Aug
29
IHRC Announces Over $1. 6 Billion in New Project Proposals
Here is a list of projects, which amount to over $1.6B, that were approved at the IHRC board meeting on 17 August 2010.
Some noteworthy items:
Title: Finance and investment- Establish a Partial Credit Guarantee Fund for Enterprise Development
Project Description: Contribute to the rehabilitation of the Haitian productive sector, by providing grant guarantees to firms affected by the earthquake that need support for the restructuring of impaired, but viable, loans (performing before Jan 12)
Implementer: Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH)
Total Budget: $35 million over 5 years / Funded: $24.5 million
Donor: Inter-Development Bank (IDB) – $22 million, The World Bank – $2.5
Title: Energy – Generate hydroelectric power: Artibonite 4C
Project Description: Construct the Artibonite C-4 hydroelectric dam and power plant close to Mirebalais. Install power capacity of 32 MW, which will supply energy to ~213,000 households, reaching ~1 million Haitian citizens
Implementer: TBD
Total Budget: $191 million over 40 months / Funded: $2.5 million by Brazil for executive study
Donor: Brazil; Others to be determined
Title: Energy – Connect Haiti to the Dominican Republic’s electricity grid
Project Description: Create a 55 km transmission line, 138 KV to connect Haiti’s Electricity grid to the Dominican republic’s electricity grid. The line would run from Peligre to Port-au Prince with a capacity of 20-60 MWs
Implementer: To Be Determined
Total Budget: Estimated $8 – 14 million / Funded: $0
Donor: To Be Determined
Title: Job creation – Cash for work program to rehabilitate social and economic infrastructure
Project Description: Project would create 300,000 temporary jobs across the country, focusing on populations touched by the earthquake. Work would focus on rehabilitation of roads and other economic / social infrastructure
Implementer: Consortium of UN agencies and NGOs
Total Budget: $65 over 12 months / Funded: $0
Donor: To Be Determined
Title: Housing – Draw interest in Haiti’s long-term reconstruction process and highlight best solutions for future housing
Project Description: Convene a “Building Back Better Communities” housing exposition in October 2010 to demonstrate the best solutions for future housing projects and community developments
Implementer: Government of Haiti, with support from Clinton Foundation, John McAslan & Partners, Architects for Humanity
Total Budget: $2 million over 7 months / Funded: $2 million
Donor: Digicel, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Title: Water/Sanitation – Expand the water and sanitation network in Port-au-Prince and create additional coverage
Project Description: Finance ~70,000 new individual water connections, 385 new water kiosks, and 385 new collective sanitary facilities. Strengthen CAMEP, the water utility in Port-au-Prince, and DINEPA, the National Water Directorate
Implementer: CAMEP, DINEPA
Total Budget: $200 million over 5 years / Funded: $115 million
Donor: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Spanish Fund
Title: Agriculture – Establish necessary conditions to induce a sustainable growth of the agricultural sector
Project Description: Increase farm income in targeted areas and reduce expected losses in infrastructure by improving agricultural value chains, agriculture intensification, technology adoption among small farmers, and land tenure regularization
Implementer: Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (MARNDR)
Total Budget: $200 million over 5 years / Funded: $200 million
Donor: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), The World Bank
Thanks to John Calvert, PermacultureRelief.org, for alerting us to this.
The New York Times viewed this in a positive light, and added some useful context:
Like everything else about the recovery effort, the commission, led by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and former President Bill Clinton, has been too slow off the mark. But we were encouraged by its second meeting in Port-au-Prince this month, where it announced dozens of new projects with clear benchmarks and the commitment of more than $1 billion to complete them.
The commission finally has its executive director, a Haitian, Gabriel Verret, a former economic adviser to President René Préval. About 30 crucial staff positions are still unfilled, a troubling sign. Without a full, permanent staff, the commission will surely have a harder time showing results and pressing donors to meet pledges.
The goals outlined at the meeting include clearing a million cubic meters of rubble in Port-au-Prince and building enough short-term hurricane shelters for 400,000 to 500,000 people — both by November. The longer-term plans include a two-year, $4.3 billion reinvention of Haiti’s public school system, a $200 million program for agricultural development, and a $15 million, 320-bed teaching hospital in Mirebalais, in central Haiti.
At the same time, the Times noted that less than 3% of the promised aid has gone to the Haitian government, and that even in the face of these projects “Haiti’s urgent and unmet needs are staggering.”
NGOs and private sector entities are urged to submit their proposals to the IHRC, both for approval and for possible funding, through the IHRC New Project Concept Note.