Yet international reporting on Haiti continues to foreground outputs: workshops on gender and youth participation, deployments, and decrees. Missions can generate a high volume of outputs while outcomes stay flat or worsen — that gap I call the output trap. Too often, international missions show substantial activity at the output level without comparable progress in outcomes or strategic effect. These are the outcomes behind the outputs international reporting describes, and the distance between the two accounts is the output trap in practice. Haiti is a preview of the next generation of interventions — lighter, more fragmented, and financially constrained — that will fail unless success is measured through strategic outcomes.