(2024-04) Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2024/7)
Summary — Report of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti covering April 2023 to March 2024, focused on international support for Haitian-led solutions amid a deteriorating security situation, mass displacement, and 5.5 million people needing humanitarian assistance.
Key Findings
- The security situation deteriorated further while living conditions worsened across April 2023 to March 2024. Some 5.5 million people required humanitarian assistance and 4.4 to 4.97 million faced high acute food insecurity. Internal displacement reached 362,000 people, 93 per cent driven by violence. The Group stressed that security measures must be paired with a resourced long-term strategy addressing the root drivers of violence, under Haitian ownership.
Full Description
Submitted pursuant to ECOSOC resolution 2023/32, this report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti covers April 2023 to March 2024, based on meetings with national authorities, civil society, BINUH, the UN country team, regional organizations, and international financial institutions. Deeply concerned by the deteriorating security situation and worsening living conditions, the Group focuses on concrete avenues for the international community to support Haitian-led and Haitian-owned solutions to strengthen stability and sustainable development. It documents a humanitarian emergency in which some 5.5 million people require assistance and about 4.4 to 4.97 million experience high levels of acute food insecurity, alongside large-scale internal displacement of 362,000 people, 93 per cent of which was driven by violence. The Group reiterates that security measures must be complemented by a comprehensive, resourced long-term strategy addressing the drivers of violence, including political instability, inequality, extreme poverty, unemployment, human rights violations, impunity, corruption, and weak institutions, and that a durable solution requires addressing root causes. It offers recommendations on security, governance, humanitarian response, and development financing.
Notes
UN document E/2024/7; recovered via UN documents system; FR source: https://undocs.org/fr/E/2024/7; ayitistats ECOSOC gap-fill