Using standards to shape response and recovery in Haiti

In contrast to how it might perhaps have been ten or fifteen years ago, we seem to have learned that each stage or phase of response is not separate, that they overlap and affect each other. Nowadays there is also wider knowledge and acceptance of the standards, norms, principles and guidelines that have been painstakingly and assiduously developed, negotiated and agreed upon in order to improve quality and accountability.

It is up to those responsible for coordinating and shaping the overall effort to ensure that these standards are adhered to and used to guide the work of response and recovery.