DRRC: Dynamics between Local and Foreign Actors: Influences on Capabilities in Post-Earthquake Rural Haiti and Hurricane Impacted Rural Gulf Coast

这项研究是对受灾害影响的农村社区（美国墨西哥湾沿岸和海地）的比较研究，探讨了在恢复工作中国际行动者和农村社区之间的相互作用及其对受灾个人能力的影响。该研究探讨了灾难恢复的社会生产，从理论上讲，它是社会话语、社会政策、人道主义和发展行业规范以及当地文化的功能。这项研究包括对公共政策、媒体话语和组织文件的内容分析。研究小组正在采访与每个目标社区（海地三个，墨西哥湾沿岸三个）有联系的当地和外部组织行动者，特别关注社区行动者参与灾后恢复项目。此外，在六个社区中，每个社区都进行了随机社区调查，评估了个人灾难恢复、参与、社会资本和基于能力的恢复。通过采用能力方法（在全球贫困研究中使用的一种人类发展框架，在灾害恢复中使用得较少），本研究推进了能力研究，进一步阐明了哪些能力对促进农村环境中的可持续灾害恢复最重要。研究小组为每个社区准备了一份案例研究，此外还比较了社区的干预做法，特别是参与和恢复能力集。调查结果有助于为从事灾后恢复工作的国际行为者编写指南和培训，重点是建立本地-外部伙伴关系的实际应用，为专业人员提供提高可持续灾后恢复做法技能的机会。这项研究可以为受灾害影响的农村社区带来重要的利益，使他们有更多的机会参与自己的恢复工作，并从国际伙伴的技术援助和其他直接支助中获益。

The research is a comparative study of disaster-affected rural communities (the U.S. Gulf Coast and Haiti) that explores the interactions between international actors and rural communities during recovery efforts and their influences on the capabilities of disaster-affected individuals. The study inquires into the social production of disaster recovery, theorized to be a function of social discourses, social policies, the norms of the humanitarian and development industries, and local cultures. The research involves a content analysis of public policies, media discourses, and organizational documents. The research team is interviewing local and external organizational actors connected to each of the target communities (three in Haiti and three on the Gulf Coast) with a specific focus on community actor participation in disaster recovery projects. As well, a random community survey in each of the six communities gauges individual disaster recovery, participation, social capital, and capabilities-based recovery. By employing a capabilities approach (a human development framework utilized in global poverty studies and more modestly in disaster recovery), this research advances capabilities scholarship, further clarifying what capabilities are most important to facilitate sustainable disaster recovery in rural settings. The research team prepares a case study for each community, in addition to comparing communities on intervention practices, especially participation, and recovery capabilities sets. The findings contribute to the production of a guide and training for international actors working in disaster recovery settings, focusing on practical applications of local-external partnership building, providing professionals with an opportunity to advance skills in sustainable disaster recovery practices. Important benefits can accrue to rural communities impacted by disasters as a result of this research, providing them with greater opportunities to participate in their own recovery efforts and gain benefits from technical assistance and other direct supports from international partners.