Town Hall After Hurricane Matthew: Resources, Capacities, and Pathways to Recovery of Devastated Communities in Haiti

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Louis Herns Marcelin, Georges Simon
Toni Cela and Karl Jean-Louis
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TOWN HALL AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW
Isnel Pierreval, Office of the President, Republic of Haiti
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TOWN HALL AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW
Gandhi Thomas, Consul General of Haiti in Miami

Officials from Haiti, including a representative from the Office of the President and a mayor from one of the regions devastated by Hurricane Matthew, attended a Town Hall at the University of Miami to discuss the findings of a three-month study of community assets and resources available for recovery and reconstruction.

 April 27, 2017

Large-scale disasters that exceed the current coping capacity of Haitian socio-ecological systems are increasing. At the same time, post-disaster interventions on the parts of the Haitian government, humanitarian aid organizations, and international donors often fail to recognize the existing assets of the most impacted communities.

A three-month assessment conducted by the Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED) examined both the local resources and pressing needs of rural communities across the Grande-Anse and Sud, two Haitian departments devastated by Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.

The Town Hall presented the findings of the study "Mapping Assets-Access for Equitable Recovery and Reconstruction from Hurricane Matthew in Haiti," and featured a discussion with local leadership and civil society organizations from the most affected areas.

Kate Ramsey-Ceremony Opening

Faculty Lead for Hemispheric Caribbean Studies
University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas

Felicia Marie Knaul-Welcoming Remarks

Director, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine

Honorable Gandhi Thomas

Consul General of Haiti in Miami

Mayor Georges Simon

City of Anse d’Hainault

Guy Noel

Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of INURED

Isnel Pierreval

Member of the Office of the President of the Republic of Haiti

Karl Jean-Louis

Executive Director Observatoire Citoyen de l’Action des Pouvoirs Publics en Haïti 

Louis Herns Marcelin and Toni Cela-Study Presentation

University of Miami and the Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development

 

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