Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2011/133)

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.