With no detailed financial plan ordering reconstruction priorities, donors invested most heavily in the sectors that they had favored before the earthquake — transportation, health, education, water and sanitation — and half their financing for those areas went to projects begun before 2010.
Funding, you rightly point out, could have come faster, but more important still is that donors agree to direct their pledges to the reconstruction priorities identified by the I.H.R.C. Gabriel Verret Executive Director Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan.
Later, during the government's post-war reconstruction, when priority was given to the preparation of local authority housing schemes to meet a national need for some 40,000 additional homes, planning was left behind again.
Konyndyk said the next step was for USAID and other international aid agencies to refocus their efforts on long-term recovery and reconstruction, giving priority to shelter and livelihoods for farmers and fishermen.
The first one is a strong interest in European reconstruction, a political priority between 1815 and 1820, but not anymore in 1850, after the triumph of nationalism.
UNICEF has worked to advocate for the priority reconstruction of damaged classrooms to allow schooling to continue and to provide a safe learning environment for children.
Towards the end of 2009, while the SPDC spent over $570 million on advanced fighter jets from Russia [ 34, 35], the TCG appealed for $103 million for priority reconstruction initiatives, of which only $88 million was pledged by the international community [ 36- 38].
For the president, the top priority of reconstruction is to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a terrorist haven.
Though cities like Zintan and Misurata deserved "priority in reconstruction" and recognition by history, he said, "fighting and struggle is not a measure for representation in government".
They also accepted, for the most part, that reconciliation between North and South should have been the top priority of Reconstruction.
