Juillet 2012

Oxfam’s participatory capacity and vulnerability analysis (PCVA) tool is a risk analysis process designed to help staff and partner organisations engage with communities in contexts where natural disasters are significant drivers of poverty and suffering.

PCVA has its roots in two proven social development methodologies:

• First, it stems from capacity and vulnerability analysis (CVA) methodology. This has long enabled development and humanitarian aid workers to design programmes based on a community’s capacities as well as its vulnerabilities.

"The quantity of people who are homeless in Port-au-Prince today is not acceptable. We need the support of other governments, like the US, to demand that the Haitian Government create a social housing plan. We are looking for allies to help our advocacy. We are asking simply for quality homes where people can live." - Jackson Doliscar of the grassroots group Force for Reflection and Action on Housing (FRAKKA).

Haitian grassroots organizations and international allies are launching an urgent housing rights campaign today, July 2, calling for permanent housing solutions for the nearly 400,000

On connaissait le bilan humain de la tempête Xynthia – qui avait frappé le littoral atlantique le 27 février 2010 – et des inondations qui, le 15 juin de la même année, avaient submergé les communes du Var: 64 personnes décédées, deux disparues, des centaines de blessés et de familles sans toit. Mais on ignorait le bilan financier de ces deux catastrophes.