The Focus On Haiti Initiative is proud to post the video and reporting archive of our 2015 spring symposium Voices of Haiti’s Voiceless: Post-Earthquake Aspirations & Achievements. The event was cosponsored by the United States Department of State Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator.
The symposium discussed Haiti’s fundamental development challenges and progress toward meeting them in the post-quake period, focusing on the aspirations of the country’s under-represented population as presented at the March 31, 2010 post-earthquake UN-sponsored Donors’ Conference in New York.
Videos and reporting articles are available for each panel through the links below.
A Voice for the Voiceless
Youn Vwa Pou Pep La Report
Robert Maguire, Elliott School of International Affairs
Participation & Inclusion
Robert Maguire, Elliott School of International Affairs
Jean Robert Brutus, Ministry of Social Affairs, Government of Haiti
Claudette Werleigh, ITECA & former Prime Minister of Haiti
Bernard Ethéart, Author & FONHDILAC
Responding to Sovereign Grassroots Voices
Jenny Petrow, Inter-American Foundation
Haiti: Five Years After, Artists Institute, Jacmel, Haiti
Robert Maguire, Elliott School of International Affairs
Decentralization & De-concentration
Scott Freeman, George Washington University
Pierre Gary Mathieu, National Coordination for Food Security (CNSA)
Doudou Pierre Festile, Acul-du-Nord Peasant Movement
Patrick Delatour, Historic Architect & former Minister of Tourism
Dignity, Equality & Investing in People
Thomas C. Adams, U.S. Department of State
Freud Jean, Lambi Fund & Haitian Human Rights Platform
Conor Bohan, Haitian Education & Leadership Program (HELP)
Anne Martine Augustin, HELP Scholar
The Voices of Haiti’s Voiceless: What We Have Learned
John Groarke, USAID | Haiti
Raymond Joseph, Author & former Ambassador of Haiti to the United States
Robert Maguire, Elliott School of International Affairs
Reception Remarks
Raymond Joseph, Author & former Ambassador of Haiti to the United States
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