The last session of this year's NGOs & Development Study Group will be held on Thursday, April 22 from 4.00 to 5.00 pm in Belfer L4 at Harvard Kennedy School. The session is titled “The Challenges of Haiti: A Critical Test for International NGOs.” Peter Bell, Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and former President & CEO of CARE USA will lead this session. He will discuss what international NGOs might learn from their mixed record in Haiti and how they can seize the opportunity to do things differently (and better). Peter will also speak to the specific pressures that international NGOs are coming under, given the magnitude of resources raised for Haiti, and the opportunity to “build back better” including building local capacity and better governance. Peter Bell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University and chairs the facilitation group of the NGO Leaders Forum. Before joining the Hauser Center, he was a visiting fellow at the Carter Center. Previously, Peter served as president of CARE USA for ten years. He has also been president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, president of the Inter-American Foundation, and Deputy Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. At the outset of his career, he worked for 12 years with the Ford Foundation, including ten years with its Latin American program. Peter's volunteer positions include being chairman emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue, vice chair of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, a director of the Global Water Challenge, a director of Transparency International USA and a trustee of the World Peace Foundation. He is a graduate of Yale College and holds a master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. More About the Study Group The Study Group on NGOs and Development is organized by the Humanitarian & Development NGOs Domain of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. The group meets biweekly to consider, discuss and debate issues related to emerging paradigms in development, evolving roles of NGOs, and specific management, leadership and governance challenges. The study group brings together interested students, practitioners dealing with these questions in real time, and academics investigating similar questions. The goal is to create a climate for genuine discussion and lively exchange, in which all participants come to the table with a commitment to share, listen and reflect. The study group is a space for building relationships, exchanging ideas and connecting real-world challenges to scholarly study of NGOs and their role in development. Guests will serve as resource people and catalysts of discussion.