plaintiffs, the media, and the court itself. According to Twitter updates from journalists, members of the Institute for Justice in Democracy in Haiti team, and observers from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, during the proceedings this morning, Georges held his own press conference of sorts in the court room, during which he is said to have told an Aljazeera reporter "your international law, keep it for yourself," and to have said to the press that "I don't lose. I'm Haiti's Johnnie Cochran." He also reportedly claimed that Amnesty had at some point given his client a good grade on human rights, which led to laughter and the expected denials from Amnesty International's representative in the court room.
According to the AP, "Georges, a brash former senator, said he was confident that the Supreme Court would not only overturn the order to compel Duvalier's presence in court but also block the effort by victims of the Duvalier regime from getting the court to reinstate the charges."
The BAI's Mario Joseph told the BBC that "Duvalier is trying to control the justice system like when he was a dictator."
No less outrageous, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon finally issued a statement today in response to the complaint filed by over 6,000 cholera victims calling for U.N. responsibility in causing the epidemic. Apparently no more interested in facing the music than Duvalier is, the statement reads:
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In Argentina, Guatemala, Peru and other countries in the region, former dictators and many of those responsible for egregious human rights violations under former authoritarian regimes have been, or are in the process of being tried for their crimes. In Haiti, for the first time, there appears to be genuine hope that Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will face human rights charges in court. But there's still a very difficult road ahead.
After Duvalier failed to appear at an appeals hearing regarding human rights charges on February 7, the judge rescheduled the hearing for February 21. "The hearing on February 21 could be a pivotal moment in the prosecution of Jean-Claude Duvalier," the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti's Nicole Phillips told NACLA blogger Kevin Edmonds. "If Duvalier appears as ordered by the appellate court, it will present the first opportunity for the former brutal dictator to speak about his political violence crimes in a courtroom full of his victims and the media. If Duvalier fails to appear, the Haitian government will be under intense pressure to arrest him for violating a court order." While Duvalier has blatantly violated his house arrest related to pending corruption charges, failure to appear again would presumably be a more flagrant disregard for the Haitian judicial system. Duvalier also must appear in his own role as an appellant; he is appealing the standing corruption charges against him.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both announced that they will monitor the proceedings tomorrow. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a press release today "reminding the Haitian state of its international obligation to investigate, prosecute, and punish the serious human rights violations committed in that country, and to ensure that justice operators may work with independence and impartiality."
On January 30, 2012, Investigative Judge Carvés Jean ruled that Duvalier could not stand trial for human rights crimes, while allowing corruption charges to go ahead. The ruling shocked the human rights community, considering that Duvalier is one of the hemisphere's more notorious past dictators, infamous for brutally crushing dissent with the assistance of the dreaded "Tonton Macoute" secret police and the Haitian army during 15 years in power. "Under the presidency of Duvalier and his Tonton Macoutes, thousands were killed and tortured, and hundreds of thousands of Haitians fled into exile," according to Human Rights Watch.
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On September 23, 2011 MWH Americas, previously alleged to have overcharged the city of New Orleans on reconstruction projects, was awarded a $2.8 million contract from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to conduct a "feasibility study of northern ports in Haiti." The study is likely linked to the new, much touted Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, which includes plans for new port facilities.
Within two weeks of receiving the $2.8 million contract, MWH Americas turned around and gave out $1.45 million in subcontracts to four different firms, all headquartered in Washington DC or Virginia. MWH gave $363,540 to Nathan Associates to perform "economic and financial studies on potential port projects," including a review "of previous studies and existing conditions." URS Group received $438,670; the project description for that subaward is simply "feasibility study of northern ports in Haiti," the same as is listed for MWH. Meanwhile TEC Inc. (which later became Cardno-TEC Inc.) was awarded $620,123 to provide the "Senior Port Engineer," "Senior Environmental Specialist" and the engineering and support staff to "perform" the feasibility study. Finally, GW Consulting Inc., was given $26,932 for security and logistics. At this point, there were five U.S. firms based in the DC area working on the feasibility study, each with its own staff and associated overhead costs. Firms are allowed to allocate a percentage of their contract to headquarters to cover general operating costs of the firm; this is known as the indirect cost rate. Although this information is not disclosed (and has been redacted in contracts obtained through the Freedom of Information Act), according to those familiar with the process it is generally around 20 percent.
Despite the millions already spent on the feasibility study, when the expected project completion date came, MWH was awarded $1 million to cover additional costs and the completion date was changed. Subsequently, MWH was awarded $435,000 in September 2012 and the completion date was pushed back to November 30, 2012. Since then, the completion date has been pushed back two more times and is now set for the end of February 2013. Of the additional $1.44 million awarded to MWH, they gave out some $550,000 in subcontracts. In total, as can be seen below, nearly 50 percent of the total award to MWH was spent on subcontracts to other U.S. firms.
The contract with MWH Americas is, however, commendable in one way. It is the only USAID contract in Haiti for which there is information on subcontractors, thanks to the fact that MWH actually reported their sub-awards to USASpending.gov. While MWH Americas is the only contractor to have done this, it is likely that many others are also required to do so. For example, Chemonics, the largest USAID contractor in Haiti (and the world) is required to report on their use of subcontractors, according to a copy of their contract acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request. Yet no information from any other contracts for work in Haiti appears on the USAspending.gov website. Additionally, there is legislation which now requires prime contractors to report sub-awards: the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which was passed in 2006. Under the legislation, as of March 2011 all sub awards over $25,000 must be reported to a centralized system.
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Port-au-Prince - It "shook the house, like this" he says, violently rocking back and forth, acting it out. He yelled to his wife to get out, grabbed the children and went to the street. "Ten minutes later it was," he said, bringing his hands together, "flat." With this, Sonny Jean's post-earthquake story begins; three years later we're speaking at one of Haiti's first sewage treatment plants, located in Titanyen.
Sonny Jean, showing off the DINEPA sewage treatment plan in Titanyen; Hundreds of shelters dot the background in Kanaan.
Like many of those who lost their homes, Sonny settled with his family on the Champ de Mars, the public park in downtown Port-au-Prince across from where the national palace once stood, which later became home to at least 20,000 people. Sonny lived there with his family in a small shelter and "it was tough," he said, adding, "it wasn't the place I wanted to raise my family." In December of 2010, a friend tried to convince him to move to a tract of land the government had declared to be of public utility. While at first skeptical of moving so far from downtown Port-au-Prince, he knew he couldn't stay in the Champ de Mars camp either.
Eventually, he packed up his tent and what belongings had survived the earthquake and went with his wife and children to Kanaan, a vast expanse of land on a hillside about 20 km outside of Port-au-Prince. Like the majority of those who have left the camps, it wasn't through a rental subsidy or because they were given a temporary shelter or had their home repaired. According to Sonny, he was the first to set up a tent so far west in the area, though he's now joined by hundreds of others close by, and up to hundreds of thousands in all of Kanaan.
But life there is difficult and was especially in those early days. "I was lonely, man, scared," he said. With the wind whipping incessantly and no other families around, there were many restless nights.
Later, across the street from his new home, Sonny noticed some people starting to clear the land. He told his wife he was going to check it out; she was skeptical anything good would come of it. He went across the street, standing alone, just looking on. Eventually he heard someone, who seemed to be in charge, speaking Kreyol but "different than I speak it." So he responded in English, which he had picked up in the years he had lived in the U.S. on a seaman's visa. (Though he'd like to return to the U.S. someday, he hasn't been able to get a new visa.)
The manager, an English speaker from another Caribbean island, was impressed by his English, and after speaking for awhile, offered him a job on the site.
It's been many months since that chance encounter, and now, some nine months since Haiti's second sewage treatment plant opened, he was showing the place off; the area where the trucks dump their waste water, the treatment ponds which the water filters in to, the area where they clean the trucks before they exist the plant and also where they hope to have a garden, where they can use the treated water for irrigation.
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CEPR's Arthur Phillips and Stephan Lefebvre have written a nice post analyzing the World Bank and IMF's repeatedly over-optimistic economic growth projections for Haiti over at our sister-blog, "The Americas Blog." They note that the latest "projections of 6 percent or higher GDP growth in 2013 seem unfounded." The institutions' growth projections for Venezuela in recent years, by contrast, have repeatedly been overly pessimistic compared to the actual results.
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The Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator under the U.S. State Department has issued a new report to the U.S. Congress as required under the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010. The new report covers the period of 180 days up to September 30 last year. While there are some noteworthy accomplishments, these are unfortunately few, and it is important to keep in mind the greater context of money raised, committed, disbursed and spent, as well as the urgent needs at hand. The report notes that of $2.35 billion committed to Haiti since 2010, only about 50 percent has actually been spent. Excluding debt relief, of the $900 million made available in the 2010 supplemental appropriations bill as part of the New York donor conference pledge, just 32.9 percent has been spent [PDF]. It's also noteworthy that of the nearly $300 million committed in 2012, only about a third was even obligated.
Considering that some 360,000 people are still estimated to be living in IDP camps three years after the earthquake, the report of "over 900 seismic and hurricane resistant houses under construction in Caracol, Northern Haiti and in Cabaret north of Port-au-Prince" seems relatively insignificant, not to mention the figure of "227 Haitian beneficiaries…selected to receive housing" "to date." This is even less impressive considering that the sprawling U.S. Embassy compound in Port-au-Prince "consists of 107 new [three to five bedroom] townhouse units and a new Deputy Chief of Mission residence, along with support facilities, including a recreation center with an outdoor pool and courts, for two separate compounds," according to the architectural firm that the State Department contracted to design it.
The report similarly mentions "250 LPG commercial stoves were sold to large charcoal users (street food vendors and schools) in Port-au-Prince" and four "Haitian small- and medium-size enterprises" that "won matching grants" in a "business plan competition."
The report is also notable for what it does not mention: cholera, for example. This is a word and topic that does not appear once in the report, despite the ongoing epidemic and despite that "Health and Other Basic Services" is "Pillar C" of USAID's "Haiti Rebuilding and Development Strategy." Pillar C is allotted three paragraphs of the report; cholera is arguably Haiti's most urgent humanitarian crisis, killing more people every day.


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