A General Overview of Development Assistance for Haiti (Observatory Bulletin No. 3)
Summary: The third bulletin of CERFAS's Observatory on Public Policies and International Cooperation, examining what official development assistance to Haiti consists of.
Key Findings
- A Haitian research center's own analysis of aid, rather than a donor's account of it.
- Argues that official development assistance figures include administrative costs, humanitarian aid and armed forces expenditure.
- Reads the aid relationship against the Paris Declaration principles of ownership and alignment.
- Published in French, Creole, English and Spanish; this is the English edition.
Full Description
The third bulletin of CERFAS's Observatory on Public Policies and International Cooperation, examining what official development assistance to Haiti consists of. Its point is that headline aid figures include administrative costs, humanitarian relief and the expenditure of armed forces delivering it, so the sum pledged is not the sum that reaches development.
How to cite
Centre de Recherche, de Réflexion, de Formation et d'Action Sociale, 2013, A General Overview of Development Assistance for Haiti (Observatory Bulletin No. 3), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/cerfas-2013-apercu-general-aide-au-developpement