Real- Time Review Terms of Reference 1. Background

epicentre 16 km from the capital Port-au-Prince. This was the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in more than 200 years. It is estimated to have killed 217,749 and injured 30o,5721. The Revised UN Flash Appeal says that 3M people have been affected, of whom approximately 1.9 million have lost their homes and over 511,000 have left the affected cities. The most affected cities are Port-au-Prince, Carrefour, Léogane and Jacmel. Two month after the earthquake, major issues of concern remain in the areas of sanitation, vulnerability of the camps to flooding, overcrowding, spread of disease, impact of displacement on host communities and shortages of shelter materials. The scale of the disaster continues to be overwhelming for the local Government and the international community as a whole, who are looking simultaneously at the immediate crisis, impending hurricane season, and the early recovery and reconstruction phases. The Humanitarian Coalition is a coalition of four Canadian nongovernmental agencies (Care Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada) with decades of experience in humanitarian assistance, aid and development who undertake joint emergency appeals and action. In Haiti, the Humanitarian Coalition has more than 1100 aid personnel on the ground responding to the crisis and has collectively raised 13 million $CAD for the response to the Haiti Earthquake. The Humanitarian Coalition is working on developing and testing a