Haiti Eqarthquake Recovery Program



Contract partner: ÖRK - Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz Country: Haiti Funding amount: € 300.000,00 Project start: 01.04.2010 End: 30.09.2011

Short Description:

Overall goal



This funding contract is in contribution to a larger Austrian /German Red Cross Program which contributes to recovery, rehabilitation and rebuilding efforts in Haiti after the earthquake of January 12, 2010. The program focuses on the recovery of communities in the earthquake affected area West of Port auf Prince and aims to directly benefit 3.000 families, i.e. 15.000 people.


The key results the intervention aims to achieve are:


1. Earthquake-affected families are provided with transitional shelters


2. Earthquake-affected families are supported to reconstruct their houses


3. In the selected villages, the risk of water-related diseases is reduced.


4. Selected communal or social infrastructure is reconstructed


5. The coping mechanism of the selected communities and the local Red Cross is strengthened

project number 2644-05/2010
source of funding AKF
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Maßnahmen zum Wiederaufbau und Rehabilitierung nach Katastrophen
tied
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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