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Request for baselining Haitian Response Initiative funding
1:36:44
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Chair Alexa Avilés inquires about baselining the funding for the Haitian Response Initiative in the preliminary budget. MOIA officials respond to the request for permanent funding.
- The Haitian Response Initiative is not currently funded in the FY26 preliminary budget
- MOIA is in ongoing conversations with OMB about funding levels
- When asked directly about requesting baselining, MOIA officials state they are in 'active conversations' without providing a clear yes or no answer
- Chair Avilés expresses disappointment at the lack of baselining given the current political context and increasing needs
Alexa Avilés
1:36:44
I'm sorry.
1:36:45
So from 01/2019, it's only eleven?
1:36:50
Scheduled for March.
1:36:51
Okay.
1:36:51
Confirming Could you provide the council with a list of where all those trainings are?
1:36:55
You could provide it to the chair.
1:36:57
Yes.
1:36:58
I'm happy to contact our members so that they are aware and they can also help to supplement.
1:37:03
Will do.
1:37:05
Just to get back to the Haitian response initiative.
1:37:10
I mean, currently in the prelim budget, it is not funded.
1:37:14
Can you speak to why that is the case?
Jasniya Sanchez
1:37:18
We are in conversations with OMB.
1:37:22
I mean, the program continues.
1:37:24
Right?
1:37:25
But for the FY twenty six preliminary budget, those funding levels have now been finalized, so we continue to have those conversations with OMB.
Alexa Avilés
1:37:35
Are you requesting that it be baselined so we don't have to continue to do this dance every year?
Jasniya Sanchez
1:37:41
This is an ongoing conversation with our partners at
Alexa Avilés
1:37:43
I guess yes or no is more of what I'm looking for.
1:37:46
A yes or no, you're requesting for baselining of this initiative.
Jasniya Sanchez
1:37:51
We are in active conversations.
Rita Joseph
1:37:52
No.
Alexa Avilés
1:37:53
Okay.