http://www.usip.org/resources/haiti-towards-and-beyond-the-donors-conference

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Sum­mary

• Haiti’s Jan­u­ary 12 earth­quake left up to 300,000 peo­ple dead, an equal num­ber injured, and more than a mil­lion dis­placed; over­all dam­age and loss are val­ued at $7.9 bil­lion, or about 120 per­cent of Haiti’s 2009 gross domes­tic product.
• The imme­di­ate inter­na­tional response focused on res­cue, the pro­vi­sion of human­i­tar­ian relief and secu­rity, and cleanup.
• The March 31 Donors’ Con­fer­ence in New York yielded both a Haitian-led recov­ery and br devel­op­ment plan sup­ported by inter­na­tional donors and a mech­a­nism for coor­di­nat­ing donor allo­cated resources.
• Donors pledged more than $5 bil­lion over the next 18 months.
• Activ­i­ties ini­ti­ated over the next 18 months must sup­port longer-term strate­gies to revi­tal­ize all of Haiti, includ­ing long neglected rural areas.
• Haiti’s decen­tral­ized recov­ery and devel­op­ment must address its debil­i­tat­ing inequal­ity and poverty while strength­en­ing the capac­ity of the government.

About This Brief

This report is based on a Feb­ru­ary 25 panel pre­sen­ta­tion spon­sored by USIP’s Haiti Work­ing Group to dis­cuss “Haiti: Six Weeks Later.” The panel con­sisted of Rev­erend Tom Streit, direc­tor of the Haiti Pro­gram and research assis­tant pro­fes­sor of Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences, Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame; Mary Beth Sheri­dan, diplo­matic cor­re­spon­dent, The Wash­ing­ton Post; Tim Sul­li­van, man­ager of the Cen­ter for Defense Stud­ies, Amer­i­can Enter­prise Insti­tute; and Dr. Robert Maguire, chair­man of USIP’s Haiti Work­ing Group and for­mer Jen­nings Ran­dolph Senior Fel­low and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, Trin­ity Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity. Robert Per­ito, direc­tor of USIP’s Haiti Pro­gram, served as moderator.