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21/08/2016 09:02:58

Thursday, Aviol Fleurant, the Minister of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) that responded to an invitation from the Senate Commission "Planning and External Cooperation" around the NGO operation in Haiti revealed that according to information provided by the Coordination Directorate of Activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (DCAONG), it would exist in Haiti currently 621 NGOs legally recognized and duly registered, of which 56% are Haitian and 44% foreign. According to the report, these NGOs mostly operate in the health sector.

However, what the Minister was careful to address, is that outside of those big legal NGOs, several sources agree that the number of small informal NGO in Haiti amounts to thousands, operating illegally, without control or coordination. Some estimate that 10,000 of these small informal NGO are working on Haitian territory.

Moreover, the Minister explained to the senators that his Ministry was in the process of establishing an electronic directory of NGOs in Haiti and the sectors in which they operate, including their geolocation.

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