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INTERAMITICA  ·  GOVERNANCE RESEARCH ON HAITI

Built from grief.
Grounded in evidence.
Named after a friendship.

InterAmitica is a structured governance research institution focused exclusively on Haiti. We document the country's institutional landscape with rigor, so that everyone working on Haiti can act on evidence rather than assumption.

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2025FOUNDED
8TEAM MEMBERS
10DEPARTMENTS TRACKED
7INDICATOR MODULES
HaitiPRIMARY FOCUS
4RESEARCH PILLARS
DCHEADQUARTERS
ABOUT  ·  OUR ORIGIN

A crisis studied. A friendship that refused to look away.

"Haiti does not lack people who care about it. It lacks institutions that translate that care into evidence."

Marvens Moise grew up watching Haiti from a distance that felt like both privilege and wound. He left, as many Haitians do, carrying the country with him like something unresolved. His studies in government, politics, and policy gave him the formal vocabulary for what he had long felt. State failure is not an accident. It is a measurable condition with identifiable variables. And measurable conditions can be studied, documented, and challenged.

The classroom gave Marvens frameworks. Comparative politics. Institutional theory. Policy analysis. But the deeper question was personal, not academic. He watched the 2021 earthquake tear through the southern peninsula. He watched the presidential assassination unravel what remained of governance. He watched displacement figures climb past half a million. He took notes. He built spreadsheets. He made calls home. None of it felt like enough.

It was Robin Yahi, a friend whose belief in Marvens has always outrun caution, who first said it plainly: you should build this. Not a think piece. Not a social media page. A real institution, with methodology, built to last.

Robin could see the idea whole when Marvens could only see the obstacles. He held the idea in place while Marvens built the intellectual architecture around it. InterAmitica exists because one person decided to study a crisis, and another refused to let him stop.

2021
The year that made it urgent
The assassination of President Moïse in July and the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in August collapse within weeks of each other. The twin crises turn a personal grievance into a research imperative.
TURNING POINT
2022 TO 2024
Robin says: build it
Robin Yahi insists that the work deserves institutional form, not just personal documentation. The project shifts from private research to organisational ambition. The methodology is formalised across three core frameworks: the institutional functionality index, the geographic intelligence layer, and the indicators system.
ARCHITECTURE
2025
InterAmitica is established
InterAmitica formally begins operations from Washington, DC. It launches departmental intelligence briefs, indicator dashboards, and institutional assessments, positioned as a structured governance research institution focused exclusively on Haiti.
OPERATIONAL
LATE 2025
Mardochee joins as the ground level link
Mardochee Moise joins as the Haiti based consultant. His role is to do what remote research cannot: build relationships, navigate institutions, and create the network of local knowledge that gives the analysis its credibility and its connection to people on the ground.
FIELD PRESENCE
2026 AND BEYOND
The team and the architecture expand
The team grows to eight, organised into an executive team and a managing team. Katarina A. Jager joins as Public Relations, Aleksandra Drozd as Research Method Strategy Advisor, Dolene Lamour as HR Director, Riley Ares as Policy Analyst, and Aly Pierre-Louis as Strategist. InterAmitica deepens departmental intelligence coverage across all ten departments, prepares its first flagship research report, and develops the citizen intelligence survey network that brings ground level observation into structured analysis.
IN PROGRESS

InterAmitica does not deliver food or build shelters. It produces the structured, evidence based analysis that makes other interventions more intelligent. Haiti is not understudied. It is under analysed. There is no shortage of crisis reporting, donor briefs, or emergency assessments. What is scarce is longitudinal, methodologically rigorous, publicly accessible research that treats Haiti as a state with a governance architecture worth documenting. That is the gap InterAmitica was built to fill.

About · The team

The people behind the work.

InterAmitica is organised into two groups. The executive team sets the research direction and holds the relationship with Haiti. The managing team keeps the institution rigorous, well run, and heard.

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ABOUT  ·  OUR METHOD

Four pillars. One standard of evidence.

InterAmitica's research framework is built on four interlocking methodological pillars. Each is designed to compensate for the specific evidentiary gaps that characterise governance research in fragile and conflict affected states.

FOUR RESEARCH PILLARS  ·  TAP TO EXPAND
Borrowed from comparative politics and public administration theory, institutional mapping identifies the formal structures of governance: ministries, courts, police, and the civil registry. It then assesses the gap between their mandated function and their observable performance. InterAmitica uses secondary source triangulation, expert consultation, and structured indicator frameworks derived from the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators and the Fund for Peace's Fragile States Index. The result is a functionality score that reflects operational reality rather than constitutional aspiration.
Haiti's ten departments are not interchangeable units. Each presents a distinct governance environment shaped by geography, population density, historical infrastructure investment, and proximity to security threats. The geographic intelligence layer draws on spatial disaggregation methods used by ACLED, IPC food security assessments, and humanitarian access reports. It produces department level intelligence profiles that capture asymmetries invisible in national level statistics.
Single point assessments of fragile states produce misleading snapshots. InterAmitica's indicator system is designed for longitudinal use, tracking the same variables across time. This distinguishes cyclical deterioration from structural collapse, and identifies threshold moments when crisis shifts from acute to chronic. The approach draws on state fragility literature, including work by the Brookings Institution, Crisis Group, Robert Rotberg, and Francis Fukuyama.
Research on Haiti is frequently produced by organisations with operational stakes in how the crisis is characterised. Donor reports tend toward optimism. Advocacy briefs tend toward urgency. Government statistics tend toward legitimacy. InterAmitica requires that any factual claim be supported by at least two independent source categories before publication. Where sources conflict, the conflict is documented rather than resolved through selection. Mardochee Moise's field presence adds a qualitative dimension: ground truth that calibrates whether formal source claims match observable conditions.
REFERENCE FRAMEWORKS
FSI
Fragile States Index
WGI
World Bank Governance Indicators
ACLED
Conflict geospatial data
IPC
Food security classification
ABOUT  ·  THE NAME

Two languages. One meaning.

InterAmitica
/ ɪn.tər.ɑː.ˈmiː.tɪ.kɑ /
VERITAS ET VIRTUS

A constructed name that operates in two registers at once, Latin and Haitian Creole. Each layer carries a meaning that reinforces the other.

Inter-
LATIN PREFIX
Between, among, within. The organisation's position between disciplines, nations, evidence, and action.
Ami
HAITIAN CREOLE · FRENCH
Friend. The word for the relationship that made this institution possible. In Creole: zanmi.
-tica
LATIN SUFFIX
Of, relating to. A body of study or field of inquiry, as in Politica, Analytica, and Informatica.

In Haitian Creole, zanmi, the word for friend, carries a weight that the English word does not quite reach. Friendship in Haitian social life is not incidental. It is infrastructural. It is how things get built when institutions fail. It is what holds communities together when the state withdraws.

When Robin Yahi told Marvens to build this, he was doing something profoundly Haitian: offering himself as the structure that made movement possible. When Mardochee Moise stepped into Haiti to build the networks the research required, he was doing the same thing from the inside.

"We named it after what made it. Not the crisis, but the friendship that refused to look away from it."

Placing ami at the root of an institution's name is not sentimental. It is a methodological statement. It says that knowledge production, at its most honest, begins in relationship. It begins in the trust that someone sees something worth building, and the will to stay until it stands.

The inter prefix also signals cross disciplinary ambition. InterAmitica sits between political science and humanitarian analysis, between academic methodology and policy facing output, and between the Haitian diaspora's lived knowledge and the institutional vocabulary that international actors require. It is, in name and in practice, a translation institution. It converts grief into evidence, and evidence into something useful.

ABOUT  ·  HOW WE ARE FUNDED

Independent by design.

InterAmitica is a nonprofit research organisation. Our work is funded by individual donors and by philanthropic organisations that share one conviction: Haiti deserves serious, sustained, independent analysis.

Donor supported
Funding comes from individual donors, philanthropic organisations, and institutional grants. We do not sell our research or take commissions that shape it.
NONPROFIT
Firewalled
No funder reviews, approves, or influences findings before publication. Methodology decides conclusions. Support does not buy a seat at the research table.
INDEPENDENT
Transparent
Supporters are acknowledged, funding sources are disclosed, and the research itself remains publicly accessible to everyone working on Haiti.
PUBLIC GOOD

This model exists for a reason. Research on Haiti is frequently paid for by actors with operational stakes in how the crisis is described, and the findings tend to follow the funding. By separating who pays for the work from what the work is allowed to conclude, InterAmitica can publish what the evidence shows, including when it is inconvenient.

SUPPORT THE WORK
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If you or your organisation are considering supporting Haiti focused governance research, write to us. Tell us who you are and what draws you to this work, and we will follow up with how contributions are structured and acknowledged.
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WORK WITH US  ·  PARTNERSHIPS

Evidence travels further with the right partners.

InterAmitica works with institutions, researchers, and organisations engaged in Haiti. We do not simply produce analysis. We translate it into forms that partners can act on. If your work touches Haiti, there is likely a collaboration worth exploring.

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Business days to first response on all inquiries
STANDARD TRACK
4
Open collaboration tracks currently active
ALL ACTIVE
Remote
Default operating model across all engagements
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FOUR COLLABORATION TRACKS  ·  TAP TO EXPAND
For institutions seeking access to InterAmitica's governance datasets, analytical outputs, or co-research arrangements. This track is designed for academic institutions, think tanks, and research departments within multilateral organisations.
TRACK READINESS
For NGOs, think tanks, and government bodies engaging on Haiti's governance reform, security transition, or state capacity. Partnerships in this track may involve joint publications, data sharing, or advisory arrangements on institutional capacity assessment.
TRACK READINESS
Consulting engagements for policy teams, multilateral organisations, or international development actors who need structured governance analysis of Haiti's institutional landscape. Advisory engagements typically involve indicator briefings, scenario assessments, or tailored institutional profiles.
TRACK READINESS
Joint research, peer review partnerships, or academic exchange programmes focused on Caribbean governance studies, fragile state analysis, or Haiti's political economy. This track is particularly open to graduate researchers and early career scholars working on Haiti.
TRACK READINESS
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RESPONSE TIME
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WORK WITH US  ·  CAREERS

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InterAmitica is a lean, early stage research organisation. Open roles are published directly on this page when available. If nothing is listed, we are not actively recruiting. We do review outstanding unsolicited applications in areas central to our mission.
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TYPICAL ROLE AREAS
Research analysts
Field consultants (Haiti)
Data & technology
Partnerships & outreach
Policy writing
WORK MODEL
Remote first
Most roles are fully remote. Field roles based in Haiti may be available for specific research projects. All team members are expected to have a serious, research grounded engagement with Haiti's governance and political economy.
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