Haiti Agenda Manifesto

The Future We Want

A Pledge of the Haitian People
Under the Aegis of the United Nations Association – Haiti (UNA-Haiti)
Port-au-Prince / Brooklyn / Miami / Montreal / Paris – October 2026 

For Signatures and Endorsement: Email: ayitiagenda@gmail.com, with name, location, and a yes indication                                                                              

PREAMBLE: WHY WE WRITE THIS NOW

They are bombing us again. We wrote to the United Nations to tell the world that foreign bombs are falling on Haitian neighborhoods. But as we wrote that letter, we had to ask ourselves a harder question: Why do we keep inviting outsiders to come between us to settle our differences? Why is it that for 40 years, every Haitian crisis ends with a foreign plane, a foreign soldier, a foreign resolution?

The bombs falling today are foreign, but the wound that let them in is Haitian. It is our division. It is our failure to build a country that protects its own people. Therefore, we, members of the Haitian community at home and abroad, sons and daughters of Dessalines, do not just condemn foreign intervention. We pledge to end the need for it. We publish this manifesto as a solemn oath to ourselves, to our children, and to Haiti.

THE FUTURE WE ALL WANT

The future we all Haitians want, the future that we all should want, is not complicated. It is three things:

1. A Country United.
2. A Country of Institutions.
3. A Country of Jobs.

Everything else is commentary.

I. WE PLEDGE: A COUNTRY UNITED – NEVER AGAIN DIVIDED

We have been a country divided against itself – black and mulatto, rich and poor, at home and diaspora, Lavalas and Duvalierist, north and south. Our division is our curse. It is what every outsider has used to enter.

We pledge today:

• We will never again invite an outsider to come between us to settle our differences. Under no circumstances will we compromise our sovereignty. Not for security, not for aid, not for visas, not for power. Our sovereignty is non-negotiable. It is the blood of our ancestors.
• We call on all Haitians to do soul searching. To find their better self. To put country first – Peyi an Avan.
• We pledge to choose, going forward, only leadership that unites us and not leadership that divides us. Any leader who needs to demonize another Haitian to rule is unfit to lead Haiti. We reject the politics of division.
• We pledge to put an end to all forms of Bwa Kale. We understand the desperation from which it was born, but we declare that we cannot build a just country on the spectacle of human beings burning in the street. Justice cannot come from the mob. Justice must come from the courts. We pledge to end street justice and build real justice.

II. WE PLEDGE: A COUNTRY OF INSTITUTIONS – NOT OF STRONGMEN

We have had strongmen. We have had saviors. We have never had strong institutions. A savior will always need a foreign army to stay in power. An institution will protect the people on its own.

We pledge:

• We pledge to embrace a politics that is based on compromise. For too long our politics has been winner-takes-all. If I lose, I burn the country down. This must end. We embrace the notion of compromis historique. The table is bigger than one party.
• We support the notion of reconciling popular will with stakeholders trust. Haiti belongs to the Haitian people. The popular will expressed through free and fair elections is sacred. But a country cannot run on elections alone. It also needs the trust of its stakeholders – its teachers, farmers, entrepreneurs, its diaspora who sends $4 billion a year, its private sector, its civil society. We reject both the demagogy that ignores expertise and the elitism that ignores the people. We will build a system where the ballot box and the meeting table respect each other.

Concretely, we pledge to fight for:

• An independent judiciary where no one is above the law, and no one is below its protection.
• A professional Haitian National Police that serves the people, not a party.
• An Electoral Council that is not owned by the President.
• Local government that actually governs.

III. WE PLEDGE: A COUNTRY OF JOBS – DIGNITY THROUGH WORK

A young man with a job does not join a gang. A young woman with a job does not have to leave for the Dominican Republic or a boat to Miami. Insecurity is not a security problem. It is an unemployment problem. The future we want is a country of jobs.

Rooted in the aspirations of our people for a dignified life, we pledge that job creation and economic growth shall be the primary standard by which all future leaders are held accountable. We pledge to make Haiti a country that produces again. We pledge to choose leaders based not on who shouts loudest against the foreigner, but on who has a credible plan to:

• Put the land back into production – irrigation, credit, and protection for our farmers.
• Light the country – energy is the basis of industry.
• Connect the diaspora’s capital and knowledge to the homeland’s need – turning brain drain into brain circulation.
• Make the state the regulator, not the predator, of business.

OUR FINAL OATH

Standing under the aegis of UNA-Haiti, we, the undersigned members of the Haitian community, pledge this day:

• We pledge to put Haiti first.
• We pledge to never again sell our sovereignty for short-term political gain.
• We pledge to forgive, but not to forget, the mistakes that brought us here.
• We pledge to talk to each other before we call the outsider.
• We pledge that the Haitian child born in 2026 will not have to write a letter in 2046 begging the UN to stop foreign bombs.

This is the future we all want. A Country United. A Country of Institutions. A Country of Jobs. If you believe in this future, sign your name.

Ayiti se pou nou. Li pa pou vann.

For Signatures and Endorsement:

United Nations Association – Haiti (UNA-Haiti)
Email: ayitiagenda@gmail.com | Website: http://www.unahaiti.org/futurewewant