MDG Report 2013, Haiti: A New Look
- Extreme poverty fell to 24%, according to the Prime Minister's preface.
- More than 88% of children attend primary school, and parity between girls and boys was reached in primary and secondary school.
- The target on underweight children under five was met three years before the 2015 deadline.
- Infant mortality fell 52%, from 122 to 59 per 1,000 live births, and under-five deaths fell 44% between 1990 and 2012.
- The interagency group estimated maternal mortality at 380 per 100,000 live births in 2013, compared with 670 in 1990.
- About 69% of households have access to an improved water source.
The report, overseen by a steering committee of the Prime Minister's office, the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE), the National Observatory of Poverty and Social Exclusion (ONPES) and UNDP, has one chapter for each of the eight Millennium Development Goals. Each chapter sets out the situation and trends, policies and programs, bottlenecks, and recommendations, with summary tables of interventions. A closing chapter covers Haiti's post-2015 consultations on education, health, energy and water, inequality, governance, growth and jobs, and food security. The prefaces by Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and UNDP state that extreme poverty fell to 24%, the target on underweight children under five was met three years early, and about 69% of households have an improved water source. The health chapters report infant mortality falling from 122 to 59 per 1,000 live births and a maternal mortality estimate of 380 per 100,000 in 2013, compared with 670 in 1990. The corrected version is dated August 2014.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2014, MDG Report 2013, Haiti: A New Look, https://files.acquia.undp.org/public/migration/latinamerica/UNDP-HT-HaitiRapportOMD2013_20140611.pdf