Haiti’s interim reconstruction commission has approved over $1.6 billion in new projects for the country’s rebuilding following the January 12th earthquake. The commission’s co-chair, former president and the current UN special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton, said the projects’ approval should encourage international donors to fulfill their unmet pledges.

Bill Clinton: “Almost every one of you in the press has done at least one story about how a lot of money was committed at the donors’ conference, but not much money has been given. And you have reported that many of the donors say, 'Well, they weren't specific enough about what they were going to do with the money.’ We have cured that problem today. Nobody can use that as an excuse.”