Haiti: Who’s paid up?
Earlier this month, former US President Bill Clinton made headlines around the world when he announced that 6 months after Haiti’s devastating Earthquake, only 10% of pledged reconstruction assistance to the country has been delivered.
According to Clinton, co-chair of Haiti’s Interim Recovery Commission, only 4 countries have actually handed over any funds at all, namely Australia, Brazil, Norway and Estonia. This effectively paralysed the commission’s ability to plan and deliver programmes, and Clinton vowed to follow-up.
So last week we launched a global campaign in support of Clinton’s efforts and get donor countries to pay up.
This follows on from our successful campaign In July where ONE members in the US asked Congress to follow through on America’s commitment to Haiti. The resulting vote was a major victory for the people of Haiti and the thousands of ONE members who called on their elected officials to support the bill.
If you want to find who made what commitments, Haiti’s Interim Recovery Commission’s website has a detailed interactive tool where you can track individual countries’ pledges.
In addition to the 4 countries who have handed over funds, some others are close to delivering. Canada is on track to deliver its aid commitments, whilst the UK pledged money to agencies working in Haiti, but not to the Haiti government itself. Finally, the European Union is processing its aid as collecting the contributions from member countries can take time.
Yet many others lag behind.
For more detailed information on Haiti’s aid and recovery plans, please visit the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission website.
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07/08/2010 at 7:19 pm
I am happy to have signed your petition, but when you told me that New Zealand hadn’t paid up, I enquired of our Foreign Minister. I resceived this reply:
Dear Mr Ayers, on behalf of the Minister, thank you for your email. Unfortunately the article you have attached is based on a highly inaccurate news story done by CNN. New Zealand has in fact paid up all of the $2 million it allocated to various aid agencies for Haiti. We are apparently not the only country that has been incorrectly listed by CNN as not having followed through on its promises. It appears they did not check properly with NGOs who received such funding.
regards, James
James Funnell | Senior Private Secretary | Office of Hon Murray McCully
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Minister for Sport and Recreation | Minister for the Rugby World Cup
13/04/2011 at 12:28 am
The map of IHRC – Interim Haiti Recovery Comission, is up dated ? It would be interesting simple lists, and the money application. USA helped Japan, Europe, they will help Haiti with their good administration.