Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2013/90)
- Nearly 80 percent of the 1.5 million people displaced by the 2010 earthquake had returned to their neighborhoods or been relocated, and cholera mortality fell to 1.2 percent as of December 2012, though the 2013 Humanitarian Action Plan of $144 million was only 28 percent funded by June 2013.
- Growth slowed from 5.4 percent after the earthquake to 2.8 percent in 2011/12, mainly because weak administrative capacity kept government investment execution and donor disbursement low.
- Health indicators improved markedly, with infant and child mortality at 88 per thousand versus 131 in 1984-1994 and fertility down to 3.5 children per woman in 2012, while forest cover stood below 2 percent and 85 percent of watersheds were degraded.
- The report urges holding the delayed senatorial and municipal elections, land registration reform, and support for the police target of 15,000 officers by end-2016.
The ninth report of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti, based on an April 2013 visit to Washington, D.C. and a May 2013 visit to Haiti including the South Department, records tangible reconstruction progress: nearly 80 percent of the 1.5 million people displaced by the earthquake had returned or been relocated, cholera mortality had fallen to 1.2 percent, and infrastructure was visibly improving in Port-au-Prince and some provinces. Growth nevertheless slowed to 2.8 percent in 2011/12, and the Group identifies weak national absorptive capacity as the main brake on development, alongside the need for land registration and civil registry reform, stronger public financial management and the long-delayed senatorial and municipal elections. It reviews the Government's five E priorities, conditional cash transfer programs, the new external aid coordination framework launched in November 2012, the MINUSTAH consolidation plan for 2013-2016 and the Haitian National Police target of 15,000 officers by 2016, and closes with recommendations to development partners, the United Nations system and the Haitian authorities.
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United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2013/90), https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/report-ad-hoc-advisory-group-haiti-e201390