The following analysis is based primarily on field experience in food assistance coordination in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during the months immediately following the January 2010 earthquake (January through September, 2010). These experiences, in addition to further fieldwork conducted from January to February 2011, form the basis of a Master’s thesis focusing on gender-based programming in post-earthquake Haiti (completed in July 2011). The below is a short summary of ideas treated therein.