Success Factors for an International Development Project in a Crisis Context: The Case of Haiti

A master's thesis in project management at the Universite du Quebec a Rimouski on what makes an international development project succeed in a crisis context, taking Haiti as the case and the role of international development agencies as its focus. It reads Haiti's position through dependency theory, arguing that underdevelopment is historically the product of policy rather than an initial condition, and that the dependence this creates persists and deepens.

The empirical anchor is the aid record after the 2010 earthquake: donors disbursed 6 billion dollars, and the thesis traces individual portfolios, including World Bank commitments of more than 919 million dollars with a further 129 million in trust funds to support implementation. It sets those figures against global aid totals for the period and against MINUSTAH's presence, then asks what distinguished the projects that worked. Because it is a thesis rather than an agency evaluation, it states its theoretical frame and its method openly, which is what makes it usable alongside the donor evaluations of the same period.