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Haiti: a new anti-corruption law brings hope

7 April 2014 in Accountability, ALAC, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing

It has taken a long time but Haiti finally has a comprehensive anti-corruption law. On 11 March the lower house of Parliament passed legislation first drafted in 2007. For a country that has been stuck on the lowest rungs of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for years, this is big and welcome news. And the […]

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Haïti: une nouvelle loi contre la corruption, porteuse d’espoir

7 April 2014 in Accountability, ALAC, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Miscellaneous, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing

Après plusieurs années d’attente, finalement Haïti est doté d’une loi globale de lutte contre la corruption. Le 11 mars dernier, la chambre basse du Parlement a adopté le projet de loi rédigé en 2007. Pour un pays qui, pendant des années, a stagné au plus bas niveau de l’échelle de l’Indice de Perceptions de la […]

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Haiti’s hard road to recovery

12 January 2013 in Accountability, Aid, Americas, People power, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing

In the three years since the devastating earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed much of Haiti’s infrastructure we have had to contend with two cyclones, a cholera epidemic and a drought that currently threatens our food security. No wonder Haitians and donors are suffering from reconstruction fatigue when too often the small […]

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Two years after the earthquake, corruption dogs reconstruction efforts

13 January 2012 in Accountability, Americas, Poverty and development

When a massive earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, there were 22 aftershocks in the days that followed. There has been a 23rd aftershock that has not yet stopped, and is just as damaging to peoples’ lives: corruption. It should be no surprise that corruption has been a barrier to Haiti’s reconstruction. Haiti public […]

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Aid Monitoring for Haitians, by Haitians

31 March 2010 in Americas, Poverty and development

Marilyn Allien is president of La Fondation pour Héritage pour Haïti, the Haitian chapter of Transparency International and Roslyn Hees is co-author of Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations, a Transparency International handbook. The rubble-strewn cityscape of Haiti’s capital gives little reason for hope. The tent city outside our office reeks of sewage and despair. Long […]

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