Haiti earthquake: two years on, and just half of promised aid has been delivered
Two years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude 7 earthquake, international aid donors have delivered only about half of the billions of dollars promised for reconstruction, according to UN data.
Just $2.38bn (£1.5bn) – 53% – of the $4.5bn pledged for recovery programmes in 2010-11 has been delivered, figures from the UN special envoy for Haiti show.
While that is a rise from the 43% recorded last September, aid agencies and NGOs such as Oxfam and Save the Children this week warned of a "severe funding shortage … threatening recovery programmes in the country".
"There is a lot more we need to do to really get the Haitian people back on their feet," said Gareth Owen, humanitarian director of Save the Children.
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