Wednesday, January 5, 2011

It is nice to see honesty in high places!

Dear Colleagues

It really is nice to see honesty in high places ... but it is all too rare.

The OAS representative in Haiti seems to have drawn the same conclusions I have drawn after almost of year of following the Haitian post-earthquake emergency situation. This interview in interesting.
http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/further-interview-brazilian-diplomat-ricardo-seitenfus

Starting within a week of the initial disaster we called for accountability from all concerned ... but got near zero interest ... even from high profile well known organizations. We wanted to see basic True Value Metrics being used to help with simple accountability ... but nobody NOBODY wanted to do it.

When I learned basic auditing I learned that you know there are problems when nobody wants to give you a straight answer ... and I know enough about fund flows and connecting the dots to conclude that the degree of thievery or something very much like it is disgustingly high ... or is it that there is massive incompetence ... or both!

Peter Burgess

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