"More than 80 percents of the reconstruction donations sent to overcome the aftermath of the January 2010 massive earthquake in Haiti are drained to meet the needs of NGOs from the USA, Canada and Europe, denounces the Conference "Post-Quake Work of NGOs in Haiti", held in Canada."
"The $9 billion that was disbursed to NGOs and other intermediaries in a period of twenty-seven months has been spent largely without consultation of local Haitians. Almost no one we interviewed had been contacted by members of the foreign assistance community to discuss local needs. Due to a fears about security, a strongly-held perception of lack of local capacity, and the need to disburse money quickly, international NGOs have set up programs and carried out construction projects that are often at odds with local needs, and sometimes harmful in the longer-term."
One car dealer sold more than 250 Toyota Land Cruisers a month at £40,000 each. ‘You see traffic jams at Friday lunchtime of all the white NGO and UN four-wheel drives heading off early to the beaches for the weekend,’ said one Irish aid worker. ‘It makes me sick.’
Mar 08
20120
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, USAID
Amnesty International CIA Freedom House Haiti Libya NED | National Endowment for Democracy Syria USAID Venezuela
"Non-governmental organizations are an increasingly important part of the 21st century international landscape performing a variety of humanitarian tasks pertaining inter alia to issues of poverty, the environment and civil liberties. However, there is a dark side to NGOs. They have been and are currently being used as tools of foreign policy, specifically with the United States. Instead of using purely military force, the US has now moved to using NGOs as tools in its foreign policy implementation, specifically the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and Amnesty International."
Nov 26
20110
Humanitarian Agencies, The Occupation of Haiti
Aid Alternatives Canadian Foundation for the Americas Centre for International Studies and Cooperation CIDA Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs Development and Peace Freedom Network Haiti International Legal Resources Centre Québec Association of International Cooperation Organizations Rights and Democracy Roundtable on Haiti USAID
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NGOs in Haiti: "The Handmaidens of Imperial Domination" An Interview With Ashley...
"On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he asks his guests why aid efforts in Haiti have largely failed."