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)进行的比较研究，探讨国际行为者和农村社区在恢复工作中的互动及其对受灾个人能力的影响。这项研究探讨了灾难恢复的社会生产，理论上是社会话语、社会政策、人道主义和发展行业的规范以及当地文化的作用。研究涉及公共政策、媒体语篇和组织文件的内容分析。研究小组正在约谈与每个目标社区(海地三个、墨西哥湾沿岸三个)有联系的当地和外部组织行为者，重点是社区行为者参与灾后恢复项目。此外，六个社区中的每个社区都进行了一项随机的社区调查，评估个人灾难恢复、参与程度、社会资本和基于能力的恢复。通过采用能力方法(在全球贫穷研究中使用的人类发展框架，在灾后恢复方面更为温和)，这项研究推进了能力学术研究，进一步澄清了哪些能力对于促进农村地区的可持续灾后恢复最为重要。研究小组为每个社区准备了一个案例研究，除了比较社区的干预做法，特别是参与和恢复能力集。这些调查结果有助于为在灾后恢复环境中工作的国际行为者编写指南和培训，侧重于当地--外部伙伴关系建设的实际应用，使专业人员有机会提高可持续灾后恢复做法的技能。这项研究可为受灾害影响的农村社区带来重要利益，使他们有更多机会参与自己的恢复工作，并从国际伙伴提供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.