Appendix II

U.S. and Other Donors' Assistance to the 

Haitian Judicial Sector, Fiscal Years 1993 

2001

Table 3:  Assistance Provided by the United States and Other Donors to the Haitian 

Judicial Sector, Fiscal Years 1993 2001

Dollars in millions

Donor

Amount

United States

$26.7

Canada

 5.5

France

 0.9

U.N. Missions to Haiti

7.3

    Previous missions

       0.3

    Current mission

       7.0

United Nations Development Program

 1.0

European Union

 1.9

Total

$43.3

Source: GAO analysis of USAID and United Nations Development Program data.

From fiscal years 1995 to 2000, Canada provided $5.5 million in assistance 

primarily for the construction or rehabilitation of 14 out of 15 first instance 

courts. Also, Canada helped to design a case registration and tracking 

system for the first instance courts, which is similar to the systems U.S. 

assistance helped put in place in the justice of the peace courts and the 

prosecutors' offices. However, in June 2000, Canada stopped its assistance 

to the judicial sector because Canada and Haiti had not been able to reach 

an agreement for continuing this assistance.

France has provided about $1 million in assistance to develop long term 

training at the magistrate school. The European Union provided almost 

$2 million in assistance to support the work of a judicial reform 

commission, which produced a 1998 reform proposal. This proposal was 

never implemented.

The United Nations has provided $8.3 million in assistance to improve the 

justice system. Two United Nations missions to Haiti have provided 

$7.3 million in assistance to improve the judicial sector. The current U.N. 

International Civilian Support Mission in Haiti intends to provide most of 

this assistance $7 million between March 2000 and February 2001. Also, 

in June 2000, the United Nations Development Program decided to provide 

about $1 million in technical assistance to the Ministry of Justice to support 

the development of a comprehensive package of recommendations and 

legislative proposals for reforming the justice system, including its criminal 

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