Frederick M. Burkle, Jr. - Lessons from Haiti: Professionalizing Humanitarian Assistance

"Haiti -- in terms of coordination -- was a debacle," said Frederick Burkle, senior fellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Burkle, who is also a senior public policy scholar at the Wilson Center, said that after the 2010 earthquake, "the large majority of people who showed up were under the age of 30 and this was their first disaster event."

As a result, "best practices did not necessarily occur," Burkle said. "Ninety-five percent of the work is probably done by 45 of the major NGOs," but, he said, the number of "mom-and-pop shows" and other small NGOs in "The Republic of NGOs" is in the thousands.

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