Haiti hip-hop star Wyclef Jean greets the crowd before officially registering as a presidential candidate at an office in the Delmas neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in 2010. 'We realized we are not going to come anywhere close to building the kind of housing stock Haiti requires,' said Hogan, saying the focus has shifted to financing so Haitians can build or improve homes themselves. A government audit in 2013 found that USAID underestimated how much would be needed for settlements, ballooned the budget from $59 million to $97 million while cutting its goal from 15,000 houses to 2,649. The housing program can hardly be branded a success, though.

The USAID list of expenditures includes: emergency food for 4 million, temporary shelter for 1.5 million, 2.7 million cubic meters of rubble removed, 600 classrooms created, construction of a power plant for a new U.S.-brokered factory park, support for 160 health clinics, funding to arrest a cholera outbreak that killed nearly 9,000, better technology for farmers, and the creation of permanent housing. Some global development analysts say that the spending structure - with the vast majority of money being funneled through foreign contractors instead of the Haitian government or local outfits - has built-in inefficiencies, compounded by a lack of accountability and transparency.ДЄ man walks past a camp for people displaced by the earthquake on Main Port-au-Prince. government has allocated $4 billion $3 billion has already been spent, and the rest is dedicated to longer-term projects. The United Nations said that in total $13.34 billion has been earmarked for the crisis through 2020, though two years after the quake, less than half of that amount had actually been released, according to U.N. Of that, $32 million alone came in the form of $10 text messages to the American Red Cross.ДЄt a donors conference in New York three months after Port-au-Prince and much of the south was wrecked, nations from around the globe, led by the United States, pledged billions more for the short and long term - to be managed by a commission co-chaired by Bill Clinton and the Haitian prime minister. They gave $1.4 billion to relief and recovery efforts over the course of the next year, according to an analysis by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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