At a press conference today, a senior official from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said that the "pathway for strengthening" Haitian government capacity is coordination with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their efforts to assist the people of indigent island nation.
He added that CARICOM's priorities at the upcoming Haiti Reconstruction Conference are NGO transparency and donor-nation follow-through of financial commitments.
CARICOM, an organization of 15 Caribbean nations, is a forum for regional cooperation, and promotes greater economic integration and trade among its member states. Haiti joined CARICOM as a full member in July 2002, and is the most recent country to do so.
Brushing aside concerns about the lack of transparency in the Haitian government, the official repeated that the work of the philanthropic NGOs in Haiti is often carried out without coordination with, or financial disclosure to, the corruption-ridden central and local governments.
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