USAID Calls Its Report on Haiti Dead and Homeless Flawed – More Like Manufactured http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/usaid-says-its-report-on-number-of-quake-victims-is-flawed-more-like-manufactured/ 

In the following article, we see that the USAID has been forced to condemn the report stating that the contractor’s statistical sampling methods were flawed. Yet, it should not be discounted that the USAID gave the contractor the bottom line number of dead and homeless and told the contractor to create the statistics to fit.

Verifying the number of dead and homeless in disaster situations is the method normally used by government agencies to justify budget requests. If USAID purposely low-balled the numbers then its intention is to lower its Haiti assistance budget. In addition, since USAID is the largest funder of NGOs in Haiti, a reduced USAID budget for Haiti assistance means that NGOs will have to tighten their belt or be dropped altogether.