USAID Update

USAID has a large presence in Haiti. Most of the tents are made from tarps marked "USAID." I've had to eat food they provided and was grateful for it. Here's an update on their work.

“Progress isn’t always visible,” McDonald said. “If you look at Aceh or if you look at Katrina—some of these large-scale natural disasters—it really takes a good 18 months to get the coordination structures and the work ramped up to a point where you start to see a lot of the benefits of these. So that’s not to say that there hasn’t been a lot of progress, but it is to say that it’s important to keep the momentum up, even when the frustrations are high. Because we really feel that the returns are really in front of us.”

Assessing Progress in Haiti

Photo: USAID