Haiti Country Opinion Survey FY2018: Report of Findings

The World Bank Group's Country Opinion Survey for Haiti in 2018: what Haitian stakeholders told the Bank about the country's development priorities and about the Bank's own performance. 134 stakeholders participated, a 28 percent response rate, against the FY2014 round which reached 204 respondents at a 50 percent rate, and the data are weighted to the same structure so the two rounds can be compared.

Respondents put education first among development priorities at 66 percent, followed by public sector governance and reform at 51 percent and job creation at 33 percent. Asked instead what would contribute most to reducing poverty, they put job creation first at 57 percent, so the ranking shifts depending on whether the question is about national priorities or about poverty specifically. That gap between the two lists is the survey's most useful output, because it separates what stakeholders consider important from what they believe actually moves poverty.

The survey also records how the Bank itself is seen: its perceived effectiveness, whether its work is aligned with country needs, and how its knowledge products and collaboration are rated. Because the same instrument runs across countries and across rounds, the Haitian results are readable both against Haiti's own 2014 baseline and against other country programs.