More than $2.7 billion in pledges of aid to help earthquake-wracked Haiti recover and rebuild will be made next week by the European Union and a coalition of US-based humanitarian groups at a UN conference. The EU is likely to commit 1.3 billion euros ($1.73 billion) over three years at a planned March 31 donor meeting, said Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for International Co-operation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.
But she told reporters at a meeting of aid groups on Thursday that the European Union wanted results for its money. "The financial crisis forced everyone to be much more focused on what they are getting," Georgieva said. "In Europe we can only keep our taxpayers as generous as they have been ... if we can show the results of what they are paying for." "We will very much insist that we work together on clear indicators for results so we can say 'this is what resources bring for the benefit of the people in Haiti,'" she said.
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