Haiti Now: Development Priorities and Interventions

Tuesday

June

2024

Time

8:30am –9:45am

Time zone

EST

Location

Ottawa, Canada

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Events

Haiti Now: Development Priorities and Interventions

Other Multisector

Jun 13, 2024

On June 18 at 8:30am (EDT), the forum “Haiti Now: Development Priorities and Interventions” discussed recent developments in Haiti.

Panellists shared views on how the new interim council, as well as the new administration might work with international and regional partners to restore stability and maintain peace.

The forum’s objectives were:

(a) to outline the current socio-economic/security situation in Haiti;

(b) to share World Bank’s approach to development in Fragile States;

(d) to highlight CDB’s Haiti Programme and its alignment with Haiti’s Priorities and CDB’s Strategic Objectives.

SPEAKERS

🔹 Mr. David Comissiong, Barbados’ Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and to the Association of Caribbean States, Government of Barbados

🔹 Mr. Ronald Gabriel, Governor, Central Bank of Haiti

🔹 Ms. Corinne Cathala, Representative in Hait, Inter-American Development Bank

🔹 Prof. Samuel Pierre, Haitian/Canadian Academic and Professor with the Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

🔹 Mrs. Therese Turner-Jones, Acting Vice-President (Operations), Caribbean Development Bank - Moderator