Executive Summary of Haiti's Second-Cycle Review under the UN Convention against Corruption

This document is the United Nations Secretariat's executive summary (an addendum to the Implementation Review Group's session documents, CAC/COSP/IRG/II/2/1/Add.32, dated 28 March 2023) of Haiti's review under chapters III (criminalization, detection and law enforcement) and IV (international cooperation) of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), examined during the fourth year of the Convention's first review cycle (Haiti's own report on this stage was published 6 March 2017). It opens with an overview of Haiti's legal and institutional framework: the 8 September 2004 decree creating the Unité de Lutte Contre la Corruption (ULCC), the 17 May 2005 revision of the civil service statute, the 12 February 2008 asset-declaration law, the 2013 and 2001 anti-money-laundering laws, the 2009 public procurement law, the 12 March 2014 law on prevention and repression of corruption, and the 2017 public finance law, plus the main prevention institutions: ULCC, the Commission Nationale des Marchés Publics (CNMP), the Inspection Générale des Finances (IGF), the Unité Centrale de Renseignements Financiers (UCREF), and the Cour Supérieure des Comptes et du Contentieux Administratif (CSCCA).

It then reviews implementation article by article, noting that Haiti's 2009 national anti-corruption strategy expired in 2018 without a new one yet finalized, and closes with a substantial list of recommendations, including: adopting a new, society-inclusive anti-corruption strategy; guaranteeing ULCC's independence and resources, including a stable mandate for its Director General; reforming civil-service recruitment, especially for corruption-vulnerable posts; strengthening conflict-of-interest and transparency systems; reforming the asset-declaration system so declarations are made periodically during service and verification is strengthened; adopting an access-to-information law; and strengthening integrity measures for magistrates and prosecutors, including a code of ethics for the judiciary. Figures and institutional references are as published by the UN Secretariat; the corpus text is the native PDF text (not OCR).