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Haiti Humanitarian Collection Plan Paper

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Haiti Humanitarian Collection Plan by Mike Titus
INTL 622
Dr. Holstine

Collection Plan Background:
There are several steps in creating a functional collection plan. The agency must first determine its mission and decide upon tasks needing to be accomplished. The tasks should be brief, succinct, and answer the five Ws (who, what, when, where, and why) without specifically directing how to perform the tasks. The agency leadership need to state the task list clearly to ensure members of the team understand their responsibilities. The task list should be simple and allow the team to operate effectively while following the intelligence process. Basic tasks for any situation could be as simple as “Collect and process data or Evaluate …show more content…

Finding the required needs of an island country and its citizens could start from understanding where the country stood before the disaster. For example, understanding where Haiti stands on the UN Human Development Index, would allow the analyst to better understand where the country would stand after a disaster (Brattberg 2011). A simple OSINT search would show that they stand very close to the bottom of the list as far as development stands. This would steer would be relief organization in the right direction. Knowing that the country is not very developed would also let engineer’s understand what they would have to prepare for in regards to searching for lost individuals. Building codes are probably not enforced which means buildings will be basically destroyed, with people still in them. A very high portion of people living in the area of Port au Prince lived in slum like conditions with the majority of homes being tightly packed and extremely poorly built concrete buildings. This meant that people would have been buried in their homes and aid was needed …show more content…

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