(2011-07) Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2011/133)
Summary — Seventh report of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti, based on its June 2011 visit, reviewing post-earthquake recovery, aid coordination through the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, and priority sectors amid political uncertainty.
Key Findings
- The displaced population in camps fell from 1.3 million in 2010 to about 680,000 by mid-2011, with roughly 50,000 people leaving camps monthly and 400,000 expected to remain by year-end. Of the 5.6 billion dollars pledged at the March 2010 New York conference, only 36.1 percent (1.66 billion dollars) had been disbursed for 2010-2011, and the 915 million dollar humanitarian appeal was just 24 percent funded at its May 2011 mid-term review. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission had approved 89 priority projects worth 3.2 billion dollars but had become unwieldy, with its executive director post vacant since April 2011. The Group urged rapid formation of a fully functioning government, land tenure reform, stronger national capacity, and donor alignment with the Martelly administration's education, employment, environment and rule-of-law priorities.
Full Description
This report, the seventh submitted to the Economic and Social Council since the reactivation of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti in 2004, draws on the Group's visit to Haiti from 15 to 18 June 2011. It records tangible improvement on the ground eighteen months after the January 2010 earthquake: camp populations fell from 1.3 million to about 680,000, with roughly 50,000 people leaving camps each month, and progress against the cholera epidemic. It nevertheless stresses that recovery remained constrained by the absence of a functioning government after the electoral transition, with no Prime Minister confirmed at the time of writing. The report reviews aid coordination through the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, which had approved 89 projects worth 3.2 billion dollars, and the Haiti Reconstruction Fund, which had allocated 237 million dollars to 14 projects. It examines the priority sectors identified by President Martelly, the four Es of education, employment, environment and rule of law, and closes with recommendations to the UN system, the Haitian Government, donors and the international community.
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UN document E/2011/133; ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group report series; ayitistats wave B