HAITI / CLINTON RECONSTRUCTION

Co-chairs UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton and Haiti's Prime Minister Max Bellerive meet in Port au Prince with the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti. The new authority was created to manage donor funds and reconstruction efforts.  MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:00
• Production Date: 17 August 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100817c

Description

STORY: HAITI / CLINTON RECONSTRUCTION
TRT: 1:00
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 17 AUGUST 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Pan right, over the conference panel
2. Close up, Haitian PM Max Bellerive talking
3. Med shot, Haitian PM Max Bellerive talking with Bill Clinton sitting next to him
4. Med shot, members of the commission listening
5. Close up, a member of the commission looking at the screen
6. Close up, Presentation graphics
7. Close up, Presentation graphics
8. Close up, Bill Clinton talking
9. Med shot, photographers
10. Various shots, panel
11. Wide shot, conference room

Storyline

Hoping international donors will make good on billions of dollars in pledges for Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction, former US President Bill Clinton along with Haiti's prime minister Max Bellerive gave a presentation today in Port au Prince for $(USD) 300 million worth of reconstruction projects.

The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Co-chairs Bellerive and Clinton, who is the UN Special Envoy for Haiti, presented 23 projects ready to be launched.

Seven months after the earthquake, officials say reconstruction remains all but idle and 1.6 million people remain homeless while disgruntlement and setbacks are becoming the norm.

Among the proposed projects are a 70 million dollar sanitation project, a plan for reinforcement of agriculture rated at 200 million dollars and aimed at training 30,000 farmers while raising their income by 25 percent.

Talking to a panel of representatives of various International, National and Regional Organizations as well as members of the private sector, Bellerive and Clinton also took the opportunity to make the final adjustments for the working of the Commission.

The proposed framework includes an internal regulation, an executive budget and an anti-corruption office.

Bellerive estimated 38 million dollars needed for an educational package including return to school for children and repairs of 75 schools. 325,000 children who were left out of school after the earthquake should get the opportunity to go back to their classes for the next school year.

The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission was created the 21 April and had its first meeting in Port au Prince on 17 June 2010.