After Haiti quake, aid workers make respect a part of relief

When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti last weekend, it made many outside the country tremble as well.

The temblor kicked up memories of the tumultuous aftermath of Haiti’s 2010 quake, of tent cities rife with illness and sexual abuse and of an international humanitarian response that largely excluded local people from decision-making. Since 2010, Haiti has been held up as an example of all that can go wrong with international disaster assistance.

But this time, local and foreign aid workers say, things may be different.

That’s because last time around, “we learned a lot about community-driven support” and “how can the international system support local efforts instead of the other way

A “Haitian solution”?Mouths to feed, or people with brains?