Six months after a deadly earthquake devastated communities along Haiti’s southern peninsula and created new challenges in an already troubled country, the government will lead an international donors’ conference Wednesday in hopes of raising billions of dollars toward recovery and reconstruction.
Haiti has estimated that the cost of rebuilding the southern areas Nippes and Grand’Anse, where entire towns were destroyed, will be around $2 billion. Around $1 billion of that would go to housing and another $400 million for education. Another 10% of the recovery dollars would go to the areas of agriculture, trade and tourism, and 9% would go to repair infrastructure.
A detailed four-year reconstruction and recovery plan will be presented by the government during the conference, which will be chaired by Prime Minister Ariel Henry and broadcast live on UN TV from Port-au-Prince. Haitian authorities produced their comprehensive Post Disaster Needs Assessment in just over six weeks with support from the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
