(2002-05) Long-term Programme of Support for Haiti: Report of the Secretary-General (E/2002/56)

United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) • 2002 • 8 pages

Summary — Report of the Secretary-General to ECOSOC on progress in elaborating a long-term programme of support for Haiti and the practical modalities for its implementation, submitted pursuant to Council resolution 2001/25.

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Key Findings

The report reviewed progress in designing a long-term support programme for Haiti under ECOSOC resolution 2001/25. It tied durable support to political normalization after the contested 2000 elections and to Haitian ownership. It described coordination among the UN system, OAS, and international financial institutions. It set out modalities for aligning donor engagement with national priorities.

Full Description

Submitted to the substantive session of 2002 pursuant to ECOSOC resolution 2001/25, this Secretary-General's report reviews progress in elaborating a long-term programme of support for Haiti and the practical modalities for its implementation. It situates the effort within the political and institutional crisis that followed the contested 2000 elections and the resulting suspension of much external assistance, and describes coordination between the United Nations system, the Organization of American States, the international financial institutions, and Haitian authorities. The report examines the socioeconomic backdrop, the fragility of state institutions, and the conditions under which a durable support programme could be built, stressing that sustained progress depends on political normalization, respect for democratic institutions, and Haitian ownership. It sets out the elements of a proposed programme and the modalities for aligning donor engagement with national priorities. The report is part of the recurring ECOSOC reporting line on Haiti that would be formalized in the Ad Hoc Advisory Group's annual reports, and it documents the early-2000s phase of international engagement preceding the 2004 political transition.

Topics

Geography

Time Coverage

2001 — 2002

Keywords

long-term support programme, ECOSOC, Secretary-General, Haiti, donor coordination, political crisis, institutions, E/2002/56, series:ecosoc-adhoc-haiti

Entities

United Nations Economic and Social Council, Secretary-General, Organization of American States, Government of Haiti

Notes

UN document E/2002/56; recovered via UN documents system; FR source: https://undocs.org/fr/E/2002/56; ayitistats ECOSOC gap-fill