I'll start. I know that both the Red Cross and UNICEF are deeply involved in these coordination efforts. Very briefly, the humanitarian organizations, under the leadership of the United Nations, have established a cluster system, whereby organizations that are involved in water, food, and heath security come together and coordinate their activities. That happens very quickly, largely because all of our organizations are in the country before a disaster strikes and we have existing relationships and coordination mechanisms already in place. They're organized by theme.
That deals with emergencies in particular. One thing worth noting is that the cholera epidemic occurred 10 months after the earthquake and was largely prevented through effective coordination by international humanitarian agencies in the IDP camps. Also, the cholera epidemic actually started outside of the displaced persons camps, which is an indication of the weakness of existing communities in Haiti, as opposed to an indication of weakness of the coordination of the emergency response.
I have been doing emergency response work for 20 years. I can find many examples in the past where coordination was much worse than what we saw in Haiti. We are getting better at it, but you are correct in that there are many organizations involved, and organizations that don't have the capacity to engage in coordination mechanisms are in fact the ones that cause problems. That's something to be concerned about. These are organizations that are too small, too new, or too independent to participate in coordination. But the agencies here do a significant amount of work in collaboration to avoid the problems you've identified.