Haiti Commission Assigns $1.6 Billion for Recovery

A special recovery commission announced more than 1.6 billion dollars in projects to rebuild Haiti following January’s earthquake, including a 200-million-dollar plan to create fifty thousand new...
By Dialogo August 19, 2010
I think the recovery efforts in Haiti are slow, a lot of money, little work, slow work, many meetings…many ideas, slow in acting.A special recovery commission announced more than 1.6 billion dollars in
projects to rebuild Haiti following January’s earthquake, including a
200-million-dollar plan to create fifty thousand new agricultural jobs.
The projects, which also include programs to rebuild the health and education
sectors, were announced at a meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC)
in the capital, Port-au-Prince, officials said.
The commission, which is jointly headed by former U.S. president Bill Clinton
– UN special envoy for Haiti – and Haitian prime minister Jean-Max
Bellerive, is supposed to determine what rebuilding projects will receive support
from a multimillion-dollar fund offered by foreign donors.
Following the devastating earthquake on 12 January, which left up to 300,000
dead in the impoverished Caribbean nation, foreign governments, multilateral
organizations, and non-governmental organizations promised in March to provide $9.9
billion for Haitian reconstruction.
Of these funds, $5.3 billion will be provided in the next two
years.
For the twenty-nine projects announced, which will cost more than $1.6
billion, almost $1 billion in funds has already been assigned, commission staff
said.
The projects with approved financing include a 200-million-dollar
agricultural development program that will increase peasants’ total income in
specific areas and will create more than fifty thousand sustainable
jobs.
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