Donors may have lost focus on Haiti’s urgent humanitarian crisis amid all the talk about reconstruction and redevelopment, United Nations officials said March 29.
Ahead of a U.N. donor conference for Haiti’s long-term recovery, U.N. officials bared that the world body is still halfway through collecting pledges for its USD1.4 billion appeal for humanitarian assistance to Haiti, Reuters reports.
“Obviously this medium/long term reconstruction recovery is incredibly important but … if we don’t get the humanitarian relief side right as well you don’t have the foundation for the successful longer term recovery,” U.N. Development Program chief Helen Clark said in a news conference.
