Haiti where is the money going

Its board minutes have not been updated since December The link for latest news is blank. An email to its press contacts has not been responded to. Pending a decision of the Haitian Parliament regarding the future of this institution, a team is currently dealing with day-to-day business.

The re submission of project proposals remains closed until further notice. The HRC is but another piece of the larger puzzle of where the money comes from, where it goes, and who knows what is going on.

The funds have been mobilized, coordinated and allocated in support of priorities set by the Government and its recovery commission. Projects are to be first approved by the IHRC and then the HRF; then the donors actually choose what projects get the money, how the funds are to be dispersed, who will spend the money and how it will be accounted for.

Haitians, whether through their government, Haitian NGOs, or Haitian companies, have had almost no control over how the money donated to Haiti in the wake of the earthquake has been spent. Haiti will be blamed by the international community despite poor planning, poor execution, and the siphoning off of funds by international NGOs and private companies.

Channeling assistance to Haiti before and after the earthquake As of December , it reports that four of eleven million cubic meters of debris have been removed, camp occupancy has dropped from 1. Times, Jan. Orlando Sentinel, Jan. Times Feb. Times Jan. Times, Mar. Bellerive has also criticized the international community for not allowing Haiti to play a bigger role in its own reconstruction.

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Haiti: Where is the Money? There are varying reports placing the number of NGOs in the country to as low as 3, and as high as 20, While NGOs play critical roles in providing basic necessities and health services to people facing difficult times, there are questions as to who oversees them. The Centre for Global Development has been calling for the implementation of national guilds that would set a national mandatory requirement for NGOs to be registered, and possibly include a code of conduct that would keep their missions in line with one another.

It also calls for practices such as annual reports and audited financial statements. Canadians responded in the days, months and years after the earthquake. Mark Gallagher, who died in the quake. He was in the country when the earthquake struck and says Canada had a fantastic team for the mission. He says Canadian teams brought in food, flew out some 6, Haitians and built a new road and a new hospital.

Rivard points to issues with UN institutions. Fritzner says resources in Haiti are barren, likening it to a desert. Issues he points to include children not able to attend school, trouble accessing clean water, unemployment and gas shortages.

He points to the number of times the government has changed hands; three different presidents and an interim government in the last decade. Still, he says, not much has been done. He points to projects like the Village Lumane Casimir, with 1, units.

Only about half of the units are built, due to a lack of funds. Instead of waiting for the government, people have been building their homes over time. More than one million people were displaced by the earthquake. The final recommendation, encouraging the Haitian government to procure services through competitive bidding, starting with pilot projects, is an attempt to include Haiti in the process of its own recovery.

If we can pilot some projects where the government can seek the services of NGOs through contracts, I think that would help increase the accountability of NGOs and private contractors providing the services. It would also enable the Haitian government to build some control over the process of how much services are delivered, reduce replication, and maybe increase efficiency and accountability in the long run. According to Vijaya, the propensity of the United States to disburse money to intermediaries instead of the government of Haiti is based on longstanding U.

Donors need to try harder to disperse more money to the government of Haiti. The government of Haiti made some requests, for example, to rebuild the government hospital in Port au Prince, and to do some other things, and those were denied in favor of NGOs.

I think we could carry out a couple of pilots around some very basic health services. Still, there is no doubt many lives were saved and good work was done, under daunting circumstances and in the face of overwhelming destruction.

Tom Adams, the State Department's special coordinator for Haiti, conceded "it has been a challenge to implement certain parts of our assistance package," but pointed to progress in job creation, health, security and agriculture. The housing program can hardly be branded a success, though. It's put up about so far. In the meantime, there are still 85, people in displacement camps — half of which did not have latrines, according to a UN report.

Development plans for Port-au-Prince meant some downtown renters were evicted, their buildings demolished, earlier this year. Audits of other contracts have also highlighted problems with small projects.

Michel Hospital. Yele dissolved in amid questions about its bookkeeping and payouts, and the New York attorney general's office said this week it is still investigating the group's finances.