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2 The Groupe URD evaluation team would like to thank the Strategic Affairs Directorate (DAS) who made this real-time evaluation in Haiti possible. We would also like to thank the people in Paris, New York and Haiti, who accepted to meet us and share with us their experiences and the lessons learned from this disaster. We are particularly grateful to all the Haitians who, despite the tragic events that they had so recently gone through, always received us with warmth and kindness and showed genuine interest in this original exercise. The evaluation team would also like to thank the institutions that were invited to take part in the steering committee:

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