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    Quake aid 'exposed culture gap' — Haiti activist

    Five years after the 2010 Haiti quake, many Haitians feel international efforts to help the country recover failed to meet their goals, particularly local ownership of development gains. We learn more from Gotson Pierre, an award-winning Haitian journalist who urges foreign aid groups to "go local" and understand what the country is all about before setting up shop.

    By Diederik Kramers // 19 January 2015

    Five years after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, many Haitians feel international efforts to help the country recover from the disaster failed to meet their goals, particularly local ownership of development gains.

    One of these critics is journalist and public relations consultant Gotson Pierre, whose advice to the global development community is precisely to “go local” and involve the population in all aid programs.

    Devex caught up with Pierre during his recent visit to Brussels, where the reporter — named one of last year’s 100 “information heroes” by the media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders for his post-disaster work — was invited by Coordination Europe-Haiti, a coalition of 15 European nongovernmental organizations that advocates increased involvement in support of good governance and civil society in Haiti, to discuss the results of Europe’s aid involvement in the country with European Union officials.

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    • Diederik Kramers

      Diederik Kramers@DiederikKramers

      Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.

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