Existing development plan as basis for rebuilding

AID groups will work from an existing plan for Haiti’s development to help the country recover, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday.

Clinton said international donors and organisations had been mapping out a plan for the country’s development for months before the quake. She spoke while en route to a conference in Montreal on how to channel aid into Haiti, and indicated this could be the basis for a revised plan now.

“I don’t want to start from scratch, but we have to recognise the changed challenges that we are now confronting,” she said.