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Download PDF Version: ProgressReportontheCoalition29AugFinal The Coalition was founded in March 2010 at the Sustainable Haiti conference in Miami. Over the recent months, we have been actively engaged establishing in growing the Coalition and creating the conditions to build its infrastructure and ensure success. This report speaks to current members, individuals and organizations who’ve signed up to […]
Kylti is a new Diaspora-led organization with a mission to sustain and advance Haitian arts and culture. At the Haiti Cultural Economy Forum in Washington, DC this past weekend, founder Marcel Wah and several other outstanding speakers laid out a vision of “remaking the landscape, retaining the spirit” as a strategy for the rebirth of […]
The Coalition was founded in March 2010 at the Sustainable Haiti conference in Miami. Over the recent months, we have been actively engaged establishing in growing the Coalition and creating the conditions to build it’s infrastructure and ensure success. This report speaks to current members, individuals and organizations who’ve sign up to be informed of […]
The Sustainable Haiti Coalition is increasingly being invited to play a broader role in the planning and implementation of initiatives supporting the sustainable redevelopment of Haiti. Consequently we have been discussing a number of such initiatives with our closest members and supporters. These range from playing a role in the development of a sustainable building […]
An article by Ivy Mungcal on August 6, 2010 asks, “WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT CANADA’S AID TO HAITI?” She quotes Roger Annis, a coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network, from an article published on Haiti Liberte entitled “Canada’s Failed Aid to Haiti.”
The challenge of rebuilding Haiti, already the most impoverished country in the Americas [1], after the earthquake is an enormous one, but it is also one that offers enormous opportunities to envision a new and more sustainable future. To the extent that it is possible to make a decisive break with the failed policies of […]
The Aid Business in Haiti By Ton Vriens (Translation of an article about Haiti for the Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer, issue March 30, 2010) Two months of international aid has turned Port-au-Prince into occupied territory. Military helicopters thumping overhead with gunners in the door opening – Apocalypse Now – navy vessels anchored in the […]
An immediate thank you to all those who were on the conference call on Sunday evening. The comments were pertinent, helpful, and insightful. Participants represented more than 30 groups and viewpoints (see list here), and we’ll be following up as appropriate with individuals regarding their specific interests and suggestions. Here are some key points: We have […]
For information on joining the call see Guidelines and Agenda for the Sustainable Haiti Call and Haiti – A Way Forward. The following groups and individuals have indicated an interest in collaborating or joining the conversation:
On Wednesday, along with close to a thousand people, I attended the UNA-Haiti conference at the UN, and the follow-on conversation at the Turkish Mission. The stated aim of the conference was to foster partnerships to allow the re-building of Haiti “against all odds.” “Controlled chaos” is the way one person described it. For the […]
The “Working Group for a Sustainable Future for Haiti,” which was convened at the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University, has released “Haiti – A Way Forward,” an 8-page discussion paper intended as the basis for a conference call scheduled for Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 6 p.m. EST, and you are invited […]
[Reprinted from http://sustainableleadershipforum.org/?p=593] Just following what appear to be the next logical steps in terms of “convening a conversation around a sustainable future for Haiti,” it seems clear we need to define some further specifics. As other groups decide what they want to focus on, we can collaborate more effectively if we know what we […]