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Reconstruction : Update on the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (Fall 2011)

During the past quarter (July – September 2011), the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) Steering Committee met once, in conjunction with the 7th Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) Board meeting, on July 22nd, 2011. The highlight of the meeting was a decision to reserve US$30 million for the first phase of President Martelly’s 16 Neighborhood/6 Camp program. This… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : $35 million for the electricity sector

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a $35 million grant to support Haiti's efforts to modernize its energy sector and improve the financial and operational management of the state power company, Electricité d'Haïti (EDH).

The new, fast-disbursing grant is the first of three policy-based operations the IDB expects to make over three years to help…

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Haiti - Cuba : 115 Haitian doctors have been graduated

With the graduation of 115 new Haitian doctors, last week, the total number of Haitian doctors, graduates of the University of Medical Sciences of Santiago [Cuba] is now of 731. Dr. Rosa Delia Castellanos Decónger, Rector of the institution, has recalled that the first Haitian doctors have been graduates in 2005 under the program initiated in 1999, to meet the commitment of… Continue

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Yéle Haiti and HVS launch a hospitality training program in Haiti

Foundation Yéle Haiti, which already offers vocational courses in carpentry, masonry and plumbing to the Collège Victor Esaie in Port-au-Prince, has announced an alliance with HVS, the world leader in consulting and services focused among other things, on the hotels and restaurants, to launch a pilot project of vocational training of hospitality in the sector of the… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : New agricultural market in the town of Saint Raphaël

A new agricultural market, including two warehouses, an administrative block and a toilet block has just been installed in the town of Saint Raphaël, in the department of North about 50 km of Cap Haïtien. The construction of this market is part of the "Transport and Territorial Development Project (PTDT)" in the microregion of North which includes the following five… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : Port de Paix, DINEPA announces that 95% of the works are completed

The National Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation puts the finishing touches to the work of Rehabilitation and Extension of Potable Water Supply Systems of Port de Paix in Northwest Department. To date, 95% of work has already been executed.

This project that enters within the framework of the reform of sector of Drinking Water and Sanitation is part of a… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on May 31, 2011 at 12:19pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : The Diaspora wants to create a model agricultural village

The second popular conference of the Haitian diaspora of Montreal on the reconstruction of Haiti finished this Saturday, May 7 by the adoption of a pilot project to build an agricultural village of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.

"It is necessary to have the involvement of groups from here, but also an active participation of community organizations in Haiti.… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on May 12, 2011 at 10:22am — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : $15 million for education and agriculture

The steering committee of the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) announced this week that it had 15 million dollars for the sectors of the education and agriculture.

This new funding will allow the Haitian government to finance the construction of 268 classrooms and provide school meals to 261.000 students in 670 schools, indicated the HRF in a statement. In… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : A housing project of 510 million dollars !

Jean Yves Jason, the Mayor of Port-au-Prince, displays its determination to launch major reconstruction projects in the capital. The residential neighborhood of Carrefour-feuille (which also concerns Bel Air and Saint Martin) was among his priorities. The mayor of Port-au-Prince has designed for this purpose, an ambitious housing project in the scheme of territorial… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : Martelly met Clinton and Bellerive

This morning Michel Martelly met privately with former President Bill Clinton present in Haiti as part of a two-day meeting of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) and the Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. The two co-president also met Kelly Bastien, president of the senate and senators Youri Latortue, Joseph Lambert and Evallière Beauplan. What was said at the… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on April 11, 2011 at 10:36am — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : Shakira - IDB, $800,000 for Elie Dubois school

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Colombian singer Shakira's Barefoot Foundation yesterday announced they will support the Haitian government's efforts to rebuild a historical public school in the capital's downtown area.

The Elie Dubois school, located in downtown Port-au-Prince, suffered heavy damage from last year's earthquake. Founded in 1913, it… Continue

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Haiti - Reconstruction : The ONA will invest $ 1.5 million in the Oasis Hotel Complex

The Office National d'Assurance vieillesse (ONA) that collects funds to ensure the retirement of workers and employees of private and public sectors, will invest $1.5 million in the construction of the OASIS hotel complex of group SCIOP S.A., ownership of Haitian investors alongside foreign partners, whose activities are devoted to the reconstruction of Haiti.…

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Added by Haitian All-Starz on March 31, 2011 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : $255MM for 13 new projects

The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) Co-Chairs and Board held a productive meeting in the Haitian capital on Monday, approving a slate of new reconstruction projects valued at US $255 million.

The IHRC Co-Chairs (Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and President Bill Clinton) urged donors to redouble their efforts to address priority reconstruction needs,… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on March 2, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : Water for 2.5 million people

The National Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation (DINEPA) has selected Suez Environnement for accompany them during three years in an emergency plan to rehabilitate the water and sanitation services in the metropolitan area of capital Port-au-Prince.

The mission of rehabilitation initiated by the authorities of Haiti will rely on experts and the… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 28, 2011 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : Macroseismic zoning maps for Port-au-Prince

Within the framework of the risk reduction of natural disasters project and more particularly in the context of attenuation of earthquake threat, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), delivered to the Haitian institutions the macroseismic zoning maps of Port-au-Prince, a crucial tool for all projects building in Haiti. Developed in collaboration with the National… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 28, 2011 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : NO to the transformation of the Minustah

The Colombian diplomat, Maria Angela Holguin, last week in Bogota had envisaged, with the Security Council, the possibility of transforming the Minustah mission in a development operation for Haiti. In an official statement, the diplomat confirmed that the possibility of transformation of the Minustah will be discussed and supported by the Colombia to the United Nations in… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 24, 2011 at 11:20am — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : In Leogane, 87.000 m3 of rubble removed

Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator yesterday visited Leogane, the epicentre of the 12 January earthquake, where UNDP is implementing a pioneering debris management initiative. Thanks to the support of the Canadian, Kuwait and Finnish governments, UNDP started in early-November 2010, a project which will clear in 2011 approximately 325,000 cubic metres from… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 16, 2011 at 12:22pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : Back home, not for tomorrow...

Last Thursday, during the briefing of the United Nations in Haiti, Léonard Doyle, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Haiti has made an update on the situation of victims in the camps and the concerns of IOM.

"The number of people living in camps has decreased significantly, close to half a million people left. To date, 810.000… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 14, 2011 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : A vocational school of the reconstruction

A few days after the earthquake of January 2010, the Construction Association of Quebec (Association de la Construction du Québec ACQ) has sought a development project to help the people of Haiti. "Over the past year we have brought together many partners of the construction industry and we are very pleased to officially launch the "Projet Haïti" [...] I am announcing that… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 11, 2011 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Haiti - Reconstruction : Ecuador has already invested $12MM

Ecuador has spent $12MM to Haiti's reconstruction since the earthquake of January 2010 said Carlos Lopez Damm, Ambassador of Ecuador in Haiti.

After the earthquake, which killed about 316.000 people (1), and made 300,000 injured and 1.5 million people disaster, the countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) have pledged to support Haiti and… Continue

Added by Haitian All-Starz on February 7, 2011 at 11:12am — No Comments