NGOs and Nation Building: Impact of NGOs on Haiti's internally displaced people (IDP) camp committees

非政府组织与国家建设：非政府组织对海地境内流离失所者 (IDP) 营地委员会的影响

• 批准号: 1339616
• 负责人: Mark Schuller
• 金额: $ 1.02万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1339616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NGOs; Nation; Building; Impact; Haiti

Dr. Mark Schuller (CUNY) in collaboration with Haitian scholars will undertake research on NGOs and the "civic infrastructure" that has arisen to assist displaced peoples in the aftermath of the recent earthquake that rendered one in six Haitians homeless. The international community responded with a generous outpouring of aid. Over $1.3 billion was contributed by private U.S. citizens to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within six months. Despite this initial funding, only a fraction of an additional $5.3 billion pledged for assistance has been received. Furthermore, the situation remains tenuous for the remaining internally displaced people (IDP) a year and a half following the earthquake. The international collaborative team will conduct research on the impact of official development aid on civic organization and functioning within Haiti's remaining IDP camps. The research will focus primarily on issues associated with IDP inclusion and civil society participation in their relationships with NGOs within these processes. The research will be based on a "civic infrastructure" frame, specifically asking: *How do camp committees function, make decisions, involve resident populations, and communicate with constituent groups?*How are vulnerable populations and their concerns represented by official committees?*How is "participation" understood by various stakeholders, and how does it shape action?*How do the committees intersect with pre-existing civic organization, such as kinship ties,neighborhood groups, and faith-based networks?*How do NGO policies and approaches to giving aid impact camp committees and relationships with IDPs? A mixed methods approach involving observation and individual and focus group interviews will be employed on a purposive sample of eight IDP camps, comparing camps with an NGO management agency with those without as well as looking at gender parity. Proposed research involves an inter-university collaboration blending ethnography's core strength with a comparative frame. The significance of the research lies in its attention to the conditions of the establishment of institutions of civic governance and civil society after catastrophic destruction.The research is co-funded by NSF Office of International Science and Engineering/Americas who provided funding for faculty and student travel to Haiti.

马克·舒勒博士（纽约市立大学）将与海地学者合作，对非政府组织和“公民基础设施”进行研究，这些基础设施是为了在最近的地震导致六分之一的海地人无家可归的地震后为流离失所者提供援助而建立的。国际社会提供了大量援助作为回应。六个月内，美国公民向非政府组织 (NGO) 捐赠了超过 13 亿美元。尽管有这笔初始资金，但仅收到了额外 53 亿美元援助承诺的一小部分。此外，地震发生一年半后，剩下的国内流离失所者 (IDP) 的处境仍然岌岌可危。 国际合作小组将研究官方发展援助对海地剩余国内流离失所者营地内民间组织和运作的影响。该研究将主要关注与境内流离失所者融入以及民间社会参与这些进程中与非政府组织的关系相关的问题。 该研究将基于“公民基础设施”框架，具体询问：*营地委员会如何运作、做出决策、让居民参与并与组成群体沟通？*官方委员会如何代表弱势群体及其关切？*各利益相关者如何理解“参与”，以及它如何影响行动？*委员会如何与先前存在的公民组织（例如亲属关系）相交叉 关系、邻里团体和基于信仰的网络？*非政府组织提供援助的政策和方法如何影响营地委员会以及与国内流离失所者的关系？将对八个国内流离失所者营地进行有目的地抽样，采用包括观察、个人和焦点小组访谈的混合方法，将有非政府组织管理机构的营地与没有非政府组织管理机构的营地进行比较，并考虑性别平等。拟议的研究涉及大学间合作，将民族志的核心优势与比较框架相结合。 该研究的意义在于关注灾难性破坏后公民治理机构和公民社会的建立条件。该研究由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程/美洲办公室共同资助，该办公室为教师和学生前往海地旅行提供资金。