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Donor reports:  https://www.hfhd.de/fileadmin/redaktion/PDF_Dateien/Habitat_for_Humanity_Nepal_sagt_Danke.pdf Nepal Earthquake 2 Years On

Key Activities: Habitat for Humanity has built 87 homes with another 63 homes under construction as at January 12, 2017. It is rebuilding in 5 villages in Kavrepalanchok and 11 villages in Nuwakot. It does not provide cash, rather building materials and

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Donor report: https://worldrenew.net/our-stories/nepal-two-years-after-earthquake Nepal: Two Years After the Earthquake
Raised: Over US$3.4 million
Spent: No financial information found
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Key Activities: World Renew’s focus is rebuilding homes. This meets the highest need of people in Nepal. The 2015 Gorkha earthquake destroyed an estimated 800,000 homes, leaving 2.7 million people homeless. By April 2017, World Renew had built 81 earthquake-resistant brick homes, with construction underway on 120 homes. World Renew adapted to Nepal’s construction labour shortage by paying market wages.
One unique characteristic about Nepal’s disaster recovery: Nepal has an abundance of construction workers. Yet these workers leave for jobs in India and the Gulf States that pay higher wages. These workers send money home – 30% of Nepal’s GDP comes from foreign remittances. Charities progress reports frequently mention construction training programs. These training programs are less effective in addressing Nepal’s reconstruction as, once trained, skilled labour leaves. In the disaster-affected areas, 17% of families report a migrant member – a man, most likely – working abroad to earn money for the family. This severe workforce shortage is one factor in Nepal’s sluggish pace of recovery.[ii]
Recognizing this reality, World Renew paid foreign market wages so construction workers would stay in Nepal to help communities rebuild.This program adaption may explain why World Renew will build 201 homes relative to Habitat for Humanity’s 150 homes, with the same level of funding.
Comparing Results: Homes built in Nepal
Donors should compare World Renew’s results in Nepal with Habitat for Humanity and Samaritan’s Purse. Without financial information found for Samaritan’s Purse, World Renew, or Habitat for Humanity, donors have only pictures of homes built to compare results. From the pictures, Samaritan’s Purse and World Renew look better.


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Donor report:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52c33d01e4b0aec64ed560e3/t/5816d29f20099e8211e4224b/1477890752109/Government+Report+-+Final+-+small.pdf Nepal Earthquake 2015: Relief and Early Recovery Report
Raised: No information found
Spending: No information found
Expertise: Christian development that provides multi-service humanitarian aid

Key Activities: Samaritan’s Purse Nepal disaster relief was turbo-charged by connecting with the US Marines deployed to Nepal. Nothing gets tonnes of supplies into remote locations faster than a massive military airlift. Samaritan’s Purse was on the ground in Dolakha, the region most affected by the after-shock, or second earthquake.
Samaritan’s Purse details its food distribution: it provided 14,830 households with each family receiving 15kg of rice, 2 kg of lentils, 0.5l of oil, and 0.25kg of salt. Through a partnership with the World Food Program, a UN-agency funded by governments, Samaritan’s Purse distributed Plumpy’Doz to 7,856 children under two. This specialty food stops malnutrition, which was an initial fear in Nepal that did not occur on a large scale.
Samaritan’s Purse’s director reports its shift in aid to all in Phase 1 to targeting Nepal’s most vulnerable people affected. He also notes

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index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=238&Itemid=161 Summary assessment of Nepal disaster response by 10 charities Canadians supported
 Charity Intelligence’s mission is to help Canadian donors be informed and give intelligently. We do this through objective and independent research on Canadian charities.
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Donors give money to charities to achieve good things. Some donors have specific ideas about the good they want their money to accomplish. These donors make special gifts, “restricted”, for specific projects. This can be money for a new building, scholarships for students, or any project or program the charity and donor mutually agree on. It doesn’t matter the amount of money, the donation is solicited and given for a purpose. One expects the charity to honour the donor’s intentions.
But what happens when the charity does not spend the money on these projects, instead it goes into general operating funds and is spent on other things?
Most donors remain blissfully unaware about money misspent. Some donors don’t tell, shying from publicity and sticking to the upper-class code of silence about all things unpleasant. Only a few donors fight back.
Bill Robertson was a fighter for donor rights. He took Princeton University to court in 2002, spent $40 million in the 4-year legal fight and, bled dry, had to settle.
Doug White’s Abusing Donor Intent: The Robertson Family’s Epic Lawsuit Against Princeton University, tells this legal story about the largest court case in philanthropy, It is a gripping book every donor considering a restricted gift should read. It is a rare glimpse of the behind the scenes details of philanthropy among the ultra-wealthy. Like sausages and legislation, how philanthropy actually worked in this case is most unpleasant. 

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Here in Canada, lacking court decisions, Canadian donor rights are not clear. As in America, public opinion strongly believes charities should stand by their promises. This leaves a gap between case law and public expectations. Canadian donors considering making restricted gifts, especially to large charities, should go forewarned: caveat emptor. White’s book is an excellent map of pitfalls donors need to look out for in making restricted gifts.
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Donor report:  http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2016/4/571dc9f86/year-nepal-quake-villagers-rebuild-ruins.html A year after Nepal quake, villagers rebuild from the ruins
Raised: No information found. Received $64 million from
Key Activities: UNHCR distributed 41,574 plastic tarps, 8,032 solar lamps, 5,000 blankets, 450 shelter kits and 175 temporary schools distributed to 210,000 displaced people.
That is all the information found. UNHCR is mostly funded by governments and likely provides these funders with better disclosure. We did not find its disaster response report.  
Charity Intelligence picked UNHCR given Nepal’s severe needs, UNHCR’s large size, and its expertise in shelter. UNHCR has operated in Nepal since the early 1960s. We had hoped Nepal would be the first disaster deployment on IKEA shelter huts. Instead, UNHCR handed out thousands of plastic tarps. Tarps have proven again and again to be ineffective in countries that have monsoons and are inappropriate for cold weather. Nepal has both.
Disaster response differs from development work. Disaster response needs to be fast and flexible. Subsequent surveys of people affected by disasters report low satisfaction with UN-agencies response. Perhaps the UN’s institutional framework inhibits fast and adaptive disaster response relative to international charities.

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