Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2022/52)
- The August 2021 earthquake killed 2,246 people, injured 12,763, damaged or destroyed 137,585 homes, 1,250 schools and 97 health facilities, with recovery costed at $1.978 billion and $600 million pledged at the February 2022 conference.
- More than 200 armed gangs operate in Haiti, 70 percent of them in the Ouest department, and at least 655 kidnappings for ransom were reported between 27 September 2021 and 15 February 2022, against 234 the previous year.
- GDP contracted for a third consecutive year (1.7 percent in 2019, 3.3 percent in 2020, 1.8 percent in 2021), the gourde slid from 71 to 101 per dollar and reserves fell 36 percent to $458 million.
- Some 4.9 million people, 43 percent of the population, need humanitarian assistance in 2022, and only 1.5 percent of the eligible population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The eighteenth report of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti covers activities from July 2021 to March 2022, a period marked by the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on 7 July 2021 and a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the southern peninsula on 14 August 2021 that killed 2,246 people, injured 12,763 and left some 650,000 in need of humanitarian assistance. The Group reviews the political impasse between election proponents and the Montana Group transition proposal, the expansion of armed gangs, more than 200 of which operate in the country, and a sharp rise in kidnappings. It documents a third consecutive year of economic contraction, currency depreciation and declining reserves, and welcomes the December 2021 fuel subsidy reform while calling for accompanying safety nets. The report presents the $1.978 billion Southern Peninsula Integrated Recovery Plan, the $600 million pledged at the February 2022 financing conference, and recommendations to the Government, the international community and the United Nations system.
How to cite
United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2022/52), https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/report-ad-hoc-advisory-group-haiti-e202252