The document outlines CARE Haiti's emergency response to a major disaster, highlighting the scale of destruction with 220,000 dead and 1.5 million displaced individuals. Immediate relief efforts have focused on shelter, water, sanitation, food security, health, and psychosocial support, with significant financial mobilization of $100 million over five years. Future priorities include reconstructing partnerships with the government, enhancing local capacities, and addressing social inequalities while promoting empowerment and community dialogue.

1. CARE Haiti
Emergency Response &
Community Engagement

2. Overview: Scale of emergency
 220,000 dead
 1.5 million displaced
 Government
paralyzed
 City of Léogâne:
90% destroyed
 Centralized services
immobilized

3. CARE response: Immediate
relief
 Mobilization of human resources (national and
international, community engagement as feasible)
 Difficult communications: community access, national
staff
 Evaluation/community consultation/immediate delivery
(water purification)
 Identification of priorities: food, water and sanitation;
community input
 Aid at regional sub-office level
 Mobilization of financial resources (initial goal of
$10 million over 3 years, actual of $100 million over 5 years)

4. Priority sectors and locations
Pétionville, Leogâne,
Carrefour, Artibonite  Shelter
 Water and sanitation
 Food security
 Health
 Psychosocial support
and education
 Host family assistance

5. Distributions – approx. 300,000
beneficiaries
 General distributions
– a service to the
sectors
 Food & non-food
items (tarps, tents, hygiene
kits, mattresses, blankets, kitchen
sets, jerry cans, safe delivery and
newborn kits, etc.)

7. Community partners: e.g.
Scouts

9. Water and sanitation
 Water distribution
 Construction of latrines,
showers, hand-washing
stations
 Hygiene promotion
 Drainage
 Solid-waste management
 Setup and training of
committees

11. Water/sanitation committees

12. Cleanup/solid waste
management

13. Food security
 Cash for work: Canal
cleaning, rehabilitation of
secondary roads, etc.
 Distribution of tools
and seeds
(productive inputs)
and voucher systems

14. Shelter
 Distribution of emergency materials (tarps,
ropes, household items, etc.) - 17,000
families

15. Shelter
 Transitional shelters
(target 5,000 families)
and reinforcement kits
(target 20,000 families)

17. Shelter
 Advocacy (land rights,
forced relocation, etc.)
 Awareness-raising on
safe construction
techniques

18. Reproductive health,
sexual/gender-based violence
protection
 Distribution of safe-
delivery and newborn kits
 Center for women –
proximity strategy
 Referral system
 Integration of
reproductive health
services into primary
health services

20. Psychosocial support –
education
 Parent and teacher
training
 Distribution of
recreational materials
 Proximity strategy

21. Coordination
 With communities
 Internally within CARE Haiti and the larger CARE
family
 With authorities (technical ministries and local
authorities)
 With other partners via numerous coordination
forums
 With donors
…including numerous other partners

23. Looking ahead: priorities for
reconstruction
 Partnership with government/civil society
 Supporting capacity development of Haitian
society
 Promoting dialogue among humanitarian actors,
and between international community and local
civil society
 Addressing deep inequalities, encouraging
social cohesion
 Women’s empowerment/youth engagement