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8/7/2019 HAITI CONFERENCE

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HAITI CONFERENCE – co sponsorsBrazil, additional amount of 172 million US dollars, 9.45 for health, 40

million infreastructure, grant of 15 million for direct budget support forthe Haitian government. All countries who are members of the wto,

duty free quota free access of Haitian

Canada- presented with opportunity, back better and stronger. It is

essential that Haitian take owenship…Foreign Affairs Minister LawrenceCannon and Minister for International Co-operation Bev Oda are representing Canada atthe donor conference, while Gov. Gen. Michäelle Jean, who was born in Haiti, is

attending as an observer. G-7 finance minister, forgiving Haiti debt.

ASHTON – EU for the most vulnerable we need a social contract. 1.235 billion euros.

1.6 US dollars. 295 million euros the eu has already contributed. 106 million euros from

people….. gov and citgizens close to 3 billion.

FRANCE – Kouchner – 20 million euros annually for budgetary assistance and 5 millionimmediately. Buying seeds for harfvest and back administrative, financial and security

infrastructure. Priority restrict of uni hospital , pp , sanitation, build with our friends inHaiti a medical health insurance project for ngos and fr society 90 milolion euros. This

conference is but a beginning. Decisions which we will take today will provide

systematic follow up donor pledges and for the Haitian government

First vp of SPAIN: we are all in this together. María Teresa Fernández de laVega , institutional aspects, 346 million to donor fund for resconstruction1.25 million over three years. Aid priority government water, sanitation,education, environ sustainability, food , agriculture

Bill Clinton: both of them on the platform at either end. Only 30 percejt0f the money commit to Haiti before the earthquake distributed. Investors,ngo , diaspora.

Until the Haitians can live day by day … still have to move 20-40people, exposed to heavy winds, have to build big permanent shelters,not drown. Still don’t have aquate sanitation. Dangerous for the

children….

Voice of voiceless forum, michelle; respect . respect, scools, jobs,farmers associatin and associations of those in displaced camps.Haitians, 156 discussions groups,l 1750 simple citizens, traditionalhealers, inhabitants, students,



Response . message which we heard is a clear one: an end for exclusions. For the firstg time on issues of concern to their community.Constgruction package should benefit all hait, decentralization of publicservices, job opp closer to home and demand a say in their region.Easier access to jobs and opp outside what is often referred to as therepublic of pp. invest in people: priorities: housing, eq resistance,education, health, potable water, sanit electricity, roads to allow foodproduction to reach the city.

Need to invesgt in human capital thru education, trained teachers,university, increased accesAgriculture considered essential,, peasantry have been neglected.Training equaip,ne tseeds, self sufficient in food, concern recons notreach those intended. Sovereignty, not see future as passive recap of foreign aid; shared equaolly and not concentrated in the capital butreach all the regions, majority expressed desire to transcend donor conference, want to be regularly consulted on the future of their children… do we have the right to disappoint them.

Decentralization…. 700,000 haitians outside the quake area, moreimportant to pursue the stgrategy, disapora, want them to be involved.Hait gov lost people, they should help. World bank throughout the world.

Marie mass legislature

Langston Hughes, dreams deferred….disapora, develop anorganization to max contribution of diaspora in canada, us and france.Granting dual citizenship , not able to be completed, but send of welcome, openness that I have never before seen.

First time in hisotyr of Haiti, break with the past and… defined mainly bya few large traditional companies. Ignores key role by small andmedium enterprises, mostly women, overseas role played by int

investors. 90 percent of business are informal. Progressiveformalization of micro, etc. tax base of the country, bankruptcy at the topand poverty at the bottom. 2.7 billion….75 percent for loans and grants,educatin, tech assist and training to transform them into a formal sector,profit and tax revenues: 4 proposals

1) allocate 50 percent informal into formal



2) large companies to traditional private sector as equity byemployees, minimum of 5 percent

3) housing4) for graduates5) expansion and mc only done by small biz. Diversified and green

competitive, level playing field, 10 percent gdp for next 10 years

the aid has led to mistrust, dependence, lack of vision and bring backpoverhy. Need vision job creation and prosperity. 1.8 billion agric….NEW SOCIAL COMPACT, responsible elite , benefit all Haitians, bizcommunity that main job is to create jobs. Pub insitutions and politisystem

cell phone guy, gtelecommunications investment, rules consistently andtransparanet, tax collection enforcement, if all commercial part knowtaxes equitably enforce, compliance will improve. Go v has authorityand resources to regulate market, respect contract. Donors need toview private sector as your partners, tools to create wealth, education,anbility to start biz, access to credit.l infrastructure, rebuiold of airports,ports, power grid,

Haiti has the largest numb of domestic and int ngos of anycountryexcept for india. Fractured work. Donors organized and work together and plan by the Haitian government. As partners and not doing their

own thing. Historic, operated differently.

PRIME MINISTERIraq, Afghanistan acheh all deficient in one way or another. 4 billion innext 18 months. Innovate

HELEN CLARK, UN DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Support of spread of development, cash for food, education, support for agriculture, actively support hait gov commite to decentralize, eco

systems at heart ofbuilding Haiti anew,

Robert Bruce Zoellick anti corruption tools, internal audits, aticorruption unit, better slaries, high perf standards, publoiciving cases of corruption. ; need tangible benefits on the ground right away partiucarlyfor shelter, emergency relocation for those most of risk for flooding.Medium term. Jobs, private sector, hope II act for apparel jobs, 20,000



people still at work in this factories, need power and logistics, agrictourism etc. gov support on policy and regulartoy and land titles,International agencies need to cooperate, not complicate. Ministers, ida16 include special allocation for Haiti and Afghanistan, financeinterested, so please write a note, work with deputies of the deputiesthey don’t like change. Divide up responsibilities, let’s hold everyonefeet to the fire, meet in 6 months on ga, how to move further ahead.Presodemt of the world bank

No medium term if not manage short term, imf 340 million. No way to dowhat has been said this morning if Haitian budget, without inflation,absolutely critical which is to monitor carefully that all the pledges hugh,,upward pressure on currencyl. Main problem is to bridge the gap.Involvement of the private sector, resume credit.

Imf 270 million, we will do it too.

Japan 30 million, 70 already, 100 million dollars

Pledges:Additional 400 million for immediate needs. Actin plan . charities, 220million to Canadian orgs eligible in Haiti, government will match thosefunds

Qatar – supplies and hospitals right after the earthquake, schoolscollection over 200 – 20 million us dollars, education and health aportion of this. \

Venezie;a” cuba, Haiti and Venezuela, investing 154 million in health,10 centers for diagnosis, three power stgations , literacy and training.Solid waste, houses, rice project, bolivian rescue forces, 2.3 millionstretchers, electrical generators. Pardoned debt, 395 million. Newmoney to be used instantly, 4.9 of 12.4 million …. Matching 24.8 million

….37.2 million.

Quality and proportion of the donations related to the economyof eachdonor. Risen up to write its own history, Bolivarian alliance, alba,already present there, social aid.



Today world leaders gathered in New York to outline the next steps for the recovery

efforts in Haiti and call for an increase in financial assistance to the devastated country.

UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon opened the donor conference by outlining the goal of theday.

"Today, we will rise in solidarity with Haiti. By the end of this day, I'm confident we will truly have helped Haiti along the road to a new and better future."

The January 12th magnitude 7 quake killed an estimated 230,000 and injured some

300,000. More than 1 million are homeless and thousands of commercial buildings are

destroyed. Speaking at today’s conference, President Rene Preval said the people of Haitiexpress their deep gratitude for the international response to the crisis.

"This is an opportunity to say thank you to friendly countries who have rapidly mobilized resources to help us. First, our neighbors who were there hours following the earthquake

with humanitarian logistics. Words of equal gratitude to the citizens and the governments

of those countries who are far away, geographically, historically, who despite this sent large amounts of humanitarian assistance, emergency responders, trucks with tons of material, medicine, water and food. The Haitian people, historically an open people, who

have paid in blood the price of fighting for the defense of human dignity, feel moved by

the this solidarity and compassion expressed by the whole word."

The emphasis of the conference was on securing vital donations for recovery, which the

UN has said have decreased recently.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellarive presented a government action plan to outlinehow the funds would be used. The Plan divides recovery into three time stages. The first

is the emergency period, which focuses on accommodating Haiti's homeless, providingfood and medical needs and preparing for the coming Hurricane season; second, is theimplementation period, which will focus on economic growth and job creation; and the

third is a ten to twenty year period in which the country will rebuild to become self

sufficient.

To implement this we need massive job creation. The next few months will focus on high

labor intensive industries, agricultural infrastructure, building, clean up of devastated

areas. We'll have to find ways to get these jobs out to people to train them, vocational training, relevant training to transform this tragedy into a sustainable economic

enterprise."

Agriculture will be difficult as Haiti imports US subsidized rice, thestaple of peoples’ diet. The International Monetary Fund had insisted

Haiti lower rice tarriffs in its 1986 aid package. Brazilian ForeignMinister Celso Amorim called on nations to allow duty free and quota

free imports of Haitain textiles and other goods, saying, “You don’t

have real economic development if you don’t have markets.”



The session also heard from industry leaders, advocacy groups,representatives of the Haitian diaspora and Michele Montas, a former

UN spokeswoman whose husband, Jean Dominique, a leader of apeasant movement, was assassinated . She was part of a survey

:

"There is a strong demand for an end to exclusion. The exercise was an opportunity for

people to express their views often for the first time on issues of concern to their communities and to themselves as individual citizens. Reconstruction package should

package all Haitians regardless of their status and location."

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