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

Mark Schuller博士（纽约市立大学）将与海地学者合作，研究非政府组织和“公民基础设施”，这些基础设施是在最近的地震造成六分之一的海地人无家可归之后为援助流离失所者而建立的。国际社会的反应是慷慨地提供援助。美国公民在六个月内向非政府组织捐款超过13亿美元。尽管有这一初步供资，但只收到了额外认捐的53亿美元援助中的一小部分。此外，地震发生一年半后，剩余的境内流离失所者的局势依然脆弱。 国际合作小组将研究官方发展援助对海地剩余的境内流离失所者营地内的民间组织和运作的影响。研究将主要侧重于与国内流离失所者融入和民间社会参与这些进程中与非政府组织的关系有关的问题。 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，并与组成团体沟通？*官方委员会如何代表弱势群体及其关切？*各利益攸关方如何理解“参与”，它如何影响行动？*委员会如何与先前存在的公民组织（如亲属关系、邻里团体和基于信仰的网络）相交？非政府组织提供援助的政策和方法如何影响难民营委员会和与国内流离失所者的关系？将对8个境内流离失所者营地的有目的抽样采用观察、个人和重点小组访谈等混合方法，比较有非政府组织管理机构的营地和没有非政府组织管理机构的营地，并研究性别平等问题。拟议的研究涉及大学间的合作，融合民族志的核心力量与比较框架。 这项研究的意义在于它的关注条件的建立机构的公民治理和民间社会后灾难性的破坏。这项研究是共同资助的NSF办公室国际科学和工程/美洲谁提供资金的教师和学生前往海地。

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.