Haiti 2010: Possible scenarios after the earthquake ... - Club of Madrid

Living together: Prioritize a reconstruction and recovery program of public spaces (parks,
sports, recreational, social and cultural activities.
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Seven months after the earthquake, President Préval published, on July 1, the Presidential
Decrees that see presidential and legislative elections for November 28. Last August 7, ended
the period for registration of presidential candidates with 34 candidates registered to the
presidency of Haiti in coming elections.
As to the humanitarian situation, UN agencies and other international organizations prepared
a balance of the humanitarian situation in Haiti, six moths after the quake. The balance by
international organizations is positive in general, but they express concern with respect to
Haiti’s short-term challenges. According to a source of Jesuit Refugee Services in Latin America
and the Caribbean, the Doctors Without Borders organization mentions in its report
“Emergency response after the Earthquake in Haiti, that their teams “see frustration and anger
grow (in the population) since their living conditions have not changed since the earthquake”.
On the other hand the Collective “Haïti Lavi 12-12” integrated by the organizations Caritas
International, Doctors of the World, Oxfam-Solidarité and UNICEF Belgium, point to the urgent
need of reinforcing the health sector in Haiti and of keeping up food aid to the affected, since
natural phenomena could cause considerable damages to the agricultural harvests.
In general terms, relevant international organizations to date note that “all the ills that were
prognosticated for the country after the earthquake” did not happen, such as epidemics,
generalized humanitarian crises, great crime and violence waves, chaos”… They give most of
the credit to the same Haitians who with their dignity, discipline and sense of solidarity were
the first to help the wounded and who continue to organize and work to answer to their own
needs”.