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Bank expert: Pakistan earthquake-response programs could help Haiti

27 January 2010

World Bank disaster expert Christoph Pusch says Haiti may be able to learn from the earthquake-recovery efforts in Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake. Those efforts included livelihood support in the form of cash grants to the most vulnerable people, special support for the disabled, a home-owner driven rural housing reconstruction program, and satellite-based disaster assessment methods. Pusch talks about some of the possibilities in the short clip below.  

  The Pakistan earthquake killed more than 73,000 people, destroyed and damaged around 600,000 homes, and left over 3 million without shelter. International donors, including the World Bank, pledged US$6.5 billion in mostly low-interest loans.