Presented by Kara Lightburn, Executive Director of Social Tap, Inc on April 21st 2014 for the Yale Alumni Association of New York (YAANY) Highlights our humanitarian model which has been developed over the course of the past 4 years being immersed in the Haitian society and our recommendations as an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) in order to ensure access to services for those most vulnerable and marganalized while building the capacity of communities and local organizations based on asset mapping and mobilization to build sustainability and decrease the dependency of AID in Haiti. Areas for volunteer and civil society involvement are also highlighted based on reciprocal long term relationships and knowledge sharing.

1. Lessons Learned:
Haiti Four Years
After the Earthquake
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF US BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND
VOLUNTEERS IN HAITI’S RECONSTRUCTION?
Monday, April 21st 2014 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Presentation prepared by: Kara Lightburn,
Executive Director

2. Social Tap, Inc.’s mission is to provide programs and services through grassroots partnerships to
address the identified and emerging needs of at-risk, vulnerable, and exploited populations,
including those displaced either by natural and/or man-made disasters internationally in
developing countries.
We seek to provide a comprehensive approach
utilizing social capital to fill the gaps and provide support through networks encouraging
transparency, effective communication, evaluation, and collaboration in order to create and
reinforce sustainable communities.
SOCIAL TAP’s
MISSION STATEMENT

3. Social Tap’s
THE HAITI INITIATVE (THI)
Ø Jacmel is the artisan capital of Haiti and located in the Sud-Est Department. It was one of the
3 Major Cities which suffered extensive damage during the January 2010 Earthquake, 50-60%
of the downtown structures were damaged/destroyed and over 20,000 were displaced to
camps (IDPs).
Ø The Pinchinat IDP Camp became the largest with over 6,000 individuals.
Ø Jacmel & the outside rural areas have diverse Livelihood due the ongoing
vulnerability of the environment; Live stock and agriculture are the main sources of income,
next to commerce and charcoal production, approx 1/3 receive remittances in Jacmel.
Ø Regular risks to livelihoods include the hurricane season, extensive erosion,
deforestation & erratic rainfall.
As a volunteer-driven effort we have been based since March 2010
through a capacity building partnership THI has shared an operational
hub located in Cyvadier outside the city of Jacmel, with KONPAY
“Working Together for Haiti,” our local Haitian partner.

4. The Haiti Initiative (THI)’s Organic Growth
CORE AREAS OF STATEGIC FOCUS
MARCH 2010
Fordham UNI: Haiti/DR Study
Tour 2010
Partnership Identified : Konbit
Pou Ayiti (KONPAY)
Core Area defined
> Agriculture &
Environment
JUNE/JULY 2010 HAITI TRIP: Focus
on Human Rights & GBV
Core Areas defined:
> Pinchinat Camp
> Human Rights & GVB
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010
Land Development Delegation: HAE
Core Area Defined:
> Community Development
OCTOBER 2010
Collaborative Cholera Ground
Response
Core Area Define:
> Cholera (Health & Hygiene)
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
Core Area Define:
> School Development

5. Agriculture & Food Security
Community Capacity
Building, & Asset
Mapping
Environment &
Climate Action
Health & Hygiene
Human Rights
Pinchinat (IDP)
Camp
School
Development
Youth Development &
Education
Social Tap’s The Haiti Initiative
CORE AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS

6. OUR ENGAGMENT MODEL A GLOBAL ASSET
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL
Applies:
ü Asset Thinking
ü Participatory Action
ü Service-Learning
ü Complex Adaptive Systems Theory
ü Collaborative Leadership
ü Knowledge Sharing
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ü Strategic Plan
ü Community Capacity Development
ü Organizational Capacity Development

7. OUR VOLUNTEER & LEARNING
COMPONENT FOR THE HAITI INTIATIVE
o Connects human capital assets to community’s priorities
through grassroots community partners
o Targets the Haitian Diaspora & University Service-Learning
Groups
o Promotes a Socio-cultural understanding and
exchange through immersion
o Utilizes Reflective service learning component
o Development of long-term reciprocal relationships with
communities and their members

8. SERVICE LEARNING & VOLUNTEER AREAS:
Agriculture & Food Security
• Farmer-2-Farmer Program
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Nutrition Programs
Asset Mapping, Community
Mobilization & Capacity
Building
• Field organizing
• Asset Mapping
• Professional Skills training organizational
partner organizations
• Program administration development
Environment & Climate Action
• Alternative fuel program: Alternative
charcoal and clean cook stove
• Tree Planting
Health & Hygiene
• Community awareness organizing
and hygiene training
• Cholera, Health & Hygiene
Awareness campaign
• Community Health Clinics
Human Rights
• Human Trafficking
• Gender Based Violence (GBV)
• Conflict Resolution
• Advocacy
School Development
• School construction primary &
secondary
• Curriculum Development
• Teacher-2-Teacher Sponsorship
Program
• Multi-Media Knowledge Centers
Youth Development & Education
• JDS Saturday Youth Program
• English classes
• Computer & Multi-Media training
• Youth Community Newspaper
• Soccer (Jah Lions)
• Music Classes
• Karate Classes
Capacity Building with Our Local
Grassroots Partners:
• Develop a website
• Create promotional material & presentations
• Translate websites, promotional materials,
presentations, into English
• Apply for grants & funding opportunities
• Assist with presentations
• Train staff on IT
• Solve IT issues & expanding capacity
• Teach English to the staff Setting up accounting
procedures
• Assist with planning new staff trainings
• Develop existing systems to assist with monitor &
evaluate programs

9. Breaking theCycle ofPoverty &DependencyonInternational
AID in Haiti
OLD APPROACH VS OUR APPROACH
Donor Driven VS Community Driven
Needs Assessment VS Asset Mapping
Dependency VS Sustainability
Opinion Based VS Results Driven: Data Based
Institutional Learning VS Self-Directed Service Learning
Linear VS Non-Linear
Lessons Learned & Applied:
Breaking the Cycle of Aid
in Haiti

10. NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS MAP: *Old
approach – needs based & focused on
disadvantages*
Local Institutions
Schools
Libraries
Businesses
Parks (Physical
community
spaces)
Hospitals/Health
Care Facilities
Community
Colleges
Local
Organizations
Citizen Institutions
Churches
Community
Associations (Farmer
collectives)
Cultural Groups
Artesian Collectives
Individual Assets
Artists
Labeled
People Elderly Youth Income
Local Community
Unemployment
Youth
Violence &
Truancy
Illiteracy
Teen
Pregnancy
Citizens
Broken Families
Tent Families: Lack
of Housing
Recipients of
Aid & Welfare
Individual
Child Abuse & GB
Violence
Mental & Physical
Disabilities
COMMUNITY
ASSET MAP
PARADIGM SHIFT
Needs Based vs. Asset Based

11. (ABCD) is a methodology that seeks
to uncover and utilize the strengths
within communities as a means for
sustainable development.
Our Methodology:

12. MOBILIZING COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Asset Mapping
Assess the resources of
a community through a
capacity inventory (asset
map) or through
another process of
talking to the residents
to determine what types
of skills & experience
are available.
Support Community Coalitions
Support
communities to
discover what
they care
enough about
to act.
Prioritize
Determine how citizens
can act together to
achieve those goals.
OUTCOMES:
Strategic
Planning
Community
Development
Local
Organizational
Capacity
Development

13. Adaptive System –
Understanding the Cycle of Change
This is the
point where it
either goes up
& is able to
adapt or if
unable to
evolve it falls
into complete
chaos.

14. “
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It is in the context of global
forces that the suffering of
individuals acquires its own
appropriate context
~ PAUL FARMER

15. PORT-AU-PRINCE
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ü Population: 10.17 million (World Bank:2012
ü 40% of the population of Haiti is under 14 years of age; 50 percent of the population is under 18 years
of age.
ü Tropical Climate with Hurricane season June – October
ü over 58% of the population works in the agriculture sector, roughly a quarter of which consists of
women, and 66% of the land in Haiti is used for farming crops and livestock.
• 55 percent of Haitians live on less than $1.25 per day.
• Per capita annual income is $660.
• 58 percent of children are under-nourished.
• 58 percent of the population lacks access to clean
water.
• Devastating hurricanes in 2008 affected 800,000 people.
• Deforestation has left the nation with less than two
percent forest cove
Haiti: Understand the Context
COUNTRY PROFILE

16. Phantom State:
One run by
International NGO’s
prohibiting the
government from
providing services
and connecting with
the community.
Healing Haiti?
Drawn by: Tjeerd Royaards
HAITI: Understand the Context
PHANTOM STATE: The Regime of the NGOs

17. Photo by Kara Lightburn
Photo by CNN of Jacmel after Hurricane Issac in
2011, Rivers quickly become swollen in Haiti during
storms and can block off communities for weeks.
There is a large loss of life when individuals try and
get across.
Hurricanes & Deforestation
Exacerbating Poverty, Food
Crisis,
Causing Forced Migration
and DR Conflict
HAITI: Understanding the Context
Complex Emergencies Agricultural Calendar &
Impact of Complex
Emergencies
Environmental degradation, whether caused by
deforestation or erosions from farming – it has
continued to worsen exacerbating further poverty
and food insecurity. (photo: Kara Lightburn

18. ü Learn & Understand the Content
o Cultural Immersion
o Global factors
o Root Cause Analysis
ü Build a network of moral strategic partners create an interdependent system
o Through community outreach from the bottom up – top down – side ways (non-linear)
o Engage the Diaspora Communities & Connect them based on interest, passions, and skills
ü Increase Access of Knowledge
o New Media & Technology
o Partner with Universities & Learning Institutions
ü Support Community Mapping – Prioritization -- Mobilization
o Outcome will be sustainable community development & organizational development of local
resources
ü Build Resiliency
o Provide Disaster Preparedness
o Integrate Disaster Risk Reduction into all supported programs
OPERATING AT THE EDGE OF CHAOS:
SUPPORTING EVOLUTION & SUSTAINABILITY
LESSONS LEARNED:
Recommendations for INGOs

19. CONTACT INFORMATION
KARA LIGHTBURN
EMAIL: KLIGHTBURN@SOCIALTAP.ORG
WEBSITE: SOCIALTAP.ORG
Special thanks to Astrid
Andre from the Yale
Alumni Association of NY –
who not only helped
serve over 250 youth in our
local communities this
past Holiday Season
during the “Haiti for the
Holidays Toy Drive” but
also for the opportunity to
share experiences and
lessons learned !