What happens when Haitian farmers give their perspectives on the effectiveness of US aid programs meant to support them? Well, here you go:
“Oxfam article on Feed the Future in Haiti causes a stir in Washington DC” (via Oxfam America’s Politics of Poverty blog)
Check out the feature article I wrote below, “We are spectators no more” (on pages 11-14), and the response it garnered from USAID.
From the article: “USAID showed that they must be more…intentional about getting accurate information…from people on the ground. Without this, development aid often becomes just a check-box system of delivery that disregards local priorities and local realities.”
See also the GlobalPost’s year-long coverage, “Fault Line: Aid, Politics and Blame in Post-Quake Haiti”: http://www.globalpost.com/special-reports/fault-line-aid-politics-and-blame-post-quake-haiti