The present report analyses the follow-up that has been made to the recommendations contained in the report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Council last year (E/2007/78) on key issues for the long-term development of Haiti, namely development planning and aid coordination, institutional capacity-building and the levers for economic and social development. It also provides information on the food crisis that Haiti has been experiencing in the past months, which has led to the destitution of the Government and to an institutional and political vacuum, and on action needed to put an end to the crisis. In this context, the Group stresses the importance of a new Government being in place soon, in order to consolidate stability and build on the gains achieved since 2004. In its concluding part, the report makes recommendations addressed to the Haitian authorities, the United Nations system and donors, aimed at improving the economic and social situation in the country and the impact of development support, an objective that has never been as topical as it is today.