Haiti, El Salvador: Humanitarian assistance and support for recovery provided to certain countries and regions - Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/335)
- The 12 January 2010 earthquake, magnitude 7.0 with an epicentre near Leogane, killed an estimated 222,750 people, injured 300,572 and affected 3 million of Haiti's 10 million inhabitants, with damage and losses of 7.8 billion dollars, slightly above 2009 GDP.
- Some 2.3 million people left their homes at the peak and 1,342 camps existed by end-May 2010; nearly 80 percent of buildings in Leogane suffered structural damage and 4,992 schools (23 percent of the total) were damaged or destroyed.
- Within six months about 4 million people received food aid, 1.5 million received shelter materials, 1.2 million had access to safe water and 1 million benefited from cash-for-work.
- The revised humanitarian appeal of 1.5 billion dollars was 67 percent funded by 18 August 2010, and the report stresses durable shelter, stronger humanitarian leadership and better collaboration with Haitian authorities and civil society.
Submitted under General Assembly resolutions 64/74 and 64/250, this report covers November 2009 to July 2010 and consolidates country reporting on Haiti and El Salvador. For Haiti, it documents the magnitude 7.0 earthquake of 12 January 2010 near Leogane: government estimates of 222,750 deaths and 300,572 injured, 3 million of 10 million inhabitants affected, some 2.3 million people displaced at the peak, 1,342 displacement camps by end-May 2010, and total losses of 7.8 billion dollars, slightly above 2009 GDP. It describes the destruction of housing, schools, health facilities and infrastructure, the immediate Haitian community response, and the international operation: a humanitarian appeal revised to 1.5 billion dollars, 67 percent funded by 18 August, cluster coordination, civil-military arrangements with MINUSTAH and United States forces, and assistance reaching about 4 million people with food and 1.5 million with shelter materials in six months. The report draws lessons on leadership, coordination, urban response and gender, and outlines early recovery and reconstruction priorities, particularly durable shelter ahead of the hurricane season.
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United Nations, 2010, Haiti, El Salvador: Humanitarian assistance and support for recovery provided to certain countries and regions - Report of the Secretary-General (A/65/335), https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haiti-el-salvador-aide-humanitaire-et-appui-au-rel%C3%A8vement-fournis-%C3%A0-certains-pays-et-%C3%A0