Recovery, Reconstruction and Renewal: What It Takes to Build Back Better in Haiti
The recent devastation of hurricane Sandy in northeastern U.S. is a reminder that even the best-equipped nation faces difficult challenges for recovery in the aftermath of a crippling natural disaster. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, an already impoverished and vulnerable nation, killing over 220,000 people and leaving 1.6 million internally displaced. Despite the challenges in the reconstruction process, positive signs of recovery and progress are emerging throughout Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas.
A panel of experts will discuss comprehensive strategies for urban development that take into account brick and mortar reconstruction along with job creation, security, access to land, and delivery of basic services such as health, water and sanitation. Panelists will offer regional and U.S. perspectives as well as a view from the ground to reflect upon what it takes to “build back better” in Haiti.
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Urban Sustainability Laboratory
Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more