Livelihoods and the Allocation of Emergency Assistance after the Haiti Earthquake

Echevin, Damien

Livelihoods and the Allocation of Emergency Assistance after the Haiti Earthquake

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In this paper, a unique post-earthquake survey designed to provide a rapid assessment of food insecurity in Haiti is used in order to see how adequately emergency assistance programs have been allocated. When modelling the impact of various covariates upon assistance allocation, the location of households emerges as the main criterion. This helps to explain why, five months after the quake, government and agencies still seemed unable to provide an efficient allocation of emergency assistance. What is more, those who benefited less from assistance appeared to be on the one hand families headed by women and on the other hand households with disabled members: this obviously runs counter to an "optimal" targeting that would make the most vulnerable ones eligible for assistance in priority. Furthermore, the fact that associations may favour assistance allocation is an interesting result that should be considered further. It is also found that asset losses had no significant impact on the food consumption score, whereas household pre-earthquake wealth did. This result demonstrates that the impact of the shock has been buffered when households had previously enforced coping strategies, regardless of the effects of emergency assistance programs.

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ACCESS TO DRINKING WATER, ACCESS TO FOOD, AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION, ASSET LOSSES, BASIC FOODSTUFFS, BASIC NEEDS, BREAST-FEEDING, BULLETIN, CARIBBEAN REGION, CASH-FOR-WORK, CASUALTIES, CHRONIC POVERTY, CONSUMPTION THRESHOLD, COOKING, COPING STRATEGY, DAMAGES, DECLARATION, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DISASTER RELIEF, DISASTER SITUATIONS, DISEASES, DISPLACED PERSONS, DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH, DIVERSIFICATION, DRINKING WATER, DROUGHTS, EARTHQUAKE, ELDERLY, ELDERLY PEOPLE, EMERGENCY AID, EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY RELIEF, EMPLOYMENT STATUS, EPIDEMIC, FLOOD, FLOODS, FOOD AID, FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, FOOD CONSUMPTION, FOOD FOR WORK, FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS, FOOD INSECURITY, FOOD PRICES, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD-FOR-WORK, HOMELESS POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD FOOD INSECURITY, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD NUMBER, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITY, HOUSING, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS, HUMANITARIAN AID, HURRICANE, HURRICANES, ILLNESS, INSURANCE, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION, IRRIGATION, LABOR MARKET, LIGHTING, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, MARITAL STATUS, MASS MEDIA, MASS MEDIA COVERAGE, MEDICINE, MORTALITY, NATIONAL AUTHORITIES, NATURAL DISASTER, NATURAL DISASTERS, NUMBER OF ADULTS, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS, NUMBER OF PEOPLE, NUMBER OF PERSONS, NUMBER OF WORKERS, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POOR REGIONS, POORER HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION SIZE, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PROGRESS, RADIO, REFUGEES, REMITTANCES, RURAL AREAS, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL POOR, SAVINGS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SELF-ESTEEM, SHEEP, SOCIAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SUBSISTENCE, SURVIVAL STRATEGIES, TELEVISION, TENT, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TV, UNIONS, VULNERABILITY, VULNERABLE PEOPLE, VULNERABLE SEGMENTS, WFP, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM