Are there any lessons for Haiti from the post-war rebuilding experience in Liberia?
One of the lessons we learned in Liberia was to have much more joined-up approaches rather than individual agencies running around doing whatever they wanted to do. In Liberia the priority was road building. The World Bank had the money, UNDP had experience on the ground and could mobilize payments for Liberians to work, the government was involved so they had ownership and gave overall direction, and the U.N. mission had soldiers and engineers from places like Pakistan and China to help with the work. We hope the big actors will find ways of collaborating in Haiti. Reuters AlertNet is not responsible for the content of external websites.
