Workshop Sessions in Detail use can make to poverty reduction and food security is not adequately reflected in government and donor programmes and budget allocations. This presentation will demonstrate how environmental sustainability can be major contributor to poverty reduction and food security over time. Further it will describe experiences of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty & Environment Initiative in Africa in operational integration of sustainability in Poverty Reduction Strategies and budgets at the macro and sectoral levels. Bruce White, Senior Policy Advisor, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), will discuss how the Obama Administration took the unprecedented move to embrace the first UN Millennium Goal and steer US bilateral assistance efforts to advance food security within the context of multilateral efforts as well as regional and national policy frameworks. The Administration’s strategy, now called Feed the Future takes a country-led approach which establishes partnerships with countries in need through a combination of multilateral and bilateral assistance. This country-led approach is designed to be whole of country – including civil society. Bruce will touch on some ways US NGOs have been engaging with the US Government on global hunger, but also on how international and local NGOs can better engage in the country-led approach. Erin Thornton, Global Policy Director, One, will discuss the elevation of agriculture and food security as a global development focus over the last few years and how this momentum can be capitalized to deliver results. While recognizing that a strengthened focus on food security is critical, as the agriculture sector has been neglected for decades, achieving MDG 1 will also require building synergies with related sectors such as trade, infrastructure, finance and rural economic development. Unconventional actors and unlikely partners such as civil society and the private sector will need to form lasting and productive partnerships. Ensuring that the connections between these sectors and actors are leveraged to maximize results, underlying challenges such as transparency, good governance and accountability must also be improved to create the right enabling environment for all of these investments to flourish.
Haiti – Assessment and Lessons Learned
15:00 – 16:00
Moderator: Steven Davenport, Senior Director, Business Development/Partnerships, Development Gateway The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded. An estimated three million people were affected by the quake. The Haitian Government reported that an estimated 230,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. The aid and relief efforts have been immense, and challenging. Here, agencies discuss the challenges faced in providing shelter, healthcare, water, communications and infrastructure and look at what could be done differently were this to happen again. Graham Saunders, Head of Shelter, International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC), will demonstrate how the earthquake that struck Haiti in January 12th 2010 is a timely reminder of the challenges of meeting large scale shelter needs in dense, urban areas. In addition to the major logistical challenges of operating where access is extremely difficult, many of the associated settlement issues affecting the provision of shelter are magnified by the complexities of an urban environment, in particular the capital city with governance facilities critical to an informed and managed response. The IFRC-led Shelter/NFI Cluster in Haiti is the coordination mechanism bringing together humanitarian shelter agencies from the United Nations, Red Cross Red Crescent Societies and Non Governmental Organisations with Government and others to address shelter needs and these challenges. This session at the Aid+Trade event will discuss these issues highlighted by the Haiti earthquake and the implications on the process and practice of shelter after disaster. Mark Prutsalis, President & CEO, Sahana Software Foundation, will present a case study of humanitarian free and open source software used to assist relief efforts in Haiti. The talk will focus on Sahana but will also pull in some lessons learned from other projects Sahana collaborates closely with, including Ushahidi, InSTEDD, Tweak the Tweet and Open Street Maps. Nicolas Lagomarsino, Program Officer, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), will cover the major challenges faced by the health sector in Haiti in response to the earthquake of January 12, 2010. In just a matter of minutes, much of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins. Not only were most hospitals and health facilities unable to function, but the Ministry of Health headquarters collapsed, killing more than 200 staff. This session will look at the response to this devastating disaster from the standpoint of logistics, civil/military collaboration, the delivery of health services, health sector coordination, and other areas, highlighting some of the lessons learned. Keith Robertory, Disaster Services Technology Manager, American Red Cross
Moving from Disaster Relief to Long Term Development
16:30 – 17:30
Moderator: Anthony Dunnett, President, International Health Partners Following disaster, the provision of relief needs to be fast but also effective in the medium to long term, not just the immediate. Humantarian relief organizations from the public, private and intergovernmental sectors must take into account the consequences of their actions, with a view towards long term sustainability. Abhas K. Jha, Regional Coordinator, The World Bank, will discuss the housing, which can account for up to 80 percent of damage and loss to infrastructure in the aftermath of major disasters. Managing the reconstruction of housing and communities is a multi-sectoral endeavor involving multiple stakeholders and interest groups, often spanning multiple levels of governments, ministries and agencies. The World Bank and other major international development agencies have now acquired a large body of experience in managing large-scale reconstruction programs. Mr. Jha, who is the lead author of the World Bank publication “Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters”, will present the lessons learnt from the reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Bam (Iran), Northern Pakistan, Wenchuan(China), Colombia, Peru etc. 52
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