Haiti Hurricanes 2008
In 2009, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon asked President Bill Clinton and Dr. Paul Farmer to lead the United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti (OSE).
The OSE was established to support Haiti in its recovery from the four 2008 hurricanes that together amounted to Haiti’s costliest natural disaster since the earthquake of 1842 with damages assessed at approximately $1 billion.
Shortly following the creation of the OSE, the team began tracking the $390 million in donor funds pledged at the 2009 Washington DC international donor conference to ensure that the government would be able to oversee recovery efforts from the hurricanes while holding donors accountable to their pledges.