Survivor and Community-Led Response is a new paradigm in humanitarian relief work which puts the power to choose how their community can affect change to improve their situation in the hands of the communities themselves. The ACT Haiti Forum has been working with communities to develop SCLR work for several years, and the 2021 earthquake provided a chance to see how this approach works in a major disaster response.
ACT interviewed Naomie Beaujour from the LWF/NCA joint office in Haiti and Charlotte Greene from the DKH Haiti office to discuss this new approach to humanitarian relief and how it is being implemented within the 2021 ACT Haiti Appeal. Here is the video of that interview: