Haiti aid: Priority sectors

Haiti remains in dire need of international assistance two years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ravaged the island nation. Infrastructure is poor, institutions are weak and cholera outbreaks have killed some 7,000 people in the past two years.

Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that aid agencies have lined up the most number of projects on health initiatives this year. But thousands of displaced Haitians still need permanent housing, making shelter the sector with the highest consolidated funding appeal for 2012.

Here’s a list of top relief and development sectors in Haiti, based on the 2012 Consolidated Appeals Process, a service by the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs that tracks data provided by donors and recipient organizations.

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