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Coordination of aid to Haiti: deficient or disastrous?

Coordination of aid to Haiti: deficient or disastrous?

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]