A/HRC/28/82 malnutrition and a national social assistance programme aimed at improving living conditions.6 34. These programmes are part of the Strategic Development Plan for Haiti, which is built around five priorities: (a) education and human and social development (access to education, health, social services and culture, and better quality of habitat); (b) the environment and land use; (c) the economy and employment; (d) energy; and (e) the rule of law and democracy. The Government is aiming to halve the number of people suffering from hunger by the end of 2016 and to eradicate hunger and malnutrition fully by 2025. 35. According to a report on the status of attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti, co-authored by the National Observatory on Poverty and Social Exclusion and UNDP, Haiti has made significant progress against most of the indicators and has achieved all (or almost all) of its targets. In particular, underweight in children under 5 has been halved, extreme poverty has been reduced to 24 per cent, infant mortality has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, maternal mortality has dropped to 157 per 100,000, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been stabilized and 64.8 per cent of households now have access to an improved drinking-water source. Haiti is still among the countries receiving the most attention from the international community, with a leap in official development assistance following the 2010 earthquake.7 36. The same report observes that many challenges remain, and the progress made in some sectors is still too limited to have a major impact on development and poverty reduction.8 Among those challenges, the report mentions inequality, low income levels (45 per cent of workers live on less than US$1.25 per day), unequal gender representation in the parliament (women account for only 4 per cent) and the lack of measures to combat deforestation and the loss of biodiversity. 37. With respect to inequality in particular, the human development index (HDI) for Haiti rose from 0.456 in 2012 to 0.471 in 2013, leaving it in 168th place among the 187 countries and territories surveyed.9 When this index is adjusted for the inequalities affecting the poorest of the poor, who are deprived of health, education and dignity, it drops to 0.285 (which is a slight improvement over 2012, when it stood at 0.273). 10 According to UNDP, the HDI can be viewed as an index of “potential” human development and the inequalityadjusted human development index (IHDI) as an index of “actual” human development. The loss in potential human development caused by inequality is the difference between the HDI and the IHDI, and can be expressed as a percentage. 11 6 7 8 9 10 11 8 Government of the Republic of Haiti, Les programmes d’inclusion sociale et de lutte contre la pauvreté extrême du Gouvernement Martelly-Lamothe, 2013 (?), Port-au-Prince. Available at www.faes.gouv.ht/download/GTR_11714_PARP_programmes_2014-04-23.pdf. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Haiti, “2013 MDG report: Haiti, a new look – executive summary” (Port-au-Prince, UNDP, 2014). Available at www.ht.undp.org/content/haiti/fr/ home/library/mdg/rapport-omd-2013---haiti-un-nouveau-regard/. Ibid. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2014, Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience, table 1 (“Human Development Index and its components”). Available at http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr14-report-en-1.pdf (consulted on 26 January 2015). This table refers to the year 2013 although this is not indicated in the heading. Ibid., table 3 (“Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index”). Available at: http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr14-report-en-1.pdf (consulted on 26 January 2015). This table refers to the year 2013 although this is not indicated in the heading. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International human development indicators. Haiti. Country profile: Human development indicators. 2013 report (Subtitle: Inequality. Based on the “Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index” indicator in this document: Human GE.15-02042