{"id":499213,"date":"2010-04-01T06:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11898"},"modified":"2010-04-01T06:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:19:25","slug":"oxfam-reacts-to-the-haiti-aid-pledging-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499213","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam reacts to the Haiti aid pledging conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Philippe Mathieu, Spokesperson of Oxfam in New York said:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tms Rmn;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The $5bn headline figure is impressively generous and what is needed for Haiti.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;However this must be new not recycled money taken from other humanitarian crises. The poor and vulnerable of other disasters should not be paying for this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The last time the region was hit by a natural disaster of this scale, Hurricane Mitch of 1998, only less than a third of the $9bn promised materialized. This cannot be allowed to happen this time.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Almost every country exceeded in its financial obligations to help Haiti. Soon these pledges will need to turn into concrete progress on the ground. This cannot be a VIP pageant of half promises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tms Rmn;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The amounts pledged today should be made a reality for the tens of thousands of victims as soon as possible. Mechanisms will need to be put in place quickly for the Haitian civil society, the private sector and local authorities to be able to have a say and watch over the spending of these funds. The government must also immediately start communicating the options people have in advance of the rainy season. Without this, NGOs and the UN might be put in the difficult position of doing it themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tms Rmn;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Philippe Mathieu, Spokesperson of Oxfam in New York said: \u00a0 &#8220;The $5bn headline figure is impressively generous and what is needed for Haiti. &#8220;However this must be new not recycled money taken from other humanitarian crises. The poor and vulnerable of other disasters should not be paying for this. &#8220;The last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}