Haiti: A Crisis Management Nightmare (Part 2)

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Haiti: A Crisis Management Nightmare (Part 2)

Bob Weinstein

March 8, 2010






In the first week following the Haiti earthquake, it wasn’t possible for holistic strategic coordination to take place among the myriad multilateral, bilateral and NGO assistance organizations, according to Eric C. Martin--an associate professor of management at Eastern Connecticut State University who played a leading role in coordination of development assistance in Bosnia in 1999.
“You need to know a lot about the situation on the ground and the activities of all key stakeholders before you can coordinate effectively,” he explains. “You need to be able to hold a meeting, gather contact information, make plans.”
Complicating the matter is that it’s impossible to divide search-and-rescue efforts geographically because new teams are arriving in Haiti every day, Martin adds. When there’s little idea of what to expect, how does someone on the ground reallocate resources? It can’t be done, thus making strategic coordination of resources an impossible task.



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