Haiti Final Report, OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC), First and Fourth Review Cycles

This is the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC)'s final report on Haiti (document SG/MESICIC/doc.423/14 rev.4), adopted at the plenary session of 12 September 2014 during the Committee of Experts' 24th meeting. Because Haiti was not yet affiliated with MESICIC during the Convention's First Cycle, this report contains a full analysis of implementation for both the First Cycle (Article III, paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 9 and 11, plus Articles XIV and XVIII: conduct standards and conflicts of interest, mechanisms to give effect to conduct standards, income/asset/debt declarations, oversight bodies, civil-society participation, international assistance and cooperation, and central authorities) and the Fourth Cycle (Article III, paragraph 9: superior oversight bodies for modern mechanisms to prevent, detect, sanction and eradicate corruption).

The analysis draws on Haiti's questionnaire response and an in-country visit conducted 8-10 April 2014 by representatives of Ecuador and Panama, including consultations with civil society. The report's recommendations, drawn from its executive summary, include publishing by name the list of officials who have not filed asset declarations, involving civil-society and non-governmental organizations more systematically in anti-corruption efforts, creating a legal-cooperation unit or directorate, and developing indicators to track the follow-up of prior MESICIC recommendations. Figures and institutional references are as published by the OAS; the corpus text is the native PDF text (not OCR).