Mexico City – The Haiti government said that it will need $11.5 billion to rebuild after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12 left more than 220,000 dead and large swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in ruins.
The estimate comes from a draft Preliminary Damage and NeedsAssessment (PDNA) that was released as delegations from 28 countries wrapped up a two-day meeting in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic today. The assessment will be presented to a donor’s conference for Haiti on March 31 in New York.
“The earthquake has created an unprecedented situation, amplified by the fact that it struck the country’s most populous region and its economic and administrative centre,â€
The draft lays out specifics on what Haiti’s financial needs will be over the next three years to rebuild the homes, schools, roads, government offices and businesses destroyed. But it also lays out a vision for a new Haiti, which includes a stronger sense of government and justice and a plan to decentralize power and economic opportunity to lessen the pressures on Port-au-Prince.
Kind of an eye opener.
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