Amount
pledged:
$50
million
Amount
needed:
$2.2
billion
Number of
years it would take to fully fund the cholera-elimination
plan at current disbursement rate:
40
Number of new
cholera cases in 2014, through August:
9,700
Projected
number of cholera cases for all of 2014, after the United
Nations reduced their estimate in September 2014:
15,000
Number of
members of the U.S. Congress who wrote to Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon this December urging the U.N. to respond justly
to cholera claims:
77
Minimum
number of sexual abuse allegations against the U.N.
peacekeeping mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, since 2007:
94
Percent of
total U.N. peacekeeping troops worldwide, stationed in
Haiti:
7.2%
Share of
total worldwide sexual abuse allegations against
peacekeepers that MINUSTAH has accounted for over the last 2
years:
1
in 4
Dollar amount
of textile exports to the United States in fiscal year
2012/13: $387.7
million
Percentage
points of GDP growth these exports accounted for in that
year: 0.32
Percent of
textile exports to the United States made with local goods:
0.6
Minimum
amount committed by the Inter-American Development Bank and
United States to the Caracol Industrial Park and related
infrastructure: $482.9 million
Total amount
of budget support to the Haitian government since the
earthquake: $340.2
million
Number of
jobs at the Caracol industrial park as of September 2014:
4,156
Estimated
number of jobs that will be created, according to the U.S.
State Department:
65,000
Estimated
amount of tax revenue collected from Caracol’s largest
tenant over first 15 years of operations: $0
Total amount
committed by international donors and NGOs since 2010,
according to the Haitian government:
$7.1
Amount
disbursed:
$5.7
Total amount
awarded in contracts and grants by USAID: $1.5 billion
Percent that
went directly to Haitian organizations: 1%
Percent that
went to firms located inside the beltway (DC, Maryland and
Virginia): 56%
USAID’s goal
for local procurement in Haiti:
17%
Amount
earmarked for local procurement in the coming year:
$5.5
million
Percent of
total USAID expenditures earmarked for local procurement in
2015:
2.25
Total amount
awarded to Chemonics International, a for-profit development
company, since the earthquake: $216 million
Originally published on the
Haiti Relief and Reconstruction
Watch blog on the site of www.cepr.net
