The de la Espriella government’s reconstruction framework published August 23 identified a financing mix of federal government direct expenditure and international donor contributions. As of Day 16, the international donor contributions remain below the level the plan requires. ONYX has documented this gap since Day 5 — the pattern of inadequate international response to a disaster in Latin America while global humanitarian attention is focused on the Middle East, Ukraine, and the Congo Ebola outbreak.

ONYX’s sustained coverage commitment: the Colombia earthquake will be covered through the reconstruction phase regardless of whether other news generates more attention. The 12,000 homes destroyed and the communities that must be rebuilt are the specific accountability metric that ONYX tracks.

The plan exists. The money does not fully exist. In disaster reconstruction, those two facts describe the specific gap between government commitment and community reality.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT  

▸  International donor conference — Colombia needs to convene a formal donor event; the financing gap cannot be closed without one

▸  ONYX tracking — continued coverage through reconstruction

CONFIDENCE: HIGH

Day 16 Colombia earthquake status and financing gap are from ONYX cumulative August 12-26 documentation.

SOURCES

▸  ONYX August 12-26 — Colombia earthquake cumulative tracking