Capital: Port-au-Prince
Area: 27,750 sq km
Population: 8,706,497
Adult literacy: 54.8% male, 51.2% female
Per capita: US $1,800 (2006 est.)
Languages: French (official), Creole (official)
Religion: Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3%
Life expectancy: 55.35 years male, 58.75 years female

Haiti is characterized by extreme poverty and inequality, rampant corruption, and weak or nonexistent state capacity. Its recent history is rife with factors that contribute to state weakness. Internal conflict, systemic and corrosive corruption, and economic collapse have all contributed, not only to the hollowing of state institutions into parasitic shells (or in some cases, their outright disappearance), but to the weakening of the country’s social fabric. Given this reality, and the country’s troubled history of social instability and political upheaval, the Pact Consortium Civil Society Advocacy (CSA) Program is built around a sober, strategic assessment of the needs on the ground, the appropriate technical interventions, and a realistic conceptualization of change and development in the country.