Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (E/2024/7)

Submitted pursuant to ECOSOC resolution 2023/32, this report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti covers April 2023 to March 2024, based on meetings with national authorities, civil society, BINUH, the UN country team, regional organizations, and international financial institutions. Deeply concerned by the deteriorating security situation and worsening living conditions, the Group focuses on concrete avenues for the international community to support Haitian-led and Haitian-owned solutions to strengthen stability and sustainable development.

It documents a humanitarian emergency in which some 5.5 million people require assistance and about 4.4 to 4.97 million experience high levels of acute food insecurity, alongside large-scale internal displacement of 362,000 people, 93 percent of which was driven by violence. The Group reiterates that security measures must be complemented by a comprehensive, resourced long-term strategy addressing the drivers of violence, including political instability, inequality, extreme poverty, unemployment, human rights violations, impunity, corruption, and weak institutions, and that a durable solution requires addressing root causes. It offers recommendations on security, governance, humanitarian response, and development financing.