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Haiti
Publications
Gender, IFIs, and Food Insecurity Case Study: Haiti
Elizabeth Arend and Lisa Vitale
Gender Action's second food insecurity case study examines the degree of gender sensitivity in World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) investments in Haitian agriculture and rural development. Rural women, who constitute the majority of Haiti's small-scale and subsistence farmers, face significant gender discrimination in the agriculture sector. They also suffer disproportionately from rising food prices and increasing food insecurity. Our gender analysis shows that World Bank and IDB investments lack a human rights perspective and pay inadequate attention to gender inequalities that could hinder women and girls' ability to participate in and benefit from project activities. The case study also presents recommendations for IFIs, the G20 and civil society to promote women's rights and gender justice in Haiti's IFI agriculture and rural development investments.
Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development Investments in post-earthquake Haiti
Elaine Zuckerman, Elise Young and Lisa Vitale
Fall 2010
Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development Investments in post-earthquake Haiti demonstrates that the vast majority of World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) post-earthquake investments in Haiti approved through mid-October 2010 represent lost opportunities to help Haiti's predominantly poor female farmers, prevent gender-based violence, and support gender-inclusive development efforts.
Haiti Gender Shadow Report: Ensuring Haitian Women's Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction
Edited by Gender Action
Fall 2010
This final Haiti Gender Shadow Report (GSR), jointly prepared by many women's rights activists and published by Gender Action, provides the crucial gender content that is missing from the Haitian government's World Bank-led Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), the operative blueprint for recovery that Haiti plans to implement.
Taking Action
Letter to President Obama on IFIs, debt, and gender-based violence in Haiti
Gender Action sent President Obama a letter pleading for the US Administration to pressure the IFIs to cancel Haiti's IFI debt. This debt cripples poor Haiti from spending on health, water, education and other social services. Women and girls are the largest losers. Within a month of sending our letter, the IMF cancelled most of Haiti's outstanding debt.
Within a month of sending our letter, the IMF cancelled most of Haiti's outstanding debt.
Gender and Debt Impacts of IFI Grants and Loans in Post-Earthquake Haiti
This factsheet summarizes findings from Gender Action's analysis of IFI post-earthquake assistance. It demonstrates first that IFI assistance fails to address Haiti's escalating gender-based violence, and second that although IFIs have cancelled most Haiti debt, IFI debt remains that impoverished Haiti cannot afford to repay. This factsheet is part of the Haiti Advocacy Working Group materials presented to Congress described below.
Haiti Advocacy Working Group Materials
The ad hoc Haiti Advocacy Working Group coalition, of which Gender Action is an active member, delivered materials for the July 27, 2010 Congressional Black Congress Hearing, "Focus on Haiti: The Road to Recovery - A Six Month Review." These materials recommend that Congress ensure that U.S. assistance for Haiti promotes optimal local agriculture, shelter, education, health, camp security and other programs.
Read Elaine Zuckerman's blog on Haiti
To Help Haiti, Upend Aid Habits, and Focus on its Women
Elaine Zuckerman, President of Gender Action and the former Inter-American Development Bank Programs
Officer for Haiti, suggests what needs to be done to make sure that aid to Haiti does not repeat the mistakes
of the past and especially targets women.
This blog was originally published in February, 2010 by
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This blog also appeared in the Fall 2010 print version of Oxfam's quarterly publication Gender and Development
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