THE GLENN SMUCKER ARCHIVE

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THE GLENN SMUCKER ARCHIVE

Glenn R. Smucker is a cultural anthropologist who has specialized for the past 40 years in practical applications of anthropology to alleviating human problems. A leading specialist on Haiti, Smucker first came to live in Haiti as a child in 1960.  He carried out dissertation fieldwork in a northern mountain peasant community in the mid-1970s. He subsequently published numerous articles, reports and books on a broad range of Haitian topics.

Smucker has directed major programs in reforestation and natural resource management.  He served as director of the Pan American Development Foundation in Haiti, which included a large scale farm forestry project.  He later led the USAID-funded Natural Resource Management Project in Rwanda, including protection of the mountain gorillas.  He has consulted for a range of donors including USAID, the Inter-American Bank, the World Bank, also the Haitian Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture, and J/PHRO, the philanthropic organization founded by Sean Penn.

HACHO and the Community Council Movement

This evaluation of HACH0 is undertaken in compliance with the requirement that there be an end-of-project evaluation at the time of the termination of AID's direct administrative support, September 30, 1979. The usefulness of this undertaking lies in its retrospective learning opportunity in general, and the information gathering and analysis pertinent for considering future Operational Program Grants.

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FOOD AID and the problem of LABOR INTENSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

In keeping with the scope of work mandating this study, this report seeks to identify problems and clarify issues commonly raised in the use of food aid, labour-intensive approaches to public works and community development. An under­ lying premise of the study assumes that certain material' resources are readily available to private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and USAID projects, in accord with the Congressional mandate.

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