Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2012/87)

The eighth report of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti follows the Group's May 2012 visit, held a week after Parliament ratified the Government of Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. It records that donors had disbursed 45 percent, or $2.48 billion, of the $6.5 billion pledged at the March 2010 New York conference by April 2012, with disbursements slowing sharply, and that only 16.4 percent of recovery funding used government systems. Humanitarian concerns persisted: 390,000 people still lived under tents, 38 percent of the population faced food insecurity, and the 2012 appeal was only 37 percent funded. The Group reviews the end of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission and the new aid coordination architecture, the strategic plan to make Haiti an emerging country by 2030, industrial parks including Ouanaminthe and Caracol, gains for women's political representation, and rule of law developments including the published constitutional amendments and the national police plan targeting 15,000 officers by 2016. Recommendations address donors, the United Nations system and the Haitian authorities.