Livelihoods and the Allocation of Emergency Assistance after the Haiti Earthquake
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 covaria...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20111021091429 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3617 |
| Summary: | 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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