Special edition: How deep partnership with Haitian communities redefines possibility
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Special edition: How deep partnership with Haitian communities redefines possibility

B1IntermediateOctober 16, 202635 min
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Haiti has spent years dominating international headlines almost exclusively through the lens of political crisis and humanitarian emergency. But behind the headlines lies a resilient ecosystem of local organizations that continue to drive change. Recorded live at Devex Impact House in New York City on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, this special episode of the This Week in Global Development podcast asks a fundamental question: What happens when international funders stop trying to “fix” Haiti and instead ask local leaders how to support what already exists? Host Margaret Richardson of Devex sits down with Karen Ansara of the...

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Well, welcome everybody. I'm Margaret Richardson, the Chief of Staff and Senior Director of External Relations at DEVEX, and I am thrilled to be hosting this special episode of this week in global development, recorded here at DEVEX Impact House in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings. Today we're going to be talking about Haiti.

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Haiti has spent the better part of a decade as a headline, almost exclusively negative headlines or about the negative situations in Hades, including some of our own headlines. But what that coverage rarely shows

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is the other side of Haiti. The strong networks of foundations, universities, clinics, farming collectives, women-owned operations, many of them decades old and continuing to work through

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