This paper examines organisational priority setting with respect to post-disaster reconstruction through a case study of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Interviews were conducted with 52 organisations, across seven categories, working in Port-au-Prince. Results show that these organisations can be grouped as specialists or generalists in terms of priority setting. Specialists are more likely to be funders or well-resourced organisations. Generalists are smaller organisations that are typically beneficiaries of funding, including small international NGOs and Haitian NGOs. International funders acted on a relatively standard repertoire of global priorities, while the priorities of generalist organisations were more readily modified and were influenced by a need to securere sources from funders.
Resource collections
- Earthquakes
- Learning from crises
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
