Haiti: First mobile phone cash transfers facilitate UN-backed home rebuilding

Publication language
English
Date published
01 Mar 2012
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Disasters, Earthquakes, Livelihoods, Shelter and housing, Shelter, Urban
Countries
Haiti
Link
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41437&Cr=&Cr1

 

Survivors of the 2010 devastating earthquake in Haiti have this week started receiving cash subsidies through the first-ever mobile money transfer system in support of post-disaster housing reconstruction, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported today.