By: Caribbean World News Thursday March 11,

Haiti`s two top leaders have put a price tag on the rebuilding efforts of their country and it`s coming in at a whopping $14 billion.

President Rene Préval and his Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, presented the `plan` during their meetings with U.S. President Wednesday at the White House.

The plan comes ahead of the March 31st donor conference for Haiti in New York and includes calls for a model city of cycle paths, beachfront boardwalks and eco-friendly housing.

It also includes a project to permanently relocate at least half a million refugees to suburbs outside the devastated capital of Port-Au-Prince, as Preval stressed that the provinces must be developed and focus should not simply be on the earthquake ruined city.

The leaders also included a plan that focuses on the economic revitalization of Haiti through tourism and cash crops for export, such as coffee, mangoes and freshly cut flowers.

Preval laid out a decentralization policy that includes offering health care, education, jobs to all Haitians, men and women, regardless of where they live in the country, in order to prevent migratory flows towards the big cities, towards Port-au-Prince, to help avoid that disaster such as the January 12th earthquake.

President Obama for his part seemed more focused on the current situation in Haiti, insisting before an audience in the White House Rose Garden:  `The situation on the ground remains dire. People should be under no illusion that the crisis is over.`

But he stressed: `America`s commitment to Haiti`s recovery and reconstruction must endure and will endure.  This pledge is one that I made at the beginning of this crisis and I intend for America to keep our pledge.  America will be your partner in the recovery and reconstruction effort.`

With many Haitian survivors of the quake living in tent cities, the focus has turned to the current rainy season, which just last week has already caused the deaths of 15 people and is causing flooding in the area on top of the homelessness and poverty.