Spending in Haiti Posted by James Lamond

The AP has a story saying the following:

Less than a penny of each dollar the U.S. is spending on earthquake relief in Haiti is going in the form of cash to the Haitian government, according to an Associated Press review of relief efforts.

Two weeks after President Obama announced an initial $100 million for Haiti earthquake relief, U.S. government spending on the disaster has nearly quadrupled to $379 million, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced Wednesday. That's about $1.25 each from everyone in the United States.

Each American dollar roughly breaks down like this: 42 cents for disaster assistance, 33 cents for U.S. military aid, nine cents for food, nine cents to transport the food, five cents for paying Haitian survivors for recovery efforts, just less than one cent to the Haitian government, and about half a cent to the Dominican Republic.

Is it me or is this a nonstory? I would not expect, that in an emergency, the assistance money would to the government of Haiti during the immediate response.  A government that had limited capabilities before the tragic loss of personel, facilities, and even structures. This seems obvious.  Yes, eventually, money should be invested in the Haitian government for long term institution building.  But this is an emergency response where time is not a luxury.  But don’t take my word for it, former Special Envoy to Haiti Ambassador James Dobbins testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today and said that:

The urgency of the immediate crisis requires that donor countries themselves provide people with food, water, medicine and shelter, bypassing the Haitian state. As we move beyond this emergency relief phase, the next priority will be to repair the country’s most basic infrastructure – hospitals, schools, roads, electricity, telephones and government buildings. But these institutions should not be rebuilt on the old, inefficient, corrupt foundations. Rather the scale of this disaster offers the opportunity to accelerate long planned, oft delayed reforms in each of these sectors.

This seems like a situation where criticism is inevitable.  Given Haiti’s reputation for corruption –although I do recognize that there has been great progress under Preval –wouldn’t there be a whole lot of criticism regarding the spending if it was going through the Haitian government?

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