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Addressing Corruption in Haiti Addressing Corruption in Haiti Robert Klitgaard February 2010 Abstract: In the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake of January 12, 2010, Haiti will receive unprecedented aid for reconstruction and for its promising economic strategy. But given the country’s legacy of corruption, massive aid could simply result in another massive Haitian failure. Success hinges on facing corruption squarely and developing a hard‐headed, politically sensitive anti‐corruption strategy. How this could be done, given Haiti’s realities and lessons from fighting corruption around the world, is the subject of this paper. Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711 USA. He has been an advisor and researcher in more than 30 countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, including Haiti under the first term of President Aristide. His eight books include Controlling Corruption, Adjusting to Reality: Beyond “State vs. Market” in Economic Development, and High­Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives (with Paul C. Light). This paper was prepared as an offering to Haitians and the many foreign friends who wish to help the country rebuild and reform. Email: [email protected]. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1. SUCCESS IN HAITI: AN IMAGINARY NEWS STORY FROM 2015............................................. 2 2. ADDRESSING CORRUPTION IN HAITI: AN OVERVIEW .............................................................. 3 3. GREAT BEGINNINGS AND ELEPHANT ELITES................................................................................. 4 “WE FALL INTO THE SAME TRAP OVER AND OVER AGAIN”......................................................................... 4 YESTERDAY AND TODAY..................................................................................................................................... 6 THE EARTH MOVES ............................................................................................................................................ 7 4. HAITI’S ECONOMIC STRATEGY.............................................................................................................. 9 5. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS ON COMBATING CORRUPTION ................................................. 14 CORRUPTION CRIPPLES DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................................................... 14 HOW TO CHANGE THE INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE ....................................................................................... 15 HOW TO MOBILIZE ALLIES ............................................................................................................................. 17 PREVENTIVE MEASURES THROUGH BETTER SYSTEMS............................................................................... 19 HOW TO SUBVERT SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION ................................................................................................. 21 6. TOWARD A STRATEGY FOR HAITI.................................................................................................... 27 HOW TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY..................................................................................................................... 28 HOW TO BUILD MOMENTUM AND POPULAR SUPPORT .............................................................................. 30 HOW TO AVOID DISTORTIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL AID....................................................................... 32 HOW TO BUILD SKILLS AND LEADERSHIP .................................................................................................... 33 ANNEX 1. A PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING AN ANTI‐CORRUPTION STRATEGY................... 35 ANNEX 2. IDEAS FOR A HAITI LEADERSHIP ACADEMY............................................................... 38 OBJECTIVES ....................................................................................................................................................... 38 PROGRAMS......................................................................................................................................................... 38 THOUGHTS ON LOGISTICS................................................................................................................................ 40 REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................................... 42 1 1. Success in Haiti: An Imaginary News Story from 2015 Five Years after the Quake, Haiti’s “Model Recovery” Port-au-Prince, February 13, 2015 (Reuters)— The private sector has participated in “integrity Only a few years ago, Haiti was considered by some pacts” in most sectors of public works. Here business a hopeless cause. leaders and government officials jointly pledge not to “After the earthquake of 2010, more than our engage in bribery or other forms of illicit behavior— buildings had collapsed,” says Bonaventure Ouvert, a and to audit jointly any alleged violations. Haitian journalist. “Our economy was in ruins. There Citizen surveys have been used to create was almost no civil service. Our morale was “scorecards” for every government agency. Also, devastated. Everyone assumed that Haiti would just lawyers, accountants, and business people are drop deeper into our historic pattern of corruption interviewed to “diagnose” corrupt systems—and help and instability.” design and monitor improvements. On the contrary, notes Masahito Okazaki of These changes—coupled with strong, honest Transparency International. “Today the level of leadership—have led to surprising improvements. confidence in Haiti is high, and this reflects a Performance indicators have been created for most remarkable effort by its leaders to create a state that sectors of government, and they are on the rise. For serves its people’s interests.” example, the cost per kilometer of roads built is about The percentage of people living in poverty has 30% less than the historical figure. The cost of fallen from more than twice the mean of Caribbean constructing a rural school has also declined about countries to just above that mean. Growth has 30%. Customs revenues per dollar spent in customs averaged over 7 percent per year, driven by clothing administration have risen to $240 this year (the world and textiles, agriculture, and foreign aid and standard is between $200-$300). investment. Haiti created a new system for managing On Transparency International’s Corruption reconstruction funds in a transparent way. Free zones Perception Index, Haiti has moved in five years from have been developed, with good infrastructure and near the bottom of world rankings to just a place just independent administration. behind Costa Rica and ahead of many other countries “Haiti’s recovery is a model for other countries,” in the Americas. observes Jules Fisher of The Economist. “Haiti has Changing Image and Reality avoided most of the problems that arise after disasters “A major challenge for us was to defeat a mentality and during the subsequent reconstruction.” that Haiti could never succeed,” says Minister Government in Partnership Michel. “We still have much to do, but we believe Most people believe that behind Haiti’s success lies that everyone realizes that Haiti is a place that is on effective governance, vital for the country’s large the move, where excellence can thrive.” new flows of aid and investment. Important steps in this direction were to improve “Our government has learned how to work through law and order and to create an effective system of partnerships,” notes Alphonse Michel, Minister of property rights. “Development in so many other Public Works, Transport, and Communications. “In countries has foundered on property rights and the reconstruction, and in activities ranging from social problem of creating a transparent and efficient legal services to free zones to agriculture, we use a variety system,” Frommer observes. “Haiti gave these issues of public-private-nonprofit partnerships, all of them priority from the beginning, and it’s working.” ethically led and carefully evaluated.” Haiti has been able to recapture talent that had gone “They used foreign experts ruthlessly,” notes the abroad. Thousands of highly trained Haitians UNDP’s Jürgen Frommer. “They took advantage of returned to work in public, private, and non-profit strategic help in areas like public works and social sectors. The government has also emphasized the audits. They re-conceptualized the whole idea of development of talent within the country. foreign advisers, thinking of them primarily not as Leadership training has been another area of doers but as teachers and capacity builders.” remarkable innovation. Haiti employed international [The rest of story is not yet available] 2 2. Addressing Corruption in Haiti: An Overview The imaginary news story above makes welcome reading. Five years from now, we learn, Haiti’s post‐earthquake reconstruction will be a great success. How this success will happen is only hinted at. But note this big idea: Haiti will surmount systemic corruption. Impossible, many say. “The biggest obstacle to reconstruction and development in Haiti is corruption,” they shrug. “But what can be done about that, especially here?” The feeling of futility is part of the challenge in Haiti. To overcome it, we must begin with Haitian reality.
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