Written by Jake Johnston Magnitude of earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010: 7.0 Years since an earthquake of that magnitude struck Haiti: 168 Number of aftershocks, over 4.5 magnitude, in...
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Haiti by the Numbers
Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch Written by Jake Johnston Years since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti: 9 Estimated number of aftershocks that measured 4.5 or greater: 59 Number of...
Haiti, Irma, Climate Change, and Priorities
At least one person died, one remains missing, and more than a dozen were injured by the passage of Hurricane Irma off the northern coast of Haiti last week. As of September 11, nearly 6,500 Haitians...
Seven Years after the Earthquake: Haiti in an unprecedented humanitarian, food, and climate crisis
To mark the 7th anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a number of organizations belonging to the Haiti Advocacy Working Group released the following statement. January 12, 2017 – Washington,...
Elections on Hold in Haiti After Hurricane Matthew
Written by Jake Johnston Port-au-Prince, Haiti ― Under the leadership of an interim government since February, Haiti will now wait a little longer to elect a president after Hurricane Matthew struck...
Martelly Forms Commission to Evaluate Haiti Elections, But Can it Break Impasse?
After increasing pressure from opposition politicians, human rights organizations, religious leaders and diaspora organizations, Haitian president Michel Martelly has issued a decree forming a...
New Survey Casts Doubt on Haiti Election Results
A new survey from the Brazilian Igarape Institute, released today, indicates that official results from Haiti’s October 25 presidential election may not reflect the will of the voters. In the wake of...
Local Observers Document Massive Fraud, Intimidation and Violence in Haiti Election
A local Haitian observation group has released a detailed report from election day, calling into question the legitimacy of the vote in many areas throughout Haiti. The group, made up of RNDDH, CNO...
Cholera on the Uptick in Haiti as Donor Response Falters
From January through August of 2014, 69 Haitians died from cholera and some 8,628 fell ill, a 76 percent drop from the previous year, the United Nations reported. In October, at a high-level donor...
High-Level Donor Conference on Cholera in Haiti Fails to Secure Much Needed Funding
Like a Matryoshka doll, inside each cholera elimination initiative for Haiti one will find another and inside that, yet another. At the two-year anniversary of the earthquake, in January 2012,...
Haiti Aid Reform Bill "Will Be a Step in the Right Direction," CEPR Co-Director Says
Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460 Congress Passes “Assessing Progress in Haiti Act” to Enact Greater Oversight of USAID in Haiti Washington, D.C.- New legislation passed by Congress to provide...
New Details Emerge on Elimination Plan as Cholera Continues to Spread
On May 31 the World Bank, PAHO and UNICEF announced $28.1 million in new funding for cholera elimination efforts in Haiti. The new funding was announced following a meeting in Washington, D.C. of the...
Food Aid Reform Becomes More Urgent as Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Increase
The Associated Press’ Trenton Daniel takes a look at high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity in Haiti, reporting that Three years after an earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and the U.S...
Inter-American Commission Grants Protection to IDP Camp Facing Eviction
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...
As Cholera Continues to Spread, Some Turn to Composting to Help Fight it
Monday, 11 March 2013 13:01 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...
Cholera eradication plan announced, but funding still in question
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...
From Camp to Kanaan to One of Haiti’s First Sewage Treatment Plants
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...
Haiti’s Increasingly Hidden Displacement Disaster
Over the next month, Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blogger and CEPR International Research Associate, Jake Johnston will be in Haiti following up, on the ground, many of the issues this blog...
New Report Finds Economic Insecurity Increasingly Puts Haitian Girls at Risk of Violence
A new report [PDF] on gender-based violence (GBV) in Haiti “suggests that adolescent girls are disproportionately suffering social and violent aftershocks of the earthquake,” including “unwanted and...
Haiti, D.R. to Present $2 Billion Plan to Improve Health and Sanitation Infrastructure to Fight Cholera
Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:46 In the coming weeks, Haiti, together with international partners, will call on donors to fund a $2.2 billion 10-year plan to upgrade the water, sanitation and health...