Clinton School student Ivanley Noisette has produced an extensive literature review about water, sanitation and hygiene protection in the aftermath of earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010.
Completed in partnership with Catholic Relief Service and titled “Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH), Protection, and Coordination in Urban Disaster Settings: Haiti,” the review documented lessons for future urban disasters and provided learning-based recommendations to improve practices.
The collaborative work has improved the performance delivery and integration of WASH and Protection activities and strengthened the capacity of the Catholic Relief Service emergency operations in Haiti.
“We are pleased to have established a partnership with the Clinton School of Public Service,” said CRS Knowledge Management Advisor Driss Moumane. “The collaborative efforts have been beneficial to our emergency operations.”
Noisette is from Philadelphia, Penn. He completed the project as part of the school’s Capstone program, the last of three public service projects in the Master of Public Service degree program.
Catholic Relief Services seeks to “promote human development by responding to major emergencies, fighting disease and poverty, and nurturing peaceful and just societies.”It also works “to assist people on the basis of need, not creed, race or nationality.”
Catholic Relief Services have served communities in Haiti since after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. For more information, visit www.crs.org.