Haiti - Politics : How to take the time of development ?
On Tuesday in Paris, as part of the Latin America and the Caribbean Week, the French Development Agency (AFD), celebrating its 40th anniversary in Haiti, organized in partnership with RFI, France24 and France Médias Monde, a high-level conference-debate on international cooperation in fragile contexts.
Development aid historically has limits on its temporality. The classic management of a development project, often standardized, sometimes combines poorly with the time necessary for its appropriation. And this especially in Haiti, where aid actors themselves are skeptical about the benefits of their actions and where civil society is increasingly stirring up of a presence from abroad.
Hosted by Philomé Robert, a Haitian journalist, speaking on France 24, journalist on RFI and co-author of "Haiti, reinventing the future", this conference brought together a panel of high-level speakers from the political, cultural, or institutional field. Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti 2009-2011, Joël Boutroue, General Coordinator of the United Nations in Haiti from 2006 to 2009, Hervé Conan, Director of the AFD Latin America and Caribbean Department, and Anne Lescot, Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, project manager Haiti at the Fondation de France which debated, among other things questions such as : How, in countries where repeated emergencies and more structural issues coexist, accept the complexity, praise slowness and adapt ways of doing things ? Is a project with a beginning and an end is relevant in a context of great fragility ?
