Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

1 The Context

1 Over the past twenty years, Haiti has undergone profound change that has affected all important aspects of national life, particularly in the political, economic, social, and environmental spheres. These changes have taken place in a global context affected by the sudden and multifaceted impact of rapid demographic growth resulting from a sequence of events, in particular: i/ the failure to manage the effects of the 1980-1982 international economic crisis, ii/ internal political instability resulting from the collapse of the political regime, iii/ the dramatic process of liberalization that started in 1987 and, iv/ the 1991-1994 trade embargo imposed by the international community.

2 As a result of this multidimensional and protracted crisis, Haiti has been rapidly and greatly surpassed by the majority of small Latin American and Caribbean economies, so much so that currently, it is the only LDC in the Western Hemisphere. At the same time, a process of widespread impoverishment has gradually taken hold. This strong and adverse trend is fueled largely by economic decline that is impacting all economic subsectors that were in a growth phase during the 1970s, such as the manufacturing, tourism, agro-industry, and agricultural export industries. The decline has also been reflected in a simultaneous process of decapitalization of the other branches of the rural economy. Now that political stability has been restored, while the establishment of a macroeconomic framework and modest but sustained economic growth over the past four years represent significant strides, they fall short of meeting the legitimate aspirations of the Haitian people for a better life.

3 The drafting of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP) reflects the desire of the Haitian Government to respond appropriately to the aspirations of the Haitian people and to the major growth and poverty reduction challenges. The DSNCRP is therefore a follow up, first, to the Interim Cooperation Framework (ICF) prepared with the help of the International Community in 2004, second, to the strategy targeting the major work areas [Grands Chantiers] submitted by the Government to the International Conference on Economic and Social Development in Haiti held in Port-au-Prince on July 25, 2006, and third, to the Interim Poverty Reduction Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of September, 2006. The drafting has benefited from a long participatory process involving the principal state and non-state actors, ensuring its ownership by the entire population.

2 The Participatory Process

4 The participatory process was identified on the basis of previous experience with Haiti, lessons learned, and recommendations made at information/training workshops held during the I-PRSP drafting process in 2005. It was conducted through a series of meetings, gatherings, seminars, workshops, and forums held at all levels (sectoral, local, departmental, and national) with the aim of ensuring the broadest possible participation of the various partners.

5 These partners, particularly the poor themselves, include vulnerable groups; organized civil society groups: the press, trade unions, cooperative entities, professional associations, chambers of commerce and industry, human rights organizations, women, young people, etc.; the formal and informal business sectors; central, deconcentrated, and decentralized state administrations; autonomous state institutions; universities; NGOs; members of parliament; locally-elected officials (Mayors and CASEC [Conseil d'administration de section communal], grassroots organizations and/or associations, aid or multilateral and bilateral cooperation agencies, etc. 14 Description of the Process

6 This participatory process, one of the major components of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP), entailed two phases: awareness-building/consultation and participation. The first phase - awareness-building/consultation – involved three kinds of workshops: awareness-building workshops, thematic workshops, and departmental workshops. The second phase (participation) entailed a three-step process: municipal validation forums [forums communaux de validation FCV], departmental validation forums [forums départementaux de validation FDV], and the national validation forum [forum national de validation FNV]. First Phase

7 Ten awareness-building workshops were organized in Port-au-Prince with a view to providing information to the various actors on the objectives, issues, and features of the DSNCRP. These workshops brought together 350 representatives from the Government, Parliament, central, deconcentrated, and decentralized administrations, NGOs, and organized civil society groups.

8 Ten thematic workshops were organized with the participation of more than 200 specialists from the public and private sectors, as well as associations, for purposes of stocktaking, assessment, analysis, and identification of alternative policies with respect to the different sectors. Human development, good governance, and growth vectors were the main topics discussed.

9 Ten departmental workshops were also held with the aim of building the awareness of participants regarding the process, sharing or testing the outcomes of thematic workshops, and identifying assessment, analytical, and forecasting tools for each geographic department in the country. These workshops brought together 1,500 participants representing the state sectors and civil society. Second Phase

10 Ten municipal validation forums (FCVs) were organized in the ten municipalities classified as the poorest (in terms of access to educational services, health, running water, and sanitation), with a view to discussion and validation by the local and sectoral actors of the outcomes of thematic and departmental workshops. These forums brought together a total of 1,000 participants, and discussions naturally revolved around the poverty existing in these municipalities and ways to address it.

11 Four departmental validation forums (FDVs) took place (North, Central, West, and South), with the aim of validating public policy proposals in the areas of education, health, agriculture, rural development, and infrastructure, along with one AGORA, which entailed proposals in the areas of tourism, the environment, risk and disaster management, gender equality, and territorial development. Participating in these forums were 1,400 locally-elected officials, women's associations, youth associations, and other groups representing the four geographic departments in question.

12 At the end, the national validation forum (FNV), which was held in Port-au-Prince on September 26, 2007, brought together more than 800 participants representing the main national and international actors in the public and private sectors and associations. The objective was to validate and build a consensus around the outcomes of all the preceding phases.

13 The outcomes of the nine-month participatory process involving 5,200 persons can be summarized as follows: • Better understanding of the objectives of the DSNCRP; • Provision of information to and mobilization of the contributors, populations, and development partners with respect to the themes of growth and poverty reduction; • Coming together of the various stakeholders for purposes of discussion, participation, prioritization, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the activities identified to assist with growth and poverty reduction; 15 • Buy in by the population of the public policies and priority actions selected for implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the DSNCRP; • Commitment to build capacity to gather, process, and disseminate information at both the levels of the public sector and civil society organizations through the establishment of an Observatory of Poverty and Social Exclusion [Observatoire de la Pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale ONPES]; and • Commitment to build the capacity of civil society organizations with a view to having them participate fully in the process through the identification and ongoing evaluation of groups and/or grassroots organizations.

14 The departmental, sectoral, and national gatherings, meetings, and workshops focused on the following themes and sectors: o Pro-poor growth (agriculture, industry/trade/crafts, roads/transport, electricity, tourism, and science and technology); o Governance and institutional reforms (justice system/rule of law, fiscal transparency, public management modernization/decentralization, and territorial management); o Development of the social sectors (health/HIV/AIDS, education, water/sanitation; o Sectoral and departmental socio-economic assessments (development constraints, assets and potential, main intervention areas, and priority actions; o Sectoral and departmental assessments of human poverty (access to educational services, health services, running water, sanitation services, and housing; o Cross-cutting sectors (poverty and children, gender issues, border, maritime, and adjacent island problems, urban and rural development, the environment, and risks and disasters.

15 Several information, orientation, and summary documents on these themes and sectors were prepared by the Technical Secretariat of the DSNCRP Drafting Committee and distributed as widely as possible to partners for purposes of consideration, discussion, analysis, feedback, and advice, with a view to the improvement and ownership of these documents. 16 Institutional Framework National Level: DSNCRP Drafting Committee

16 Established by Presidential Decree on December 5, 2006, this committee spearheads the entire PRSP process. Its mission is to determine major political and strategic thrusts and to lead the DSNCRP drafting process at the national, departmental, and local levels. The Drafting Committee's composition is as follows: - The Prime Minister or his representative (Chairman); - The Minister of Planning and External Cooperation or his representative (Vice Chairman); - The Minister of Economy and Finance or his representative, (Vice Chairman); - The President of the Haitian Medical Association, representing the socio-professional sector (Member); - The President of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representing the commercial private sector (Member); - The President of the Administrative Council of the VETERIMED Non-Governmental Organization, representing the NGO sector (Member); - The rector of QUISQUEYA University, representing academia (Member); and - One trade union leader, representing the trade union sector (Member). Donor Support Committee (CABF)

17 The committee guided and supported the drafting process of the full DSNCRP. It was composed of the resident representatives of seven bilateral and multilateral development assistance agencies in Haiti whose mission is to support the coordination and harmonization of donor involvement in the preparatory process and the drafting of the DSNCRP. Consultative meetings were held on a regular basis with the coordination office of the Drafting Committee operating under the oversight of the Minister of Planning and External Cooperation in order to share ideas, government guidelines, information, and progress made with the drafting of the full DSNCRP. These meetings also facilitated joint identification and programming of the technical and financial assistance activities that may be requested by the Government to assist with the drafting of the full DSNCRP. Technical Secretariat (TS)

18 The Technical Secretariat spearheaded all activities related to the planning and drafting of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP). This Technical Secretariat was composed of a core group of experienced technical experts specializing in the management of development programs and projects and was headed by a coordinator. A certain number of local part-time specialists were hired on an as-need basis and received assistance from officials serving as focal points in ministries and institutions. The Haitian Government assumed responsibility for the operating procedures of the Technical Secretariat, with financial and technical support from bilateral and multilateral assistance agencies. Departmental and Local Levels: Departmental Coordination (DC)

19 The Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MCPE), working through its various departmental offices and with the assistance of the representatives of the relevant sectors, coordinated departmental participatory workshops and forums in each geographical department in order to draft the departmental component of the DSNCRP. "Departmental Consultation Tables (DCTs)," which provide a forum for the participation of all state and non-state actors in the various departments, were included in the process. 17

20 DCTs are expected to allow the various local development actors to receive the appropriate technical training and guidance that would allow them to play a liaison role with respect to the National Observatory on Poverty and Social Exclusion (ONPES) and to be able to monitor, based on the key indicators established, trends in the poverty and social exclusion situation as well as the MDGs in the localities included in the DSNCRP's Three-Year Action Plan. Every institution or resource individual participating in this forum will do so as a member of a grassroots network that gathers information and assimilates practices that can help monitor DSNCRP priority actions, with coordination work being handled by the departmental office of the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation. 3. The Structure of the Paper

21 The paper contains six sections. The first provides an assessment of poverty and inequality using the most recent survey data available. The second outlines the vision of state and non-state actors as well as the challenges to be met by 2015. The third presents the policies and strategic sectoral areas of intervention which include the major work areas [Grands Chantiers] identified by the Haitian Government at the July 25, 2006 International Conference. These areas have been reorganized in such a way as to fall under three main pillars: growth vectors, human development, and governance. These three pillars are supported by twelve targeted or cross- cutting thematic areas, namely: (i) gender equity; (ii) human rights; (iii) the environment; (iv) disaster and risk management; (v) combating HIV/AIDS; (vi) scientific and technological innovation; (vii) childhood poverty; (viii) youth employment; (ix) local border development; and (x) capacity-building. The fourth section pertains to the macroeconomic framework and stabilization and growth objectives. The fifth section covers the quantification, financing, and institutional framework for implementation and monitoring of the growth and poverty reduction strategy. 18 CHAPTER 1 The Scope of Poverty and Inequality

22 Haiti is mired in abject poverty which is driven by sharp inequalities. This is borne out by any method used to measure poverty – monetary, human, or even a subjective method. Income, Poverty, and Inequality

23 Available indicators for assessing monetary poverty were prepared on the basis of three surveys: the two Surveys on Household Consumption Budgets (ECBMs) conducted in 1986-1987 and 1999-2000 and the Survey on Living Conditions in Haiti (ECVH) conducted in 2001. At the moment, the Haitian population stands at over 9.6 million, 5 million of whom live in rural areas (4.96 million according to the IHSI 2003). Based on the findings of the ECVH, in 2001, 56 percent of the Haitian population (4.4 million of a total population of 8.1 million) lived below the extreme poverty line of US$1 PPP per person, per day. Approximately 7.6 of every 10 persons are considered poor and live on less than US$2 PPP per person, per day. Among the poorest population groups, 40 percent have access to a mere 5.9 percent of total income, a situation that points to a high concentration of the population in the low-income group, while the most affluent 20 percent controls 68 percent of this income. Consequently, 80 percent of the population controls a mere 32 percent of income. The middle class is therefore very small, particularly in light of the fact that 2 percent of the wealthiest segment controls 26 percent of total income. Table 1 Poverty and Extreme Poverty in Haiti Index by number of inhabitants Number of persons Extremely poor Poor Extremely poor Poor (less than US$1 PPP per day) (less than US$2 PPP per day) 56% 76% 4,450,000 6,200,000 Source: ECVH and EBCM

24 The decline in GDP over the past 20 years explains why the situation of wage earners has not changed much. This situation is offset by self-employment, which accounts for 43 percent of the income earned in rural areas. The income structure seems to be more diversified in the metropolitan area, with a breakdown of approximately 30 percent for each main source of income, namely self-employment, wage earners, and remittances. Although remittances account for only 19 percent of total income, their contribution to income inequality relative to other sources of income is over 50 percent.

25 The structure of household expenditure indicates that a much bigger portion goes toward food expenditure among the poor, as happens in any other poor economy. For the bottom quintile, this figure is 53.4 percent, while for the top quintile, it is only 9.8 percent. The same applies to educational expenditure, which accounts for 3.1 percent for the bottom quintile compared to 1.2 percent for the top quintile. The percentage of income spent on food is also much higher in rural areas (55.6 percent) compared to 32.8 percent in the metropolitan area and 41 percent in other cities. In general, health and education and leisure expenditure is low, accounting for 3.3 percent and 3.2 percent respectively of actual household consumption throughout the country. Education and leisure expenditure is lower in rural areas (2.7 compared to 3.7 percent elsewhere).

26 Income or consumption inequalities among regions (metropolitan area, other urban or rural areas) account for 17 percent of overall inequalities, while inequalities within these various areas account for 83 percent of inequalities. Inequalities among the socio-professional categories account for 6.38 percent of overall inequalities. Inequalities relative to age and gender play a much less significant role (1 percent in the case of age). 19 Human Poverty and Inequality

27 For Haiti, the indicators included in the human poverty index are alarming. Life expectancy at birth is estimated at 58.1 percent (2000-2005). Maternal mortality rose from 457 to 630 per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2005. The illiteracy rate, which stood at 39 percent in 2003, remains high, even though progress has been made from one generation to the next. Only 49 percent of school age children attend school. This low level of instruction is reflected in limited capacities. In 2001-2002, only 45 percent of the population between the ages of 6 and 24 was enrolled in a school or university. The degree to which food needs are met in Haiti is low. More than half the population is unable to obtain the minimum food ration established by FAO of 225 kcal per year, per individual. A WFP report on food security and vulnerability showed that households that face food insecurity1 do not have adequate income and have a low level of access to such basic essential services as drinking water and health facilities, particularly in rural areas and shantytowns, where only 25 percent of inhabitants have access to drinking water and very few persons have access to adequate health facilities. Overall, these households have a low level of access to health care and markets and low levels of education and schooling. Access to basic social services remains very limited – more than 77 percent in the 133 municipalities (2002) lack basic services. The Perception of Poverty by Households

28 In the view of households, the degree to which their basic needs are met is very limited, particularly in rural areas. The problem is even more acute in the case of food and health. In rural areas, only 13.1 percent of households think that they can meet their basic food needs and 9 percent think that they can address their health problems, compared to 33 percent and 28 percent in the metropolitan area (La parole des Haïtiens, Haiti, p.54). Throughout Haiti, four of every five households indicated that they are unable to properly meet their foods needs. These households indicated that a reduction in their food ration is their first line of action in such situations. Approximately 32 percent of households indicated that they would use potential additional income to improve their food situation; 24 percent, for the education of their children; and 23 percent, for housing. Barely 9.6 percent of self-employed heads of household working in agriculture indicate that they are able to meet their food needs. Data indicate that poverty and vulnerability are widespread in both the rural and urban areas.

29 More than 70 percent of heads of household think that poverty has increased, particularly in recent years. Job creation, controlling inflation, and access to land are the primary measures recommended by households to address poverty. They appear to view the problem largely in terms of purchasing power and access to the means of production. 1 This survey was conducted in four departments: West, North, North-East, and Central Plateau. 20 CHAPTER 2 The Characteristics and Driving Factors of Poverty in Haiti Poor Groups and Vulnerable Groups

30 The poverty profile indicates that rural areas (63 percent of the population) account for a higher level of extreme poverty. For every 100 persons in Haiti who indicate their inability to meet their basic food needs, 77 live in rural areas, 9 in the metropolitan area, and 14 in other cities. Self- employed workers, particularly agricultural workers, account for a much bigger portion of extreme poverty, a situation that reflects the lack of opportunities in rural areas, the low level of agricultural yield owing to small size of land plots, the lack of access to credit and inputs, the use of unsophisticated tools, isolation, and scant infrastructure.

31 The situation of street children, orphans (particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS), and juvenile delinquents is disturbing. In the absence of assistance, these persons are in a very precarious situation. Their situation extends the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next and exacerbates urban crime. These children, who live in difficult circumstances, are often from the rural areas and usually have lost their mother or are living with their mother only.

32 The population over age 65 stands at 5.1 percent. This group is very vulnerable. Widespread unemployment and the absence of a social security system account for the very precarious situation in which many of these elderly people find themselves. Urban households where a woman is the main wage earner are vulnerable. According to the ECVH, 61 percent of households in the metropolitan area that have a woman as the main wage earner live in extreme poverty. In households in provincial cities, this figure is 59 percent. Poverty and Inequality by Place of Residence

33 The incidence of poverty and extreme poverty is clearly higher in rural areas. Extreme poverty is almost three times higher in rural areas than in the metropolitan area. The vast majority of the poor (74 percent) live in rural areas where agriculture is the main activity and basic services are virtually non-existent. Agriculture provides a source of employment for 69 percent of working individuals in rural areas, 25 percent of whom work in the tertiary sector (commerce, services). In cities, working individuals are found mainly in the commercial and service sectors. Table 2 Incidence of Poverty in Haiti by Place of Residence Place of Incidence of Incidence of Contribution Depth of GINI Residence extreme overall to extreme poverty Index poverty poverty poverty Metropolitan 23 45 9 0.10 0.523 Area Other Urban 57 76 14 0.33 0.639 Areas Rural Area 67 88 77 0.37 0.629 Total 56 77 100 0.31 0.653 Source: Poverty profile, FAFO 2005.

34 According to a WFP study,2 the average distance of zones in relation to main roads is positively correlated with the level of food insecurity. Cities, other than the metropolitan area, also have high poverty rate, although their contribution to poverty is much lower than in rural areas – 14 percent compared to 77 percent. 2 World Food Program, Rapport d’évaluation de la vulnérabilité et de l’insécurité alimentaire, Sept-Oct 2004. 21 Gender, Poverty, and Inequality

35 The incidence of extreme poverty in households where a female is the main wage earner (58 percent) is significantly higher than in households where the main wage earner is male (53 percent according to ECVH data). The incidence of extreme poverty is 26 percent among households where a female is the main wage earner in the metropolitan area, as opposed to 17 percent where the main wage earner is male. In other urban areas, the percentages are as follows: 64 percent among females and 48 percent among males.

36 According to the 2000 Survey on Household Consumption Budgets, almost 48 percent of consumption inequality is attributable to the gender of the head of household. Average consumption is therefore much lower for those households where the main wage earner is a female, and inequalities in the social sphere and in the area of skills seem more marked among women than men. For the most part, women are in low-skilled professions. They represent a mere 43.9 percent of persons in intellectual and scientific professions; 36.5 percent in mid-level professions; and 32.3 percent in administrative positions. The level of education of women is generally lower than that of men, which explains in part their more unfavorable position in the employment market.

37 Almost 40 percent of the population age 10 and over is illiterate (IHSI 2003). This is the case of 42 percent of women versus 36 percent of men. Disparities between the sexes are lower at the primary level but become more pronounced at the higher educational levels. At the moment, boys spend more time in school than girls during the first two cycles. The duration of time spent in school by girls is two years and eight months compared to a general average of three years and nine months. Education and Poverty

38 The education system in Haiti is a highly exclusionary one that contributes to the perpetuation and reinforcement of inequalities through limited access to schools, particularly in rural areas, and differences in the quality of schools, the result being that generally, poorer children have access to low-quality education only and the cost of education is relatively high in relation to the income of families, who cover most of their educational expenses. Only 21.5 percent of the population age five and over will be educated at the secondary level and barely 1.1 percent at the university level (1.4 percent for men against 0.7 percent for women).

39 At the moment, almost one-third of children between the ages of six and twelve (500,000 children) do not attend school. This percentage climbs to 40 percent for the five to fifteen age group (approximately one million children). The dropout rate is particularly high in the first basic cycle (29 percent). Close to 60 percent of children drop out of school before receiving their primary education certificate. Of the two million children enrolled in the basic level, only 56 percent are at the required age for the first cycle (ages six to eleven).

40 Most schools do not have adequate facilities and are under-equipped. According to the 2003 school survey, five percent of schools are housed in a church or an open-air shaded area. Some 58 percent do not have toilets and 23 percent have no running water. This situation is highly prejudicial to girls. In addition, only 36 percent of schools have libraries. The vast majority of workers (80 percent) do not meet the existing criteria for the selection of training programs or are not accepted in these programs because of the lack of space in professional schools. Only 6 of every 1,000 workers on the labor market have a diploma or certificate in a technical or professional field. 22 Employment and Poverty

41 The open unemployment rate, estimated at approximately 30 percent for the entire country, is higher in urban areas (62 percent among young people ages 15 to 19). Demographically, the population is young (the fact that 56.4 percent is at most age 18 makes unemployment one of the country's main social problems). Table 3 Unemployment Rate by Population Age Group (Age 10 and over) and by Gender and Place of Residence Overall Gender Place of residence Women Men Rural Area Urban Area Metropolitan (outside Area metropolitan area) 10-14 yrs. 48.6 62.9 39.4 36.5 59.5 88.5 15-19 61.9 70.7 54.5 44.8 65.2 89 20-24 50 55.9 45.1 35.5 52 66 25-29 36.3 41.9 31.6 24 35 50.5 30-34 25.9 30.3 21.6 19.2 19.7 36.1 35-39 18.2 23.9 12.7 14.3 13.4 26.1 40-44 13.1 16.3 10.2 10.4 10.5 20 45-49 13.4 18 8.9 11.2 3.8 22.7 50-54 13.8 17.7 10.5 8.5 9.1 34.4 55-59 15.4 17.8 13 14 17.3 24.8 60-64 10.3 11.8 9.2 8.4 14 19 65 years + 8.1 8.5 7.6 7.2 7.4 19.1 Total 27.4 32.1 23.4 18.9 26.7 45.5 Source: IHSI/ECVH (2001)

42 Women have fewer employment opportunities regardless of their age. As a result, a bigger proportion of women are self-employed (83 percent compared to 73 percent for men), largely in the field of business.

43 Although agriculture accounts for 51 percent of total agriculture, this sector accounts for only approximately 25 percent of GDP. In addition, one-quarter of household income is derived from remittances which are generally not received on a regular basis; 37 percent comes from self- employment involving varied activities which, for the most part, are small-scale and do not provide a stable source of income. According to ECVH data, in 24 percent of households, there are no individuals who work. Access to Basic Services

44 The country is greatly deficient in such basic social services as education, water, health, and sanitation. In 2002, only two of the 133 municipalities had a greater level of access. 23 Table 4 Access to Social Services by Department Department Level of access to basic social services/number of municipalities 1 2 3 4 5 Extremely low Very low Low Fairly low Not Total very low Artibonite 2 8 4 1 15 Center 5 5 1 1 12 Grande Anse 10 5 3 18 North 1 2 11 5 19 North East 1 1 5 5 1 13 North West 1 5 4 10 West 1 4 5 7 1 18 South 1 2 13 2 18 South East 2 5 2 1 10 Total 14 37 51 29 2 133 Source: 2004 version of the poverty map

45 Several health indicators reflect the acute problem with health care access. Trained medical staff assist with only 24 percent of births, a factor that in large measure explains the high maternal mortality rate. Infant mortality has declined significantly but remains high. The risk of dying before age 5 is 86 percent. Acute respiratory infections (colds, pneumonia), malnutrition, and infectious diarrhea and gastroenteritis are among the mains causes of infant deaths.

46 Despite the implementation of an expanded vaccination program, only 41 percent of children between the ages of 12 and 23 have been fully vaccinated (against 34 percent in 2000), and 11 percent have not received any vaccinations at all. This coverage differs by area. It is higher in the secondary cities (48 percent) than in the metropolitan area (41 percent) and rural areas (40 percent). In the 5 to 14 age group, mortality and morbidity rates have fallen. However, infectious diseases, typhoid, tuberculosis, and malaria, along with respiratory infections, pose the biggest problem. For young people, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies are major areas of concern. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS is clearly higher in urban areas than in rural areas. Poverty increases the risk of infection given that the poor, in particular women, are more vulnerable.

47 Health problems are compounded by inadequate drinking water coverage, although some improvement is being made in this area. Coverage rates are estimated at 54 percent for Port-au- Prince, 46 percent in secondary cities, and 46 percent in rural areas. Drinking water systems put in place in rural areas in the 1980s are deteriorating owing to a lack of maintenance. Table 5 Coverage of Water and Sanitation needs Coverage of water needs Coverage of sewage needs Port-au-Prince 54% Other cities 46% 46% Rural areas 48% 23% Source: PAHO/WHO 24 CHAPTER 3 The Poverty and Inequality Situation between 1986 and 2006 Growth, Poverty, and Inequality

48 Between 1987 and 2000, poverty dipped slightly while inequality increased. The decline in the incidence of poverty from 55.5 percent to 50.56 percent was accompanied by a smaller reduction in the severity and depth of poverty. The more marked nature of inequality became a critical factor in poverty reduction in 2000 relative to 1987, owing largely to the rise in inequality. Heightened inequality between 1987 and 2000 dampened the positive effect of the increase in average consumption. While the increase in average consumption is projected to have led to a 12.79 percent increase in poverty, inequality increased by 6.7 percent; consequently, the net impact on the incidence of poverty was only 4.96 percent, allowing for the negative effect of unidentified residual factors.

49 It is a fact that growth promotion is a guaranteed way to reduce poverty. However, tackling redistribution also is twice as efficient as a growth policy only, if the situation of the most disadvantaged is to be improved. A sustainable poverty reduction strategy should focus on both growth and proactive equity policies. The Driving Factors of Poverty in Haiti

50 Poverty, monetary inequality, and living conditions are closely associated with unequal opportunities in terms of access to resources and such benefits as credit, infrastructure, social capital, and education. Haiti's system of values, the low level of basic social services, poor housing conditions, actual poverty traps, the inability to participate in and guide public decisions, and the lack of social networks for the poorest are all factors that contribute to poverty and inequality. This situation is also the result of public policies that affect redistribution and guide the development and allocation of resources. In Haiti, poverty is essentially tied to a historical process of building political power and organizing the economy around the interests of a minority. Income and Asset Distribution

51 Poverty is essentially linked to the unavailability and underutilization of assets, particularly education, labor, physical capital, credit, social capital, and basic services. The marginal benefit of education is, however, greater in the urban setting, more so in secondary cities than in the metropolitan area, which points to disparities in the conditions and opportunities for using capacities, particularly available socioeconomic infrastructures, markets, and access to credit. Income distribution is often linked to the distribution of assets.

52 Analysis of the situation relative to the main factors: work, education, capital, and socioeconomic infrastructures (electricity, communication routes, running water) support the view that the root causes of poverty and inequality lie essentially in the lack of opportunities, unequal distribution of assets, and constraints related to their use. Structural Changes and Poverty

53 Trends in poverty are linked to structural changes that have accompanied growth/decline cycles and restructuring of the Haitian economy. Policy weaknesses and shortcomings also play a role. The structural reforms undertaken since the early 1980s have not adequately measured their impact on distribution and the structural constraints of the economy. Liberalization and deregulation policies implemented have rarely been followed up by initiatives to strengthen the supply area. 25 Demography and Poverty

54 The demographic picture can be described as follows: (i) Rapid growth – annual average demographic growth rose from 1.4 percent between the 1971-1982 surveys to 2.5 percent during the 1982-2003 period; (ii) rapid urbanization, at the rate of 4.9 per year, with 40 percent of the current population living in cities compared to 25 percent in 1982; and (iii) a young population. Only 7.4 percent of the population is over age 60 while a figure of 20 percent of the population in this group is required to label a population as aging. Persons under age 15 account for 36.5 percent of the population, while 58.4 percent of the population is between the ages of 15 and 64. While such a structure should offer potential for future growth of the economy, in the present context it constitutes a powder keg, given that demographic growth is most rapid among the poorest, which creates a situation of entrapment in terms of population growth and increased poverty, since demographic growth fuels greater poverty.

55 At the present rate, the population should double in approximately 30 years. The preliminary results of the EMMUS IV point to a decline in the average number of children per woman, although this number still remains high. The synthetic fertility index is projected to be four children per woman. The decline is too slow to contain rapid demographic growth. Furthermore, female fertility is high among the 15 to 19 age group (69 percent), and peaks at 180 per thousand in the 30 to 34 age group. The birth rate of 28 live births per 1,000 inhabitants is higher in rural areas (30 percent) and among low-income groups. Changing demographic patterns therefore pose a major challenge which entails fostering social development by providing opportunities to the poorest and young people. 26 CHAPTER 4 The Major Challenges to be Faced by 2015

56 Endemic and widespread poverty among the population serves as a conscience call for all Haitians in the country as well as those in the big Haitian Diaspora. However, any poverty reduction effort, in order to be effective, must take into account the following four major challenges: (i) placing Haiti in a strong position to make up for time lost with respect to the MDGs.

57 Assessments done of the food, health, education, and gender issues indicate that in 2015, Haiti will still fall well short of meeting its goals, despite certain areas of progress; (ii) developing a modern and dynamic economy that has a broad territorial base and is competitive. The changes seen in Haiti in recent decades have destroyed the main branches of its economy in cities and rural areas and have led to rapid deterioration of all services; (iii) undertaking a far-reaching overhaul of the public management system. The political, economic and social upheavals that have taken place in the country in recent decades have undermined its administrative system and, as a result, have seriously compromised its capacity to deliver.

58 The 1987 Constitution includes a series of provisions that can lead to in-depth reform of the public administration and trigger a meaningful process of decentralization; and (iv) developing skills in Haiti. Over time, the country has demonstrated tremendous cultural creativity. Its cultural capital, which is diverse and internationally recognized, has been inadequately developed. Haiti’s cultural capital is a major asset that it can use to take advantage of globalization.

59 Meeting these major challenges requires the unprecedented mobilization of human, organizational, and financial resources. Work to be done will be adjusted based on time and on the numerous other constraints hobbling Haiti’s development. Strategic choices must be made based on essential priorities, given the opportunities available. First Phase Laying the Foundation for Future Development

60 This phase covers the 2007/08 – 2009/10, the three-year period of implementation of economic and financial commitments made in the context of the IMF’s PRGF. During this phase, growth will be slow or modest (according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, an annual average of 4 percent). The focus will be mainly on accelerating social development.

61 A campaign to promote the DSNCRP will be conducted on two fronts: (i) disseminating a vision of development as a way to put Haiti on a path of hope and building a new form of national unity; and (ii) establishing leadership alliances around the development strategy selected.

62 The main mechanism to ensure consistency of the overall strategy adopted is the central, deconcentrated, and decentralized public administration system, which is stymied by a number of problems that prevent it from effectively delivering the results expected. For this reason, in order to pursue and diversify the recently-adopted initiative to improve governance, priority will be given to the public administration capacity-building process. This first phase involves maintaining the current macroeconomic framework centered on sound management of the economy with prudent fiscal and monetary policies being applied to reduce significantly major internal and external economic imbalances. For example, according to MEF forecasts, the downward trend in inflation should continue until it reaches 7 percent in 2008/2009.

63 In order to reduce monetary poverty and promote pro-poor growth, the Government, while pursuing its activities in the various areas of intervention, has identified the following economic sectoral priorities for this period: (i) modernizing agriculture by upgrading rural infrastructure and making a number of services available to farmers through training, research, and dissemination of technological packages, as well as the provision of credit, inputs, equipment, and tools; (ii) reestablishing food production in order to better ensure the food security of the population; (iii) strengthening the effort to modernize transportation infrastructure; (iv) improving the provision 27 of electricity and developing telecommunications services; and (v) promoting greater social equity through education and health, which will constitute the main approach to reducing poverty and inequality during the period.

64 The education strategy will emphasize: (i) reorganizing access to schools in a way that benefits poor children; (ii) retraining teachers and school principals; (iii) guiding schools, teachers, and parents more effectively; and (iv) improving coordination among operators in the sector and the regulation of the system.

65 The health strategy seeks to give priority to: (i) strengthening municipal health units [Unité Communale de Santé, UCS]; (ii) focusing on endemic illnesses; (iii) strengthening governance of the sector; and (iv) developing human resources and implementing a hospital management policy. Second Phase Strengthening Progress and Taking Systematic Advantage of the Main Identified Opportunities

66 This phase will begin at the start of FY 2009-2010. The main focus of this phase will be on striving for accelerated growth and greater control over social development. Consequently, the emphasis during this phase will be on reducing both monetary and human poverty. Once severe constraints are lifted owing to the progress made during the first phase, a more optimistic growth scenario can be expected - strong trend growth of 7.5 percent until 2015 (two and a half times the growth rate in the 1970s) and a decrease in the fertility rate, falling to two or three children per family instead of the big families that are now commonplace.

67 The macroeconomic framework will be reoriented to make it more attractive to the other economic sectors where potential can be more easily used, such as the highly promising areas of the agricultural sector, agro-industry, tourism, and the textile sector of the manufacturing industry, which will benefit if they are accorded priority. In such a context, the Central Bank should no longer focus solely on reducing inflation. During this second phase of the social and economic development strategy, it should also focus on growth and job creation.

68 In a bid to foster a rapid increase in productivity, an important factor in competitiveness in this globalized world, targeted and cross-cutting sectoral policies will be aimed at developing appropriate services while contributing to the establishment of a completely reformed business environment.

69 The earlier effort to overhaul basic infrastructure will continue in the areas of drinking water and sanitation, among others. At the same time, the Government will forge ahead with its effort to modernize the educational and health systems, and will set as a priority objective the provision of more accessible and better quality services to the population as a whole and in particular to vulnerable groups. Taking into account the difficulty in identifying significant savings and investment resources within a limited timeframe while great pressures are being felt (for example, to create widespread employment in a context of growing competition from the Dominican Republic), one of the strategies for creating the markets that will support the new Haitian economy will be to develop several growth hubs around targeted groups of activities that are specific to each zone identified. These hubs could serve as a powerful stimulant to growth acceleration in Haiti. 28 Table 6 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT REGIONS/HUBS (2007 – 2015) NO. IDENTIFICATION POTENTIAL GROWTH SECTORS

1 Metropolitan Region Industry/Commerce

2 Cap-Haïtien/Fort-Liberté Axis Tourism/Industry

3 South-East Region Tourism/Crafts

4 Côte des Arcadins/La Gonâve Axis Tourism/Technology

5 Artibonite Valley Agriculture

6 Border zones Commerce

7 Nippes Region Agriculture/Industry/Tourism/

8 Port– Salut/Dame–Marie Axis Crafts/Agriculture

9 Aquin Region Commerce/Tourism

10 Central Plateau Agriculture/Livestock Farming/Commerce

11 Port de Paix/Môle St Nicolas Axis Commerce/Tourism 29 Table 7 Major National Objectives - 2010-2015 INDICATORS 2006 2010 2015 Human Development Index (HDI) 132 out of 177 120 out of 177 109 out of 177 countries (2006) countries countries 0.5559 (2000 - 0.653 (current 0.709 (current 2005) (*) HDI ranking of ranking of ranking Equatorial Guinea) Vietnam) Extreme poverty rate (% of the population living on less thanUS$1/day) Poverty rate (% of the population living on less than US$2/day) Family size (fertility index) 4 (2000-2005) 3.5 (2005-2010)(**) 2.9 (2015- (**) 2020)(**) Life expectancy (2000-2005) (**) (2005-2010)(**) (2015-2020)(**) 58.1 (men and 60.6 (men and 64.2 (men and women) women) women) 56.4 (M) 59 (M) 62.4 (M) 59.9 (W) 62.4 (W) 66.2 (W) Illiteracy rate (age 15 and over) (2003) (***) (*****) (*****) 58.7 % (entire 68.6% (men and 76.8% (men and country); 63.1% women) women) (M) and 54.9% 71.1% (M) and 78.3% (M) and (W); 66.2% (W) 66.2%(W) 79.5% (urban) and 42.8% (rural) Percentage of students who have completed the basic school cycle Percentage of students who have completed the secondary cycle Economic growth rate GNP (US$) Per capita GDP (in millions of gourdes – 2005-2006 1986/87) 13,079 (**** ) Foreign Direct Investment (US$) Ranking of the Business Environment (World 139 of 175 117 out of 175 105 out of 175 Bank) – Doing Business (Economic Rankings), (current ranking of (current World Bank the Dominican ranking of Rep.) Costa Rica) Corruption Perceptions Index (Transparency 1.8 (163 out of 2.8 (current ranking 3.7 (current International) 163) of the Dominican ranking of Rep.) Jamaica) Population 9,662,304 (2007) 10,085,214 (2010) 10,911,819 (**) (**) (**) Urban population 4,018,000 (2005) 4,.818,000 (2010) 5,667,686 Rural population 5,274,000 (2005) 5,268,000 (2010) 5,244,133 30 Chapter 5 Pillar 1: Growth Vectors

70 The National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (DSNCRP) is part of a comprehensive vision of development in Haiti which entails two fundamental options: (i) sustainable human development based on the triptych of Economic Growth/Social Justice/ Environment; and (ii) a completely renovated public management system. It covers four key areas or growth vectors: agriculture and rural development; tourism; infrastructure modernization; and science and technology and innovation. 1. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT Overall intervention strategy

71 In the area of agriculture and rural development, the dual perspective of growth and poverty reduction is predicated on an approach that is at once both economic and social, and is aimed at scaling back the high degree of social polarization unfavorable to rural areas and at reducing the resulting exclusion. The choice entails the adoption of a system that combines various components of modern agriculture and takes account of the simultaneous existence of small, medium-sized, and large production units of various kinds.

72 This strategy requires that a number of conditions be met, including the redevelopment of the rural environment with zoning that guarantees the protection of our environment, the diversification of income-generating activities, and legal measures aimed at preserving the gains made in respect of development and improving the distribution of the wealth generated. Quite specifically, the redevelopment strategy must target two types of zones: those with a significant agricultural potential, and disadvantaged zones.

73 In the high potential zones (irrigated and humid plains, humid mountains), sustained efforts will be deployed with a view to intensifying production through the granting of loans for modernizing farms and agricultural enterprises and for enhancing their productivity. The less favored zones (dry and semi-arid plains, dry and semi-arid hills) will benefit from systematic and sustained extension work through various forms of declining subsidies either at the production level (prices of inputs such as seeds, fertilizer, tools, and equipment) or at the level of marketing production (harvests or processed products) for school canteens or for mixture with strategic imported products (wheat flour).

74 In both types of zones, food crops, livestock farming, and activities deemed likely to produce appreciable gains will be systematically developed (export crops, food crops, fisheries) while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in agroprocessing will be strongly encouraged in the form of cooperatives in the less favored zones or private firms in the high potential zones, so as to capture the value added that heretofore has been largely unavailable in the rural world. Clustering will be strongly encouraged in the short term for training small enterprises and cooperatives of all kinds (whether or not they are multifunctional or focus on production or processing) in branches of activity such as flours suitable for bread-making, iodized salt, fruit juices and preserves, goat cheese, and structures for fish preservation or salting. In the medium term, the State will encourage the development of medium-sized enterprises.

75 This overall strategy will take the specific form of policies defined for each of the nine following intervention areas: (i) the environment and land tenure; (ii) agricultural production; (iii) rural infrastructure; (iv) fisheries and aquaculture; (v) agroprocessing; (vi) marketing; (vii) land management; (viii) institution building and organization of the agricultural world; and (ix) rural finance. The objectives and strategic lines of action corresponding to each of these policies are set forth below. 31 PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND IMPROVED LAND TENURE MANAGEMENT Objectives

76 State interventions will be aimed at achieving three major objectives: (i) developing environmentally friendly agriculture; (ii) facilitating access to land and combating the absentee ownership phenomenon; and (iii) making working the land more secure and promoting reparcelling. Priority will be accorded to two lines of action: Strategic lines of action o Improved land management and watershed protection; o More secure land tenure, combating absentee ownership, and seeking to identify types of farming that ensure sustainable development. REVITALIZED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION Objectives

77 To revitalize agriculture production, the following two objectives will be pursued: (1) recapitalization of farms; and (2) ensuring the broader availability of basic foodstuffs. Strategic lines of action o Stimulation of agricultural production o Encouragement of livestock farming o Poultry production o Goat, sheep, and cattle production MODERNIZATION OF RURAL INFRASTRUCTURES Objectives

78 In order to modernize rural infrastructures, the State’s interventions will seek to ensure that three important outcomes are guaranteed: i/ ensuring hydro-agricultural improvements; ii/ establishing major water storage structures; iii/ improving rural roads and rural markets. Strategic lines of action o Rehabilitation and improvement of the major existing irrigation systems in order to facilitate the maximum tapping of their potential; o Construction of new systems in all areas where there is a need to do so; o Improvement of the major water storage structures such as watershed ponds and impluvia so as to mitigate the water shortage in some parts of the country and stimulate market-garden and food-crop production in their proximity; o Construction/rehabilitation of farm roads in production areas so as to facilitate products reaching markets and reduce transport costs; o Construction /improvement of rural markets. 32 PROMOTION OF FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE Objectives

79 Fisheries and aquaculture continue to be areas with great earning potential but which currently are not being tapped or are poorly implemented. Through the DSNCRP, the aim will be: i/ stimulate their development with a view to generating significant income; ii/ improve food security. Strategic lines of action o Maritime fishery o Aquaculture and inland fishery o Combined policy VIGOROUS REVITALIZATION OF AGROPROCESSING Objectives

80 The introduction of Food Sciences and Technologies in Haiti should facilitate the establishment of businesses in this area. Accordingly, the following objectives will be pursued: i/ more vigorous revitalization of agroprocessing in Haiti; ii/ encouragement of training in agricultural and food sciences and technologies. Strategic lines of action o Encouragement of the reopening of existing plants (tomato paste and essential oils) and the creation of new ones (biodiesel, etc.) o Modernization and upgrading of SMEs (mills, guildives) o Granting of equipment loans for the development of small preservation and processing units in all branches of agricultural production: fruits and vegetables, meat products, seafood, milk products, aromatic plants o Promotion of entrepreneurial training in university centers, and providing facilities to recent graduates for the establishment of farms and agricultural and processing enterprises. PROMOTION OF A NEW MARKETING STRATEGY Objectives

81 Bringing harvested products to market constitutes the most problem-laden issue for the various subsectors. It is therefore necessary to have a strategy aimed at: (1) revising customs policy; (2) bringing a sufficient quantity of high quality products to market; and (3) obtaining remunerative prices. Strategic lines of action: • Modulation of tariff policy depending on whether imports are competing with local products or are convenience goods not produced in sufficient quantity domestically • Upgrading and standardization of high-quality products • Search for niche markets for the vast majority of our “bio” products • Consultation with national producers’ associations in the course of international trade negotiations • Development of a commercial communications and information system • Promotion of products at international expositions • Granting of loans to women 33 STRENGTHENED PRODUCTION SUPPORT STRUCTURES Objectives

82 Research, training, extension services, small farmer organizations, and cooperation platforms are crucial aspects of any increase in agricultural production. Consequently, the strategy will target achievement of the following objectives: (1) promoting research and training of direct benefit to agricultural development; (2) relaunching State agricultural extension services; and (3) encouraging improved organization of the private structures supporting the sector. Strategic lines of action o Agricultural research o Agricultural training o Agricultural Extension services o Strengthening of small farmer organizations o Encouragement of the establishment of cooperation platforms AGRICULTURAL FINANCE Objectives

83 The flawed conditions for agricultural finance show how necessary it is to introduce a financial system that can guarantee savings and the recapitalization of farms in such a way as to provide investment and coverage of the basic needs of the rural community in general and small farmer families in particular. The thrust at this level should prompt the State to take action in two directions: i/ relaunching “supervised or controlled credit,” particularly to benefit cooperative associations in order to avoid any misappropriation or misuse of the funding requested; ii/ In the context of this policy, devoting special attention to women’s associations, as women bear particularly heavy responsibilities in rural areas. Strategic lines of action • Promotion of decentralized financing structures • Granting of loans • Prioritization of activities within the context of the policy adopted by the public authorities • Prioritization of small farmers and producers with a view to improving their economic situation and living conditions • State assumption of the financing of the experiments to be conducted in research centers. 2. TOURISM

84 Haiti is one of the first Caribbean countries to have reaped the benefits of the international tourism that emerged following the rebuilding of the global economy in the aftermath of World War II. This sector became vital for the national economy, representing over 20 percent of exports in the ---0s. Estimates at the time spoke of over 60,000 direct and indirect jobs. The share of tourism in GDP amounted to 3.5 percent, and annual tourism receipts amounted to US$50 million.

85 The tourism master plan, entitled “Strategic Thrusts,” brought together a package of proposals in four major areas: tourist products, the development of priority areas, tourist circuits, and human resources. An additional component, known as “Implementation Modalities,” made reference to the streamlining of budget choices, the creation of a National Tourism Authority, the 34 establishment of an institutional framework, and the implementation of short-term actions. New national spatial upgrading of tourism is thus called for in Haiti.

86 In terms of the spatial distribution of Haitian tourism, the new vision involves development in four departments: Ouest, Nord, Sud-Est, and Sud, which will serve as the launching pad for national tourism activity. These priority departments have a number of assets in common and, at the same time, may enjoy comparative advantages in respect of one another in view of some of their special characteristics. Sectoral improvements in tourist sites deemed promising and accorded priority are currently being planned, and include: • The National Historical Park of the North, around the global patrimony site of the Citadelle, Sans-Souci, and les Ramiers • The Arcadin Coast northwest of Port-au-Prince, where there is already sizable national investment in the hotel sector • The Old Town Center of Jacmel, and • Port-Salut and the Pointe-Sable beach.

87 The policies to be pursued and implemented cover: • Tourism promotion focused on local destinations • Tourism promotion targeting the Haitian diasporas • Graduated tourism promotion in response to regional Caribbean, U.S., European, and Asian supply • Partnership between the public sector and national and international investors • A decentralized tourism dynamic that is nonetheless part of a national logic of cohesiveness • An equitable framework that is respected within the sector. This entails administrative and regulatory strengthening. The Priority Tourism Zones (ZTPs) will be classified as General Interest Projects (GIPs) • Orientation toward mass tourism.

88 The associated supportive measures include: • Capacity building for enterprises • Training in the tourism and hotel trades. • Creation of a National Training Institute (INF) in the Ouest department • Development of a marketing plan for promoting and marketing the Haitian tourism product • Project documents will be prepared as bankable draft projects to be submitted to potential investors or to apply for funds. 3. INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSPORT SECTOR

89 The strategy in this area is focused on gaining control of urban and interurban transport systems in the interests of territorial continuity within the country. Mass transit thus remains a priority for economic, urban, and territorial development. Three major objectives have been identified for this sector: Major objectives and focal areas of transport policy

90 Objective 1: Contribute to poverty reduction and crisis prevention i/ Make essential services accessible to users threatened by exclusion and create highly labor-intensive structuring jobs, requiring a certain degree of participation on the part of women. 35 ii/ Guarantee reliable links between the small and medium-sized landlocked localities and access to disadvantaged urban neighborhoods under satisfactory accessibility and security conditions. iii/ Broaden participation in the decision-making process to counteract the domination of gangs and fill the void created by the absence of the State. iv/ Oversight over the network, user information, disaster emergency plan, mapping of sensitive zones.

91 Objective 2: Promote the sustainable, balanced, and equitable development of the country i/ Take demand-side measures to spread demand better or its better distribution over space and time.. ii/ Take supply-side measures through a balanced territorial development policy and through the development of suitably adapted and integrated transport infrastructure networks, prioritized on the basis of strategic planning. iii/ Promote the development of regional potentials and enhancing the competitiveness of the Haitian economy iv/ Restore the balance of the national territory through the emergence of major regional metropolises by guaranteeing the continuity of national territory by protecting existing infrastructure and the environment. v/ Promote of multimodal transport by developing a strategy that emphasizes integration and complementarity so as to facilitate multimodal trade.

92 Objective 3: Promote Haiti’s integration into the Caribbean area and into international trade i/ Develop Haiti’s international ports by improving the capacities of the other international ports in the provinces and foster the emergence of safe and regulated sea traffic in the Caribbean. ii/. Develop the airport sector by strengthening the institutional capacities of the entities responsible for air transport. iii/ Develop the road network for improved regional integration with the Dominican Republic for promoting tourism, and permitting the emergency of other poles of activity with investments under way making it possible subsequently to take medium-term requirements into account or needs in the longer term (the construction of crossing roads interconnecting the main roads). iv/ Attract foreign investors and international enterprises by granting port and airport concessions. ELECTRICITY SECTOR

93 On the technical level, stress should be placed on the proven potential of hydroelectric, wind, solar, and even thermal energy. Such opportunities should be seized, and could well result in a significant improvement in the overall situation. DSNCRP is addressing all these issues in a comprehensive manner by laying out a modulated strategy focused on four types of objectives, six basic options, and an investment program prepared on a consensual basis.

94 The objectives are: • Move away from the existing management system by definitively abandoning no-bid contracts, modifying the architecture of the EDH Board of Directors, and establishing a Directorate of Urban Commercial Grids at the MTPTC to exercise oversight over investment and regulatory decisions affecting this subsector. • Introduce a balanced pricing system consistent with the investments made so that the operator might receive adequate remuneration to: (a) have sufficient revenue to cover operating, maintenance, and investment costs and the costs of enhancing quality and service efficiency; and (b) contribute to the share of the social costs that the authorities may decide to assume in order to benefit low-income users. 36 • Include in the partnership system between the organizing authority and operators the following basic obligations: (a) public service obligations; (b) maintaining plant, equipment, and materials in a good state of repair so as to permit proper operation; and (c) renovation of rolling stock, vehicles, mechanical equipment, and meters. • Reflect in deeds the DSNCRP’s vision of a more just society demonstrating greater solidarity by providing basic services to the people in the shantytowns and to low-income persons in rural areas. The strategy of independent household solar systems, used successfully in other countries, could be one course to follow in order to make progress with improved access to a fundamental infrastructural service.

95 There are multiple actions, but the DSNCRP stresses the following ones: • Increase in existing capacity through an equipment purchase strategy that minimizes the burden of the oil bill, • Ongoing maintenance of the production park and transport and distribution works; • Expansion and rehabilitation of the HT/MT/LT grids • Securing fuel supplies (heavy fuel oil, gas-oil, oil) • Combating waste and losses in the distribution network • Measures to improve the productivity of power plants. 4. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION Objectives and lines of action

96 The strategy in this sector is to carry out and continue a genuine national agenda for scientific and technological innovation. In the short term, emphasis will be placed on governance of the science, technology, and innovation sector, and on consolidating and building up the knowledge and know-how base. More specifically, the objectives are to: i/ introduce a systematic and suitably adapted coordination structure for activities in science and technology; ii/ establish a production support infrastructure.

97 The main lines of intervention are: i/ development of the industry and promotion of research/action initiatives or private investment programs in strategic areas; ii/ development of a legal framework for scientific development; iii/ promotion of scientific and technological development; and iv/ building the capacities of higher education and research institutions. 5. REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

98 The economic strategy underlying the national Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP) is built upon increased domestic production and the development of trade. For Haiti, it is a question of tapping its potential while properly positioning itself in the context of the economic and commercial regionalization projects (APE, CSME, etc.), on the one hand, and in broader international dynamics, in particular with the WTO.

99 On the production side, the identified actions are: i/ investment promotion; ii/ development and promotion of national production of goods and services; iii/ complementary State interventions; iv/ use of the Integrated Framework.

100 With regard to trade and development, the priority actions are: i/ promotion of competitive national investment; ii/ seeking accelerated export growth. This entails, at one and the same time, favoring the emergence of multiple and diversified initiatives with respect to the production of agricultural and artisanal goods, manufactured products, and services. 37 CHAPTER 6 Pillar 2: Human Development – Priority Accorded to Basic Social Services 1. EDUCATION AND TRAINING POLICY TO REORGANIZE EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY IN FAVOR OF POOR STUDENTS

101 The supply of education is inadequate at all instructional levels. The situation is particularly critical in rural areas. There are 23 communal sections that have no school at all, and 145 (in 2007) that have no public school. According to 2004 data from the IHSI, the number of children under the age of 5 is estimated at 935,000, of whom 339,800, or 36.34 percent, are not covered by the system in place. In primary school, the number of children ages 6 to 12 and not enrolled is roughly 558,163, or 37.7 percent of the school-age population, with a very high degree of concentration (463,163) in rural areas.

102 Out of the 122,311 students admitted to secondary school in 2004, only 81,709, or 66.8 percent of those accepted or 18 percent of the initial cohort, were able to receive secondary schooling owing to the limited capacity to accommodate students at this instructional level. Quite apart from the existing group of those who have already completed secondary school and been unable to find a space in the university, an additional 15,500 were admitted in 2004. In the final year of secondary school, the State university was able to take in 2,300 students from this class, while roughly double that number found spots in private institutions. Unmet demand is thus on the order of 8,600 students, or 55.5 percent of the total student count seeking higher and university education, and this just for the academic year beginning in 2004 alone.

103 More and more youths currently in school are asking for access to vocational training. The majority of the supply of such training is private and spaces are limited, particularly in urban areas where the network of agricultural training facilities, which are unequally distributed throughout the country, ceased to be operational a number of years ago owing to insufficient funding. Objectives

104 The targeted objectives are the following: • Reducing the existing disparities between geographical departments and between urban and rural areas as regards the distribution of available schooling at the preschool and basic education levels • Ensuring that, by 2010, all 565 commune-level sections have at least one public school covering 6 grades • Introducing a basic education school (1st and 2nd cycles) that better addresses learners’ needs, in particular those of older students • Making vocational education more accessible to a greater number of young people • Reducing average tuition costs for these instructional levels. Strategic lines • Creation and outfitting of new seated spaces in preschool • Creation and outfitting of new seated spaces in primary school • Scholarship programs or poor children in all commune-level sections • Resumed operation of the EMAs and CFPAs • Transformation of four nonpublic vocational training centers into reference centers. POLICY ON REQUALIFICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF AND SCHOOL DIRECTORS

105 The output of the system is quite low. At the basic level (1st and 2nd cycles) it is on the order of 43 percent owing to the high grade repetition rates (29 percent in the first year) and dropout rates (6 percent) recorded for every year of studies. At the secondary school level, output is even 38 lower, on the order of 35 percent. This makes the financial loss even higher. The academic and professional qualifications of the majority of instructional personnel are low as are their average monthly wages. The instructional programs are no longer meeting student needs. Objectives

106 The targeted objectives are the following: • Enhance the structures for training instructional staff and school directors • Train new teachers with more appropriate academic and professional profiles • Improve the skill sets of the instructional staff and school directors already in place • Motivate the private education sector to increase the compensation levels of teachers and directors. Strategic lines • Establishment of a one-year accelerated initial training (FIA) mechanism for training 2,625 student teachers and 450 school directors • Strengthening of the existing initial teacher training mechanism by creating three new CFEFs in Artibonite, Nord, and Sud • Transformation of the 51 teacher training institutions (ENIs) into EFISs (Specialized Initial Training Institutions) and CFCMs (Centers for Continuing Teacher Training) • Continuation of the process of introducing EFACAPs, increasing their number by 116 by 2010: 35 in 2008, 41 in 2009, and 40 in 2010 • Continuing training for 14,000 instructional staff and 2,500 school directors in 2008/2010: 4,000 teachers and 700 school directors in 2008/2009 (Cohort I) and all 14,000 teachers and 2,500 school directors in 2009/2010 • Transformation of the BDSs into structures for the coordination and management of education and training at the school district level • Setting the minimum salary to be paid to teachers and trained school directors according to their level of training • Design and introduction of an initial and continuing training mechanism for trainers in the education and technical and vocational training sector. POLICY ON ADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS

107 The pupil/teacher ratios (78 on average) and grades taught per teacher (1.87) are clearly far too high. The same is true as regards the ratio of teachers per inspector (each inspector covers about 200 schools on average) or per teaching advisor. The degree of literacy of parents is too low overall, as 62.5 percent of parents between the ages of 31 and 55 are illiterate and 87.4 percent of those ages 56 or more are as well. Furthermore, the school system has no mechanism for steering students towards instructional or training areas other than those regarded as conventional. This is one of the decisive factors behind the system’s low retention capacity Objectives

108 The objectives of these guidelines are as follows: • Bringing the pupil/teacher ratio from 93 down to 50 • Offering students a broader range of educational paths than the basic one • Strengthening the structures whereby parents participate in school management • Improving the literacy level of parents. 39 Strategic lines • Recruitment and placement of 428 new teaching advisors in the various school departments with identified needs: 180 in 2008, 180 in 2009, and 68 in 2010 • Introduction of the vocational 3rd cycle in the 116 EFACAPs • Establishment of a mechanism for steering those who have completed the 6th and 9th year toward the basic 3rd cycle and toward secondary education or vocational training • Making the conventional secondary level program available at all lycées and secondary schools in the country, and the technical program available at 30 lycées and 60 private secondary schools • Design and introduction of pathways for transitioning between the education system, particularly at the secondary level, and the vocational training system • Establishment of a scholarship program targeting the children of poor families, especially in rural areas, oriented toward vocational training and the technical program at the secondary level • Launching of a literacy training program for the 19-30 age group and the 31-55 age group, respectively, so as to increase literacy (i) among men to 8.5 percent and 24.5 percent; (ii) among women to 11.2 percent and 31.5 percent; and (iii) among rural women to 17 percent and 37 percent. POLICY TO IMPROVE THE COORDINATION OF OPERATORS IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR

109 The operation of the educational system is quite poorly regulated. More than 70 percent of schools are not controlled by the State. The functioning of the system is for the most part ensured through private financing. Over a hundred NGOs are involved in the education sector. The resources mobilized through this network of organizations fail to achieve the desired effects owing to the lack of integration into a comprehensive policy in which intervention roles and strategies would be more clearly defined and articulated. Objectives

110 The objectives of this coordination are the following: • Create greater synergy between the State and the other stakeholders operating in the sector • Regulate the operation of the educational system. Strategic lines • Establishment of the National Office for Partnership in Education (ONAPE) • Development and regular updating of a database covering all the activities carried out in the education sector • Creation and introduction of an accreditation and certification system for private educational and vocational training institutions • Establishment of a computerized management information system at the National Vocational Training Institute (INFP) • Preparation and implementation of a national qualification framework (CNQ). POLICY TO INCREASE PUBLIC FUNDING OF THE SECTOR

111 The public resources allocated to the education sector are clearly insufficient, including for the public schools. The education sector receives but 4 percent of the amount of financing under the 40 PIP for 2006-2007 and scarcely 3.6 percent of external aid. Operating expenses absorb the majority of this financing. Objectives

112 The objectives are: • Restore, beginning with the second year of the DSNCRP, the highest level of budget support received by the education sector in the past • Maintain public spending on education above 20 percent for the duration of the five- year presidential term • Significantly increase the level of public financing of basic education in order to achieve the MDGs. Lines of action • Passage of a law on education financing that guarantees achievement of the three objectives identified • Preparation of a financing plan for the public education sector in order to support the strategic lines of the DSNCRP • Introduction, through the ONAPE, of programs to subsidize the public and private schools on the basis of projects to improve the quality of primary education. 2. HEALTH PROMOTION OF A MODERN HEALTH SYSTEM READILY ACCESSIBLE BY VULNERABLE GROUPS CHALLENGE OF THE MDGS FOR HAITI

113 The MDGs for the health sector constitute a major challenge for the DSNCRP. The public policies selected are aimed at achieving the MDGs in question, namely MDGs 4, 5, and 6, which target infant/child health, maternal health, and the major pandemics (HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis), respectively. Comprehensive improvement of the health system is a fundamental requirement for ensuring that there is sustainable movement toward achieving these MDGs. 41 Table 9 Progress Toward Achieving the MDGs in Haiti (June 2007) MDG Indicator Initial Situation Recent Situation Level Target Value Progress Anticipated Year Value Year Value 1 1. Reduce by half, % of population between 1990 and with incomes of less 1986 60.0 2015, the proportion of than US$1 per day 2001 55 32.6 28.4 Extremely slow the population with 1990 56.8 incomes of less than US$1 per day 2. Reduce by half, % of population 1990- between 1990 and suffering from 1992 65 1999- 51 37.3 32.5 Slow 2015, the proportion of hunger 2001 the population suffering from hunger

2 By 2015, ensure that % of children all children, boys and enrolled girls alike, everywhere 1990 43 2003 49 84.5 100.0 Extremely slow in the world, have the means of completing a full cycle of primary school

3 Eliminate gender % of children Primary Primary disparities in primary enrolled, by gender and secondary 1992- Boys (B): Boys: education by 2005 if 1993 43.5 45.5 possible, and at all 2003 Girls: 46.8 education levels by Girls (G): G/B: 1.03 Girls/Boys = 1 Girls/Boys = 1 Target already 2015 at the latest 41.00 achieved Secondary G/B: 0.94 Boys: 52.2 Girls: 53.1 G/B: 1.02

4 Reduce by two-thirds, Number of fatalities between 1990 and of children under 2015, the mortality age 5 for every 1992 131 2005 86 56.3 44.5 Slow rate of children under 1,000 live births age 5

5 Reduce the maternal Number of maternal mortality rate by three- deaths per 100,000 Moving in fourths between 1990 births 1990 457 2005 630 151 114 wrong direction and 2015

6 By 2015, halt the % of pregnant Apparently propagation of women infected positive but HIV/AIDS and begin to with HIV/AIDS 1993 6.2 2005 2.2 … … highest level in reverse the current the Caribbean trend

7 Reduce by half the % of population percentage of persons without access to Moving in without access to safe safe drinking water 1990 47 2005 54 27 23.5 wrong direction drinking water

8 Establish a Partnership for Development Source: *2010: End of terms of office of elected official. The level achieved (in 2010) is estimated on the basis of the average annual rate of growth toward the target value (for 2015) of each MDG. * 2015: Time horizon for the MDGs. 42

114 Infant/child mortality has shown a declining trend over the past two decades, but the rate (57 per 1,000) remains the highest in the Americas. Maternal health has deteriorated with the recent increase in the maternal mortality rate (MMR) (630 per 100,000), despite the fact that the prevalence of medically assisted childbirth held steady at 24 percent between 2000 and 2005- 2006. The impact of the major endemics remains significant, as shown by the examples of HIV/AIDS (prevalence of 3.5 percent in 2005) and tuberculosis (detection rate of 70 percent). Also noteworthy is the poor relationship between investment levels and impacts, as illustrated by the high level of maternal mortality. Indeed, the maternal mortality rate has increased significantly despite sizable investments in maternal healthcare, on the order of US$20 million a year for the past five years. This makes it all the more essential to redefine intervention strategies in the context of a unified, integrating plan under the leadership of the MSPP.

115 The national strategic plan for health sector reform 2005/2010 is aimed at improving the state of health of the people while taking the MDGs into account, in particular through the following objectives, programs and strategic lines of action: o Reduce the maternal mortality rate by at least 50 percent o Reduce the infant mortality rate and infant/child mortality rate by at least 50 percent o Reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection by 30 percent o Reduce mortality from HIV/AIDS by 30 percent o Reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS by 10 percent o Reduce the incidence of tuberculosis by 30 percent o Reduce the mortality associated with malaria by 50 percent o Control the incidence of certain diseases, such as filariasis, tetanus, poliomyelitis, and measles. REVITALIAZATION AND EXPANSION OF THE HOSPITAL NETWORK Objectives o Increase access to reference care services on the part of the entire population in rural and urban areas o Improve the quality of the medical care supply o Improve the administrative and financial management of hospitals. Strategic lines of action o Restoring the condition of the reference departmental hospitals o Rehabilitation and construction of health centers with beds o Rehabilitation of specialized hospitals o Construction of a radiotherapy center o Continued establishment of integrated diagnostic centers STRENGTHENING OF COMMUNE-LEVEL HEALTH UNITS (UCSs)

116 The UCSs are the cornerstone of the strategy to transform the Haitian healthcare system. In accordance with the National Strategic Plan, a “Commune-Level Health Unit” (UCS) is a networked organization which covers an area with a population of 150,000 to 250,000 in which the healthcare stakeholders and institutions interact with community-level participation organizations. The people participate actively not only in preventive and promotional health activities, but also in the decisions relating to the health policy of the UCS and its operation and development.

117 The UCSs are entities in the national system which bring together the following: • A geographical space known as the “health area” • A potential user population for services • Networked health organizations (reference system/counter-reference) 43 • A minimum package of available services, in accordance with a complementary approach between the various echelons • Organization and redefinition of the service personnel.

118 The introduction of UCSs represents a genuine challenge for the Ministry. Despite the investments made to date, only six of these entities are functional out of the 11 programmed for end-2007, and there are plans to cover the national territory with a total of 56 by 2012. The problems experienced with implementing this model are both structural and conjunctural, as the operation of the model is heavily dependent on the pooling of the resources available locally, but also on intensive participation of the people through their natural leaders and established authorities. Objectives

119 The process of definitively setting up the UCSs should enable this local echelon of the health system to exercise its various functions by giving them the legal authority to do so as well as resources and means needed to plan, manage, implement, and evaluate their activities. To this end, the following objectives have been set: • Revise the legal and institutional framework • Ensure that the system of health coverage is broadened. Strategic lines of action • Drafting of a new framework law on UCSs and a new organic law on the Ministry of Health • Preparation of a reference framework for introducing UCSs • Definition of mechanisms for contracting with partners involved in the process • Introduction of functional, high-performance UCSs. STRENGTHENED ASSUMPTION OF CARE FOR PRIORITY DISEASES

120 Owing to their frequency or seriousness, these diseases have a major impact on the state of health of the people and also have considerable economic consequences, a situation that is all the more unacceptable in that it can be considerably improved by taking adequate measures. These priority diseases share the following traits: • A prevention/information shortfall: prevention requires suitably tailored and time- extensive measures. In any event, the prevention programs focused on individual diseases that are currently in place suffer from highly inadequate coverage and should be strengthened. • Inadequate assumption of care: despite the support of vertical problems that are more amply financed (HIV), the assumption of care for such diseases has inadequacies in terms of screening, access to appropriate care, and sometimes the quality of the care provided. • A shortfall in terms of intersectoral collaboration: the prevention of and screening for these diseases could be significantly improved through sound collaboration with other sectors, such as the environment, urban planning, or education. Some sectors are concerned with the assumption of care for particularly vulnerable populations (prisoners, orphans, prostitutes, etc.). 44 Objectives

121 The systems in place will be improved by remedying these shortfalls. To this end, the objectives sought are to: • Strengthen the Prevention and Information aspects • Improve the assumption of care for endemic diseases • Develop intersectoral collaboration. Strategic lines of action The actions to be undertaken for STIs/HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria/Filariasis, and Zoonosis concern: o Prevention/Information o Assumption of care o Intersectoral collaboration. POLICY ON ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL DRUGS

122 This policy is based primarily on the following objectives: i/ develop a new supply and distribution system, ii/ bringing about qualitative and economic improvement in the access to medications. Strategic lines of action o Preparation of a national paper on the pharmaceutical policy as it applies to essential drugs o Introduction of a system of supplying public health facilities with supplies of essential drugs o Strengthened pharmaceutical inspection and control services o Improved accessibility to essential drugs at all levels at an affordable, standard cost. POLICY TO STRENGTHEN GOVERNANCE OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM

123 In accordance with the National Strategic Plan for Health Sector Reform, the State has a key role to play in sector governance. In this sense, the DSNCRP has set the following strategic objectives and actions: Objectives • Developing steering tools • Strengthening State leadership • Strengthening its standard-setting function. Strategic lines of action • Strengthen the legal and regulatory framework for regulation by devising a National Health Policy on a consensual basis • Ensure the inspection and appraisal of health activities at all levels • Strengthen partnerships by devising a Partnership Charter • Modernize the health information system. 45 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT POLICY

124 There are limited human resources in the health sector and they are poorly distributed throughout national territory. Coverage by health personnel is 2.5 physicians, 1 nurse, and 2.5 health aides for every 10,000 inhabitants, with 7 per 10,000 in Port-au-Prince and scarcely 0.2 per 10,000 in Grande Anse. The WHO norm is 25 human resource persons per 10,000 in habitants. PAHO/WHO estimates indicate that if the current pace of migration of Haitian health professionals, combined with the rate of training new professionals in the country’s schools and universities, were to be maintained at present levels, it would take 40 years of creating 740 new jobs a year to achieve this WHO standard.

125 It is advisable to address not only the shortage of human resources, but also their uneven distribution throughout the country. Of the 1,850 physicians who provide healthcare coverage, 90 percent are in the Ouest health department area. It is also important to redefine the type of human resources required by the Haitian healthcare system and to remedy the lag between the needs in the field and the training curricula of the medical, dental, and nursing schools. Objectives

126 The human resources policy must be consistent with the objectives of the public health system reform. This requirement mandates that this policy pursue the following objectives: • Human resource planning • Human resource training • Human resource administration and management • Human resource capacity building. Strategic lines of action • Adjustment of the institutional framework and HR management policies in keeping with the needs of the sector • Enhancement of the skills of existing personnel • Production of human resources in response to the needs of the sector • Equitable HR distribution in accordance with healthcare requirements • Enhanced attractiveness of the sector. HOSPITAL WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY

127 Household waste and garbage in Haiti are not treated by reliable and technologically approved systems. Indeed, there are no organized landfills at the national level. Waste collection is generally the responsibility of the town halls, and is carried out in vastly different ways from one municipal health unit to the next. When they are collected, household waste and garbage are deposited in open dumps which lack supervision. Medical waste, in particular such waste classified as “Waste from Medical Care requiring special attention” and “Infectious and highly infectious waste” (14) represents a genuine danger to persons likely to visit the dumps. Moreover, depositing medical waste in unsupervised areas may have a direct environmental effect through contamination of the soil and groundwater bodies.

128 The removal of medical waste from the hospital site within 24 hours is a clearly delineated requirement (according to accepted standards, the maximum medical waste storage time must not exceed 24 hours) (15). Moreover, the incineration of waste as practiced by some health facilities is carried out without any filtering system, thus raising the problem of air pollution and the exposure to risks of disease on the part of the people living near such a pollution source. 46 Objectives

129 In this context, the management of hospital waste constitutes a problem area that is particularly difficult to address. For this reason, the policy identified revolves around two key objectives: • Examine the waste management problem globally, focusing actions on the commune level • In this perspective, develop and introduce a program for hospital waste management. Strategic lines of action • With regard to the transporting of waste within and outside the institution, it is necessary to: i/ Package the waste in accordance with standards prior to transport, ii/Handle waste in keeping with the standards, iii/ Collect waste within the institution at a regular pace, iv/ Transport the waste in keeping with the established protocols applied. • As regards waste storage at the institution, care must be taken to ensure that: i/ Between collection periods, waste is retained as close as possible to the location where it is produced , ii/ Containers with pedal-operated lids are available at all waste production points. • Finally, as regards waste treatment within the institution, compliance with standards as to their disposal is essential. 3. DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION

130 Analysis of the situation reveals multiple causes behind the many dysfunctional situations identified, especially problems of an institutional nature, a gross shortage of investment in comparison with needs, deterioration in the responsible entities’ capacity to manage services and manage water resources, and even the lack of civic spirit on the part of the population. The fundamental approach of the DSNCRP is to promote a public/private partnership that is as broad as possible. The objective of the public service put in place should not be profit-seeking, but rather to satisfy user requirements at the lowest cost to the community. These basic principles will be implemented through a strategy with the objectives and lines of action set forth below. Major objectives

131 Four levels of objectives have been identified: • Institutional objectives: (i) Replace the entities currently in charge (SNEP, CAMEP, POCHEP) with Regional Water and Sanitation Offices (OREPAs); and (ii) in tandem, restructure the MTPTC to enable it to assume the functions of regulating the sector. • Economic objectives: Establish a balanced pricing system that is consistent with the investments made, allowing it to generate sufficient revenue to be able to cover the costs and contribute to a portion of the social costs which the community decides to spend in order to benefit low-income users. • Technical objectives: Include two types of basic obligations in the partnership system linking the regulatory authority and operators: (a) public service obligations; and (b) supplementary obligations with respect to the establishment of new channels and new works, water capturing works, and other civil engineering works. • Social objectives: Reflect in tangible achievements the DSNCRP vision of a more just society with greater solidarity, by furnishing basic water supply and sanitation services to the residents of shantytowns and low-income rural populations, while applying the principles of neutrality and transparency. 47 Strategic lines of action o Action Plan on “Institutional Development” This plan is the concrete reflection of the strategy for implementing the new institutional framework planned to regulate the sector as a whole. It will introduce two major actions: • The creation within the MTPTC of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Directorate which will ensure: i/definition of a tariff policy; ii/ establishment of the criteria to be met by the municipal health units or inter-communal structures in order to work for their systems; iii/ establishment of criteria and conditions to be met by operators in order to be accepted for providing the management of the systems. • The determination of the number and spatial coverage of the OREPAs on the basis of technical and administrative criteria and economies of scale. o Action Plan on “ Operational Capacity” This plan is aimed at building the operational capacities of CAMEP and SNEP in order to put the OREPAs in the best possible situation when they first become operational. o Action Plan on “Investment” i/ reassignment to the OREPAs of investment projects and budgets, ii/ acquisition of the equipment necessary to bring about rapid improvement in the management capacities and performance of CAMEP and SNEP, iii/ updating of the master plan on the water supply and feasibility of a priority development project. 48 CHAPTER 7 Pillar 3: Democratic Governance – Priority Accorded to Justice and Security

132 The National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy encompasses several forms of governance, namely political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental governance. In view of the prevailing circumstances in the country, in respect of governance the DSNCRP accords priority to the establishment of the rule of law, and to Justice and Security in particular. The establishment of an equitable legal order, a functional judicial system, and a general climate of security are essential conditions for growth and poverty reduction. JUSTICE

133 The problems profoundly affecting justice in Haiti are institutional and logistical in nature. Noteworthy among the institutional problems are: (i) executive branch interference in the exercise of judicial authority; (ii) the corruption throttling the system in all its dimensions: police, courts, penitentiary system; (iii) impunity which contributes to reprisals, summary enforcement activities, and the settling of personal accounts; (iv) organized crime, drug and arms trafficking, kidnappings, and the violence of armed gangs; (v) the sizable gap between positive law and the practices and customs prevailing among the rural and peri-urban populations; (vi) the people’s lack of understanding of their rights, duties, and obligations; (vii) lack of access on the part of the poorest and vulnerable groups to justice and the absence of legal or judicial assistance; (viii) the less than full understanding of the official language of the courts (French) enjoyed by those before them; (ix) the slow pace of police and judicial investigations, giving rise to unjustified delays that stymie the functioning of the penal system; (x) a climate of generalized mistrust toward the judicial and police structures, with neither institution appearing to be credible or reliable in the eyes of the public; and (xi) the nonexistence of a modern criminal records making it impossible to take court backgrounds into account in court rulings and decisions.

134 With regard to resources, noteworthy problems include: (i) the poor condition of infrastructure; (ii) the lack of organization and coordination of the stakeholders in the system; (iii) the excessively small budget for justice; (iv) the precarious working and living conditions of judges; (v) the uneven distribution of justice structures throughout the national territory in comparison with population distribution; and (vi) the lack of training and skills on the part of judicial personal, making the application of law and punishments random and arbitrary.

135 With regard to the corrections system, it is suffering not only from the exogenous effects resulting from the shortcomings and dysfunctions of the judicial system, but also from endogenous problems owing to the fact that: i/ The prisons are overcrowded and for the most part filled with individuals in preventive detention status who have yet to go before the courts, ii/ Detentions are often arbitrary and abusive, and preventive detentions unlawfully prolonged, iii/ Prison overcrowding compounded by the detention of individuals in abusive conditions at police stations, not only engenders serious incidents in terms of security but also flagrant violations of human rights; iv/ Confinement conditions, especially as regards sanitation and security, are not up to international standards.

136 With regard to civil status, there are many dysfunctional areas at present: i/ Absence of a cohesive and functional structure responsible for managing civil status and national identification, ii/ Poor coverage of the national territory by Civil Status Bureaus, iii/ Shabbiness and dysfunctional operation of the existing bureaus, iv/ Insufficient budget for the sector, v/ Absence of State control over the Civil Status Bureaus, vi/ Failure of the officers in charge of the service to apply the legislation rigorously, vii/ Problems experienced by citizens in obtaining the new National Identity Card (CIN).

137 The Justice Reform program will pursue a twofold objective: i/ Promote, in the long-term, eliminating the duality that characterizes the Haitian legal order, which at present is poorly adapted and inefficient, ii/ Facilitate the restructuring of the current legal system, a process that should lead to the introduction of a genuine public service in the area of Justice that includes the entire penal sequence: court administration, police, and penitentiary administration. 49

138 In respect of this twofold objective, the DSNCRP will endeavor to lay the groundwork for a Haitian legal order by taking measures intended to have an impact in the short, medium, and long term. The aim is to meet the challenge of restructuring court administration while ensuring that all the population has access to justice. This new legal order, deeply imbedded in the Haitian social fabric, is the outcome of a social construct predicated on: i/ A new vision of Haiti’s national history and social ties, which recognizes the serious consequences of past injustices and entertains the real possibilities that exist of leading to a renewal of social relations and exchanges throughout the country, ii/ Acceptance of the founding values of the Haitian nation, the only available and effective strengths that can justify belonging to one and the same environment and are capable of restoring social and political conviviality. ACCESSIBLE, CREDIBLE, AND INDEPENDENT JUSTICE

139 The overall vision of justice for the next ten to twenty years is built on four hopes expressed by society: i/ Justice that is accessible, welcoming, and understandable by all, ii/ Justice that is credible, built upon the competence of stakeholders, invoking the conscience of all, resolving conflicts within a reasonable period of time, and seeking the best possible path for its decisions, iii/ Justice that is independent, respectful, and impartial, while protecting and guaranteeing the rights and dignity of the individual, iv/ Civil status services that are efficient and guarantee the rights of all to legal security and a personal identity.

140 To meet these expectations, five major priorities have been identified: • Restructuring of the MJSP • Strengthening of the judiciary branch • Access to tribunals, and the efficiency thereof • Rehabilitation and the cohesive development of the corrections system • Modernization of legislation.

141 The restructuring of the MJSP is a critical stage for ensuring that the justice reform program is sustained, effective, and lasting. It calls for ownership of the process and MJSP leadership in implementing the strategic plan for the justice sector. Strengthening of the judiciary branch will be achieved through: i/ the independence of judges; and ii/ operationalization of the Magistrature School.

142 Access to the tribunals and the efficiency thereof will take concrete form through: i/ gradual expansion of the number of tribunals throughout the national territory; ii/ the development of a functional “penal chain” and adequate interconnection of the justice and police components of it; iii/ combating prolonged preventive detention and the overcrowding of penal institutions; iv/ effectively and successfully combating corruption, drug trafficking, organized crime, gang activities, transnational criminality, and impunity; and (5) a justice system that is protective of minors in violation of the law.

143 Reform of the penitentiary system will target the following areas: • rehabilitation of physical infrastructures • training of personnel • relations with the court system • improved penitentiary practices • prisoner education and rehabilitation.

144 The modernization of legislation through the adoption of specific and targeted changes in the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedures Code, as well as in other laws as necessary, will take concrete form through the following actions: • Finalization and validation of the new framework for justice reform and the strategic plan • Immediate reorganization of the MJSP with a view to promoting the justice reform process • Restructuring and consolidation of the Judicial Inspectorate in the MJSP 50 • Launching of the EMA, with the establishment of its Board of Directors and management • Adoption of measures to resolve the problems of institutional relations between the courts and the police • Reform and restructuring of civil status services. SECURITY

145 In the joint country balance sheet published with the United Nations in October 2000, the Haitian State acknowledges that the lack of security is currently a global social phenomenon, simultaneously taking the form of physical, nutritional, sanitation, educational, land tenure, legal, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and psychological insecurity. This physical insecurity is a significant obstacle to the success of the growth and poverty reduction strategy. Moreover, it has a massive direct impact on disadvantaged population groups. It is the result simultaneously of pauperization, increasing inequality, uncontrolled urbanization, corruption, impunity at all levels, and, more fundamentally, the shortcomings of the justice and police systems. Combating insecurity through restoring policing as an institution is therefore at the core of the DSNCRP.

146 Combating insecurity requires intensification of the following activities on the ground: • Developing a security synergy by establishing a partnership dynamic involving the people, the authorities, and the international community, in order to put an end to kidnappings for ransom and vehicle thefts in the capital city • Preparing and implementing a plan to combat kidnappings and vehicle thefts in the metropolitan area • Ensuring a greater police presence in the field • Establishment of a security cordon around the zones sheltering criminals, hiding stolen vehicles, and holding kidnapped individuals • Strengthening of security measures under way in the capital • Imparting new dynamism to the “114” emergency line and introducing a rapid response system for emergency requests by the public • Conduct of joint police operations with MINUSTAH • Use of specialized units to reinforce the territorial units • Use of new strategies against drug trafficking, with international cooperation, etc. • Playing an active role in the national disarmament campaign implemented by the Government in coordination with MINUSTAH • Develop near-at-hand policing through public relations activities by the units for intervention and the maintenance of order as well as through closer ties between the staff of other police units and the local populace. RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN POLICE PERSONNEL THROUGH IMPROVEMENTS IN STAFF REGULATIONS AND LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS

147 This improvement requires that actions be taken at four levels: o Recasting of the Personnel Regulations of the PNH o Improvements in compensation and remuneration of police officers o Infrastructure improvements 51 ENHANCE THE SUPERVISION AND STRUCTURES IN THE INSTITUTION’S CHAIN OF COMMAND, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL

148 To bring about this strengthening, a range of actions will need to be initiated: • Obligation at all levels and command echelons within the National Police to improve the management of the resources made available to the institution • Staff obligations as regards respect for the common wealth • Reactivation of the records inventorying the materials and equipment supplied • More frequent inspection of materials in order to determine their operational potential on an ongoing basis • Obligation of senior staff to conduct surprise inspections on the rational use of the resources made available to their units • Deduction from wages of the amount of expenses for the purchase or repair of materials lost or damaged through negligence • Imposition of severe administrative sanctions against those guilty of misappropriation • Monitoring of management indicators to identify changes in situations and the reasons for same • Strengthening of the chain of command by training intermediate and senior supervisors after an internal and/or external recruitment competition aimed at candidates with university degrees • Conduct of a study on the rank pyramid and on the staffing and resource tables in order to rapidly introduce a system for managing resources and the police career stream • Appraisal of all supervisory personnel once a year • Assignment of supervisory personnel to positions corresponding with their capabilities • Reform of supervisors and officers with unsatisfactory performance • Introduction and ongoing oversight of units and services by the Inspectorate General and the Office of the Director-General • Programming of oversight and management training sessions for supervisory personnel. RESTRUCTURING OF THE PNH

149 This restructuring requires the following actions: • Submission to the Government of a proposal to organize a colloquium of eminent multidisciplinary national experts with a view to defining, once and for all, the type and nature of police force that can best be adapted to the country and should be established with technical support from the international community • Implementation of a follow-up plan for restructuring the National Police • Improvement of relations between the Police and the people, public and private institutions, and other units of government • Development of an updated training curriculum for the officers, intermediate supervisors and higher supervisors of the National Police • Personnel training on discipline • Command restructuring through the adoption of a new structural organization chart. 52 EXTENDING PNH COVERAGE TO THE ENTIRE NATIONAL TERRITORY, AND IMPROVING SERVICES

150 This deployment will be accomplished through the following actions: • Rapprochement between the police and the populace • Improved interlinkage of the territory through the creation of new units in localities that currently have none • Deployment of the police in rural areas • Improved outreach to the public at police stations • Training of police officers in human rights and peaceful conflict resolution • Improved procedures for lodging complaints against police officers • Implementation of community policing • Improved Police/Courts/Prisons relationships to contribute to the proper functioning of the penal sequence and combating impunity • Organization of seminars at the national and local levels involving all government units involved in the penal sequence: judges, police officers, and penitentiary administrative personnel • Development of PNH partnership with the other stakeholders in public safety, other ministerial departments, civil society, subnational governments, elected officials, and the populace • Finalization of a national security plan currently being drafted. 53 CHAPTER 8 Targeted and Cross-Cutting Policies and Strategies I. FOOD SECURITY Nutritional and sanitation situation

151 This situation is a source of concern in all respects. The latest EMMUS IV survey revealed rates of 23.8 percent and 9.1 percent, respectively, for chronic malnutrition and acute malnutrition. The situation is two (2) times more serious in rural areas than in the metropolitan area of Port-au- Prince. The status of micronutrient shortages contributes to aggravating the situation: 61 percent of those under age 5 and 46 percent of women suffer from anemia. A third of all children under age 5 (33 percent) have a Vitamin A deficiency, a rate significantly higher than the 15 percent threshold regarded as acceptable; 59 percent of children ages 6 to 12 suffer from an iodine deficiency, a rate that is also higher than the accepted ceiling of 50 percent (MSPP-WHO- UNICEF 2005).

152 These problems of undernourishment and malnutrition, when uncorrected, very rapidly become irreversible and jeopardize the very future of the nation through deterioration in physical and mental faculties and the capacity for work of a sizable proportion of the population. The system for controlling food sanitation and healthfulness shows a number of weaknesses, particularly as regards the regulatory framework and appropriate inspection mechanisms. Responsibilities for the control system are shared by the Ministries of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health; the need for a mechanism for coordinating actions at this level is crucial, as is more rigorous control of environmental soundness. Overall food availability

153 The overall food balance was positive at the end of 2006, but it was extremely fragile, characterized by: i/; national production accounting for only 45 percent, ii/ a doubling of the share of food imports between 2001 and 2004. If recovery measures are not taken rapidly, the situation runs the risk of deteriorating rapidly, as the national food supply is growing at an annual rate of 0.40 percent while national demand is increasing at a rate of 2 percent. The consequences of this are ever higher foreign exchange outflows in order to cover the costs of food imports and, as regards the food security of households, increased suffering in the countryside (poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition are two times more prevalent in rural areas), and urban flight with its corollary, insecurity in the cities. Need for a comprehensive food policy

154 The rather significant potential for increasing farm production for the local and export market is being tapped little or not at all. In fact: o Productive investments in this sector are exceedingly small: from 2003 to 2005, scarcely US$0.7 million was devoted to imports of agricultural machinery, tools, and inputs— during the same period, the Dominican Republic made US$40 million in such investments. o The budget choices made by the various Governments did not identify agriculture as a priority investment sector (the share of investment expenditure allocated to the MARNDR dropped from almost 10 percent in 2000-2001 to less than 3 percent in 2002-2003). o Less than 1 percent of total outstanding credit goes to the agriculture sector. o The necessary infrastructures (water, energy, transportation) remain woefully inadequate.

155 To concretely reflect the application in Haiti of the human right to food, as decreed in Article 22 of its Constitution, it is essential to apply an interconnected package of measures that are technical, organizational, and tax-related, to make sizable investments, and to maintain close coordination among the various ministries concerned (Agriculture, Planning, Health, Commerce, 54 Education, Social Affairs, Environment, Finance, Condition of Women, Public Works, and Justice). The objectives and strategic lines of action in this area are as follows: Objective: Define a framework conducive to strengthening food security and monitoring its application. Strategic lines: ƒ Orientation of development policies toward genuinely strengthening the food security of individuals and households. ƒ Institutionalization and legalization of measures making it possible to achieve in fact the human right to food. ƒ Definition of national strategic lines of action for strengthening food security. ƒ Preparation, in a participatory manner, of departmental and commune-level food security plans that define realistic objectives and properly targeted and interconnected interventions. ƒ Updating of the national food security and nutritional plan. Objective: Introduce cross-cutting mechanisms. Strategic lines: ƒ Operationalization of the effective coordination of the major cross-cutting aspects of strengthening food security; ƒ Establishment of synergies in the interventions of the various entities involved in enhancing food security. ƒ Strengthening the partnerships between the State and civil society in this area. ƒ Strengthened management of food aid and promotion of complementarity between social safety net types of programs. ƒ Support for cross-cutting programs to enhance food security in their efforts to achieve intersectoral and interinstitutional integration. Objective: Strengthen the departmental capacities for intersectoral and interinstitutional integration. Strategic lines: ƒ Strengthening local capacities for concerted planning, operationalization, and the evaluation of food security and local development projects and programs ƒ Promotion of partnerships between civil society, the State, and subnational governments ƒ Structuring of mechanisms at the local level for engaging in immediate and coordinated interventions in the event of crises ƒ Establishment of a database on stakeholders and interventions in the area of enhancing food security. Objective: Ensure the monitoring of food security and poverty. Strategic lines: ƒ Organization and implementation of participatory monitoring of the status of food insecurity and poverty at the national and infranational levels. 55 ƒ Impact evaluation of food security and poverty reduction programs and projects through the gathering and analysis of relevant indicators. ƒ Dissemination of information on the basis of the data gathered and analyzed. Objectives: • Promote access to financial resources on the part of the microenterprises. • Promote the provision of funding to the informal sector. • Promote the integration of excluded and marginalized groups in the financial system. Strategic lines: • Structuring, professionalization, and consolidation of the sectors • Diversification and decentralization of the supply of financial services, orienting them toward productive sectors in rural areas • Establishment of an adequate legal environment and supervision matched to needs • Access to productive financing, by producers, to offset the lack or weaknesses of guarantees. II. PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

156 According to the available statistics, out of Haiti’s total population of 9 million inhabitants, some 800,000 are disabled, or 10 percent of the most vulnerable population groups in Haitian society. Analysis of the situation of the disabled should focus on social indicators so as to take stock of the scope of the problem and strive to devise viable and sustainable solutions. The objectives and actions in this area revolve are: Objective: Facilitate the process of integrating the disabled into socioeconomic life through the introduction of appropriate structures for improving their living conditions. Strategic lines: • Strengthening of the Secretariat devoted to the disabled; • Revamping of the labor code to take account of the situation and rights of workers with special needs; • Prevention of disability through vaccination, nutrition, early detection, and intervention; • Creation of medical rehabilitation units in the main hospitals of the country; • Subsidies for the purchase of prosthetic devices, medications, and other specific forms of assistance; • Development of literacy programs for persons with special disabilities. III. YOUTH AND SPORTS

157 One of the categories most affected by the ongoing multidimensional crisis is Youth, which accounts for over 50 percent of the overall population. Learning and experimentation tend to be forgone owing, among other factors, to the disastrous socioeconomic conditions prevailing in Haiti. This being so, our young people lack both the time and the resources to fully experience their youth, as indicated by the fact that 17 percent of those under age 30 are heads of household. They engage in all manner of activities (car washing, small-scale retail trade, prostitution, theft, 56 etc.) to be able to bring something back to the household at the end of the day or evening. This kind of fragility can be readily identified on the basis of selected data: • 5.2 percent of those ages 15 to 19 were infected by STIs/HIV-AIDS in 2003 (World Bank report) • 59 percent of first childbirths occurred among those ages 15 to 30 in 2001 • Over 40 percent of those ages 15-24 fall outside the Haitian education system (ECVH-2001) • 40.6 of young males and 54.8 percent of young females are unemployed. Objective: Improving the living conditions of youths, in particular through their socioeconomic and sociocultural integration and through the promotion of physical and sports-related activities. Strategic lines: • Development of an institution building program • Development of a program for the socioeconomic and sociocultural insertion of Youth • Establishment of a sports development program • Establishment of a program to develop civic spirit VI. GENDER EQUITY School enrollment and level of education

158 Illiteracy and insufficient schooling are phenomena characterizing all population groups in Haiti, and as regards gender-based social comparisons the following may be observed: i/ Belated entry into the education sector, ii/A higher school dropout rate, iii/ Discriminatory treatment of the consequences of early pregnancy: Girls who become pregnant are sanctioned by and often dismissed from the education system, while boys are not held accountable for their acts and not subjected to sanctions, iv/ An increasing and significant gap at the secondary level, v/ At the university level, there are no reliable and recent comparative data that can be used in analyzing the situation of female students, vi/ Pedagogical content that perpetuates social preconceptions as to gender. The content of curricula only reinforces stereotypes, vi/ Discriminatory technical training., vii/ A higher rate of illiteracy. Strategic lines of action o Formulation of a public education policy aimed at eliminating sexism, language problems, and all forms of discrimination in the national education system. o Introduction of sex education into the new training programs as a means of preventing early pregnancy and violence. o Promotion of general laws on all aspects of education, with particular attention to gender issues so as to promote the education of girls and their retention within the school system. o Appeals to the Directorate of Higher and University Education to incorporate the analysis of gender issues in the social science programs.

159 With a view to addressing this shortcoming, the DSNCRP has identified the following actions: o Devise a policy on the subject and develop information, education, and communications programs aimed at ensuring that girls and women are in a position to properly address their sexuality. 57 o Promotion of a national plan for reducing maternal mortality and providing high- quality reproductive healthcare services. o Development of an information, education, and communications strategy, as well as partnership services, in favor of sexual and reproductive health, in particular for young adolescents of both sexes and women of child-bearing age. o Adoption of a policy on free medical and paramedical services in all hospitals and public health centers to prevent breast cancer and uterine cancer among poorer women. o Advocate the opening of a mental health program in the regional, commune- level, and rural health centers. o Encouragement of general measures in favor of the right to health information and information on types of treatment for women. o Application of the Convention on HIV-AIDS to protect seropositive women in respect of their access to healthcare services, their right to work, and the exercise of their rights as citizens.

160 Women are underrepresented in the political sphere, both as regards political party membership and as regards the holding of positions of responsibility. As a result, the following actions have been identified with a view to improving women’s access in the political sphere: • Establishment, in accordance with the aspirations of the women’s movement, of a quota for female participation on the order of at least 30 percent within the political parties, general government, in the various decision-making bodies, and in the executive branch. • Availability of an adequate budget for implementing its policy in favor of women and its cross-cutting strategy in the various ministries, administrative divisions, and all departments and municipal health units. • Application of the existing laws in favor of women. • Advocacy of amending election law to ensure that women occupy at least 30 percent of elective offices.

161 Despite the existence of a number of legal tools, conventions, and international treaties confirming the equality of women, the Haitian legal framework includes laws which are discriminatory against women and keep them in an unfavorable legal position vis-à-vis men. Women are unable to exercise the rights conferred upon them by the codes currently in force. Frequently, conventional practices hold sway over the laws. Generally speaking, societal practices perpetuate discriminatory behaviors against women. Indeed: • The Civil Code includes articles that are harmful to women, such as those defining marriage, which fail to reflect the reality of unions in Haiti, divorces, the situation of children born out of wedlock, etc. • The Penal Code, which defines differential treatment of women and men for similar infractions, as well as in respect of women’s right to reproductive health and abortion. • The Labor Code codifies unequal treatment for those working within the home, the majority of which are women. Its articles on children working in the home, the majority of whom are girls, reproduce the same discriminatory approach. • Despite the advances made by the 2005 decree decriminalizing adultery and criminalizing rape as a crime against persons, it bears noting that there is a general insufficiency as regards the definition of sexual assaults. 58

162 Peace and security mandate justice for all of both sexes. The strategy includes actions to prevent, punish, and eliminate specific forms of violence against women such as: o Enhancing the awareness of women and men, youths, and those even younger about all forms of violence against women. o Elimination of the trafficking in and sale of persons, especially of women. o Introduction of a reform in judicial and legal proceedings to fill the legal void as regards the rights of women, in particular as regards: (i) consensual unions or plaçage; (ii) responsible parenthood; (iii) sexual assault and sexual harassment; (iv) the working conditions of workers in the home; (v) the working conditions of female laborers; (vi) declarations of births; (vii) the law on sexual equality; (viii) the 30 percent quota in appointed positions; and (ix) the partial decriminalization of abortion. o The inclusion of women in legal and judicial entities, including as judges, police officers, clerk personnel, notaries, surveyors, etc.

163 As regards judicial matters, the actions identified are as follows: o Harmonization of legal provisions to bring them into line with constitutional requirements and international conventions; o Promulgation of new legal provisions to ensure that the country has legal instruments likely to promote the enforcement of international conventions, including in particular those against violence, discrimination, and in favor of reproductive rights; o Reform of the court mechanism itself, making it more likely to provide impartial justice for all men and women while respecting the laws and conventions on women’s rights. VII. THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

164 The environmental dimension of development is of vital importance for the future of Haiti and its people. Environmental issues, considered overall from the standpoint of sustainable development, are not only crucial but cut across all components of the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy. Moreover, this finding is consistent with the framework defined by the Millennium Development Goals.

165 Haiti is experiencing accelerated environmental degradation. The social and political disruptions marking the country’s history are being compounded by an environmental disruption that for many years, in an ever more accentuated way, has been reflected in spectacular losses in human lives. The state of the environment in Haiti is such that it is ludicrous to pursue a growth and poverty reduction strategy if environmental problems are not addressed comprehensively and reflected in the Haitian State’s genuine political will to resolve them. The environment and the natural resources used by the Haitian poor

166 Annual harvesting of firewood is producing a shortfall manifested in a gradual decrease in plant cover, which has declined from 60 percent of the territory in 1923 to 18 percent in 1952 and 1.44 percent in 1989 (Source ECMU/UNDP 1996). At present, plant cover is estimated at between 1 percent and 2 percent. The Haitian rural environment is in accelerated decline; the most direct factors behind this deterioration are deforestation and erosion. As a mountainous country in which two-thirds of rural areas include slopes of greater than 20 percent, Haiti suffers from extremely severe erosion. As a result of the removal of trees and brush clearing on marginal lands by the people, 25 of the 30 main watersheds in Haiti are now stripped bare (MDE 1999) and their 59 soils severely impacted by erosion.3 The areas under cultivation on lands poorly suited to agriculture are estimated to cover between 20 percent and 30 percent of the country’s surface area (World Bank/ BDPA/SCETAGRI 1990). While it is difficult to assess the scope of erosion with precision, it is estimated that each year roughly 1,600 MT/ha/year are lost to erosion. In consequence, over the past ten years agricultural productivity has declined by 0.5 percent to 1.2 percent a year.

167 Fishing provides sustenance to the poorest and most marginalized population groups. Maritime fishery directly employs about 30,000 persons; it is characterized by overexploitation of surface fishery resources owing to the substandard equipment of fishermen. The catch volume is estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 metric tons a year, despite the fact that the FAO evaluated the potential at 14,000 MT in the 1990s. The coastal topography and bathymetry result in an extremely narrow continental shelf measuring roughly 5,000 square kilometers, which contributes to limiting the productivity of non-industrial fishing. Haiti annually imports US$16 million in fish (frozen horse mackerel, cured herring, and other preserved fish) and exports some US$6 million to US$7 million worth (principally shrimp and rock lobsters).

168 Water scarcity is a harsh reality for Haitians, particularly for the poorest population groups. The United Nations estimates that Haiti is among the nine countries whose people will experience a water shortage by 2025 (less than 1,000 m3/inhabitant/year). The water sector is beset by serious problems. Most of Haiti’s large cities are subject to flooding with the slightest downpour. A sharp decline has been observed in the flows from the major springs providing drinking water to the urban centers. Access to safe drinking water supplies throughout the country is extremely low, at roughly 43 percent, and the rate of coverage in Haiti is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. This said, however, an assessment of the water resources balance in Haiti prepared by the MDE/IADB in 1997 indicated that less than 10 percent of available water resources were used. For the same period, needs represented 17 percent of the available resources.

169 The majority of the Haitian population continues to depend on wood for meeting its energy needs. Haiti annually covers about 72 percent of its energy requirements using local resources, consisting largely of firewood and charcoal (66 percent), but also bagasse and hydropower (4 percent and 2 percent, respectively). Petroleum products account for the remaining 25 percent of annual demand for fuel, and pose a heavy burden on the country’s trade budget. Gas consumption has significantly increased in recent years, from 900 metric tons per year in 1991 to over 12,000 metric tons per year in 2004. The household sector is by far the most important in terms of overall energy consumption. According to a recent study (MDE/BME/ESMAP 2005), it accounts for 70 percent of the total on average, largely from biomass (firewood, charcoal, and agricultural waste). To meet the needs for ligneous fuels, rural residents annual chop down some 30 million trees to meet consumption needs for about 3.4 to 3.7 million tons of firewood (1,600-1,750 ktoe in 1995). All of these actions have repercussions in terms of emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2, CH4, and N2 O. The environment and the health conditions of the Haitian poor

170 Poor Haitians are particularly exposed to a number of diseases (diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, etc.) that may be associated with environmental risk factors. Maritime pollution, pollution of the water provided in drinking water systems (fecal matter, effluents, waste oil from industry, solid waste, suspended particles resulting from the erosion of watersheds, and the spread of shantytowns) are causative factors in an extremely troublesome health problem. The rate of coverage of sewerage services is only 26.5 percent at the national level (WHO/PAHO 1997).

171 Deficiencies in the garbage collection and waste management systems are among the primary causes of urban pollution and the source of serious risks to public health. Waste management is 3 . World Bank, Rural Sector Study: Rural Development and Management of Watersheds 60 also an issue in rural areas, though less acutely: organic waste is reintroduced into a natural setting in the form of fertilizer; however, the lack of access to basic hygiene services exposes the rural population, especially children, to considerable health risks. The poor and uncontrolled urbanization in Haiti

172 Rural flight, the consequence of poverty and the agricultural crisis besetting rural areas, is at the origin of uncontrolled urbanization that has a significant impact on the living standard of Haitians and on the environment, in the form of the consumption of natural resources and overflowing waste. The large and medium-sized cities of Haiti are almost all excessively overgrown, and the consequences of such hypertrophy include unemployment and poverty, the inadequacy of urban services, overburdened infrastructure, difficult access to adequate housing, and environmental degradation. Rational management of the urban environment thus represents a serious environmental problem in Haiti. Vulnerability and environmental threats in Haiti, aggravated by climate change

173 Haiti is extremely vulnerable as a country to natural disasters, and is exposed to growing and complex threats resulting from the interaction between natural threats aggravated by environmental degradation, high levels of poverty and social vulnerability among the people, and problems of governance and lack of control over urban and rural space. The country is subject to a broad range of natural threats of a hydrometeorological (hurricanes, droughts) or seismic (earthquakes, tsunamis) origin, and owing to the steepness of its topography, suffers from particularly intense geodynamics which induce frequent flooding, landslides, and rock slides. Environmental policies

174 Efforts will focus on the following policies: • Stressing economic security, the food security of Haitian communities, and the security of the ecosystems, as well as the introduction of sound and effective interinstitutional coordination mechanisms to ensure the harmonious management and cohabitation of the relations between the people and environmental resources. • Managing the environment on a partnership basis, forging alliances with civil society for the responsible and sustainable management of resources without, in so doing, neglecting the issues of regulation, oversight, monitoring, and control. THE NINE FOCAL AREAS FOR INTERVENTION

175 The “Strategic Thrusts” paper advocates 9 inseparable focal areas for intervention for combating poverty and improving the environment with a view to achieving the MDGs: - Improved environmental governance - Reduced environmental vulnerability of the poor and adaptation to climate change - Improved environmental management of the cities - Integrated management of water resources in the watersheds and coastal areas - Reforestation: restore equilibrium between the supply of and demand for wood/charcoal energy - Combating soil degradation and seeking sustainable management of biodiversity - Combating pollution in its various forms - Environmental monitoring and oversight - The environment as a focal area for attracting investment and providing business opportunities to the poor

176 Territorial development, the gender issue (in particular as regards risk prevention in the rehabilitation of degraded land parcels), cultural issues (taking local customs, taboos, popular 61 beliefs, and cultural values into account), job creation, and food security are among the cross- cutting themes to be addressed in relation to the nine focal areas for intervention. VIII. RISK REDUCTION AND DISASTER MITIGATION

177 As are many of its neighboring countries in the Caribbean, Haiti is situated in an area that is particularly exposed to the threat of tropical cyclones and is also in an active seismic zone which has historically triggered major earthquakes such as the one in Cap-Haïtien in 1842. Prevention and risk management are thus of capital importance for Haiti, a high-risk country. The global report on Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development, published by the UNDP in 2004, provides a disaster risk index summary table, which ranks Haiti as among the highest in the world. The disasters that have occurred in the past five years confirm this extreme vulnerability.

178 During the 20th century, Haiti was struck by 34 intense tropical storms, windstorms, or hurricanes. Some 80 percent of these occurred after 1954, and 44 percent were recorded during the 1990s. A major disaster affects the country every 5-7 years4 and an internationally recognized disaster every two years. Owing to these repeated impacts and to environmental degradation, a major disaster is no longer necessary in order for significant damage to be incurred. The situation is expected to deteriorate even more in the future because of the increase in and concentration of property at risk, climate change, the advance of desertification, the reactivation of seismic faults5, etc.

179 Taken together, the major natural disasters of the past century took more than 20,000 lives and caused damages to more than 6 million. Of late, the catastrophic events resulting from the floods in May 2004 and from tropical storm Jeanne in September 2004 led to the deaths of over 5,400 persons. Overall, the effects of the tropical storm affected 4 percent of the people of Haiti (298,000 persons). Damages were estimated at over G 10 billion (US$265 million), or 7 percent of GDP. The direct losses to improved property (70 percent of the total) were considerable: urban infrastructure and housing, agricultural losses in terms of production, soil, and tools, and the road and communications infrastructures. To reduce the impact of hazards and disasters, the following actions were identified: Objective: Position risk management among the priority strategic focal areas for development. Strategic lines • Orient actions toward the management of causes rather than the management of effects • Investment in risk reduction makes it possible to generate savings on the costs of rehabilitation and reconstruction • Significant reduction in poverty in areas highly susceptible to events • Enhanced decentralization, in particular through: (1) the introduction of local structures (departmental, commune-level, and commune districts) that can support the territorial governments; (2) development of the local risk management approach; and (3) positioning Haiti on the path of sustainable and equitable development. 4 Some 20 major disasters were recorded between 1900 and 2004. 5 Seismic risks are probably the least known unpredictable factors, particularly in light of the conditions of increasing physical vulnerability in densely populated urban areas. 62 IX. MULTISECTORAL EFFORT TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS

180 In 2005, UNAIDS estimated that Haiti had the highest rate of persons living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. The findings of EMMUS-IV revealed a noteworthy reduction in prevalence, which it determined to be 2.2 percent nationally among adults between the ages of 15 and 49. Nevertheless, the rate remains extremely high in some health departments, bordering on 4 percent. At end-2005, the number of seropositive persons living in Haiti was estimated at 103,669. The infection has spread to all age groups. The rate is slightly higher among women (2.3 percent) than among men of the same age group, while when the epidemic began the proportion was higher among men, suggesting a trend toward the feminization of the epidemic. It is also noteworthy that prevalence is estimated at 3.1 percent among men in the 50-59 age group. The proportion of the population (41 percent) with a genuine understanding of AIDS varies by level of education and level of housing quality. Twenty-nine percent of women and 22 percent of men reported that they had had unsafe sex. Fifty-five percent of young women and 95 percent of young men reported that they had had high-risk sex. Only 29 percent of young women and 43 percent of young men indicated that they had used condoms during sexual relations.

181 The AIDS pandemic is more prevalent among the poorest population groups and contributes to the pauperization of households by reducing their labor force, increasing their healthcare expenditure, and boosting the number of orphan dependents. The Republic of Haiti has been combating AIDS since 1986; so far, many activities have been carried out in the areas of prevention and the provision of care, as well as the reduction of discrimination against persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). Major efforts have been made by the health sector to control the epidemic; however, there is room for the other sectors to mobilize and become further involved in providing the most suitable responses to this plague. Multisectoral Strategic Plan for 2006-2012

182 The recent multisectoral strategic plan for combating AIDS 2006-2012 is more advanced in strategic terms and devoted more attention to researching the contribution of the other sectors. It defined six avenues of approach: (i) risk reduction, calling for communications efforts and clinical interventions; (ii) vulnerability reduction, which identified intervention efforts using basic factors relating to poverty; (iii) reduction of the impact of the epidemic on persons infected with and affected by HIV; (iv) promotion and defense of human rights, aimed at protecting the rights of healthy individuals, the protection of families, women, youth, and persons infected and affected by HIV; (v) ensuring the sustainability of interventions; and (vi) monitoring the epidemic and research.

183 In the context of the DSNCRP, this Plan for 2006-2012 incorporates the following actions: • Consideration of all non-medical risk factors, which are better known by other sectors that are more concerned with them and have the credibility to do so; • Mobilization of financial resources in addition to those requested from the Global Fund to support interventions aimed at reducing vulnerability; • Implementation of targeted actions aimed at youths and at workers of both sexes, seeking to reduce poverty in these target groups; • Incorporation of additional focal areas aimed at: (i) institution building in the other sectors, including efforts to identify needs for human, material, and financial resources, and the transfer of skills from the health sector through training, information sharing, and the assignment of resource persons; (ii) the development of resource persons; (iii) the development of local review and action structures focused on combating AIDS through poverty reduction, targeting women and youths on a priority basis. 63 X. STATE CAPACITY-BUILDING STRATEGY

184 The DSNCRP will base its efforts on the GEF’s Strategic Approach to Enhance Capacity Building, which defines capacity building as “the actions needed to enhance the ability of individuals, institutions, and systems to make and implement decisions, and perform functions in an effective, efficient, and sustainable manner.” Reform and Modernization of the State

185 Ten years after completing the latest global assessment of the public administrative apparatus, the State is still faced with the same major flaws identified earlier, so that the recommendations made by the National Commission for Administrative Reform (CNRA) remain valid in broad terms. In view of the gravity of the socioeconomic circumstances of the people and the opportunities represented by the vigorous resumption of international cooperation, it has become essential to rapidly restore the capacity to act of the State and the public sector in general.

186 In these circumstances, the strategic approach to modernization of the State is a comprehensive or systemic process articulated as follows: • A primary role played by development and the enhancement of human resources, as these resources are the primary means of re-establishing the public sector’s capacity to act • A parallel process of managerial reform so as to impart dynamism to the operation of all essential public services at both the central and local levels • To consolidate the new Public Administration thus established, other steps forward can be taken through the modernization of administrative technology and the physical work environment of public employees.

187 This strategy will take the specific form of six major reform programs, namely: • Introduction of the new civil service system • Accelerated modernization of the Central Administration’s management systems • In-depth reform of the decentralization of public services • Effective launching of the decentralization process • Modernization of the physical work environment of public services • Technological modernization of the Public Administration Civil Service Reform Program Objectives

188 The DSNCRP seeks civil service reform in accordance with the following order of priorities: • Introduction of a new strategic management framework, in particular at the Management and Human Resources Office (OMRH), so as to have an appropriate intervention instrument • Preparation of the recruitment policy for new public employees • Imparting new dynamism to the training and refresher training program for public employees • Institutionalization of the management of civil servants’ career paths • Modernization of the regulatory framework of the civil service • Application of an equal opportunities policy within the civil service • Normalization of the status of contractual staff. Strategic lines o Institutionalization of the strategic management structures of the civil service o Normalization of the status of contractual staff. 64 Management Reform Program

189 This reform is based on the 2005 decree organizing the Central Administration of the State. In response to the major weaknesses identified previously following a diagnostic appraisal, this new legal framework lays down the new strategic management modalities by considerably strengthening the strategic coordination system, and does the same for the operational management of public service institutions by modernizing structures and providing mechanisms aimed at renovating management methods and procedures. Objectives Four major objectives are being pursued: (i) launch a vast movement to renovate the organizational frameworks, management methods, and procedures of the Central Administration; (ii) initiate a greater effort to renovate the cross-cutting functions of the Central Administration; (iii) continue the process of modernizing strategic coordination; and (iv) promote a new public management culture. Strategic lines o Organizational renovation of the management system o Modernization of the planning system. Program to Reform the Decentralization of Public Services

190 Two levels of territorial decentralization are defined: (i) the Delegation/Vice Delegation pairing, which provides coordination of governmental policy at the levels of the departments and arrondissements, respectively; and (ii) the deconcentrated units of the ministries and autonomous agencies. Objectives

191 Starting from this change, the major lines of which are taking shape firmly, the DSNCRP intends to take advantage of the overall dynamic of reform to achieve the following major objectives: • Formulate a comprehensive policy on territorial decentralization for the five-year period • Develop the existing legal framework on territorial decentralization in general • Strengthen the Delegations and Vice Delegations • Promote the rapid development of decentralization in those institutions that have made progress with their plans for implementing this policy or have already entered the implementation phase • Ensure that the renovation of the organizational frameworks of the ministries and autonomous agencies is consistent with the general principles relating to territorial decentralization. Strategic lines • Formulation of a national decentralization policy • Development of the legal framework for territorial decentralization • Strengthened territorial coordination of decentralization. 65 Territorial Decentralization Program

192 Decentralization is enshrined in the Constitution of 1987, which makes it one of the primary objectives of the reform of the State. It even defines an original vision of decentralization by calling for three levels of Territorial Governments (Collectivités Territoriales—CTs) and making it possible for them to influence the functioning of the Executive, the Judiciary, and the Electoral System. Roughly twenty years after promulgation of the Constitution, the institutional reforms called for in its provisions have been carried out only to an extremely partial extent, as a result of which the framework for the CT management system is totally deficient. Objectives

193 The DSNCRP will pursue the following objectives and actions: • Preparation of a comprehensive decentralization policy • Recast the legal framework for decentralization in the form of a Charter for Territorial Governments • Introduce an institutional framework for steering and managing the decentralization policy • Initiate a subprogram for capacity building in the Territorial Governments • Launch a public awareness and decentralization promotion campaign. Strategic lines • Formulation of the national decentralization policy • Strengthening of the legal framework for decentralization • Development of a capacity building policy for Territorial Governments • Strengthening the framework for steering and implementing the decentralization policy • Launching a public awareness and advocacy campaign Program to Modernize the Physical Infrastructure for the Provision of Public Services

194 The Haitian State has never undertaken either a renovation program or a construction program for public buildings to house its services, as a result of which it often houses its employees in rental properties which are quite poorly suited to the needs for which they are intended. However, the prospect of a comprehensive reform of the administration and civil service calls for a sizable investment effort focused on physical infrastructures and equipment, inasmuch as this reform process assumes and implies a work environment and tools that provide greater incentives for productivity and efficiency. Objectives

195 The following objectives have been set: • Construct two buildings to house the staffs of the General Secretariat of the Office of the Prime Minister (SGP), the Management and Human Resources Office (OMRH), and the National Public Policy School (ENAPP) • Purchase equipment for the staffs of the SGP, OMRH, and ENAPP. Strategic lines • Improvement in the physical condition of administrative buildings • Priority construction of two buildings • Purchase of equipment for the new public services created 66 Program for the Technological Modernization of General Government

196 The 2005 report on the degree of country readiness for e-government, recently published by the United Nations, ranks Haiti 166th out of the 191 member countries, with an overall index of 0.1786 as compared to the Caribbean average of 0.4282. The recent study on the status of using ICTs in public administration paints the following picture: • Many instances of overlapping between State institutions • Still a low degree of ICT utilization • Widely varied equipment from one institution to another • Utilization and management of equipment that is not always efficient • Very weak interactions between institutions and the general public • Lack of skills in the ICT field

197 The DSNCRP identifies e-governance as one of the major focal areas of State reform with the following objectives and actions: Objectives • Coordinate the mobilization of all resources oriented toward carrying out activities relating to ICTs • Develop convergence between the various actions carried out, either by public institutions or by the international community, by establishing intersectoral communications channels • Strongly promote the State’s initiatives to establish a genuine e-governance system. Strategic lines • Mobilization of resources • Capacity building of public institutions • Consideration of the environmental dimension • Development of a differentiated intervention process XI. URBAN DEVELOPMENT

198 Over the past twenty years, the rate of growth of Haiti’s largest cities picked up considerably. Indeed, the average annual rate of growth increased from 3.47 percent (1971-1982) to 4.42 percent (1982-2003) at the national level. While this situation bears witness to the vitality of the urbanization process, it also indicates the need to develop the territory and prepare urban planning policies. At present, a substantial proportion of the population living in Haiti’s major cities reside in neighborhoods that lack basic community infrastructures, or their access to services (sanitation, safe drinking water, electricity, etc.) is substantially insufficient and/or of poor quality. The interventions taken at the initiative of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or international organizations have multiplied in a number of precarious neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area between 1994 and 2006. However, the results are mixed, despite the funds allocated (nearly US$33 million between 2004 and 2007) to improving living conditions and reducing poverty in the neighborhoods targeted. The capital city has unfortunately taken on the general ambiance of the major cities in the Caribbean and violence is becoming more prevalent. The State’s loss of control is also reflected in criminal takeover of certain services (water points, markets) to the detriment of the general public. In order to bring this emerging violence under control an effort must be made to reconquer the city center in terms of urban planning, to restore its value by introducing the organs of power, expanding Parliament, building ministries, rehabilitating and building new premises to house the judiciary and for housing businesses. 67

199 Making the cities the framework of choice for combating poverty will of necessity entail a voluntary and participatory effort to improve neighborhoods. The strategy proposed consists in emphasizing the interconnection between emergency and long-term needs in which the activities will express a broader development vision and framework oriented toward improving neighborhoods as a structuring element for the creation of jobs, poverty reduction, and the development of new relationships between socioeconomic and political stakeholders, and between public and private institutions. It is also the vision of a willing State that seeks to rehabilitate spaces which have been disregarded for too long by taking on its regulatory and normative role. General objective

200 Contribute to sustainable urban development and poverty reduction through the preparation of, and support for the implementation of, plans for urban development and the rehabilitation of precarious neighborhoods in the cities of Haiti, controlling urban growth, developing adequate tools, and capacity building for the authorities and beneficiary communities. Specific objectives

201 More specifically, this entails: • Providing technical and methodological support to local stakeholders (municipalities, organized groups of beneficiaries, nongovernmental organizations, etc.) in respect of the preparation, execution, management, and monitoring/ evaluation of plans, programs, and projects aimed either at the rehabilitation of neighborhoods at risk or at the urban development of all municipal health units. • Building the capacities of municipalities with a view to controlling the growth of at-risk neighborhoods, improving the management of urban services, and improving the living conditions of the local populations. • Contributing to the emergence of networks between State and non-State stakeholders involved in the poor neighborhoods with a view to achieving rational and efficient use of funds in at-risk neighborhoods. • Contributing to the emergency of a State entity focused on the rehabilitation of at-risk neighborhoods, with a view to achieving better coordination of the plans and projects under way now or in the future, and of the effective and sustainable financing of the priority needs of the people. • Systematizing, validating, and disseminating the strategies and actions implemented with a view to their replication in other parts of the country, finding financing from donors, State institutions, and the private sector, and defining a national strategy in the area of urban development and the rehabilitation/ prevention of at-risk neighborhoods in Haiti’s cities. Strategic lines of action • Public awareness, Structuring, and Strengthening of local populations to enable them to participate actively and dynamically in all stages (preparation, implementation, monitoring/evaluation) of the urban development and social, economic, and political rehabilitation process in their neighborhoods or municipal health units. • Support with the consensual and participatory preparation of rehabilitation plans for at-risk neighborhoods in the urban areas of the country and urban development plans for all municipalities. • Capacity building and institutional and governance development of State entities (ministries, subnational governments, etc.) and neighborhood organizations to enable them to control urban development, slow down out-of-control urbanization, and ensure that the standards and principles in respect of urban planning and environmental management/protection are observed, and ensure 68 that project execution is monitored, in harmony with the rehabilitation plans for at-risk neighborhoods and the urban development plans. • Seeking alliances among the various (State and non-State) stakeholders involved in at-risk neighborhoods to ensure the proper coordination of activities/projects under way in marginal urban areas, the effective and sustainable financing of the priority needs of the people, and a more rational and efficient use of funds. • Systematization and publication of experiences, and validation of the approach and the results obtained, with a view to their replication in other areas of the country, and above all the definition of a national strategy on urban development and the rehabilitation/prevention of at-risk neighborhoods in Haiti: (1) Systematization of experiences by the universities (in a research/action and research/development dynamic); (2) Organization of workshops and forums in collaboration with the universities; (3) Sharing of experiences both with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and with African countries, as well as with other municipalities at the national level; (4) Inventory and dissemination of the studies and papers already prepared on urban development. • Seeking financing for the implementation of individual projects identified with local populations and of rehabilitation plans for at-risk neighborhoods: (1) Mobilization of domestic funds (taxes, NGOs, private sector, artist solidarity, taxes on remittances from the Haitian diaspora, etc.); and (2) Mobilization of external funding from international donors (World Bank, European Union, CIDA, etc.). XI. TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT Strategy as regards space

202 In order to address poverty and growth problems, the DSNCRP is of the view that: • Territorial development is the intelligent response to the problem raised by the need to reconcile economic growth and society’s need for security. • Territorial development entails decentralization and decentralization, as it is important that all subnational governments assume responsibility for their development dynamics in the context of balanced development of the regions. • Strengthening collective facilities on the national and local levels is required in order to ensure that all households have access to basic services and to promote the development of productive activities. This will require a change in mentalities.

203 Improving the territory means that the Government will plan and manage the national and local territories through improved spatial programming of investments and the optimal management of resources. In this context, political decentralization and economic decentralization should work hand in hand so that territorial development ensures an appropriate spatial distribution of activities and guarantees a cohesive policy of rural renovation, namely: • Improving the framework and living conditions of the people • Halting the decline in agricultural employment • Attracting new activities.

204 This effort will focus on integrated local development, starting from local master plans for territorial development and improvement at the level of the arrondissements, the framework for imparting cohesiveness and harmonization of local urban planning and commune-level development plans, and of the priority programs for structuring and development of the commune-level sections developed within same. Thus, to promote the sound and equitable development of the economy, integrated local development will use the approach of participatory, concerted, consensual, and partnership-based planning embodied in the various local 69 development programs in existence throughout the country. This integrated local development will be based on strengthening or building up the “local productive system” (LPS). Objectives

205 The basic objectives pursued are to: 1. Shed light on the future and present a clear and cohesive global vision of Haiti for the next twenty-five (25) years, through the 2032 horizon; 2. Provide a cohesive framework for all public policies and actions with respect to territorial improvement and development, thereby ensuring that the actions of the Haitian State are effective; 3. Serve as the anchor for the implementation of decentralization; 4. Guide and facilitate the spatial organization of investments so as to achieve balance among the regions and reduce territorial inequalities and major economic distortions; 5. Produce a full range of integrated actions whose interconnection should contribute to the structuring of the national territory through the utilization, exploitation, and optimal value enhancement of space and natural resources, on one hand, and the provision of major structuring equipment on a regional basis, on the other hand; 6. Structure and make optimal use of the national space, and organize urban and rural economic strengthening with a view to achieving the viable economic and social development of the country; 7. Facilitate improved utilization of public funds.

206 Specifically, this involves ultimately reconstructing the national territory on the basis of integrating the national space, solidarity between the rural and urban areas, and the competitiveness of the various territories where improvements in vast areas optimizes their productive potentials in a complementary manner so as to guarantee satisfactory living conditions to each Haitian citizen in the context of sustainable human development. Strategic lines of action: ƒ Reorganization of the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation ƒ Finalization of the law on territorial improvement and local development ƒ Decentralization of the MPCE to the arrondissement level ƒ Preparation of the new national master plan for territorial improvement and development ƒ Preparation of local master plans for territorial development and improvement in the arrondissements ƒ Revision of the way the national territory is subdivided ƒ Introduction of operational planning instruments ƒ Reorganization of the public investment program into a national component and local component ƒ Structuring of development stakeholders ƒ Supervision of territorial governments in the area of development planning ƒ Promotion of territorial development. XII. CULTURE

207 A number of positive factors, such as the existence of cultural wealth and a national historical legacy that have not been sufficiently tapped, are subject to various constraints that make it difficult to take advantage of them: the weakness of the cultural institutions; the deterioration of the tangible and intangible national patrimony; a pronounced tendency toward loss of the national identity, civic values, the spirit of mutual assistance, solidarity, and tolerance; the practice of 70 exclusion and confrontation within the Haitian population; and the media’s lack of capacity to educate, make aware, train, and inform the public.

208 It is specifically to reduce and eliminate these main obstacles that the Government’s cultural policy revolves around the four (4) following focal areas: i. Culture must be both a cement holding together the members of the Haitian community without regard to class, sex, age, and religion, the basis of solutions to the problems of the country, and one of the principal factors in national development; ii. Culture must enable Haitians to win the battle for sustainable development, to safeguard their dignity as a people, and to hold sway over other nations; iii. The primary cultural resources to be exploited are the arts and literature, archeological, historical, and natural sites, as well as popular and ancestral traditions; iv. Cultural actions will be focused on a generalized and decentralized popular culture. Objectives

209 The objectives to be pursued are to: • Make culture and communications the main foundations of the country’s economic and social development; • Improve the intervention and dissemination capacities of the cultural and communications institutions; • Safeguard, protect, and enhance the value of the cultural heritage, whether tangible or intangible, as well as popular traditions; • Develop the arts, literature, and cultural industries. Strategic lines of action

210 The strategic lines of action identified are: • Institutional strengthening and decentralization through the rehabilitation, restructuring, and expansion of the cultural intervention and dissemination systems; • Protection, enrichment, and enhancement of the value of the nation’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage; • Promotion of artistic, artisanal, and literary creation, and of a pluralistic and democratic society; • Development of cultural cooperation ties with foreign countries. 71 CHAPTER 9 Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Objectives

211 Following a deep recession in 2004, the Haitian economy has gradually returned to the path of growth. The estimates currently available are such that the anticipated growth rate for 2007 will, while confirming the recovery beginning in 2005, nevertheless fall below the target of 4 percent set at the start of the year. Overall, the macroeconomic performance achieved during 2007 has been satisfactory, and generally in keeping with the objectives set at the start of the fiscal year, namely: (i) real GDP growth of 4 percent; (ii) an inflation rate in the 8-9 percent range; and (iii) gross foreign exchange reserves equivalent to somewhat more than 2 months’ imports.

212 Thanks to the quality of macroeconomic management in recent years, economic growth is resuming in a context characterized by the consolidation of the economic fundamentals. Since February 2007 the inflation rate has been hovering around 8.0 percent; the fiscal deficit should be very near GDP; and the current balance of payments is expected to register a surplus. All this has helped make it possible to accumulate exchange reserves over the past three years. Gross foreign exchange reserves currently represent almost 2.5 years of imports, as compared to 1.4 months in September 2004. Overall, a review of the changes in the major macroeconomic indicators suggests that the macroeconomic conditions regarded as prerequisites for a return to growth are now being met. In order to consolidate the foundations for sustainable growth in the context of implementing the growth strategy, it will be necessary to strengthen the macroeconomic performance achieved and, in particular, to continue the economic stabilization effort. Growth and poverty reduction strategy objectives

213 To roll back poverty in Haiti, it will be essential to guarantee rapid and sustained growth of the Haitian economy in the years ahead as well as to dampen the structural inequalities. For the 2007- 2009 period, the annual average growth rate is set at 3.5 percent. For fiscal 2006/2007, estimates have shown a 3 percent rate, and projections for 2007/2008 indicate a 3.7 percent rate. For subsequent years, average annual growth of 4 percent is anticipated.

214 To make sustained growth possible, the first three years should be focused on consolidating the gains made in the area of macroeconomic stabilization and strengthening the objective conditions for economic revitalization. These necessary conditions pertain in particular to: o Further strengthening the results obtained as regards security, o Improving the business climate, o Building the institutional capacities of public administrations, o Reforming economic governance, o Rehabilitating and developing infrastructure.

215 On average, the GDP growth rate from 2000 to 2006 was approximately -0.1 percent. However, transfers from the Haitian diaspora contributed significantly to the economic support of the population. With annual average real GDP growth of 4 percent, a population growth rate of 2.3 percent, and an elasticity of the incidence of poverty in relation to the rate of growth of real per capita incomes estimated at -1.13,6 it would take about 36 years to reduce poverty by half in the absence of other changes. Moreover, according to the poverty rate model (the one for US$1 per day PPP), under these circumstances poverty would decline from 55.0 percent in 2007 to 47.1 percent in 2015. In order to achieve growth rates compatible with an objective of significantly reducing poverty, it will be necessary to implement an accelerated growth strategy.

216 To achieve growth rates likely to induce a notable decline in the incidence of poverty, it will be essential to provide adequate incentives to producers operating on the Haitian market as well as to 6 This is the Ravallion elasticity determined, in the case of Haiti, by using a Gini coefficient of 50.5. The model was estimated on the basis of survey data collected for a sample of 62 countries (Ravallion, 2004). The elasticity is given by: -9.33*(1-Gini)^3. 72 workers to encourage them to improve their productivity. In a context of increased liberalization of international trade, increasing the productivity of stakeholders in the economy is imperative as a condition for enhancing the competitiveness of products manufactured in Haiti and services offered from Haiti.

217 Regarding the competitiveness of the Haitian economy, the trend line appreciation of the real exchange rate is of some concern in that it risks having a negative impact on the price competitiveness of Haitian exports. To address this development, which appears to be a deep- seated trend in the Haitian economy, the Government will make the necessary efforts to ease the constraints on private initiative, in particular the inadequacy of basic infrastructures, the deficiencies of existing infrastructures, the low productivity of production factors, the shortage of skilled human resources, difficult access to credit, inefficiencies in public administration, and political instability.

218 Given the prospects for market diversification and increased export volumes, the entire growth strategy of countries such as our own calls for a significant increase in investment, in particular in export-oriented branches of activity. An investment promotion and incentive campaign will be aimed simultaneously at foreign investors, Haitians in the diaspora, and Haitians or foreigners already operating in Haiti. Taken together, the policies set forth in the DSNCRP will contribute to creating an environment conducive to investment. Specifically, the measures relating to political stability, strengthening of the legal and regulatory framework, improving economic governance, and the preservation of macroeconomic stability will play a primordial role in promoting foreign direct investment (FDI). In addition, public investment in basic infrastructures and in building the stock of human capital will contribute to the establishment of an environment conducive to private initiative and will thus serve as a catalyst for private sector investment.

219 Poverty reduction will arise not only from the mechanical effect of increasing per capita incomes, but also from the implementation of policies aimed at reducing inequalities. The efforts to combat income inequalities and social exclusion are an integral part of the strategy. By favoring an increase in the share of national income held by the poor, it will make it possible to guarantee “pro-poor” growth. Because, despite the recent changes in favor of urbanization, the Haitian economy remains largely rural, the poverty reduction strategy must devote special attention to the promotion of agriculture, and beyond that, to the development of the activities of the rural economy. In order to have a lasting effect on poverty, economic policies will place employment at the heart of their concerns, and consequently the alignment of these policies will take place in the context of a job-creating growth strategy.

220 The success of the poverty reduction strategy will depend upon the combined effect of a group of public policies. The strategy adopted by the DSNCRP revolves around four fundamental focal areas: o Promotion of rapid, sustained, and pro-poor economic growth; o Increased investment in human capital and improved access to basic social services; o Protection of vulnerable groups, preservation of the environment, and management of major risks; o Strengthening of institutions, modernization of the State, and the promotion of good governance. Macroeconomic policies

221 By extending the stabilization effort initiated in the third quarter of 2004, the policies followed made a contribution to the gradual restoration of macroeconomic equilibrium. The results obtained are, overall, satisfactory, and they make it reasonable to expect macroeconomic changes in line with the objectives set at the start of the fiscal year. The Government is determined, during the 2007-2011 period, to restore macroeconomic conditions conducive to the resumption of growth, and to pursue macroeconomic stability. This being so, the inflation target has been lowered from 8 percent in 2007 to 7 percent in 2009, and for 2011 it is projected that inflation will be even lower. 73

222 For the 2007-2009 period, the economic and financial program of the Haitian Government has been negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Following approval by the IMF Executive Board in November 2006, the program has benefited from support under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). The macroeconomic framework of the DSNCRP was designed on the basis of the main guidelines of the interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I- PRSP), and is fully in keeping with the economic and financial policy memorandum for the PRGF. Chart 10.1: Growth and Inflation (in percent) 50 8 6 GDP growth rate

40 (right axis) 4 Optimistic scenario 30 2 GDP growth rate 0 (right axis)

20 Baseline scenario -2 -4

10 Year-on-year inflation rate (left axis) -6 0 -8 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Fiscal and tax policies

223 In view of the demands posed by the poverty reduction objectives, the revenue of the Haitian State would appear to be sufficiently modest to justify taking action. At present, the ratio of tax receipts to GDP is only slightly above 10 percent. The tax policy will be aimed on a priority basis to increasing the tax ratio from 10 percent in 2006 to 14 percent by 2011. The main categories of the tax reform measures contemplated will be aimed at strengthening the institutional capacities of the tax administrations and improving the efficiency of their actions, streamlining the system of tax exemptions, improving the coverage of rural activities, integrating operators in the informal system into the tax system, revising and updating the tax legislation, strengthening customs control throughout the national territory, and particularly at the provincial ports, adjusting the tax schedules, in particular in order to take account of the erosion brought about by inflation, correcting the distortions induced by certain taxes (taxes on petroleum products, for example), and readjusting certain rates that are deemed to be relatively low (the turnover tax rates, for example) or too high (those for registering mortgages, for example).

224 In tandem with the tax revenue mobilization efforts, the State will ensure improvement in the allocation of public expenditure by regularly increasing the relative weight of the expenditure allocated to public investment and by improving the targeting and execution of expenditure in the priority sectors. For the 2007-2011 period, the Government plans to hold current expenditure to about 56 percent of all public expenditure, thereby contributing to the determination of the budgetary space necessary for pursuing the objectives set under the growth and poverty reduction strategy.

225 The total expenditure of the public administration will increase regularly to reach approximately 21 percent by 2011. For the 2007-2011 period, such expenditure will increase from an average of 19 percent of GDP. Investment expenditure, representing slightly over 8 percent of GDP on average, will be 65 percent financed by external resources. All current expenditure as well as a portion of investment expenditure will be covered by domestic resources equivalent to 74 approximately 14 percent of GDP. The Haitian State will endeavor to guarantee the effectiveness of public expenditure during the period by orienting the allocation of such spending in light of the priorities established by the poverty reduction strategy. The Public Expenditure Management and Financial Accountability Review (PEMFAR) conducted jointly by the World Bank, the Inter- American Development Bank (IADB), and the Haitian Government provides detailed information on the public expenditure management systems, the institutional capacities of the administrations, and the allocation of expenditure in the priority sectors. Chart 10.2: Tax Revenue and Public Expenditure (as percent of GDP) 20 Tax revenue

15 Investment expenditures 10 Other public expenditures 5 Wages and salaries 0 -5 Overall deficit (not including aid) -10 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

226 Over the past three years, the Haitian Government has made a considerable effort to improve the allocation of budgetary resources in favor of education and health, and has also favored expenditures in the priority sectors of agriculture and infrastructure. Expressed in terms of a percentage of GDP, education and health expenditure for the 2005-2007 period represented on average 2.4 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively, as compared to 1.6 percent and 0.7 percent for 2002–2004. The 2007/2008 budget confirms the impetus imparted to benefit the priorities of the DSNCRP.

227 Despite the significant increase in the share of public resources allocated to the priority sectors between 2004 and 2007, the corresponding budgets are still small. In order to improve the management of public expenditure at the central level, the Haitian Government plans to revise the budget preparation and execution procedures while, at the same time, it consolidates the internal control mechanisms and strengthens the institutional mechanisms of the Supreme Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA). These reforms have already been initiated, and must be continued at a more sustained pace. The reform measures relate to the legal framework for public finance management, budget preparation methods, the budgetary information system, budget execution modalities, the monitoring and control mechanisms, and the public procurement system. To improve both the effectiveness and the quality of public expenditure, the Government intends to prepare and implement a Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). This instrument will facilitate making the macroeconomic and sectoral policies more consistent with the public expenditures programmed and the expenditure effectively carried out. It will make it possible to take macroeconomic constraints into account in the programming of public expenditure and will facilitate intersectoral arbitrage. The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework will contribute to improving the predictability of the budget ceilings assigned to the various sectors.

228 The fiscal policy will be aimed at containing the deficit on State financial operations at a sustainable level that is compatible with the financing anticipated. The Government will take care 75 to ensure this sustainability while ensuring the adequate coverage of the needs identified in the priority sectors. To contain the overall deficit of the public administration within reasonable limits compatible with the macroeconomic stability objectives, it will be necessary to increase tax receipts significantly, in addition to which the supplementary resources obtained in grant form will need to be maintained at a relatively high level. The overall deficit will be financed exclusively by external resources, as no recourse to Central Bank financing is contemplated for the 2007-2011 period. The available information makes it possible to anticipate that the overall deficit for 2007 should amount to -0.3 percent of GDP; however for the subsequent years and until 2011, it is projected that this deficit will widen to about -3 percent of GDP. As calculated, and excluding grants, the overall deficit of the public administration would amount to about -6 percent of GDP in 2007 and should gravitate around -7 percent of GDP between 2007 and 2011. These estimates of the overall deficit excluding grants highlight the critical importance of external grants in maintain the budgetary equilibrium of the Haitian public administration. In a context characterized by the low amount of tax receipts collected by the Haitian State, and given the gradual nature of the effort to increase the tax ratio between 2007 and 2011, it will consequently be essential to guarantee, to the greatest extent possible, the predictability of the flows of State budgetary resources stemming from external grants. The projections made for the 2007-2011 period and based upon historical trends indicate levels of external grants somewhere in the range of 4 to 5 percent of GDP. Such levels are appreciable, to be sure, but it would be desirable for Haiti to obtain additional resources in grant form in order to avoid financing gaps that could be engendered by the risks of macroeconomic imbalance. An increase in grants on the order of 2 percent of GDP over the average level would make it possible, for example, to cover the financing gaps projected for the last three years of the period.

229 The Haitian State is determined to conduct a prudent external borrowing policy in order to contain Haiti’s debt at a sustainable level that is compatible with its repayment capacity. Moreover, in accordance with the commitments entered into in the context of the PRGR, the Government will not accumulate external debt arrears. To supplement the borrowing contracted on concessional terms, implementing debt relief initiatives will make it possible to release additional resources to finance a package of priority expenditures in support of the poverty reduction strategy. Monetary policy

230 The monetary policy developed in the DSNCRP context will be aimed largely at establishing and maintaining a moderate inflation rate over the strategy implementation period. This will entail not only the achievement of low inflation rates, but especially of keeping the low in order to be able to have a positive impact on the expectations of economic agents. In the context of a growth and poverty reduction strategy, it is right and proper to guarantee low inflation, as inflation acts as a regressive tax on household incomes by eating away at the wages and assets held by the poor. Moreover, inflation may, depending on expectations, have undesirable effects on economic growth and income redistribution. High inflation generates uncertainty as to the general price level in the future, and consequently keeps prices high even if efforts are made to enhance efficiency. It also contributes to increasing the risk premium reflected in interest rates, thereby inhibiting investment. In addition, in a context of high inflation, relative prices tend to fluctuate considerably and therefore give of signals that can have a negative impact on resource allocation in the economy.

231 The disinflation policy will be continued between 2007 and 2011. The fiscal discipline demonstrated over the past three years has, for the time being, eased the main constraint on the conduct of monetary policy. In deciding to maintain this discipline, that is, by continuing to avoid Central Bank financing of public deficits, the Haitian authorities hope to facilitate monetary management during the 2007-2011 period and promote the achievement of monetary conditions that favor economic growth. Among the many reforms to be undertaken, the Central Bank will need to clarify and adjust the framework for executing monetary policy in such a way as to 76 strengthen the mechanisms for signaling monetary policy and increasing the effectiveness of the instruments used. Balance of payments

232 When official transfers are excluded, the current balance of payments, expressed as a percentage of GDP, registered a deficit of slightly more than 6 percent of GDP in 2007. Between 2007 and 2011, this deficit including official transfers is expected to average about 8 percent of GDP, with a slight upward trend owing to the continuing deterioration in the trade balance. However, if official transfers are included, the current account balance for 2007 would be reduced to slightly over 1 percent of GDP. Moreover, in recent decades the current account deficit has generally been less than 2 percent of GDP. The current account deficit estimates for the 2007-2011 period use the assumption that private flows from the Haitian diaspora constitute a permanent and generally stable component of Haiti’s balance of payments. These private transfers are expected to represent over 20 percent of GDP in 2007 and do maintain more or less comparable levels over the period. The growing importance of current transfers, and especially the relative weight of transfers from emigrant workers, has the effect of significantly reducing the level of the current deficit while simultaneously contributing to ensuring the medium-term sustainability of the current account of the balance of payments.

233 On the assumption that flows of current transfers are satisfactorily predictable, and in the absence of major crises, the current transactions deficit is projected to change very little in terms of GDP between 2007 and 2011. Accordingly, the balance of payments should exert only small pressures on exchange reserves. In order to address external shocks, the target for gross exchange reserves is to accumulate the equivalent of three months’ imports of goods and services. An increase in current transfer flows and the anticipated increase in flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) should facilitate this accumulation. Macroeconomic outlook for 2007-2011

234 For purposes of briefly analyzing the outlook for 2007-2011, two different scenarios have been considered. The difference between the two is fundamentally based on an increase in economic activity in the last two years of the period resulting from higher investment levels, these owing to improved absorptive capacities of the Haitian economy and improvements in the level of resource mobilization. The projections are focused primarily on the 2007-2011 period, although for purposes of characterizing the scenarios the average growth rates have been maintained through 2015 at 6 percent and 4 percent, respectively, for the optimistic scenario and the baseline scenario. Using these assumptions, the respective rates of poverty reduction were calculated using, once again, the Ravallion model. They are shown in Table 10.1. A review of the available demographic indicators suggests that the Haitian population is currently in a demographic transition phase. Accordingly, instead of using the inter-census rate of 2.3 percent calculated by the IHSI, the population growth rates used correspond to a series estimated by the IHSI which reflects the demographic transition phenomenon. The population growth rate is now estimated at 2.1 percent, gradually declining to 1.9 percent by 2015. Using these assumptions, in the baseline scenario the rate of poverty reduction by 2015 would be roughly 17 percent, whereas under the optimistic scenario the poverty rate would be reduced by almost 27 percent. 77 Table 10.1: Delineation of the Various Scenarios Scenario 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Per capita GDP growth rate 1.4 % 2.4 % 1.9 % 1.9 % 1.9 % Baseline scenario Poverty rate1 55.0 53.5 52.4 51.2 50.2 Per capita GDP growth rate 1.4 % 2.4 % 1.9 % 2.8 % 3.8 % Optimistic Poverty rate1 55.0 53.5 52.4 50.7 48.5 scenario 1/ Calculated using the Ravallion elasticity: ε = -9.33*(1-Gini)^3, with the Gini coefficient estimated at 50.5.

235 The growth targets under the two scenarios are based on similar assumptions with regard both to the external environment for the Haitian economy and to its internal dynamics. These targets take account of the structural impediments, and in particular the supply constraints with which the Haitian economy must deal. The targeted average rates are thus relatively modest, especially early in the period, in that it will be necessary to consolidate the bases for accelerated growth if it is to be sustainable. The main assumptions adopted are as follows: continuing improvement in the climate of security, implementation of measures to protect vulnerable groups, pursuit and maintenance of macroeconomic stability, efficient mobilization of external resources, significant increase in tax receipts, rehabilitation of basic infrastructure, increased investment in networked infrastructure, increased investment in human capital, strengthened institutional capacities, and the promotion of good governance. The difference between the two scenarios is attributable largely to differences in investment levels. Baseline scenario: i. Investment increases on average by 10.8 percent between 2007 and 2011, with a pronounced trend toward increased public investment. Private investment, the weight of which is three times higher, also is dynamic to some extent. ii. Exports increase at a sustained pace, largely as a consequence of taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by the HOPE Act. iii. The rehabilitation of rural infrastructures and the organization of rural entrepreneurs favor the production and export of leading agricultural products. iv. A number of tourism enclaves become operational by the end of the period and, in the interim, increased efforts are made to promote tourist visits by foreign nationals of Haitian origin. v. The renewed vigor of the tourism industry, the dynamism of agriculture, and the good health of the construction and public works subsector have positive effects on sustained employment and hence on household demand. End consumption increases at an average rate of 3.8 percent, sustained by increased incomes and the growth of current transfers. Optimistic scenario i. The same assumptions are used for the optimistic scenario. The difference between the two scenarios stems largely from the fact that, in the optimistic scenario, resource mobilization is more effective. On the one hand, the tax receipts collected in 2010 and 2011 are greater, and, on the other hand, external grants increase and make it possible to add resources to external budgetary support. 78 ii. The bulk of the additional resources will be used to increase public investment expenditure over the last two years of the period. The financing gaps for 2010 and 2011 will be maintained at approximately the same level in terms of absolute value. iii. The optimistic scenario also assumes a significant increase in the absorptive capacity of the public administration as well as higher budget execution rates, among other things. iv. Moreover, the optimistic scenario projects an improvement in external demand, reflected in more rapid export growth.

236 In the optimistic scenario, end consumption grows in real terms at an average pace close to that observed over the period for the baseline scenario: 3.9 percent as against 3.7 percent. In both cases, the growth rate of end consumption is less than the GDP growth rate. Investment is more dynamic as regards both the public investment component and the private investment component: 21.0 percent as against 17.9 percent for the former, and 10.1 percent as against 8.9 percent for the latter. This relative increase in investment is explained, on one hand, by improved utilization of budgetary resources and, on the other hand, by the behavior of the private sector in response to the incentives introduced by more cohesive public policies. Businesses also take advantage of better conditions created through improved security and the completion of infrastructure works. While, at the start of the period, it is logical to conclude that investment growth will be driven primarily by public investment, at the end of the period, private investment should prove more dynamic. Finally, despite a vigorous rebound in exports, external demand continues to fall short of imports. These expand at a rate that is two times higher in the optimistic scenario. Table 10.2: Anticipated Changes in Aggregate Demand Components Growth rate 2007 - 2011 (at 1986/1987 prices) Baseline scenario Optimistic scenario GDP 4.0% 4.6 % Imports 7.9 % 13.8 % Consumption 3.7 % 3.9 % Investment 10.8 % 14.3 % Exports 13.1 % 30.0 % Risk factors

237 The macroeconomic framing of the DSNCRP is based on favorable assumptions as to changes in the international environment of the Haitian economy as well as to the determination of internal factors likely to have a negative impact on the results anticipated. The scenario presented above is consequently deliberately optimistic. It effectively takes the stance that the risks incurred on the macroeconomic side are, overall, controllable, and that consequently the growth and poverty reduction objectives could be achieved for the 2007-2011 period. However, to mitigate any problems that could arise during the implementation of macroeconomic policies, it is advisable to assess the various risks of the strategy and plan for measures to attenuate their undesirable effects. These risks stem from more than the possibility of shocks of various kinds that could affect macroeconomic equilibrium. In the text that follows, we will briefly review the principal risks of a political, institutional, economic, and natural order which could affect the macroeconomic framework of the DSNCRP and jeopardize meeting the objectives sought. 79

238 Political stability can, as in the past, have multiple harmful effects on a great many economic variables. For example, it can lead to the drying-up of external resource flows and, for example, impede the execution of expenditure under the Public Investment Program, and thereby have a negative impact on growth and poverty reduction. The risks associated with institutional shortcomings and the quality of governance are a special category of risks which might arise from, among other things, inadequate implementation of the measures called for in the context of the DSNCRP, the adoption of inappropriate supplementary measures, and the weakness of institutional capacities on the part of the public administrations.

239 Examination of the time profile of external aid over the past two decades sheds light on the high degree of instability in the reactions of Haiti’s international partners to the multiple political crises that broke out during that period. In order to control the risks engendered by the variability of the amounts of aid granted and to mitigate the potential insufficiency thereof, the Government intends to draw up the financing component of the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) in close collaboration with donors so as to ensure the solidity of their commitments at a sufficiently long time horizon.

240 As a small, open economy in the Caribbean, Haiti is particularly sensitive to changes in its external environment and especially to changes in the economic cycle of the U.S. economy. In particular, the likely slowdown in the U.S. economy, in response to the crisis in the subprime mortgage market, must be examined from the standpoint of its potential impact on the objectives set for the beginning of the period.

241 Haiti’s poorly diversified exports currently are characterized by nearly 90 percent of the total being accounted for by a single product category: textile products assembled in Haiti, products which benefit from the preferential regimes granted to Haiti by the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) and, more recently, by the “Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act” (HOPE). By absorbing about 85 percent of Haitian exports, the United States is clearly Haiti’s main export market. This preponderance of the U.S. market and the intense concentration on a single product category entail inherent risks that need to be assessed.

242 Recent developments on the oil market are raising increasing concerns. Unfavorable changes in crude oil prices can have a serious impact on the extent to which growth objectives are achieved. An oil price increase is immediately reflected in the various activity parameters in the sectors, notably through increased energy and transport costs. It is therefore advisable to take into account the strong likelihood that high oil prices will stay high. In addition to the oil market, changes in the market prices of other products, such as wheat or rice, are of critical importance for Haiti’s balance of payments. Food products and petroleum products represent about 30 percent and 25 percent, respectively, of total goods imported.

243 Finally, natural risks constitute a risk category that cannot be disregarded. Indeed, Haiti is highly exposed to natural disasters and its physical environment has deteriorated seriously in recent decades. 80 CHAPTER 10 Strategy Financing, Implementation, and Monitoring 1. QUANTIFICATION AND FINANCING OF THE STRATEGY

244 The operationalization of the National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (SNCRP) requires considerable efforts in terms of mobilizing financial, material, and human resources. Accordingly, it depends upon the support of all national and international stakeholders for financing the target actions. Costs of operationalizing the National DSNCRP

245 The National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (SNCRP) will require, for its operationalization over the 2007-2010 period, an amount totaling One Hundred Fifty-Four Billion Five Hundred Sixty Million Gourdes (G 154,560,000,000), or Three Billion Eight Hundred Sixty-Four Million U.S. Dollars (US$3,864,000,000). The implementation costs are a reflection of the resource requirements. The approach used was to prioritize the target actions with a view to creating conditions conducive to keeping Haiti on the economic growth path and reaching out to the most vulnerable groups affected by poverty. These requirements are organized by the major activity areas of the Government and reformulated as Pillars, namely: (i) growth vectors; (ii) human development; and (iii) democratic governance. The pillars are supported by specifically targeted strategies and by cross-cutting strategies for some areas.

246 The costs of DSNCRP implementation are rather crudely calculated at this stage. They will be further refined once the plans for carrying out the target actions have been specifically defined at the level of the various pillars. The breakdown of the financing requirements for the strategy by pillar and action area is as follows: o Pillar 1 – Growth vectors: groups together the strategic sectors, namely: agriculture and rural development, tourism, trade, industry, and infrastructures. The estimated requirements are on the order of Seventy-Eight Billion Two Hundred Sixty Million Gourdes (G 78,260,000,000), or 50.6 percent of the total. o Pillar 2 – Human development: groups together the education and training, health, and water and sanitation sectors. The estimated requirements for this pillar are on the order of Thirty-Three Billion Gourdes (G 33,000,000,000), or 21.4 percent of the total. o Pillar 3 – Democratic governance: covers justice, security, public finance reform, and the incentive framework for private initiatives. The estimated requirements are on the order of Twelve Billion Three Hundred Million Gourdes (G 12,300,000,000) or 8 percent of the total. o The Specific and Cross-Cutting Policies and Strategies address, among other things, the environment, risks and disasters, gender equality, territorial development, urban development, food security, social protection, and building the capacities of the State. Their requirements are estimated at Thirty-One Billion Gourdes (G 31,000,000,000), or 20 percent of the total. The table which follows provides an estimate of the financing requirements of the strategy for the 2007/2008- 2009/2010 period. 81 Table 12 – FINANCING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2008-2010 PERIOD Financing the DSNCRP 2007/08-2009/10 % PILLAR 1 - Growth vectors G 78,260,000,000 50.6 PILLAR 2 – Human development G 33,000,000,000 21.4 PILLAR 3 – Democratic governance G 12,300,000,000 8 Specific and Cross-Cutting Policies G 31,000,000,000 20 G 154,560,000,000 TOTAL 100 US$3,864,000,000 Financing strategy for the National DSNCRP

247 The basic principle of financing the National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (SNCRP) is the preponderant role of the State in orienting and driving all development stakeholders. Efforts will be focused on mobilizing both domestic and external resources. The strategy will thus consist in exploring all possibilities for domestic financing while relying on the international community, which will participate significantly in the financing of actions oriented toward promoting growth and poverty reduction. In this regard, local resources, budgetary support, concessional borrowing, and foreign direct investment will make a major contribution toward driving economic and social development activities, especially those focused on poverty reduction.

248 The funds accruing from debt relief in the context of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative should contribute significantly to financing the DSNCRP. Public finance reforms will also be introduced. In addition, it is hoped that resources will be mobilized from all our bilateral and multilateral partners to ensure the success of the strategy in terms of growth and poverty reduction. However, at the same time, considerable domestic efforts will be undertaken with a view to increasing tax yields so as to have further resources available, which should facilitate development financing. Risks associated with National DSNCRP financing

249 The Haitian economy still has problems with deploying its productive resources with a view to ensuring the self-financing of its development, and remains highly vulnerable because of its significant dependence on the international community. Moreover, it is every bit as important to ensure reaching the completion point under the HIPC Initiative, in particular by observing the associated conditionalities. It is even more important to introduction strong and functional structures which can make optimal use of development assistance resources, and to strengthen institutional capacities to improve the absorption of aid.

250 Furthermore, increasing domestic resources is heavily dependent on the tax collection and political and economic stabilization efforts, which must play a preponderant role in improving Haiti’s capacity to address DSNCRP financing requirements. Although the more specific costs of financing actions under the DSNCRP have not yet been determined, it is quite likely that the financing gap will be sizable and will not be able to be absorbed by the resources projected. 82 2. MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION Institutional monitoring framework

251 There are two levels to the implementation structure: the first is strategic, reporting to the President of the Republic; the second is operational, coordinated by the Prime Minister. These two levels bring together the main development partners, namely the private sector, territorial governments, and the cooperation sector, including the international agencies and NGOs. Overall, this implementation structure is under the ultimate control of the President of the Republic, who sponsors, for this purpose, the National Commission of Investments (NCI), which has the objective of promoting the competitiveness of Haitian resources as well as the performance of public investments, including those concerning the major work areas [Grands Chantiers] Within the commission, the Prime Minister (BPM) manages a Priority Arbitration Committee, whose central role is to give direction to public investments. The Secretariat of the National Commission of Investments (NCI) is confirmed by the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation. The implementation structure takes the following form. At the strategy level: National Investment Commission (CNI)

252 The President of the Republic sponsors a National Investment Commission (CNI), the instrument whereby the Executive Branch can exercise its oversight over the fulfillment of its development vision as set forth in the DSNCRP, and along the lines defined by the Major Activity Areas. This commission will make it possible in particular for the Head of State to have a clear notion of the implementation of the development priorities and of the rate of return achieved, that is, what must be done in order to apply the development vision, and of its impacts on the competitiveness of human resources, changes in the major work areas, household living conditions, and growth. The President of the Republic would then take the corrective measures required. Priority Arbitration Committee (CAP)

253 For his part, the Prime Minister chairs the work of a Priority Arbitration Committee (CAP) whose function is to properly steer public investment with a view to achieving the development goals set forth in the DSNCRP, which are aligned with the major work areas. The members of this Committee include the MPCE and the MEF. The Prime Minister acts within this committee through the Public Policy Coordination and Monitoring Unit (CCS)7 and the Budgetary Affairs Unit (CAB) of Office of the Prime Minister (BPM). At the operational level: National Office for Implementation Coordination (CNM)

254 The MPCE, in addition to carrying out its functions relating to the governance of development assistance and the national development priorities, determines, through its Technical Directorates supported by the National Poverty and Social Exclusion Observatory (ONPES) currently being set up, the steps required for applying the strategy so as to identify and provide the performance indicators for the actions agreed and the operating plans. It also works together with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the sectoral ministries through the Research and Programming Units. 7 See the Decree reorganizing the Central Administration. 83 Institutional framework for the DSNCRP

255 The Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation is responsible for the coordination and monitoring of DSNCRP implementation. The various technical directorates of the MPCE distribute among themselves the responsibilities for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring and evaluating the DSNCRP. These directorates will be supported not only by the National Poverty and Social Exclusion Observatory (ONPES), but also by the Research and Programming Units (UEPs) of the sectoral ministries. Monitoring instruments

256 The following instruments will make it possible to monitor the objectives pursued by the DSNCRP: o The Macroeconomic Framework o The Budget of the Republic o The Public Investment Program (PIP) o The Medium-Term Budgetary Framework (MTBF) o The Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) o The budget reconciliation laws for the various fiscal years o The Sectoral Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks (SMETFs). o DSNCRP monitoring and evaluation mechanism

257 The monitoring and evaluation mechanism to be put in place has three components: o Execution monitoring o Impact monitoring o Participatory monitoring. Monitoring of DSNCRP implementation

258 Monitoring execution covers the physical and financial implementation of all the actions set forth in the National Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DSNCRP). It will be carried out in the context of a participatory approach involving the permanent structures of the Administration, the deconcentrated structures, local subnational governments, the private sector, donors, and the beneficiary populations. The structures of the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation will be involved as set forth below: o The Economic and Social Programming Directorate (DPES) of the MPCE, working in concert with the Economic Research Directorate of the MEF and the Poverty and Social Exclusion Observatory (ONPES) and with the support of the Research and Programming Units (UEPs) of the sectoral ministries, will be responsible for monitoring the implementation and the overall and specific policies set forth in the DSNCRP. It must: (i) monitor changes in the macroeconomic framework; (ii) ensure that the strategies and interventions of donors are consistent with those of the DSNCRP; (iii) produce and publish an annual monitoring report with a stocktaking and recommendations for the GPSRP; (iv) contribute to the development of evaluation capacity as a tool to help with decision making and an instrument for improving the efficiency of the public sector; and (v) strengthen the capacities for analyzing and formulating development and poverty reduction policies; o The Public Investment Directorate (DIP), with support from the Research and Programming Units (UEPs) of the sectoral ministries, will be tasked with the coordination and preparation of the Public Investment Program and with monitoring implementation as regards the imputability of the operators concerned, with reporting on the above to the authorities on the basis of 84 performance indicators, and with proposing any adjustments that may be required. It will also ensure that operating plans for these actions are drawn up and carried out; o The External Cooperation Directorate (DCE) and the NGO Activities Coordination Unit (UCAONG) will be responsible for supporting the various structures involved in identifying, mobilizing, and monitoring the financing provided by development partners; o The Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate (DSE), with support from the Research and Programming Units (UEPs) of the sectoral ministries, will be at the center of the physical and financial monitoring of the public investments implemented in the context of the DSNCRP. It will ensure that: (i) the monitoring and execution tools for all actions under the DSNCRP throughout the country are used and applied; and (ii) that status reports on the state of physical and financial progress with DSNCRP actions are drawn up by the executing bodies and analyzed; o The Departmental Directorates of the MPCE, working in tandem with the Departmental Directorates of the sectoral ministries and territorially deconcentrated autonomous agencies, will participate in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of DSNCRP actions at the territorial level; o The National Poverty and Social Exclusion Observatory (ONPES), in support of the foregoing structures, will be responsible for impact monitoring and participatory monitoring as well as for DSNCRP evaluation. Impact evaluation of DSNCRP actions

259 Impact monitoring involves analysis of trends with respect to poverty and the living conditions of the people. It will be carried out by: (i) developing and implementing an information system including all surveys essential to the monitoring of indicators on the household living conditions and poverty objectives; and (ii) gathering information on the performance monitoring indicators of the actions included in the DSNCRP. Participatory monitoring

260 Participatory monitoring will be carried out in accordance with the methods defined, and will enable the authorities to obtain information on grassroots assessments of the activities carried out in connection with poverty reduction. The civil society associations, especially those that participated in DSNCRP preparation in the regions, will be organized and receive adequate training to enable them to observe, monitor, and express opinions on the execution of poverty reduction actions in their areas of influence. DSNCRP evaluation

261 Evaluation will occur in two stages, first with a midterm review and then with an ex post evaluation. The midterm review will make it possible to assess the progress made toward meeting the objectives set and determine how to contribute to the adaptation, improvement, or modification of programs and projects. The final ex post evaluation will be focused on assessing overall program and project impacts. It should be emphasized that an annual DSNCRP appraisal as well as regular monitoring of the sectoral and cross-cutting programs will be carried out in order to assess the changes brought about by their implementation. The specific identified objectives and performance indicators are presented in an annex to this paper. The impact and participatory indicators will be defined in light of the pillars, sectors, and areas selected. 85 86

ANNEX I English Translation of Official Original Document in French CONTENTS 1. Schema of Overall Planning Framework 2. Matrix of Objectives and Measures (2007-2010) 3. Matrix of Objectives of Public Finances Reforms 4. Economic Accounts Tables Gross Domestic Product Account Summary of Financial Operations of the Central Administration Summary of Haiti’s Balance of Payments (2002-2011) Monetary Survey 5. Summary Table of DSNCRP Costs 6. Schema of Institutional Framework for Implementation 7. Table of DSNCRP Monitoring Indicators Schema of Overall Planning Framework in Haiti Prospective studies, long- Determination of the long-term strategic choices of term projections, national the Nation materialized in a development vision with and regional territorial Sectoral and regional diagnosis, short- and medium-term outlook , constraints, a 20/25 year time horizon development schemas Major Thrusts Macroeconomic Definition of policies, objectives, and priorities for the analysis (growth, medium term, materialized in the National Growth and revenue, Poverty Reduction Strategy (3 years ) employment, balance of payments), impact assessment, topic-based studies, Sectoral and regional Guidance Note: directives on surveys on poverty, strategies sectoral and regional levels constraints, and and potentials, stock-taking of implementation of current plan economic and financial prospects Determination of financing Sectoral investment requirements; mobilization and coordination of Outlook for and programs estimates of existing domestic resources (budgetary and private) and and potential public external resources for and private financial PGRSP implementation resources: budgetary, private local, public external public Moving three- (ODA) and external year Public private (FDI) Investment Program Project identification, (projects Allocation of Mobilization of formulation, and selected) financing from external financing and selection the public assistance (through treasury required partnership for public mechanisms with development donors, joint projects commissions, etc.) (budget negotiations) Implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and ex-post updating/readjustment of policies and programs MATRIX OF OBJECTIVES/SUMMARY OF ACTIONS MATRICES PILLAR 1: GROWTH VECTORS 78,258,726,800 1.- AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Promote modern, wealth-creating, and environmentally friendly agriculture, 17,880,000,000 making it possible to achieve food security for all and improve the living conditions of farmers SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build institutional capacities of the agricultural sector (See annexed PEMFAR) 300,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Promote sustainable agriculture and improved land tenure management 8,840,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Revitalize agricultural production 3,280,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Modernize basic agricultural infrastructures in rural areas 4,150,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Promote fisheries and aquaculture 195,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Promote the development of agroprocessing subsectors 450,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Promote a new marketing strategy 465,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Introduce agricultural production support infrastructures 200,000,000 2.- TOURISM OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Make tourism a sustainable development lever of direct benefit to the population 1,402,590,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Ensure good governance in the sector 344,940,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Develop tourism that is broadly based territorially 1,057,650,000 3.- COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Make Commerce and Industry sustainable development levers of direct benefit to the population 416,373,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Impart new dynamism to the effort to provide incentives for private investment 95,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Promote regional economic integration 138,146,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Regain lost market shares 155,227,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Revitalize light industry 0 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Promote foreign and national direct investment 28,000,000 4.INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve the people’s access to services and structuring infrastructure as a 58,559,763,800 development vector TRANSPORT SUBSECTOR 34,244,763,800 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacity of the sector (see annexed PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Reconcile the trade-offs between regions and decentralization constraints 8,000,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Bring services closer to citizens and make essential services available to users threatened by exclusion 20,003,763,800 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Promote balanced and equitable development of the transport system 51,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Promote Haiti’s integration into the Caribbean area and into international trade 6,190,000,000 ELECTRICITY SUBSECTOR 24,037,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Improve oversight of investment and regulatory decisions 12,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Generate sufficient revenue to cover operating and investment expenditure 24,014,200,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Strengthen the partnership between the organizing authority and producers 10,800,000 NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS LABORATORY (LNBTP) SUBSECTOR 278,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Strengthen the LNBTP (see annexed PEMFAR) 100,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 9: Enhance research 178,000,000 PILLAR 2: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES 33,037,555,925 1.- EDUCATION AND TRAINING OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve access to preschool and basic education and to vocational training 21,132,555,925 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacities of the sector (see annexed PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Reorganize the supply of schooling in favor of poor pupils 16,051,950,790 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve the quality of education by recertifying instructional personnel and school directors 1,545,250,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Organize adequate oversight of schools, students, and parents 2,775,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Improve the coordination of operators in the education sector 740,355,135 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Increase the public resources allocated to the education sector 20,000,000 2.- HEALTH OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Promote a modern health system readily accessible by vulnerable groups 7,641,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacities of the health sector (see annexed PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Rehabilitate, construct, and upgrade health infrastructures 6,400,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Strengthen the Commune-Level Health Units 12,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Strengthen the assumption of care for priority diseases 300,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Improve waste management in hospital facilities 135,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Guarantee the public’s access to essential drugs 78,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Reduce the maternal mortality rate 628,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Increase the prevalence of contraceptive use 88,000,000 3.- DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve access to hygiene and sanitation services and the supply of quality 4,264,000,000 drinking water at the lowest cost to the community SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Restructure the MTPTC to enable it to take on the functions of regulating the sector 136,000,000 (see annexed PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Generate sufficient resources to cover operating and investment expenditure 60,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Provide basic services to the residents of shantytowns and low-income rural residents 4,068,000,000 PILLAR 3: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO JUSTICE AND SECURITY I.- JUSTICE OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Ensure an environment conducive to rapid and sustainable development through justice that is accessible, credible, efficient, and competent, and a civil status system enabling 6,089,000,000 every citizen to have his or her own personal identity guarantee a legal existence SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Restructure and reorganize the MJSP to enable it to assume leadership in implementing the Strategic Plan for the Reform of Justice and to take on ownership of this reform process in harmony with legal stakeholders and civil society as special partners 750,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen the Judiciary Branch 880,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Facilitate access to and the efficiency of the courts 1,549,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Improve incarceration conditions and penitentiary management mechanisms 2,720,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Modernize legislation 190,000,000 II.- SECURITY OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS 5,027,000,000 OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Ensure the security of persons, their property, and their production activities SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Combat rampant insecurity through bold actions 2,020,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Improve the image of the National Police 3,007,000,000 III.- NEAR-AT-HAND GOVERNANCE OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Bring the Government closer to citizens through decentralization and deconcentration 1,219,600,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen the intervention capacities of the MICT and the MPCE 545,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Make the communes and départments into development stakeholders 538,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Enhance the financial capacities of the territorial governments 136,600,000 TARGETED AND CROSS-CUTTING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 1.- FOOD SECURITY OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve the integration and coordination of food policies and strategies making it possible to address the human right to food 93,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Define a framework conducive to strengthening food security and controlling its application 39,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Introduce cross-cutting mechanisms 12,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Build the départements’ capacities for intersectoral and interinstitutional integration 34,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Monitor food security and poverty 8,000,000 2.- GENDER EQUITY OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Ensure the Observance of Women’s Rights and the Application of Gender Mainstreaming in Public Policies 1,279,054,794.95 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Conceptualize, develop, and introduce a policy on equality of the sexes 7,088,484 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Enhance institutional capacities as regards the Gender sector 120,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve the status of women 647,196,577 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Promote and strengthen women’s rights 143,699,696 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Promote the education and right to health of women and girls 286,549,276 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Reform judicial and legal procedures as regards the rights of women and equality between the sexes 28,300,199 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Educate and enhance the awareness of decision-makers and the public with a view to eliminating discrimination and sexism 46,220,562.80 3.-ENVIRONMENT OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve environmental management with a view to contributing to sustainable 5,582,000,000 growth while ensuring the economic and social security of the poor and the security of the ecosystems that support life SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1-: Improve environmental governance 40,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Reduce the environmental vulnerability of the poor to natural disasters and risks, and adapt to climate change 744,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve the environmental management of the cities 40,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Ensure integrated management of water resources 120,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Balance the supply of and demand for wood 3,360,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Combat soil degradation and sustainably manage biodiversity 358,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Combat pollution in all its forms 280,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Monitor and conduct oversight of the environment 320,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 9: Make the environment a center for attracting investment and creating business opportunities 320,000,000 4.- SOCIAL PROTECTION OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Reduce exclusion and enhance social protection 1,518,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacities of the MAST 20,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Socially and economically integrate the disabled 430,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Support and supervise services for the elderly 285,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Supervise adolescents, the deported, and young adults at risk 783,000,000 5.- CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Make culture and communication the backbone of Haiti’s economic and social development 1,752,020,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacities of the culture and communication sector 897,500,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Protect and enhance the value of the national patrimony 774,120,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Promote artistic, literary, and artisanal production 80,400,000 6.- URBAN DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Contribute to sustainable urban development and poverty reduction by: (1) preparing and supporting the implementation of development and rehabilitation plans for at-risk 1,596,000,000 neighborhoods; (2) controlling urban growth and developing adequate tools; and (3) building the capacities of the authorities and beneficiary communities SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Make local governance operational and effective 648,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Urbanize the cities by improving marginal housing areas 624,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Strengthen the participatory process in rehabilitating marginal housing 204,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Seek financing for grassroots projects 120,000,000 7.- TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Contribute to the reconstruction of the national territory as a means of ultimately achieving Haiti’s balanced and sustainable development 15,765,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Introduce the strategic and normative national development framework 1,565,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Impart new dynamism to the regions 14,200,000,000 8: RISKS AND DISASTERS OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve the intervention capacities of the SNGRD by strengthening the DPC, the SPGRD, and the territorial civil protection structures 69,800,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen the action capacities of the DPC and the SPGRD 44,300,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen the intervention capacities of the civil protection structures on the ground 25,500,000 9.- STATE CAPACITY BUILDING OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Build institutional capacities 3,129,200,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Continue the reform of the State’s Central Administration 129,200,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Introduce the new civil service system 328,300,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Initiate the effective deconcentration of public services 178,500,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Launch the decentralization process 274,200,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Modernize the physical framework for public services 2,219,000,000 10- GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING THE PRIVATE SECTOR OBJECTIVES 2007-2010 PARTNERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve the business climate 110,300,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Upgrade the legal framework for economic activity and the development of the market economy 23,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen the institutions guaranteeing private initiative, business freedom, the market economy, and competitiveness 87,300,000 SUMMARY PILLAR 1: GROWTH VECTORS 78,258,726,800 51% PILLAR 2: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES 33,037,555,925 21% PILLAR 3: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO JUSTICE AND SECURITY 12,335,600,000 8% TARGETED AND CROSS-CUTTING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 30,894,374,795 20% TOTAL 154,526,257,520 100% $3,863,156,438 MATRIX OF OBJECTIVES OF PUBLIC FINANCES REFORMS GENERAL OBJECTIVE: REFORM THE HAITIAN PUBLIC FINANCES 2007-2010 PARTNERS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen links between resource allocations and N.A. N.A. Government priorities identified in the DNSCRP and sectoral strategy N.A. N.A. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Improve budget execution SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improving transparency of budget information N.A. N.A. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Gradually integrating gradually expenditure financed by external resources in the sector budget N.A. N.A. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Evaluate the impact of budgetary expenditure and monitor the N.A. N.A. budget results N.A.: Information Not Available ECONOMIC ACCOUNTS TABLES Gross Domestic Product Account Projections (in millions of Gourdes at constant prices) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 GDP 94 028 119 758 140 387 168 034 200 456 225 052 256 096 286 316 315 634 345 298 Imports 33 548 57 326 61 432 68 610 86 255 83 227 92 437 108 040 125 325 139 110 Resources 127 576 177 084 201 819 236 644 286 711 308 279 348 533 394 356 440 959 484 408 Consumption 92 140 121 378 143 162 167 291 200 186 224 675 250 658 280 737 308 250 334 143 Investment 23 570 36 758 38 386 46 072 57 861 69 896 81 918 95 189 111 276 125 853 Exports 11 866 18 948 20 271 23 281 28 664 13 708 15 956 18 430 21 434 24 413 Uses 127 576 177 084 201 819 236 644 286 711 308 279 348 533 394 356 440 959 484 408 Gross Domestic Product Account Projections (in millions of Gourdes at 1986-1987 prices) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 GDP 12 968 13 015 12 557 12 783 13 079 13 469 13 967 14 526 15 107 15 711 Imports 14 757 15 225 15 063 15 449 16 160 17 219 17 673 18 727 19 637 20 051 Resources 27 725 28 240 27 620 28 232 29 239 30 688 31 640 33 253 34 744 35 762 Consumption 20 514 20 691 19 921 20 359 21 162 21 882 22 253 23 185 23 792 24 103 Investment 4 390 4 526 4 381 4 443 4 541 4 922 5 126 5 262 5 470 5 538 Exports 2 821 3 023 3 318 3 430 3 536 3 885 4 261 4 806 5 482 6 121 Uses 27 725 28 240 27 620 28 232 29 239 30 688 31 640 33 253 34 744 35 762 Real GDP growth rate -0.3% 0.4% -3.5% 1.8% 2.3% 3.0% 3.7% 4.0% 4.0% 4.0% Summary of Central Administration Financial Operations Projections (in millions of Gourdes) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Total revenue 7 828 10 748 12 606 16 255 20 109 23 196 29 942 34 339 39 295 45 453 Total revenue 7 828 10 748 12 606 16 255 20 109 23 196 29 942 34 339 39 295 45 453 Current revenue 7 826 10 748 12 606 16 255 20 109 23 196 29 942 34 339 39 295 45 453 Domestic revenue 5 757 7 979 9 095 11 980 14 010 16 368 20 682 23 626 28 329 32 769 Customs receipts 2 069 2 769 3 511 4 275 6 099 6 828 9 260 10 713 10 966 12 684 Other current revenue 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total expenditure 10 978 14 870 15 644 16 968 21 283 21 886 32 788 39 647 44 876 52 334 Current revenues 9 070 10 843 11 171 14 854 18 563 15 845 26 564 31 651 34 674 39 386 Wages and salaries 3 480 3 869 4 131 5 699 6 471 8 087 12 617 14 430 15 564 17 870 Current expenditure 4 270 4 475 4 582 4 151 4 862 1 165 7 515 9 563 11 372 13 183 Subsidies and transfers 768 1 446 1 166 3 992 5 552 5 329 5 607 6 099 6 002 6 591 Interest payments 552 1 053 1 292 1 012 1 678 1 264 825 1 559 1 737 1 741 Investment expenditure 1 908 4 027 4 473 2 114 2 720 6 041 6 224 7 996 10 201 12 948 Current balance -1 244 - 95 1 435 1 401 1 546 7 351 -2 175 4 175 6 223 8 032 Overall balance -3 150 -4 122 -3 038 - 713 -1 174 1 310 -2 846 -5 308 -5 581 -6 881 Financing 3 150 4 122 3 038 713 1 174 -1 310 2 846 5 308 5 581 6 881 Domestic financing 3 311 3 384 3 049 - 126 - 167 -1 758 - 410 - 910 - 910 - 910 Monetary authorities 2 897 3 645 2 903 6 - 334 -1 129 0 0 0 0 Commercial banks - 42 9 59 - 47 119 - 68 - 410 - 410 - 410 - 410 Other 456 - 270 87 - 85 48 - 561 0 - 500 - 500 - 500 External financing - 161 738 - 11 839 1 341 448 3 256 -1 759 -1 759 -1 759 Of which: Budgetary support - 950 1 311 2 053 4 216 4 579 Grants 3 607 … … … Drawings 720 … … … Paris Club rescheduling 129 0 0 0 HIPC Initiative 531 864 0 0 Financing gap 7 977 8 250 9 550 Financing gap (US$) 222 229 265 Haiti: Summary Balance of Payments Projections (in millions of U.S. dollars) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Current transactions account - 30 - 46 - 57 114 -1 67 - 12 - 222 - 267 - 307 Current transactions account (excluding grants) - 165 - 183 - 157 - 214 - 381 - 361 - 460 - 572 - 755 - 823 Trade balance - 708 - 783 - 833 - 850 -1 054 -1 086 -1 231 -1 392 -1 516 -1 602 Exports of goods 274 333 378 459 494 553 698 786 875 963 Of which: exports of assembly industry 221 278 320 397 435 491 631 713 795 877 Imports of goods - 983 -1 116 -1 211 -1 308 -1 548 -1 640 -1 929 -2 178 -2 391 -2 564 Of which: petroleum products - 157 - 196 - 218 - 313 - 397 - 400 - 450 - 467 - 473 - 486 Net services - 93 - 166 - 204 - 313 - 336 - 357 - 400 - 414 - 561 - 632 Credit 164 135 133 138 197 230 290 366 295 286 Debit - 256 - 301 - 337 - 452 - 533 - 587 - 690 - 780 - 856 - 918 Net revenue - 13 - 16 - 12 - 37 7 1 -4 2 12 22 Current transfers, net 784 918 993 1 313 1 382 1 509 1 623 1 582 1 797 1 905 Official transfers, net 135 137 100 328 380 428 448 350 488 516 Private transfers, net 649 781 893 985 1 002 1 081 1 175 1 232 1 309 1 389 Capital account and financial operations account - 42 27 89 - 58 88 90 89 93 141 144 Foreign direct investment 5 14 6 26 160 80 80 80 80 80 Net capital flows to public sector - 25 -3 - 10 31 51 23 43 50 98 103 Net flows from banking sector 3 - 47 29 - 76 - 83 - 13 - 34 - 37 - 38 - 39 Errors and omissions, net - 25 63 65 - 40 - 39 0 0 0 0 0 Overall balance - 72 - 19 33 56 88 157 77 - 129 - 127 - 163 Financing 72 19 - 33 - 56 - 88 - 157 - 77 - 93 - 102 - 103 Change in reserve assets 49 21 - 51 - 22 - 107 - 199 - 118 - 124 - 114 - 103 Change in liabilities -8 - 11 -2 9 10 21 23 23 12 0 Change in arrears 31 9 20 - 43 9 - 45 0 0 0 0 Other (incl. debt rescheduling and HIPC Initiative) 0 0 0 0 0 67 18 8 0 0 Financing gap 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222 229 265 Monetary Survey Projections (in millions of Gourdes) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Net foreign assets 8 421 13 475 12 683 18 630 24 000 30 493 35 866 41 660 47 775 54 147 Net domestic assets 28 808 38 553 44 078 49 660 51 091 51 895 54 737 59 016 63 503 67 771 Credit to public sector (excl. special accounts) 15 229 18 700 21 097 21 159 20 118 20 118 20 118 20 118 20 118 20 118 Credit to Central Administration 15 219 18 611 21 401 21 322 20 570 20 124 20 124 20 124 20 124 20 124 Other credit to public sector 10 89 - 303 - 163 - 452 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 Credit to private sector 14 512 19 365 21 142 25 609 27 019 28 399 31 241 35 520 39 778 43 845 Other items, net (incl. special accounts) - 932 488 1 839 2 892 3 955 3 378 3 378 3 378 3 607 3 808 M3 Aggregate – Broad money 37 229 52 028 56 761 68 290 75 091 82 388 90 602 100 677 111 278 121 918 Currency in circulation 6 652 8 443 8 685 10 547 11 159 12 018 12 982 14 285 15 630 16 905 Deposits 30 576 43 585 48 076 57 743 63 932 70 370 77 621 86 391 95 648 105 013 Deposits in Gourdes 16 810 21 903 25 824 28 292 31 533 33 962 36 685 40 369 44 168 47 773 Deposits in Dollars 13 766 21 683 22 252 29 451 32 399 36 408 40 936 46 022 51 480 57 241 COSTS TABLE BY PILLAR AND STRATEGY COSTS TABLE BY PILLAR AND STRATEGY FINANCING TO BE DSNCRP PIP 2007-2008 PILLAR SOUGHT 3 YEARS 1 YEAR 2 YEARS PILLAR 1: GROWTH VECTORS AGRICULTURE 17,880,000,000 2,261,222,620 15,618,777,380 TOURISM 1,402,590,000 72,000,000 1,330,590,000 COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 416,373,000 258,141,600 158,231,400 INFRASTRUCTURE 58,559,763,800 20,174,479,981 38,385,283,819 TOTAL PILLAR 1 78,258,726,800 22,765,844,201 55,492,882,599 PILLAR 2: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES EDUCATION AND TRAINING 21,132,555,925 1,342,996,776 19,789,559,149 HEALTH 7,641,000,000 264,237,896 7,376,762,104 WATER AND SANITATION 4,264,000,000 4,026,938,290 237,061,710 TOTAL PILLAR 2 33,037,555,925 5,634,172,962 27,403,382,963 PILLAR 3: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY ACCORDED TO JUSTICE AND SECURITY JUSTICE 6,089,000,000 2,400,000,000 3,689,000,000 SECURITY 5,027,000,000 602,515,456 4,424,584,544 NEAR-AT-HAND GOVERNANCE 1,219,600,000 68,000,000 1,151,600,000 TOTAL PILLAR 3 12,335,600,000 3,070,515,456 9,265,084,544 TARGETED AND CROSS-CUTTING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOOD SECURITY 93,000,000 42,000,000 51,000,000 GENDER EQUITY 1,279,054,795 41,000,000 1,238,054,795 ENVIRONMENT 5,582,000,000 1,367,889,304 4,214,110,696 SOCIAL PROTECTION 1,518,000,000 95,000,000 1,423,000,000 CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION 1,752,020,000 108,320,000 1,643,700,000 URBAN DEVELOPMENT 1,596,000,000 N.A. 1,596,000,000 TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT 15,765,000,000 5,173,106,895 10,591,893,105 RISKS AND DISASTERS 69,800,000 329,750,134 (259,950,134) STATE CAPACITY BUILDING 3,129,200,000 N.A. INCENTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORT OF PRIVATE SECTOR 110,300,000 N.A. TOTAL CROSS-CUTTING POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 30,894,374,795 7,157,066,333 20,497,808,462 TOTAL 154,526,257,520 38,627,598,953 115,889,658,567 $3,863,156,438 SCHEMA OF INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING Office of the President of the Republic National Investment Commission (CNI) BPM Development Priority partners Arbitration • Private Committee sector • Terri- torial govern- MPCE MEF ments via MICT • Aid agencies • NGOs, etc. MONITORING INDICATORS TABLES Table 1: CORE INDICATORS BY OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE INDICATOR Type of indicator Frequency Data source Lay the groundwork for Specific breakdown; Survey of good economic governance users of public services; and modernization of the CWIQ; Transparency State International Rule of law indicator Performance Short-term Corruption perception index Performance Short-term Representation of women at various levels (elective and appointed offices) Performance Short-term Proportion of official development assistance (ODA) devoted to priority sectors Performance Short-term Public expenditure committed as % of GDP Input Short-term Introduce a decentralized and participatory partnership with a view to facilitating territorial governments’ access to CWIQ; investment resources while 123 Survey; building managerial ECVH; capacities at the local level Environmental statistics Public expenditure committed as % of GDP Input Short-term Index ranking communes in respect of basic socio- economic infrastructures Impact Long-term Proportion of managed forest zones Impact Long-term Percentage of households using solid fuels (wood and charcoal) Performance Short-term Renewed economic growth IHSI, BRH, and MEF Exports/GDP ratio Performance Short-term Foreign domestic investment growth rate Performance Short-term Ranking of investment climate Performance Short-term Average cost of creating a new business Performance Short-term Annual survey of basic socioeconomic infrastructure; Substantially rebuild the CWIQ; 123 Survey; EMMUS; human capital stock ECVH Public expenditure committed as % of GDP Input Short-term Prevalence rate of modern contraceptive use Performance Short-term Percentage of Commune-level Health Units (UCS) offering a minimum package of services Performance Short-term Infant/child mortality rate Impact Long-term Proportion of women receiving a prenatal consultation Performance Short-term Proportion of population with sustained access to basic drugs at an affordable cost Performance Short-term Gross enrollment ratio, secondary school Performance Short-term Percentage of students passing official examinations Performance Short-term Index of access to running water Outcome Short-term Index of access to basic sanitation services Outcome Short-term Table 2: CORE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Area of action Indicator Type of indicator Frequency Data source Proportion of population living on less than one PPP dollar per day at the national level (incidence of extreme Income poverty poverty) Impact Long-term ECVH; EBCM; UNDP Proportion of population living on less than two PPP dollars per day at the national level (incidence of poverty) Impact Long-term State Budget; Ministry of Education; State Secretariat Education for Literacy Training Education budget as % of total State budget Input Short-term Gross enrollment ratio, primary school Performance Medium-term Adult literacy rate, both sexes Performance Medium-term State Budget; MSPP, and Health EMMUS Health budget as % of total State budget Input Short-term Maternal mortality rate per 100, 000 live births (per 10,000) Impact Medium-term Infant mortality rate (per mil) Impact Medium-term Environment, Water, Sanitation, and Infrastructure EBCM; MTPTC, CAMEP Share of budget devoted to basic infrastructure Input Short-term Proportion of population with access to drinking water (urban and rural areas) Outcome Medium-term Kilometers of roads built Outcome Short-term Agriculture IHSI; MADRN Share of budget allocated to agriculture Input Short-term Weight of agriculture in GDP Performance Medium-term Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization Territorial Government % of public expenditure at subnational government level Input Short-term Quantity of public services provided by subnational governments Outcome Short-term Employment 123 Survey Number of permanent jobs created Performance Medium-term Participation of women Girl/boy (female/male) ratio in primary, secondary, and higher education Performance Medium-term Ministry of Education % of women entrepreneurs Performance Medium-term PNH; Transparency International; Governance/ Corruption State Budgets; World Bank Share of annual budget for Justice by comparison with State budget Input Short-term Number of corruption cases sanctioned by law Performance Short-term Macroeconomy IHSI; MEF; BRH Annual GDP growth rate Performance Short-term Real interest rate Climate Short-term Private investment rate Performance Short-term Public investment rate Performance Short-term

ANNEX II Detailed Matrix of Policy Actions of DSNCRP English Translation of Official Original Document in French HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH 1. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To promote the modern practice of agriculture as a creator of wealth and respecter of the environment, with the aim of achieving food security for all and improving the standard of living of farmers Actions Amount Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To strengthen the institutional capacity of the agricultural sector (see attached PEMFAR) Capacity building 300,000,000 Subtotal - Objective 1 300,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To promote sustainable agriculture and improved land management Rehabilitation and protection of watersheds, and 2007 to 2010 8,000,000,000 Improved and protected water sources and High-priority watersheds Ministry of Agriculture, Natural improvement of land management drainage basins with better plant cover / rehabilitated and protected Resources, and Rural Development Protected economic support infrastructure // (MARNDR) Lower mortality Elaboration of a management plan for each of 13 2007 to 2010 23,000,000 Reduced flood risk 13 management plans for high- MARNDR high-priority watersheds priority watersheds completed Strengthening of security of land tenure, reduction 2007 and 2008 5,000,000 Reallocation and improved management of Instituting of a system for MARNDR of absentee landownership, and search for land arable land monitoring and evaluating arable uses that will ensure sustainable development land Development of an agricultural management plan 2007 to 2009 10,000,000 Control and reduction of risk Agricultural management plan MARNDR based on risk mapping completed Dredging and reprofiling of high-priority riverbeds 2007 to 2010 800,000,000 Increased volumes of water available for Dredging and reprofiling of MARNDR and major drainage canals irrigation riverbeds and canals completed Development of a framework for the management 2007 and 2008 1,000,000 Improved management for development of the Five- and ten-year framework MARNDR of the agricultural sector agricultural sector legislation for the agricultural sector developed and disseminated Development of an agricultural land reform 2008 to 2009 1,000,000 Settlement of land disputes Draft legislation prepared MARNDR scheme Subtotal - Objective 2 8,840,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To relaunch agricultural production Promotion of different categories of agricultural 2007 and 2008 1,400,000,000 Establishment of an information and reference Producers' associations set up, MARNDR production center concerned with agriculture and concerned with different categories of agricultural production categories of agricultural production Provision of fresh capital to rural dwellers 2007 to 2009 1,500,000,000 Increased lending to rural dwellers A rural and farm credit institution MARNDR and the Office of the Prime established Minister Promotion of livestock raising 2007 to 2010 300,000,000 Increased incomes for rural dwellers Agricultural production developed MARNDR in the area of livestock raising Development and implementation of a health 2007 to 2010 80,000,000 Expansion of programs to combat plant and Plant and animal health control MARNDR protection system animal pests and diseases network set up and operational Subtotal - Objective 3 3,280,000,000 Page 3 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To modernize basic agricultural infrastructure in rural areas Rehabilitation and upgrading of water 2007 to 2010 2,700,000,000 Maximum exploitation of irrigation systems MARNDR Existing irrigation systems infrastructure rehabilitated and upgraded, and Upgrading of water storage infrastructure 2007 and 2008 1,000,000,000 Reduction of water shortfall new systems built / MARNDR Identification of target areas for installing cisterns 2007 to 2010 Establishment of catchment MARNDR ponds and cisterns Rehabilitation of roads in farm areas 2007 to 2010 150,000,000 Improved means of getting products to market, Farm roads built MARNDR and lower transport costs Upgrading of basic agricultural infrastructure in 2007 to 2010 300,000,000 Improvement of living conditions in rural areas Community-based support MARNDR rural areas structures for farm infrastructure operational Subtotal - Objective 4 4,150,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To promote fishing and aquaculture Actions Fiscal years Amount of resources Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Development of maritime fishing 2007 to 2010 180,000,000 Promotion and strengthening of fishermen's Preferential granting of credit for MARNDR cooperatives and associations the purchase of tools and equipment Development of aquaculture 2007 to 2010 15,000,000 Diversification of sources of income in rural Increased production; greater MARNDR areas / Improvement in diet access to high-protein foods Subtotal - Objective 5 195,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: To encourage the development of agricultural and food-processing industries Training in food science and food technology 2007 to 2010 50,000,000 Facilities established for setting up farms, Entrepreneurs trained in setting MARNDR agricultural enterprises, and processing firms up farms, agricultural enterprises, and processing firms Promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises 2007 to 2010 400,000,000 Value assessment of processed agricultural Processing and preserving MARNDR for processing agricultural products in rural and products entities created urban areas Subtotal - Objective 6 450,000,000 Page 4 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: To promote a new marketing strategy Setting up and organization of marketing channels 2007 to 2010 300,000,000 Higher incomes for producers Greater availability of agricultural MARNDR for agricultural products products on the market Development of a business information system to 2007 to 2010 15,000,000 Better price information in the hands of A business information and MARNDR keep producers better informed of price changes producers communication system on both the domestic and international markets developed and implemented Improvement and standardization of high-end 2007 to 2010 15,000,000 Improved position of the country on Quality of Haiti's products MARNDR products, to position us better on both the international markets improved domestic and international markets Development and implementation of a formal 2007 to 2010 15,000,000 Certification of the Haitian national laboratory Operating capacity of the Haitian MARNDR framework of regulations and standards for by international authorities national laboratory strengthened agricultural products, consistent with the regulations and standards of international markets Granting of loans (especially to women) for 2007 to 2010 120,000,000 Raising families' living standards Better cash flow MARNDR marketing agricultural products Subtotal - Objective 7 465,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: To establish infrastructure to support agricultural production Promotion of research and training in the area of 2007 to 2010 120,000,000 Active involvement on the part of university Research and training centers MARNDR agriculture institutions in research and training reestablished and given new impetus Relaunching of the government's agricultural 2007 to 2010 80,000,000 Generation of new techniques, and response Information and reference MARNDR extension services to producers' needs centers on food crops and fruits rehabilitated Subtotal - Objective 8 200,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - AGRICULTURE 17,880,000,000 Page 5 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH 2. TOURISM GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To make tourism an engine of sustainable development, for the direct benefit of the general population SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To provide for good governance in the sector Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Amount Source Establishment of Tourist Reception Centers and 256,940,000 Better coordination of tourism activities Regional offices established and regional tourism offices 2007 to 2010 operational Ministry of Tourism (MT) Strengthening of the public-private partnership / international cooperation Partnership established MT Setting up of regional bureaus 88,000,000 Regional bureaus set up MT Upgrading of the information management system / New information and communication technologies (NICTs) Improved access to information Database operational Subtotal - Objective 1 344,940,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To develop tourism across a broad area Obtaining of maximum benefit from the four zones 2007 to 2009 807,650,000 Development of the zones / Strengthening of Infrastructure and services linked MT identified in the Tourism Master Plan (PDT) by tourism activities to tourism giving them priority for investment Number of jobs created Income generated Tourist promotion activities focusing on 2007 to 2010 50,000,000 Tourism activities developed Number of tourists visiting MT destinations in the local vicinity Promotion of Haitian culture destinations in the local vicinity Tourist promotion activities focusing on Haitian 2007 to 2010 50,000,000 Number of tourists visiting the expatriates country Number of direct and indirect MT jobs Income generated Amount of foreign-exchange income derived from tourism Fostering of a tourism development impetus on a 2007 to 2009 50,000,000 Having the general population receive its share Number of visitors to different MT regional, decentralized basis of the benefits resulting from the development regions of tourism Development of a system to support tourism 2007 to 2010 100,000,000 Development of activities linked to tourism Jobs created MT activities of a local nature: local crafts, local dishes, accommodations, guided tours Wealth creation Income generated Number of tourists Subtotal - Objective 2 1,057,650,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - TOURISM 1,402,590,000 Page 6 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH 3. TRADE, COMMERCE, AND INDUSTRY GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To make trade, commerce and industry engines of sustainable development, for the direct benefit of the general population SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To give impetus to efforts to encourage private investment Actions Fiscal Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency years Amount Source Investment facilitation 60,000,000 Simplification of the procedure for setting up a Number of applications Ministry of Trade, Commerce, and company processed Industry (MCI) / Investment Facilitation Simplification of procedures for processing Center (CFI) applications for incentives Development and implementation of a national 20,000,000 Relaunching of activities Frame of reference drafted MCI / CFI / Ministry of Planning and investment strategy External Cooperation (MPCE) / Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) Implementation of an economic and commercial 15,000,000 Better decision-making An operational information MCI / CFI information system system Subtotal - Objective 1 95,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To promote regional economic integration Establishment of agencies to support production 138,146,000 Development and promotion of domestic Joint agencies established MCI and promotion efforts production of goods and services Implementation of the integrated framework Strengthening and giving of impetus to Commercial Code revised MCI commercial activities Fruits and vegetables subsector MCI developed Subtotal - Objective 2 138,146,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To regain lost market share Investment promotion 50,000,000 Better positioning of Haiti in the world Level of investment MCI marketplace Improved trade balance Market share recovered at the local level New markets conquered GDP strengthened Diversification of exports 105,227,000 Improved trade balance Level of exports MCI Trade balance Amount of tax revenues Subtotal - Objective 3 155,227,000 Page 7 HAITI. 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VECTORS OF GROWTH SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To relaunch light industry Implementation of mechanisms for the HOPE Act Technical and institutional strengthening of the HOPE Act visa system MCI MCI documented Stimulation of demand directed to Haiti A sound management structure for visa issuance put in place Investments mobilized Joint committee for HOPE Act implementation set up Number of jobs created Subtotal - Objective 4 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To promote direct investment by foreign and domestic investors Actions Fiscal Resources Output Outcome Executing years Amount Source indicators indicators agency 8,000,000 Information system operational Operationalization of the information and Ratio of free zone licenses and operational appropriate technology system (CFI - Free Zone status Directorate) Jobs created MCI 12,000,000 Number of permits for free zone Promotion of free zone enterprises Improved production enterprises MCI 20,000,000 Wealth creation SME criteria defined Types of incentives defined Targeted subsectors identified Giving of impetus to SMEs Number of permits issued MCI Subtotal - Objective 5 28,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - TRADE, COMMERCE, AND INDUSTRY 416,373,000 Page 8 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH 4. INFRASTRUCTURE GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To improve the general population’s access to basic services and infrastructure as a vector of development TRANSPORT SECTOR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To strengthen the sector’s institutional capacity (see attached PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To reconcile trade-offs between regions, and constraints associated with decentralization Actions to combat poverty: 8,000,000,000 Rural and urban areas brought closer together Urban roads rehabilitated (km) Rehabilitation of urban and rural roads Transport links for people and goods improved Rural roads rehabilitated or Ministry of Public Works, Transport, and maintained (km) Communications (MTPTC) Subtotal - Objective 2 8,000,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To bring services to citizens, and to make essential services accessible to those users at risk of exclusion Actions Fiscal Resources Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing years agency Disaster prevention strategies: 2,000,000,000 Inhabitants of areas at risk less vulnerable Remediation work carried out in drainage, sanitation, ravine remediation, during rainstorms; embankments and ravines targeted areas embankment protection, drainage network stabilized maintenance MTPTC Consensus building: intervention on local festival Proportion of evacuation routes needing debris Fundamental, heavily labor- days (Ministry of the Interior and Local and silt cleared reduced intensive jobs created, requiring Communities (MICT)), and intervention in the form a level of participation by women of remediation efforts in fragile areas Actions to support economic growth: 8,243,763,800 Travel between departments made faster and National roads rehabilitated (km) cheaper – Rehabilitation of national roads Roads between regions MTPTC rehabilitated (km) – Rehabilitation and maintenance of roads that National transport links assured, through MTPTC support agriculture and tourism maintenance of essential infrastructure – Maintenance of bridges nationwide Regions having a strong tourism and Bridges rehabilitated MTPTC agricultural potential made more accessible Page 9 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH High-priority work for the MTPTC: 3,200,000,000 Level of access to basic services improved Maintenance work, management – Maintenance studies and works, and road MTPTC – Maintenance of the road system eligible for rehabilitation projects carried out funding under the Road Maintenance Fund (FER) – Rehabilitation – Expropriation fund – Upgrading of buildings housing departmental directorates – Studies: Urban planning – Studies and preparation of tender documents (roads) Rehabilitation of infrastructure in regions hit by 4,380,000,000 Essential services made accessible to those Fundamental, heavily labor- MTPTC natural disasters users at risk of exclusion intensive jobs created, requiring a level of participation by women Improvement of year-round access to 2007 to 2010 2,180,000,000 Isolated small and medium-sized communities Poor urban neighborhoods MTPTC infrastructure in marginal areas, particularly in assured reliable links assured a satisfactory level of slums and isolated regions service in terms of accessibility and security Subtotal - Objective 3 20,003,763,800 Page 10 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To promote the balanced, fair development of the transport system Solution of the mass transit crisis through 10,000,000 Management improved MTPTC improved demand management Development of appropriate transport 15,000,000 Development of regional potential promoted, Transport networks established MTPTC infrastructure networks integrated within a strategic and competitiveness of the Haitian economy which are coherent, and planning framework strengthened consistent with the potential that exists Haiti's national territory rebalanced thanks to Network revitalization and the emergence of large regional urban centers extension strategy implemented Existing infrastructure and the environment Master plans prepared for safeguarded infrastructure and transport systems Revitalization of the road sector through a 2007 and 2008 12,000,000 Development of air and maritime transport Multimodal transport effectively MTPTC multimodal transport strategy integrating different facilitated through the revitalization of the road encouraged modes of transport and taking advantage of their sector respective advantages Implementation of a natural disaster warning and 2007 to 2009 14,000,000 Preparation of emergency plans for use in the General population informed of MTPTC protection system event of natural disasters, and mapping survey mitigation and protection of at-risk areas measures for dealing with risks or disasters Subtotal - Objective 4 51,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To encourage Haiti’s integration within the Caribbean area and within international trade Actions Fiscal years Resources Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Upgrading of the efficiency of Haiti's international 2007 to 2009 1,108,000,000 Emergence of safe, regulated maritime Efficiency of the port of Port-au- ports shipping trade in the Caribbean fostered by the Prince and other Haitian ports improvement of port capacity in Port-au-Prince improved and other Haitian ports Carrying out of large-scale airport development 2007 and 2008 82,000,000 Institutional capacity of air transport authorities Sound investment programs plans for Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien strengthened being carried out Regional integration efforts undertaken with the 4,700,000,000 Expansion of exports to the Dominican Completion of highway corridors Dominican Republic to develop the road system Republic, promotion of tourism, and in the short term (Cap- emergence of other commercial centers Haïtien–Ouanaminthe); in the outside Port-au-Prince facilitated medium term (Port-au- Prince–fonds Parisien–Malpasse), and in the long term (cross-country highway corridors) Incentives for international investors to set up 300,000,000 Investors and foreign firms attracted by the Port administration concessions businesses in Haiti country's economic conditions and security granted for the ports of Port-au- situation Prince and Cap-Haïtien. Subtotal - Objective 5 6,190,000,000 Subtotal - Roads 34,244,763,800 Page 11 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH ELECTRICITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: To assure control over investment and regulatory decisions Actions Fiscal years Resources Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Restructuring of the board of directors of the 2007 to 2009 2,000,000 Rules and procedures for public tendering in A Directorate of Urban Merchant MTPTC electric power utility Électricité d'Haïti (ÉDH) place and being applied Networks set up within the MTPTC Elaboration of a master plan for automating the 2007 and 2008 10,000,000 Master plan elaborated Optimum conditions established MTPTC-MEF-MPCE-MTPTC-ÉDH information system for transition from pervasive computing to distributed computing Subtotal - Objective 6 12,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: To ensure that revenues are sufficient to cover operating costs and capital expenditure Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Implementation of a balanced pricing system, 2007 to 2010 5,100,000,000 Social costs benefiting low-income users Quality and effectiveness of MTPTC-ÉDH-MEF consistent with levels of investment assumed services improved Improvement of the productivity of electric power 2007 to 2010 14,100,000,000 Current capacity increased Procurement of equipment that ÉDH-MTPTC-MEF generating stations [1] will keep the cost of buying oil to a minimum Expansion and rehabilitation of HT/MT/LT 2007 to 2010 4,214,200,000 Production facilities and transport ÉDH-MTPTC networks [2] works kept properly maintained Efforts to combat network losses and wastage 2007 to 2010 500,000,000 Ratio improved of electricity billed as a Number of unauthorized ÉDH-MTPTC-MJSP-PNH proportion of electricity generated electrical connections removed Establishing of additional locations for payment of 2007 to 2010 100,000,000 Additional locations established for customers Agreements concluded with ÉDH-MTPTC-MEF electric power bills to pay their electric power bills commercial banks in Haiti Subtotal - Objective 7 24,014,200,000 Page 12 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: To strengthen the partnership between the organizing authority and producers Resources Actions Fiscal years Amount Source Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Reform of the regulatory framework 2007 to 2010 5,400,000 Within a stable and clearly defined framework, (a) An appropriate institutional MTPTC-ÉDH-BME-MEF participation by the private sector in the electric framework within which electric power sector power policy can be implemented on both a collective and individual basis (b) Design of a satisfactory structure for the organizing authority, project managers, and producers Establishment of a policy for the electric power 2007 to 2010 5,400,000 Oversight of the various MTPTC-ÉDH sector that will permit participation by private- producers and managers sector groups performed by the MTPTC Subtotal - Objective 8 10,800,000 Subtotal - Electricity 24,037,000,000 Page 13 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH NATIONAL BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC WORKS LABORATORY (LNBTP) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 9: To strengthen the LNBTP (see attached PEMFAR) Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Provision of new equipment for the LNBTP 100,000,000 Services provided by the LNBTP improved The LNBTP provided with new LNBTP equipment Subtotal - Objective 9 100,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 10: Applied research Development of sources of aggregate, and 2007 and 2008 7,000,000 Most environmental risks associated with the An interagency framework that LNBTP management of environmental problems unregulated operation of quarries eliminated promotes the rational and sustainable extraction of aggregates Haitian aggregates promoted in the Aggregates extracted and international marketplace commercialized, in the necessary quantities and of the necessary quality Promotion of enterprises engaging in the extraction of aggregates, which are profitable and respect the environment Development of Haiti's national potential as a 2007 and 2008 18,000,000 Price of cement on local markets lowered In partnership with the Bureau of LNBTP cement producer Mines and Energy (BME), 12 small-scale cement plants established in different departments Promotion of an effective policy in regard to road surfacing Haitian cement competitive on the Caribbean and North American markets Page 14 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 1. VECTORS OF GROWTH Technical regulation of the market for building 2007 and 2008 15,000,000 Structures that are potentially safer as a result Directories made available of LNBTP materials of improved quality of building materials producers and suppliers of building materials Possibility of exporting local materials Strengthened regular inspection of inventories and output Geotechnical cartography of the country's main 2006 to 2009 60,000,000 Building rules elaborated LNBTP cities (a pilot project in partnership with the Faculty of Sciences (FDS) of the University of Haiti, the Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Unit (UTSIG), the BME, and the National Water Resources Service (SNRE)) 6,000,000 Natural resources developed Geotechnical maps of cities available Establishment of a National Highway System 18,000,000 Improvement in services provided National Highway System LNBTP Monitoring Center Monitoring Center set up and operational Establishment of a geological, geotechnical, and 2007 to 2009 30,000,000 Database online, with secured access Database accessible and LNBTP hydrometeorological database operational Study of the slipperiness of adoquin paving stones 2007 and 2008 5,000,000 Safety of users and local residents improved Study completed LNBTP Economic use made of local materials suitable for surfacing of secondary roads and city streets Reducing the vulnerability of the general 2007 and 2008 11,000,000 LNBTP population and of infrastructure to the risk of flooding Studies of the deformation of flexible pavement 2007 and 2008 8,000,000 Highway system upgraded Studies completed LNBTP structures used in the national highway system Subtotal - LNBTP 278,000,000 Total - Infrastructure 58,559,763,800 Page 15 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES 1. EDUCATION AND TRAINING GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To improve access to preschool, basic, and vocational education SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To strengthen institutional capacity in the sector (see attached PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To reorganize schooling for the benefit of poor students Actions Fiscal Resources Output Outcome Executing years indicators indicators agency Establishment and equipping of additional places 2007 to 2010 1,717,318,102 Increased capacity to accommodate pupils at Ministry of National Education and 31 preschool centers at the preschool level the preschool level Vocational Training (MENFP) accommodated under rebuilt arbors 17 preschool centers accommodated in rehabilitated churches 50 preschool centers built and equipped (23 in Artibonite, 15 in Grand Anse, and 12 in the southeast) Page 16 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES Establishment and equipping of additional places 2007 to 2010 4,004,632,688 Increased capacity to accommodate pupils at MENFP at the primary-school level the primary-school level 145 national schools built in 145 commune neighborhoods that previously had no public schools 81 public schools accommodated and equipped under rebuilt arbors 39 national schools accommodated and equipped in rehabilitated churches 298 national dual-purpose schools Two accelerated programs reviewed, with vocational training, teaching and learning methodology, and a system of government tests Tuition fees eliminated in public schools Subsidized textbooks, uniforms, and transport Program to raise young people's HIV/AIDS awareness put in place 6,200,000,000 School cafeterias established on a priority basis in 782 schools, with half of Haiti's total student enrollment (1 million students) Page 17 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES Rehabilitation and equipping of primary schools, 2008 to 2010 900,000,000 Upgrading of the physical conditions for 3,600 schools rehabilitated and MENFP particularly with electricity and safe drinking water learning, in the management of primary school provided with electricity and safe facilities drinking water Allocation of study grants to poor children in all 1,000,000,000 Improved access to education Payment of tuition fees and MENFP commune neighborhoods donations of teaching materials for 200,000 children in non-public (private and parochial) schools overseen by the ministry Reactivation of Agricultural Middle Schools (EMAs) 100,000,000 Strengthening of vocational training in 10 schools and training centers MENFP and Agricultural Vocational Training Centers agriculture rehabilitated and equipped (CFPAs) Teaching and training program revised Conversion of four non-public vocational training 80,000,000 Capacity-building of the four non-public Suitable training program MENFP centers into information and reference centers vocational centers implemented in the four centers Expansion of the dual-purpose system to other 2008 to 2010 1,000,000,000 Increased capacity to accommodate students Over 25 percent of schools in the MENFP schools, particularly in the cities system operating on a dual- purpose basis Revision of the two accelerated study programs (a 2007 to 2010 1,050,000,000 The classes established are equipped and 7,000 classes having more than MENFP three-year program and a four-year program) that operational one grade established in 3,500 include a vocational training component , on the target schools during the period basis of classes having more than one grade Improved capacity to accommodate students for academic education and vocational training Subtotal - Objective 2 16,051,950,790 Page 18 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To improve the quality of education by upgrading the qualifications of teachers and principals Accelerated training for teachers and principals 2008 to 2010 221,000,000 Overall school structure overhauled 2,625 student teachers trained MENFP Quality of teaching improved 400 principals trained Design and implementation of a structure for the 56,500,000 Quality of vocational teaching improved Structure for initial training and MENFP initial training and ongoing development of trainers ongoing development designed at the level of technical and vocational education and implemented Conversion of Normal Schools for Primary 51,000,000 Quality of teaching improved 51 ENIs converted into EFISs MENFP Teachers (ENIs) into Specialized Institutes for and CFCMs Initial Training (EFISs) and Centers for Ongoing Teacher Training (CFCMs) Transformation of District School Offices (BDSs) 200,000,000 Coordination and management of education BDSs transformed into structures MENFP into structures for coordinating and managing and training strengthened for coordinating and managing education and training across the school district education and training Widespread implementation of Model Basic 1,006,750,000 Access to education and quality of education 35 EFACAPs built in 2008 MENFP Schools / Education Support Centers (EFACAPs) improved 41 EFACAPs built in 2009 40 EFACAPs built in 2010 Strengthening of women's presence in primary- 2008 to 2010 10,000,000 Disparity between number of men and number 50 percent of primary-school MENFP school classrooms and in school administrations of women reduced teachers' posts and of school administrators' posts occupied by Women's decision-making capacity in the women Haitian education system strengthened Subtotal - Objective 3 1,545,250,000 Page 19 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To provide a proper support framework for schools, students, and parents Recruitment and assignment of pedagogical 2007 to 2010 5,000,000 Quality of education improved 180 pedagogical advisers MENFP advisers to different school departments recruited and assigned in 2008 180 pedagogical advisers recruited and assigned in 2009 68 pedagogical advisers recruited and assigned in 2010 Establishment of a vocational training component 500,000,000 Access to and quality of vocational training Third segment of primary school in the third segment of primary school education improved education (grades 7 to 9) (grades 7 to 9) in the EFACAPs operational in 116 EFACAPs Establishment of a mechanism to steer those who 2007 to 2010 5,000,000 School drop-out rates reduced Those who complete grade 6 are MENFP complete grade 6 to go on to the third segment of steered to go on to the third primary school education, and those who complete segment of primary school grade 9 to go on to vocational school education, and those who complete grade 9 are steered to go on to vocational school Implementation of the traditional stream in the new 2007 to 2010 500,000,000 Quality of education improved Traditional stream in the new MENFP secondary-school program secondary-school program set up in 30 public secondary schools Public and private secondary schools Traditional stream in the new implement the new secondary school program secondary-school program set up in 60 private schools Implementation of a communication mechanism 2007 to 2010 15,000,000 Better integration of students in the different Communication links between the MENFP between the secondary-school and vocational systems two systems established education systems Allocation of study grants to poor children in 950,000,000 Access to vocational training and the technical Study grants allocated to poor MENFP disadvantaged areas, geared toward vocational stream in the secondary-school program children in disadvantaged areas training and the technical stream in the secondary- strengthened school program Page 20 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES Launch of an adult literacy program 2007 to 2010 800,000,000 Ability of parents to assist their children 11.2 percent of women aged 19 MENFP to 30 years made literate Ability of parents to manage their own affairs 31.5 percent of women aged 31 strengthened to 35 years made literate 8.5 percent of men aged 19 to 30 years made literate 24.5 percent of men aged 31 to 35 years made literate 17 percent of rural women aged 19 to 30 years made literate 37 percent of rural women aged 31 to 35 years made literate Subtotal - Objective 4 2,775,000,000 Page 21 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To improve coordination among operators in the education sector Actions Fiscal Resources Output Outcome Executing years Amount Source indicators indicators agency Establishment of the National Office for 2007 to 2010 50,000,000 Synergy between the public and private The ONAPE set up and MENFP Partnership in Education (ONAPE) sectors strengthened operational Establishment of an education sector information 200,000,000 Improved consistency in education policy Information on the education MENFP system sector updated and accessible Establishment of a system to accredit and certify 2008 to 2009 15,000,000 Improved availability of information 30 technical specialists trained in MENFP private academic and vocational training schools accreditation work Accreditation and certification system operational Establishment of a computerized management 455,355,135 Computerized management MENFP information system within the National Vocational information system operational Training Institute (INFP), and strengthening of vocational training (including rehabilitation and building of facilities) Network system operational Design and implementation of a National 15,000,000 A CNQ designed and MENFP Qualifications Framework (CNQ) implemented Providing for participation by parents in the 2007 to 2010 5,000,000 School management improved School Management Committees MENFP education process (CGEs) set up and operational 85 percent of schools have a parents' council Subtotal - Objective 5 740,355,135 Page 22 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: To increase the government resources allocated to the education sector Actions Fiscal Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing years agency Formulation of a plan for the public sector 10,000,000 The education sector's capacity to intervene Financing plan formulated MENFP financing of education to support the strategic lines improved of action set forth in the DSNCRP Implementation, through the ONAPE, of subsidy 10,000,000 Financing programs put in place MENFP programs for public and private schools Subtotal - Objective 6 20,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - EDUCATION 21,132,555,925 2. HEALTH GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To promote a modern health system to which vulnerable groups have broad access SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To strengthen institutional capacity in the health sector (see attached PEMFAR) SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To rehabilitate, build, and equip health infrastructure Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency 2,000,000,000 Improved supply of health services Departmental hospitals Ministry of Public Health and Population Rehabilitation of departmental referral hospitals rehabilitated Activities (MSPP) Rehabilitation and/or construction of health centers 2007 to 2010 2,500,000,000 Health centers rehabilitated or MSPP having beds built Conversion of clinics into health centers 2007 to 2010 500,000,000 Minimum package of services offered Health centers operational MSPP Rehabilitation of specialized hospitals (Beudet 2007 to 2009 500,000,000 Specialized health care improved Specialized hospitals MSPP hospital, sanatorium, etc.) rehabilitated Establishment of a Radiation Therapy and 2007 and 2008 400,000,000 Availability of chemotherapy and radiation Center set up and operational MSPP Chemotherapy Center in Haiti therapy services improved 2007 and 2008 500,000,000 Disease prevention system improved Diagnosis centers set up and MSPP Establishment of additional diagnosis centers operational Subtotal - Objective 2 6,400,000,000 Page 23 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To strengthen Community Health Units Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Amount Source Drafting of a framework law for Community Health Framework law for UCSs drafted MSPP Units (UCSs) and a new organic law for the Ministry of Public Health and Population Activities 2007 to 2010 5,000,000 New organic law for the MSPP (MSPP) drafted 5,000,000 Institutional and organizational capacities Frame of reference for the strengthened establishment of UCSs Elaboration of a frame of reference for the elaborated establishment of UCSs MSPP Design of contractual mechanisms with partners 2,000,000 Contractual mechanisms involved in the process designed MSPP Subtotal - Objective 3 12,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To improve the management of high-priority illnesses Actions Fiscal Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing years agency Expanding the availability of STI screening 2007 to 2009 50,000,000 Access to screening and treatment for high- New screening centers set up MSPP priority illnesses increased and operational Decentralization to level 1 of follow-up on patients 20,000,000 Patients testing positive given MSPP testing positive antiretroviral treatment Strengthening of collaboration in taking charge of 16,000,000 Tuberculosis patients taken MSPP tuberculosis patients and persons living with HIV 44,000,000 charge of (PLWHIV) Tuberculosis information and prevention 50,000,000 Risk of infection reduced Awareness of the population MSPP raised Malaria and filariasis information and prevention 50,000,000 Risk of infection reduced Awareness of the population MSPP raised Addressing of malaria and filariasis 50,000,000 Infected population reduced Patients treated MSPP Zoonosis information and prevention 20,000,000 Risk of infection reduced Awareness of the population MSPP raised Subtotal - Objective 4 300,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To improve waste management in hospital environments Actions Fiscal Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing years agency Collection, holding, packing, and transport of waste 2007 to 2010 60,000,000 Risk of contamination being spread to the Waste collected according to a MSPP in accordance with regulations general population reduced regular schedule Risk of contamination being spread to soil and Waste packed in accordance with groundwater controlled regulations prior to transport Waste transported in accordance with established protocols Waste disposal 75,000,000 Waste disposed of in accordance MSPP with regulations Subtotal - Objective 5 135,000,000 Page 24 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: To guarantee the general population’s access to essential medicines Preparation of an official paper on national 6,000,000 Overhaul of the system for supplying and Pharmaceutical policy paper MSPP pharmaceutical policy, including essential distributing medicines validated medicines Access to medicines improved in terms of both Entry into force of legislation on quality and cost pharmacies and medicines Establishment of a system to supply essential 20,000,000 Access to essential medicines strengthened The Essential Medicines Program MSPP medicines under their international non-proprietary (PROMESS) converted into an names (INNs) to government health services and autonomous central purchasing charitable health facilities agency Criteria laid down for establishing local storage and supply points Supply and distribution chain designed Distribution system put in place and utilized Strengthening of pharmaceutical inspection and 22,000,000 Improved oversight of medicines Inspection and oversight services MSPP oversight services assessed and strengthened Quality control systems developed for medicines A quality control laboratory set up Improved access to appropriate essential 30,000,000 Access to essential medicines improved Prices adjusted MSPP medicines, at a cost that is standard and affordable Price control mechanisms developed (government health services and charitable health facilities) Generic medicines prescribed on a rational basis Subtotal - Objective 6 78,000,000 Page 25 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: To reduce the maternal mortality rate Strengthening of health facilities to ensure that 2007 to 2010 300,000,000 Percentage of targeted facilities visited by an Facilities strengthened MSPP pregnant women receive adequate prenatal, expert at the departmental level perinatal, and postnatal care, depending on their 10,000,000 Percentage of targeted facilities well provided level with supplies and equipment Percentage of prenatal clinics offered Mobile clinics operational Percentage of mobile clinics operational Percentage of health facilities having a protocol Training given in standards for for giving women prenatal care maternal care Strengthening of health facilities' capacity to 2007 to 2009 150,000,000 Percentage of community hospitals (HCRs) Health facilities staffed with MSPP handle obstetrical emergency cases and health centers with beds (CALs) that have qualified personnel: USAID proper staffing to be able to handle obstetrical obstetricians/gynecologists, UNICEF emergency cases generalists, anesthetists, nurses, nurse-midwives UNFPA PAHO / WHO Strengthening of epidemiological surveillance of 80,000,000 Percentage of HCRs and CALs that have a Maternal mortality surveillance MSPP cases of maternal death maternal mortality surveillance committee committees set up in every department Training of health facilities to provide quality care 2007 to 2010 88,000,000 Percentage of pregnant women admitted to Number of HCR and CAL staff MSPP for birth and the postpartum period give birth trained in each department Percentage of health facilities admitting women Maternity clinics, HCRs, and USAID to give birth CALs provided with supplies and equipment in every department Percentage of trainers of matrons trained, for MSPP regulations and standards UNICEF / IDB each health facility for admitting pregnant women to give birth disseminated Subtotal - Objective 7 628,000,000 Page 26 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: To increase the rate of contraceptive use Strengthening of health facilities' capacity to 88,000,000 Array of methods offered by each health facility Number of targeted health MSPP provide family planning services and in each department improved facilities that have trained staff Number of health facilities in each department that offer modern family planning methods Number of providers of contraceptive information and technology, including the necklace method (SDM), trained or retrained Subtotal - Objective 8 88,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - HEALTH 7,641,000,000 3. SAFE DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To improve access to hygiene and sanitation services and to safe drinking water supplies, assuring quality and low cost for the community SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To restructure the Ministry of Public Works, Transport, and Communications (MTPTC) so that it can take on the role of regulator for the sector (see attached PEMFAR matrix) Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Establishment of Regional Water and Sanitation 2009 to 2010 60,000,000 Draft legislation establishing the OREPAs' Responsibility for managing MTPTC / MSPP Boards (OREPAs) duties and responsibilities, governing water and sanitation systems and provisions, organizational structure, and undertaking new projects in this operating procedures prepared and submitted area transferred to the to Parliament communes Capital spending projects and budgets reallocated to the OREPAs Establishment of a Water and Sanitation 50,000,000 Rates policy established The communes (or entities MTPTC / MSPP Directorate within the MTPTC established by groups of communes) serve as project managers for their own safe drinking water systems Criteria to be met by the communes (or by Private operators accepted as entities established by groups of communes) system managers established Criteria and conditions to be met by operators established Elaboration of master plans 2007 to 2009 26,000,000 Systems with deficiencies rehabilitated Master plan for safe drinking MTPTC / MSPP water supply updated Feasibility of a high-priority development project Subtotal - Objective 1 136,000,000 Page 27 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 2. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – PRIORITY FOR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To ensure that revenues are sufficient to cover operating costs and capital expenditure Establishment of a balanced pricing system, 2008 to 2009 10,000,000 Quality and efficiency of services improved Some social costs subsidized, to MTPTC / MSPP consistent with planned capital investment benefit low-income users Strengthening of the operating capacity of the Port- 2007 to 2009 50,000,000 Transition period used to good advantage to Operating capacity of the CAMEP au-Prince Metropolitan Water Authority (CAMEP) harmonize operators' methods and instruments and the SNEP strengthened and the National Water Authority (SNEP), pending the start-up of the OREPAs Rapid improvement of the CAMEP's and the Needed equipment purchased SNEP's management capacity and performance capabilities Subtotal - Objective 2 60,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To provide basic services for people living in shantytowns and for low-income people in rural areas Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Rehabilitation, upgrading, and construction of 2007 to 2010 2,000,000,000 Incidence of waterborne diseases reduced Cities and neighborhoods served water supply and sanitation infrastructure in rural by the water supply system and urban areas Incidence of malaria reduced MTPTC / MSPP Wastewater works 2007 to 2010 18,000,000 Wastewater from hospitals, hotels and Ditches cleaned up restaurants, factories, businesses, and Insect breeding grounds households treated destroyed MTPTC / MSPP Rehabilitation of hygiene and sanitation services 2007 and 2008 50,000,000 General population educated about hygiene General use made of a broad MTPTC / MSPP and sanitation, and awareness raised on the scale of insecticide-treated subject mosquito netting Collection of household garbage 2,000,000,000 Environment improved Quantities of household garbage collected and destroyed Subtotal - Objective 3 4,068,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - safe drinking WATER AND SANITATION 4,264,000,000 Page 28 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY 1. JUSTICE GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To provide an environment that will foster rapid, sustainable development through a justice system that is accessible, credible, efficient, and competent, with a civil state which recognizes every citizen as possessing a personal identity that guarantees the citizen’s existence in law SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To restructure and reorganize the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety (MJSP), to equip it to take the lead in implementing the Strategic Plan for Justice Reform and to take ownership of the reform process in harmony with other players in the justice sector and civil society as key partners Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Adoption of a new organic law for the MJSP 2007 to 2009 A new organizational structure for the MJSP Draft organic law submitted as a MJSP / Parliament / Cabinet put in place, with the specific aim of improving proposal to the Cabinet how the ministry is organized and improving its Draft organic law submitted by effectiveness the executive branch of government to the legislative branch New organic law adopted Action plan put in place for implementing the new organic law New units created within the MJSP New positions created New regional directorates created, as required Validation of the strategic framework for justice 2007 and 2008 Strategic Plan for Justice Reform developed Strategic Plan for Justice Reform MJSP reform, and setting up of a working group for the and implemented Paper prepared; plans, work supervision and implementation of the Strategic schedules, and projects Plan for Justice Reform within the framework of the developed DSNCRP • Capacity building of the MJSP, with the support 2007 and 2008 Increased efficiency of the MJSP's directorates, Terms of reference drawn up; of technical consultants thanks to specialized technical assistance number of technical consultants 120,000,000 to be recruited determined • Strengthening of the Studies and Programming 2007 and 2008 Increased efficiency of the UEP Number of plans developed; Unit (UEP) 60,000,000 number of work schedules developed Number of projects developed Setting up of a working group for the supervision 2007 and 2008 Increased efficiency of the MJSP's PEMFAR High-priority Justice and implementation of the PEMFAR Administrative Directorate in the areas of Action Plan developed and budget and finance implemented Page 29 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY MJSP Courts supervised to ensure that proper Consolidation of the MJSP's Judicial Inspection discipline is exercised and that they run Useful, relevant judicial statistics Service smoothly collected and updated Judges and other players in the justice sector Number of staff inspectors trained 2007 and 2008 50,000,000 made accountable and in active service Number of cases and situations Discipline by judges in public prosecutors' recorded, and recommendations Follow-up on MJSP circulars offices made Consolidation of the statistical service Increased court effectiveness Implementation of a system to facilitate access to Access to information using MJSP legal information 30,000,000 information technology and the Greater availability of legal information and Internet 2007 and 2008 reference texts Number of reference texts distributed or made accessible Adoption of an organic law for the National Organic law adopted by MJSP A new organizational structure for the ONI put Identification Office (ONI) Parliament in place; the ONI reorganized and made more efficient 2007 to 2009 400,000,000 A personal identification document made New units created within the ONI Evaluation of resource requirements accessible to everyone New regional directorates created Training of staff as needed Number of National Identification Cards (NICs) distributed Increase in the percentage of citizens possessing an identification document Reform and restructuring of the Vital Statistics A reform document prepared and adopted; an Analysis and necessary studies Registry, with the aim of overhauling the Registry to action plan for implementing the reform completed; draft legislation make it reliable, secure, and accessible to adopted prepared; law adopted by everyone, especially the very poor Parliament; implementing 2007 to 2009 60,000,000 provisions drafted, approved, and brought into effect Closer, regular liaison between the MJSP and MJSP Number of consultations held civil society in regard to the Strategic Plan for (colloquia, seminars, Justice Reform and its implementation conferences) 2007 and 2008 30,000,000 Number of partnerships Capacity-building of the MJSP aimed at fostering established citizen participation in the justice sector and promoting efforts in consultation and partnership Number of cooperation projects with civil society developed Subtotal - Objective 1 750,000,000 Page 30 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To strengthen the judicial branch of government Consolidation of the independence of the judiciary 2007 to 2010 600,000,000 Adoption by Parliament of the MJSP / CSPJ Law on the Status of Judges, the Law on the Higher Council of the Judicial Branch (CSPJ), and the Law on the Judges' College Improvement of the status of judges Judges' working conditions, training, and Adoption of an action plan for salaries improved implementing the provisions of the new legal framework Adoption of legislation on the status of judges Dignity restored to the position of judge Percentage increase in judges' salaries Improvement of judges' salaries, benefits, and working conditions Setting up of the Higher Council of the Judicial 2007 to 2010 30,000,000 Increased oversight of judges' discipline and The CSPJ established and made MJSP / CSPJ Branch (CSPJ) ethics operational More effective combating of judicial corruption Number of complaints processed Better management of judges' service records Number of judges' dossiers handled Court operating costs more efficiently managed Number of cases where judges' by the CSPJ appointments are terminated or not renewed because of corruption Number of cases where judges are promoted System implemented for the allocation of courts' operating costs by the CSPJ Page 31 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Reopening and strengthening of the Judges' 2007 and 2008 200,000,000 Initial training for judges, and continuing trainingJudges' College fully operational MJSP College (ÉMA) for all players in the justice sector Number of continuing training programs provided to players in the justice sector Number of judges receiving initial training Strengthening of judicial oversight bodies and 2007 to 2009 50,000,000 Increased oversight of judges' discipline and Number of inspectors recruited MJSP / CSPJ mechanisms ethics and trained Judiciary More effective combating of corruption in the Number of complaints processed judiciary Establishment of a Judicial Inspection Service Number of judges' dossiers within the CSPJ handled Setting up of a process to certify judges and public Number of judges and public officers officers certified Number of cases where judges' appointments are terminated or not renewed because of corruption or unethical behavior Subtotal - Objective 2 880,000,000 Page 32 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To facilitate access to the courts and improve their effectiveness Gradual extension of the justice system throughout 2007 to 2010 600,000,000 Improved nationwide coverage of the justice Number of newly established MJSP the country, by facilitating access to it system magistrates' courts, courts of first instance, and appeal courts Distance reduced between citizens and courts Number of existing courts remodeled or rebuilt Level of satisfaction of those having dealings Provision of facilities and supplies with the courts to support the courts' operations Improvement of the administration of justice by making services available over a broader geographical area, bringing them closer to citizens, and making them more efficient Improvement of working conditions of players in the justice sector Improved quality of service to those having dealings with the courts Establishment of Legal Aid Offices (BALs), Justice 2007 to 2009 60,000,000 Provision of justice information and services Number of BALs established MJSP Houses in areas at risk, and Justice Liaison and legal aid to the neediest and most Centers in remote areas disadvantaged of the population Number of Justice Houses established Number of Justice Liaison Centers established Number of lawyers and trainees involved Number of bar associations involved Number of needy persons informed of their rights Number of needy persons who receive legal aid Number of persons in custody or being charged who receive assistance Establishment of itinerant courts 2007 to 2010 175,000,000 Improved access to magistrate's court for those Number of judges assigned to MJSP needing to have dealings with the courts itinerant courts, and number of such courts operational Number of communities served Page 33 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Expansion of access to legal information and broad 2007 and 2008 20,000,000 Stronger administration of justice Number of subscriptions MJSP dissemination of legal texts maintained Number of codes distributed Number of jurisprudence decisions published Revision and updating of the chronological index of legislation and repealed legislation Website set up Protection of witnesses and victims 2007 to 2009 160,000,000 More effective administration of justice Number of sensitive trials MJSP involving impunity, corruption, or major crimes Stronger combating of impunity and corruption Number of additional witnesses in connection with sensitive cases Improved administration of justice Number of victims receiving compensation Establishment of a functional criminal prosecution 2007 to 2009 130,000,000 Type and number of measures MJSP process, with proper linkages between elements of Improved administration of justice taken the justice system and the police Number of training programs conducted Improved institutional cooperation between the justice system and the police Number of investigations Improved judicial investigations conducted Number of dossiers completed Number of sensitive trials involving impunity, corruption, or drug or arms trafficking Page 34 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Combating of preventive detention for extended 2007 to 2009 245,000,000 Stronger oversight of the administration of Number of dossiers handled by MJSP periods, and of prison overcrowding justice and of prisons prosecutors and courts Monitoring of the rigorous application of penal procedure provisions by judges Monitoring of sentences Increase in the rate at which dossiers are handled by the justice system Increase in the annual caseload, by court and by judge Reduction in preventive detention for extended periods Setting up of task forces or special courts to mount 2007 to 2010 84,000,000 Security situation strengthened and improved Frequency and quality of MJSP an effective effort against corruption, drug interventions conducted in the trafficking, organized crime, gang activities, field transnational crime, and impunity Improved institutional coordination Number of task forces set up Number of special courts established Number of cases handled Number of trials conducted Establishment of a justice system to protect minors 2007 to 2009 75,000,000 Improved application of the law and of Number of special courts and/or who have committed offenses international treaties for the benefit of minors children's courts established in the country Increased protection for minors who have committed offenses Improved control of juvenile delinquency Subtotal - Objective 3 1,549,000,000 Page 35 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: To improve prison conditions and prison management procedures Construction and rehabilitation of physical 2007 to 2010 2,000,000,000 Improvement of conditions of incarceration Number of physical infrastructure MJSP infrastructure works works built and/or rehabilitated Amount of space per prisoner Relations with the justice system 2007 to 2010 Improved institutional cooperation Proportion of persons held in MJSP preventive detention for extended periods Improvement in the situation of persons held in Number of prisoners held in preventive detention for extended periods preventive detention who are brought before the courts Proportion of hearing dates postponed Improvement of prison management practices 2007 to 2009 120,000,000 Management capacity building for prison Administrative procedures MJSP administrators adopted and implemented Prisons made more secure Number of prisoners for whom judgments have been issued increased Quality of food improved Kinds of health care provided Number of escapes reduced Prisoners resocialized and enabled to rejoin the Number of prisoners reeducated MJSP Education and rehabilitation of prisoners 2007 to 2010 400,000,000 labor force and rehabilitated Number of guards and MJSP Training of staff 2007 to 2010 200,000,000 Quality of service improved professional staff trained Subtotal - Objective 4 2,720,000,000.0 Page 36 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: To modernize legislation Setting up of a working group to prepare draft 2007 to 2009 50,000,000 Improved administration of justice Draft legislation prepared MJSP legislation on oversight of the justice system, Reduction of the problem of people being held Adoption of legislation by alternative sentencing, and parole in preventive detention for extended periods Parliament Setting up of a working group to examine 2007 to 2009 60,000,000 Improved administration of justice Draft legislation prepared MJSP conditions under which justices of the peace would no longer have the status of judicial police officer, with a view to their being transferred to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) of the Haitian National Police (PNH) Reduction of the problem of people being held Adoption of legislation by in preventive detention for extended periods Parliament Preparation of an inventory of international 2007 to 2009 5,000,000 Ratification by Haiti of conventions recorded on Number of international MJSP conventions on justice already ratified or still to be the inventory conventions not yet ratified by ratified by Haiti, and an assessment of those Haiti, which are ratified and conventions incorporated into domestic law Preparation of terms of reference for five 2007 to 2009 60,000,000 An appropriate analysis carried out; suitable Terms of reference prepared and MJSP interdisciplinary working groups to examine ways to reform proposals drafted five working groups set up and simplify legislation concerning criminal made operational; number of investigations and the Penal Code studies; number of reports; number of recommendations Consultation with civil society concerning the 2007 to 2010 5,000,000.0 MJSP modernization of legislation An appropriate analysis carried out Number of seminars organized Number of individuals and Suitable reform proposals drafted organizations consulted Setting up of a working group to identify priorities 2007 to 2010 10,000,000.0 Draft legislation on ownership of real property, Working group set up; legislation MJSP for the revision of the Civil Code and the Code of co-ownership, and real estate advertising adopted by Parliament Civil Procedure prepared and adopted Subtotal - Objective 5 190,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL - JUSTICE 6,089,000,000 2. SECURITY GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To assure the security of individuals, their possessions, and their means of earning a living SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To combat rampant insecurity by means of firm action Actions Years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Fostering of a security synergy among the general 2007 and 2008 75,000,000 Cooperation improved Level of confidence improved population, the authorities, and the international community Design and implementation of a plan to combat 2007 and 2008 200,000,000 Security environment improved Report on new provisions abductions and vehicle thefts concerning abductions and vehicle thefts available; number of cases recorded Strengthening of police presence on the ground 2007 and 2008 500,000,000 Security strengthened Level of coverage Establishment of a security cordon around areas 2007 to 2009 where criminals take refuge 120,000,000 Evolution of areas of refuge Strengthening of security measures under way in 2007 and 2008 the capital 300,000,000 Significant reduction in crime Rehabilitation of the "Dial 114" emergency "Dial 114" emergency telephone telephone number number operational Page 37 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Use of new strategies to combat drug trafficking 2007 and 2008 Strengthening of the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Commission 800,000,000 Use of specialized units to back up regional units 100,000,000 2007 and 2008 Level of coverage with local Establishment of a local police force 200,000,000 police force recruitment Subtotal - Objective 1 2,020,000,000 Page 38 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To improve the image of the National Police 2007 and 2008 New equipment and new Provision of modern infrastructure and equipment infrastructure provided to the for the National Police 1,500,000,000 National Police 2007 and 2008 Police officers given training and Training and retraining of police officers 67,000,000 retraining Number of new police officers Recruitment of new police officers 500,000,000 recruited Improvement of police officers' status, living standards, and working conditions 540,000,000 Strengthening of the chain of command 2007 and 2008 120,000,000 Restructuring of the National Police 220,000,000 Expansion of the National Police to cover all of The general population's level of Haiti's territory, and improvement of services confidence and level of provided 30,000,000 satisfaction 2007 and 2008 Clean-up of the police force and combating of Number of corrupt police officers internal corruption and lying 30,000,000 thrown out of the force Subtotal - Objective 2 3,007,000,000 DSNCRP TOTAL 5,027,000,000 3. GOVERNANCE AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To bring the government closer to citizens through decentralization and deconcentration SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: To strengthen the intervention capacity of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Communities (MICT) and the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) Actions Fiscal years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Executing agency Analytical capacity building of the MICT and the 2007 and 2008 145,000,000 Logistical framework Working framework (logistical DEPS, DA / MICT MPCE resources) improved Qualified personnel New organic law drafted Organizational structures suited to the MICT's new mission strengthened Reorganization of the decentralized directorates of 2007 and 2008 Representativeness of the ministry improved Establishment of a technical unit MICT the MICT and the MPCE at the local government level (MICT technical group) made up of multidisciplinary professional 400,000,000 staff Subtotal - Objective 1 545,000,000 Page 39 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Actions Years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Agency SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: To turn the communes and departments into development players Gradual improvement of governance in the 2007 and 2008 140,000,000 Municipal activities planned by the council, Increase in funding committed to MPCE, MICT, and other agencies communes assisted by other players in the community development activities at the commune level Control of expenditure maintained Linkage and consistency between municipal activities and government sector policies Expenditure reported Support given to the arrondissements [boroughs] 2007 and 2008 220,000,000 Supplementary budgets drawn up by each Funding available for the MPCE and other ministries concerned for the elaboration, programming, and execution of commune; recruitment of one official in each communes from the 2007-08 commune plans arrondissement to monitor the communes budget taken into account in each within that arrondissement in support of commune's budget, and budget decentralization plans and municipal plans spending strictly monitored; additional technical competencies Strengthening of local arrondissement and 2007 and 2008 140,000,000 Staff performance appraisals; drawing up of Improved government DCT / MICT departmental governments new position descriptions based on the local representation; effective government's duties and responsibilities; coordination of government inclusion of salary costs in the budget; provision activities; monitoring of the of office supplies, computer equipment, and an legality of local government intranet activities; oversight and control of civil security Capacity building for commune authorities 2007 and 2008 12,000,000 Forum of mayors, general secretaries, and 140 general secretaries and DCT / MICT treasurers; training of general secretaries and treasurers have already had half treasurers the credits of the curriculum established under the training plan for elected officials and local government professional staff in local government Promotion of decentralized cooperation and 2007 and 2008 26,000,000 Support given to departmental associations of Partnership strengthened MICT codevelopment mayors The Conference of Chairmen of Departmental Commune financing assembled and other ministries concerned Associations of Mayors consulted regularly from contributions from these three players Support for the Annual Conference of Mayors Holding of the World Conference of Mayors Subtotal - Objective 2 538,000,000 Page 40 HAITI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) PILLAR 3. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE – PRIORITY FOR JUSTICE AND SECURITY Actions Years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: To strengthen the financial capacity of local communities Assessment of buildings in all communes and entry 2007 and 2008 135,000,000 Reduction in property tax (CFPB) evasion; Each commune administration DCT / MICT in the tax roll improved administration of the tax base having tax officials recruited and trained; property tax rolls for every commune prepared, documented, and recorded in files and computer systems Review and updating of legislation on local taxation 2007 and 2008 1,600,000 Increase in revenue generated from the tax Amounts of property tax (CFPB), DCT / MICT base business tax, calibration charges, fees for rights-of-way, and so on updated New taxes and collection methods for other communities proposed Subtotal - Objective 3 136,600,000 DSNCRP TOTAL 1,219,600,000 Page 41 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 1.- FOOD SECURITY OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve integration and coordination of food policy and strategies for concretizing the human right to food SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Define a framework conducive to enhanced food security and monitoring of its implementation Actions Fiscal Years Amount Sources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Strengthen actual food security of individuals and 12,000,000 Sectoral development policies are better Number of individuals and households targeted households affected Living conditions improve Institutionalize and legalize measures 4,000,000 The right to food is recognized and Framework Law developed implementing the right to food institutionalized Define national strategic measures for enhancing 2,000,000 Coordination of interventions is improved National strategies for enhancing food security security are defined Participatory development of 18,000,000 Realistic objectives are defined and well Département - and municipal- département /municipal food security plans that targeted and articulated interventions are level plans developed set forth realistic goals and correctly targeted and carried out articulated interventions Update National Food Security and Nutrition Plan 3,000,000 Food and nutritional policies are better National food security plan integrated and coordinated developed Sub-Total, Objective 1 39,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Establish cross-sectoral mechanisms Operationalize and harmonize actual coordination 2007-2010 4,000,000 Management of food aid is improved Number of persons/families of broad cross-sectoral aspects of food security Rural/urban balance benefiting enhancement Economic access to food for the poorest Establish synergies among various entities 2007-2009 2,000,000 Coordination of interventions is improved and Strategies put in place involved in strengthening food security strengthened Public/private/associative partnerships are improved Support for cross-sectoral food security 2007-2010 6,000,000 Intersectoral and inter-institutional integration enhancement programs is strengthened Sub-Total, Objective 2 12,000,000 Page 42 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Build departmental capacities for intersectoral and inter-institutional integration Build local capacities for collaborative planning, 6,000,000 Planning and monitoring of programs and Local capacities strengthened operationalization, and evaluation of food security projects are improved and local development programs and projects Promote civil society/government/local 2007-2010 4,000,000 Coordination and management of Effective partnerships government partnerships interventions are strengthened established on the basis of consultative panels Set up local mechanisms for immediate 15,000,000 Coordination of crisis interventions is Mechanisms in place coordinated intervention in the event of a crisis functional and efficient Establish a database on actors and interventions 8,000,000 Information is available Database in place and functional in the area of food security enhancement and 1,000,000 Interventions are better targeted poverty reduction Sub-Total, Objective 3 34,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Monitor food security and poverty Organize and implement participatory government 3,000,000 Monitoring of food insecurity is intensified Strategy in place surveillance of food insecurity at national and infranational levels Evaluate impact of food security and poverty 5,000,000 Policies and programs are evaluated Gathering and analyses of reduction policies and programs Information is disseminated relevant indicators Interventions are improved Sub-Total, Objective 4 8,000,000 Total GPRSP 93,000,000 Page 43 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 2.- GENDER EQUALITY OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Promote women's rights and the mainstreaming of gender issues in public policy SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Conceptualize, develop and institute a gender equality policy Actions Promote analysis of gender-based social 2007-2008 3,066,484 Comparative gender analysis is incorporated Improved governance in the MCFDF relationships into public policy-making sector Use and integration of gender mainstreaming analysis and budgeting tools at the macro policy level, in order to institutionalize cross- sectoral [transversal] approaches Develop and prepare the gender equality Law 2008-2009 2,022,000 Sector management is improved Law developed and MCFDF disseminated Establish a Parity Observatory 2008-2010 2,000,000 Strategy Framework Paper is drawn up for A Parity Observatory exists and MCFDF establishment of the Observatory is functional Judicial/legal framework documents are produced Sub-Total, Objective 1 7,088,484 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen institutional capacities in the gender sector Build organizational and institutional capacities of 2007-2010 120,000,000 Human resources training plan is drawn up for Enhancement and strengthening MCFDF the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Rights MCFDF of human resource capacities Strategic plan for harmonizing internal Training sessions offered. structures of the MCFDF is developed Missing structures supplied. Plan for structuring département -level offices Structuring of département -level is developed offices Manual of operating, administrative and A manual on operations and financial procedures is prepared administrative/financial procedures is produced and applied Plan for developing DPAG data is prepared DPAG database system is functional Sub-Total, Objective 2 120,000,000 Page 44 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve women's status Implement sectoral poverty reduction projects 2007-2010 217,978,080 MCFDF Département -level management Number of département -level management committees are functional and committees set up adhere to their mandate Reduction in feminization of poverty Improved access for women and Number of women and their families deriving their families to financial and economic benefits of projects material resources Number of monitoring and evaluation reports A monitoring/evaluation plan is produced produced Monitor enforcement of the minimum 1/3 quota on 2007-2010 6,132,968 Number of women aided in learning non- More women choose non- MCFDF and other ministries women in non-traditional projects and production traditional trades traditional trades streams Scholarships are awarded to women and girls for training in Five thousand women and girls trained and non-traditional trades oriented towards non-traditional areas of employment Women have greater autonomy Outreach/support to women in income-generating 2007-2010 129,986,300 Number of management training sessions MCFDF and other specialized activities organized institutions Women possess knowledge and technical skills appropriate to the job market Number of sustainable economic initiatives Increased autonomy of women; taken in the production sector reduction of feminization of poverty Page 45 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Recapitalization of rural women 2007-2010 129,986,300 Creation of credit institutions/banks to support Women have greater income MCFDF productive initiatives for five thousand rural and access to credit women Reduction in feminization of poverty Greater autonomy of women Promote women's entrepreneurship in non- 2007-2010 122,659,360 traditional production streams 5 thousand women trained and Women possess skills and technical in possession of technical and knowledge appropriate to the job market specialized skills MCFDF Number of technical and specialized training sessions Greater autonomy of women conducted MENFP Reduction in feminization of poverty Plan to mobilize resources MAST Existence of a program and Women possess skills and technical policies on women's knowledge appropriate to the labor market entrepreneurship Promote and develop family-based childcare in 2008–2010 20,210,005 Better living conditions for children and their Number of childcare centers MCFD disadvantaged areas families in underprivileged milieus created Number of families benefiting Reduction of the burden on single-parent from childcare services families Program to protect female street children who are 2008-2010 17,334,200 Improvement of living conditions for girls in Existence of reeducation and MCFDF victims of sexual exploitation underprivileged milieus outreach programs for girls and young women Creation of opportunities for socially Existence of a plan for public marginalized girls outreach/awareness Reduction of inequality Mobilization of financial and material resources Existence of [police] brigades to protect girls from sexual exploitation Compilation of databases Program to promote recognition of women's 2007-2010 2,909,364 Plan for promotion/recognition of women's Higher visibility and greater MCFDF societal contribution societal contribution recognition of women's contributions Number of busts, plaques, artistic works Reduction of discrimination and MENFP produced in honor of prominent personalities sexism Recognition of women in public spaces and and other ministries street names Sub-Total, Objective 3 647,196,577 Page 46 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Promote and enhance women's rights ACTION in education Fiscal Years Available resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agencies Lobby to keep girls enrolled in school 2007-2010 10,000,000 Number of scholarships awarded to those Greater numbers of high- MENFP completing 6th basic year potential girl students continue their studies Program to guide girls into non-traditional areas of 2007-2010 950,000 Steering Committee established More girls opt for non-traditional MCFDF employment Integration plan is prepared and implemented trades MENFP Evaluate school books and literacy manuals at all 2007-2010 5,826,320 Commission is established, in collaboration Professional educators better MCFDF MENFP levels to eliminate sexist references with education sector, to assess school books understand the need to combat sexism Number of outreach, information and training The public, and especially young seminars/workshops conducted with male and people and adults, benefit from female participants in the educational milieu an education that respects human rights and women's rights Promote higher education for girls 2007-2010 950,000 Steering Committee is established More girls opt for non-traditional MCFDF Number of girls and parents made aware of trades MENFP issues Financing of back-to-school costs of socio- 2007-2010 25,000,000 Program is implemented to approach Young girls in economic difficulty MCFDF economically disadvantaged girls government agencies and receive grants to continue their national/international organizations for schooling mobilization of funds Reduction in girls' drop-out rate and international partners Mixed-gender coordinating committee is operational Page 47 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES ACTIONS Fiscal Years Available resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agencies in the area of violence against women Operationalize National Plan to Prevent Violence 2007-2010 7,000,000 Number of département -level and national Survivors of gender-based MCFDF against Women forums conducted violence are supported effectively MJSS Number of items published and disseminated Local structures are able to MSPP and other institutions provide general responses to survivors of gender-based violence Strengthen leadership of MCFDF in terms of 2007 -2010 12,000,000 Département -level and local collaborative The Haitian government MCFDF national collaboration structures are in place and operational implemented the Belém do Para Convention through the MCFDF Monitoring/evaluation plan is developed and Increased protection of women implemented and girls from gender-based violence Establish département-level programs to support 2007-2010 30,000,000 Support program is prepared and Regional-level women's MCFDF women implemented networks are well structured to fulfill their mandate Number of training seminars carried out Women who belong to these networks are well aware of their responsibility Enforce Protocol on police handling of female 2007-2010 4,000,000 All (male and female) actors in the medico- Number of outreach/information MCFDF victims legal hierarchy are aware and mobilized workshops Survivors of violence are treated in Mixed Commission MJSS accordance with the protocol (MCFDF/PNH/Human rights NGOs) is in place and operational Monitoring/evaluation plan is prepared and Number of promotional items on implemented the Protocol produced and disseminated Help shelter women who are victims of violence 2007-2010 32,147,057 Existence of a support center for women in Number of women sheltered MCFDF difficult circumstances Survivors of violence reassert MJSS control over their lives Page 48 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Enhance women's influence in decision-making 2007-2010 8,826,319 Increased participation and representation of A program to strengthen MCFDF women at all local, national and international women's leadership is produced levels and implemented Number of training seminars organized for female candidates Number of training seminars organized for female elected officials Number of training seminars organized to develop women's leadership Strengthen local-level women's associations 2007-2010 7,000,000 Strengthening of women's networks Participation and involvement of MCFDF Number of forums conducted women in public management of Sub-Total, Objective 4 143,699,696 their municipalities and Page 49 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Promote educational and healthcare rights of women and girls 2007-2009 88,962,319 Promote and develop and National Health Plan Existence of a sectoral document setting out Improvement of women's sexual for Women and Girls public policy on women's health and reproductive health MCFDF -MSPP 2007-2010 7,600,000 Plan for information, education and The public, and especially Promote and develop information, education and communication about sexual and reproductive women and girls, enjoy a better communication on sexual and reproductive health health is prepared and developed healthcare environment MCFDF –MSPP Lobby for decriminalization of abortion 2007-2009 3,800,000 Decision-makers (male and female), Establishment of a Steering MCFDF/MJSP MSPP institutions of civil society, the faith Committee. Number of community, the general public, men, women département -level forums and and girls understand the importance of meetings with parliamentary decriminalizing abortion commissions organized. National Colloquium held. Page 50 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Build capacities of département -level directorates 2007-2010 8,062,319 Number of training seminars/workshops Members of coordinating MCFDF in the area of health organized committees have a good MSPP understanding of sexual health National Screening Program for Breast and 2007-2010 87,062,319 A national program is prepared and Women and irls receive free or MCFDF Cervical Cancer implemented minimum-cost screening services MSPP Number of women and girls screened Harmonization of health/reproductive policy of 2008-2010 4,000,000 A Ministerial Commission is established The Haitian government has a MCFDF MSPP with women's demands and needs. Number of workshops conducted with all coherent reproductive health MSPP sectors structure that meets women's needs Reduction of maternal mortality 2007-2010 87,062,319 Protocol of agreement is signed by both Women are better informed of MCFDF ministries risk factors and treatments and have access to nearby prenatal care Strategic plan to reduce maternal mortality is Alternatives for handling of high- MSPP prepared risk pregnancies are implemented A database is in place Systematic case monitoring and analysis are performed Number of kits prepared for midwives Skills of local midwives are strengthened Number of outreach/information items Significant reduction of maternal produced (brochures, posters, public service mortality in all ten départements announcements, bracelets, etc.) Sub-Total, Objective 5 286,549,276 Page 51 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Reform judicial and legal procedures pertaining to women's rights and gender equality ACTIONS Fiscal Years Available Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Harmonization of legal texts 2007-2010 3,800,000 Number of legal texts in compliance with Promulgation of legal texts MCFDF -MJSP constitutional prescriptions and international conducive to enforcement of agreements prepared and enacted international conventions against violence, gender-based discrimination, and reproductive rights. Define and strengthen legal and regulatory 2007-2010 6,200,935 Legal and regulatory framework defined Improvement of women's legal MCFDF framework of women's rights status Recruit more women into judicial agencies 2007-2010 2,909,364 A strategic plan to integrate women is Number of orientation workshops MCFDF -MJSP established by both ministries offered An orientation guide for women in judicial Increased number of women in agencies is produced the judiciary, police force, and court and legal professions Greater presence of women in the judicial apparatus Develop draft laws on: 2007-2010 15,389,900 Number of draft laws prepared and submitted Reduction in conjugal conflict MCFDF -MJSP to the Executive Branch Consensual or 'common law' marriages Outreach/awareness targeting Good acceptance of laws by parliamentarians and the general public parliamentarians Paternal responsibility, and working conditions of Ratification of draft laws through Laws are applied and obeyed domestic servants Draft law on domestic employment promulgation, dissemination and popular Respect for women's rights in promotion the relevant areas. Draft law on paternity and determination of Number of law documents published and kinship disseminated Draft law on gender equality Draft law on 30% quota in appointed positions Draft law designating December 12 as National Domestic Labor Day Draft law on harassment and assault Sub-Total, Objective 6 28,300,199 Page 52 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Raise awareness of, and educate, male and female decision-makers and general public about sex discrimination and sexism Outcome indicators Implementing Agency ACTIONS Fiscal Years Available Resources Output indicators Education and outreach campaign on women's 2007-2010 5,700,000.00 Number of outreach items produced Number of schools receiving MCFDF rights and non-sexist behaviors (brochures, posters, public service outreach/awareness efforts announcements, bracelets, etc.) Number of seminars/workshops conducted Number of (male and female) MENFP actors in the sectors of music, press, audiovisual production, performing, etc. Press and media campaign to combat sexism 2007-2010 Number of outreach items produced Audiovisual products are of MCFDF (brochures, posters, public service better quality and free from announcements, bracelets, etc.) sexist, degrading or violent references to women and girls Number of seminars/workshop conducted Campaign to promote women's participation and 2007-2010 23,041,604.00 Number of outreach items produced Number of women participating MCFDF representation in the electoral process (brochures, posters, public service in the electoral process announcements, bracelets, etc.) Number of workshops/seminars conducted Information campaign on women's sexuality, 2007-2010 5,826,319.60 Number of outreach items produced Reduction of unwanted MCFDF sexual negotiating, and HIV/AIDS (brochures, posters, public service pregnancies and in prevalence announcements, bracelets, etc.) of STDs Number of seminars/workshops conducted MSPP Outreach/information campaign on domestic 5,826,319.60 Number of outreach items produced Recognition and valuing of the MCFDF - MAST employment and female domestics (brochures, posters, public service work of domestic servants announcements, bracelets, etc.) Number of seminars/workshops conducted A day in honor of domestic with all sectors workers is adopted and celebrated nationally Promote and develop information, education and 2007-2010 5,826,319.60 Number of outreach items produced The public, and especially MCFDF –MSPP communication on sexual and reproductive health (brochures, posters, public service women and girls, enjoy a better announcements, bracelets, etc.) healthcare environment Number of seminars/workshops conducted A plan to inform, educate and with all sectors communicate on sexual and reproductive health is prepared and developed Sub-Total, Objective 7 46,220,562.80 Total GPRSP 1,279,054,795 Page 53 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 3.-ENVIRONMENT OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve environmental management to promote sustainable growth while ensuring economic and social welfare of the poor and the security of life-sustaining ecosystems SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1- : Improve environmental governance Actions Years Resources Output indicators Results Indicators Agency Involve private and public actors in decision- 2007-2010 8,000,000 Planning of decentralized environmental Département -level and MDE/MPCE/MAE/PARLIAMENT making at both central and local government management municipal plans for the levels environment are available Update and enforce environmental protection 2008-2010 4,000,000 Structures provided for under the framework Operational plan and enabling MDE/MPCE/MAE/PARLIAMENT laws decree are functional regulation of Framework Decree on environmental management are implemented Compliance with, and ratification of, relevant Publication of regulation multilateral environmental treaties establishing CONATE (National Council for Regional Development and Environment) Publication of the Environmental Code Submit to Parliament Draft Organic law on the 2007-2008 4,000,000 Mandate and legal responsibilities of Ministry Organic Law submitted to MDE/MPCE/MAE/PARLIAMENT mandate, responsibilities, organization of the of Environment are clearly defined Parliament Ministry of the Environment (MDE) Establishment of a program to provide support 2008-2009 4,000,000 Diagnostic study of Program to support Support program established. MDE/MPCE/MAE/PARLIAMENT and stengthen the capacities of encironmental environmental organizations, accompanied by Mobilization of financing for its organizations an action plan implementation. Consolidate département -level environmental 2008-2009 20,000,000 Territorial Environmental Administration (ATE) ATE operational MDE/MPCE/MAE/PARLIAMENT directorates and establish municipal is in place environmental management units Sub-Total, Objective 1 40,000,000 Page 54 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Reduce the environmental vulnerability of the poor to natural risks and disasters and adapt to climate change Promote energy and carbon sequestration forests 2007-2010 120,000,000 Publication of Ministerial Decree creating MDE/Private clean development mechanism (CDM) in the Sector/MARNDR/NGO/MICT energy sector under the Kyoto Protocol Number of hectares of carbon- sequestering forests established Identification and implementation of potential CDM projects MDP operational Conduct a prospective study on the impact of 2008-2009 8,000,000 Terms of reference for the study Encouragement of adaptive MARNDR/MTPC/MDE global warming on productive sectors (e.g., measures identified agriculture, infrastructures, coastal zones, etc.) Validation of the study by various sectors and identify adaptive measures involved Initiate/intensify preparatory and early warning 2007-2010 200,000,000 Poor and vulnerable communities are well MICT/DPC/MTPC/MARNDR/MDE/BME Annual promotion of a national measures informed and prepared for disasters / Red Cross/ SNGRD month urging outreach/awareness of risk and natural disasters Risks reduced and impact of disasters limited Local contingency and risk- reduction plans Strengthening of département municipal and local Civil Protection Continued installation of Committees community early warning systems in strategic watersheds Mapping of high-risk zones and intensive public education Establishment of a seismological and accelerometrical network Mapping A232and quantitative analysis of seismic faults Training programs in emergency management Page 55 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Restore sustainable pre-disaster living conditions 2007-2010 200,000,000 Poor and vulnerable communities recover Local disaster preparedness MICT/MTPTC/BME/MARNDR/MPCE/ of vulnerable and poor communities and promote from impacts of disasters plans are developed, particularly MDE/MJSP/PNH appropriate mitigation strategies for vulnerable areas (coastal zones, flood plains) Increased resilience of poor and vulnerable Guidelines and procedures for communities management of debris, garbage and cadavers are disseminated. Continued reconstruction of Fonds Verettes, Gonaives and Mapou Building Code developed and enforced Large drainage systems in major cities and in the Vallée de l’Artibonite are reprofiled and reamed out Risk-sharing mechanisms are established, including the common fund for risk management and disaster preparedness, micro-financing and insurance Monitoring of coastal areas Rehabilitate and restore critical ecosystems 2007-2010 200,000,000 Protection of water sources and zones of Number of hectares of MDE/BME/MARNDR aquifer recharge/replenishment mangroves planted and rehabilitated Enforcement of measures to fence off sand quarries Number of springs and aquifer recharge zones protected Adaptive and proactive management of humid Number of quarries effectively zones and coral reefs placed off limits National Day of Awareness of Coastal and Surface area of coral reefs Marine Zones artificially rehabilitated Rehabilitation plans developed for fenced-off sand quarries Number of lakes and ponds provided with development plans Page 56 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Incorporate risk reduction into public policy (both 2008-2009 16,000,000 Substantial reduction in vulnerability in the National Risk Management MICT/DPC/MTPC/MARNDR/MDE/BME national and sectoral) and improve coordination of face of natural vagaries Strategy is formulated / Red Cross risk reduction and disaster preparedness Organization of synergies between common resources to reduce vulnerability National Plan for Adapting to Climate Change is implemented Improvement of SNGRD operating mechanism Early Warning and Vulnerability Information Systems are in place Information-sharing and dissemination of best Joint projects addressing risk practices in this area and disaster issues are planned and implemented Full and integral integration of Haiti into existing regional networks (CDERA, ACS/AES, Havana Risk) Development of protocol to be followed at various levels (national and departmental) by SNGRD before every hurricane season Sub-Total, Objective 2 744,000,000 Page 57 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve urban environmental management 2007-2010 32,000,000 Number of model housing National Town/Regional Development Plan Reduction of anarchic construction developments built MPCE/MDE /MTPTC/MARNDR 2007-2008 and 8,000,000 Improvement of the environmental standard of Number of cities with urban Preparation of an Urban Development Plan thereafter living development plans MTPC/MPCE/MDE Sub-Total, Objective 3 40,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Integrated management of water resources 40,000,000 Provision of preferential credit for purchase of Output of rivers and Reforestation of areas around springs 2008-2010 tools and equipment watercourses is monitored MDE National Plan and Master Plan for watershed development is Protect catchment areas in watersheds 2008-2010 20,000,000 Improved management of watersheds prepared MDE/MARNDR Establish the National Water Resource 2008-2009 20,000,000 Improved management of water resources National Policy on integrated MTPTC/MDE/MARNDR/NGO Management Agency management of water resources is prepared Improved water sector regulation Creation of National Marine Parks 2008-2010 40,000,000 Number of parks built Sectoral resources are improved MDE/NGO/Environmental organizations Sub-Total, Objective 4 120,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5: Achieve equilibrium between supply and demand for wood Relieve fuel demand pressure on national wood 2007-2010 120,000,000 Awarding of partnership contracts with Production of improved wood- MDE/MTPCT/BME/ ELF/SERVI GAZ/ resources equipment suppliers burning stoves Call for bids from distributors Diesel or LPG conversion of 1,000 enterprises (500 bakeries, 150 laundries, 350 distilleries and 'rapadou' (sugar paste) producers) that use wood fuel Conversion of 30,000 urban 50% subsidy for households on cost of households to LPG and equipment kerosene Expand use of improved wood- burning stoves to rural and suburban households 3,200,000,000 Imported fuels, plant-based briquettes and bio-diesel are MDE/MARNDR/BME/BIODIESEL National Environmental Rehabilitation Program 2007-2010 subsidized HAITI Prepare National Plan for Energy Sector 2007-2010 20,000,000 Regulatory framework of energy policy is Construction of hydroelectric MTPTC/BME/MDE/MPCE/MARNDR Development developed plants, solar panels and wind farms Preparation of a Forestry Action Plan 2007-2009 20,000,000 Forestry Development Fund created Number of areas forested or re- MDE/MARNDR/MPCE/NGO/Environm forested ental Organizations Sub-Total, Objective 5 3,360,000,000 Page 58 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 6: Combat land degradation and promote sustainable management of biodiversity Establish National Agency for Protected Areas 2007-2010 8,000,000 National Action Plan for protection of Protection of biodiversity MDE /CONATE/MARNDR and Forests biodiversity strengthened Establish Caribbean Biological Corridor 160,000,000 Technical studies Number of projects involving the MDE/MARNDR/MPCE/NGO/Environm (Haiti/Dominican Republic/Cuba) Definition of Corridor boundaries Corridor and related protected ental Organizations zones submitted to the Global Regional development schemas associated Environmental Fund with the Corridor Conduct natural resource management activities 2007-2010 50,000,000 Transfer of funds to municipalities for Number of hectares reforested MDE /CONATE/MARNDR/MICT/MPCE in 50 municipalities in the country (5 per environmental management département) Number of projects including a municipal Number of km of river banks support component for environmental protected. Fencing-off of management sensitive zones Number of environmental projects monitored Fencing-off of sensitive zones or implemented by municipalities Number of parcels rehabilitated through soil conservation and agroforestry measures Establish National Action Program to Combat 2007-2009 20,000,000 Better information on the environment Reduction of annual soil loss MDE /CONATE/MARNDR Desertification Reduction in number of Strengthen national system for protected areas 2008-2009 120,000,000 Increase in non-threatened acreage threatened areas Sub-Total, Objective 5 358,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 7: Combat all types of pollution Recycling of plastics 2007-2010 68,000,000 Environmental improvement Pollution reduced MDE Construction of sorting and composting centers 2007-2008 Exploitation/processing of trash Quantity of compost and MDE 52,000,000 processed trash Waste water treatment 2007-2008 160000000 Improved treatment of waste water Number of septic tanks built MDE Sub-Total, Objective 7 280,000,000 Page 59 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 8: Environmental monitoring and oversight Recruit and train environmental monitoring 2007-2010 120,000,000 Framework document of environmental Continued deployment of MDE/Local governments personnel surveillance corps is prepared Environmental Surveillance Corps Mobilization of funding for the Corps out of the National parks and forest public treasury preserves protected from human encroachment Municipal government involvement in the Imposition of fines for dumping process and strengthening of coercive measures to prevent unsanitary practices Establish National Environmental Observatory 2007-2010 200,000,000 Design study of SNIE, Technical Secretariat Production of reliable MDE/MPCE/CNGIS/MARNDR/Universi (ONEV) and National Environmental Information of ONEV, completed environmental data ties System (SNIE) Purchase of equipment. Design of the Improvement of system to Observatory's web portal. support environmental decision- making Technical facilitation of SNIE and ONEV Publication of annual reports on the state of the environment Sub-Total, Objective 8 320,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 9: Make the environment a focus for investment and business opportunities 2007-2008 Environmental tax enacted Percentage of net domestic MDE - European Union 80,000,000 product attributable to Establish a Haitian Fund for Environmental environmental conservation Rehabilitation (FREH) 200,000,000 Procedures manual for the fund. Binational Number of binational MDE – European policy and technical consultations on the environmental projects financed Union/CONATE/MARNDR Establish, with the Dominican Republic, a initiative with resources of the Fund Binational Fund for Environmental Promotion and Ecological Restoration of the Island 2007-2008 20,000,000 Development plan Development of a market for Private sector/ Environmental Set up an Environmental Investment Center private sector environmental organizations services 2008-2010 20,000,000 System design study completed Green tax regimes MDE/MEF Incorporation of the environment into national accounts Development of an environmental accounting system Sub-Total, Objective 9 320,000,000 Total GPRSP 5,582,000,000 Page 60 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 4.- SOCIAL PROTECTIONS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Reduce exclusion and enhance social protections SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen institutional capacities of MAST Actions Fiscal Years Available Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Institutional strengthening 2007-2008 20,000,000 Improvement of mechanisms and procedures Ministry, and its subsidiary directorates, strengthened SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Social and economic integration of the handicapped Strengthening of State Secretariat for the 2007-2008 20,000,000 Improvement of mechanisms and procedures Secretariat strengthened Handicapped for outreach to the handicapped 5 département -level offices acquired 15 competent higher level staff recruited 5 département -level offices equipped 5 département -level directorates equipped with human and material resources 50 higher-level staff and technicians trained 3 seminars organized Revise the Labor Code 15,000,000 Better integration of the handicapped into the Labor Code revised labor market Unit established 10 higher-level staff and consultants recruited 20 consultative meetings organized 1,000 draft versions published Code finalized 10,000 final versions published Develop a policy on hiring the handicapped 2007-2008 15,000,000 Improvement of living conditions for the 10,000,000 jobs created MAST handicapped Structure with 10 higher-level staff established 1 national survey carried out 1,000 copies of survey results 20 inter-institutional meetings conducted 1 document on the population of working handicapped Page 61 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Establish a fund to support the integration of the 2007-2010 75,000,000 The handicapped are integrated into the 10,000 disabled handicapped handicapped economic system receive assistance Central database of handicapped persons is 12,000 able-bodied handicapped organized trained and grouped into 100 associations 100 groups of 120 handicapped persons legalized Guarantee fund to finance projects of the handicapped is organized Organize outreach/information campaigns on the 2007-2010 30,000,000 Reduced risk of incapacity 20 outreach/awareness rights of the handicapped campaigns organized 1 five-member committee set up 20 outreach/awareness campaigns organized 20 public service announcements broadcast, 10,000 brochures distributed, 100,000 posters put up Material support to handicapped persons 2007-2010 60,000,000 Needs of the handicapped are met Material distributed and MAST replenished, and 15,000 handicapped persons helped Support specialized centers and associations 2007-2010 90,000,000 Technical and material assistance to the 35 centers and associations MAST providing outreach to handicapped persons centers assisted and supported Establish modern centers for support and care of 2007-2010 125,000,000 Outreach/support/services provided to the 5 centers established and MAST the handicapped handicapped provided with materials Sub-Total, Objective 2 430,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Support and outreach to senior citizens Create an intake/support center for the senior 2007-2010 125,000,000 30,000 people integrated 10 centers created throughout MAST citizens the country Support and implement centers dispensing 2007-2008 60,000,000 Aged and handicapped persons receive 30,000 beneficiaries assisted MAST medical/social services to the aged and technical and material assistance handicapped Create a Solidarity Fund for the Aged 2007-2008 90,000,000 Living conditions of the aged and 240,000 elderly persons assisted MAST handicapped are improved 240,000 elderly receive initial training in project activities; Number of elderly persons assisted Reform the retirement system 2007-2010 10,000,000 Document on retirement system MAST is developed Sub-Total, Objective 3 285,000,000 Page 62 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Outreach to adolescents, the incarcerated, and young adults in difficult circumstances Create vocational training centers 2007-2010 150,000,000 Reintegration of young people involved in, or 10 centers created throughout MAST exposed to, violence the country Number of technical training sessions offered Promote employment programs emphasizing self- 2007-2010 60,000,000 Reduction of violence Number of jobs created MAST employment and manual trades Enhance ability of communities to resist the 2007-2010 100,000,000 Greater government presence in sensitive Grassroots-level government MAST influence of violent groups areas services enhanced Civic education provided Establish psychosocial rehabilitation centers 2007-2010 150,000,000 Services provided to the aged 10 centers established and MAST equipped Establish halfway houses for disadvantaged 2007-2010 125,000,000 Services provided to the underprivileged 10 centers equipped and MAST persons rendered functional Support reintegration and rehabilitation of 2007-2010 100,000,000 Incarcerated persons rehabilitated and 40,000 returning expatriates MAST deported Haitians reintegrated receive support services Establish intake/support centers in départements 2007-2010 98,000,000 Services provided to children 9 intake centers in 10 MAST and provide support to the 'Carrefour' intake départements center Sub-Total, Objective 4 783,000,000 Total GPRSP 1,518,000,000 5.- CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Make culture and communication the primary bases for the economic and social development of the country SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Build the institutional capacities of the culture and communication sector Actions Fiscal Years Available Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Create 2 new culture directorates at the 2007-2008 30,000,000 Increased interventional capacity in the sector 2 département -level directorates MCC département level in Sud and Artibonite Create research and music instruction centers 75,000,000 Greater number of musicians trained 8 research and music instruction MCC centers (CREM) Rehabilitate the existing CLAD network 120,000,000 Improved dissemination of culture CLAD in Nord, Ouest and MCC Artibonite provinces refurbished Modernize internal structures of the MCC and of 150,000,000 Improved communication Technical and administrative MCC agencies under its authority structure strengthened Rehabilitate of State-run media (RNH and TNH) 200,000,000 Improved information and culture Studios and broadcast sites of MCC dissemination to the public TNH and RNH refurbished Expand CLAD network 300,000,000 Improved access to culture Structure for access to books MCC created in rural areas. Access of rural communities enhanced Expand cultural cooperation with foreign partners 22,500,000 Improved cooperation Cultural cooperation enhanced MCC Sub-Total, Objective 1 897,500,000 Page 63 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Protect and promote national heritage Develop and conserve national historic sites (e.g., 452,720,000 Increased capacity of sites to accommodate Historic monuments developed MCC Citadelle, Sans-Souci, Ramier, etc.) tourism; protection of historic monuments and promoted Support integration of Creole language 10,000,000 Promotion and dissemination of the written Linguists and translators MCC Creole language recruited Dissemination of texts and works in Creole Official documents prepared in French and Creole Promote the values of tolerance and solidarity 12,000,000 Greater social cohesion More workshops, colloquia and MCC seminars organized More media campaigns conducted Develop access and conservation measures for 180,000,000 MCC fortifications at Marchand, Fort Picolet, and Platon Fort National Historic Park (Dussis) Easier access to these sites; increased Historic monuments developed, capacity to accommodate tourism preserved and promoted Complete development work on Vertières site 10,000,000 Digitize two centuries of Haitian legislation 14,400,000 Modernization of the Haitian judicial apparatus Two centuries of Haitian MCC legislation digitized Create a research fund 30,000,000 Increased capacity for carrying out studies Research fund created MCC and research Restore the historic town center of Belladère, 25,000,000 Strengthening of institutional capacity of Administrative building in MCC Phase 2 public administration at Belladere Belladere rehabilitated Complete development of central plaza (Place 15,000,000 Central plaza restored and MCC d’Armes) in Jacmel Increase in the city's capacity to promoted accommodate tourism Restore the colonial prison in Jacmel 2007-2008 25,000,000 Colonial prison restored MCC Sub-Total, Objective 2 774,120,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Promote artistic, literary and handicraft production Strengthen organizational structures of cultural 2,000,000.00 Strengthening of artists' and craftspersons' Professional, artistic and MCC operators, writers and artists organizations handicrafts association created and supported Establish a competition prize fund to spur artistic, 12,000,000.00 Increase in high quality production Competitions organized in MCC literary and handicrafts creation various areas of artistic endeavor Create a mobile bookstore/library 14,400,000.00 Improved promotion of books and reading Specially-equipped vehicles purchased Establish an experimental unit to conduct studies 12,000,000.00 Strengthening of capacity to carry out studies Unit is in place and functional MCC and supervise cultural infrastructure projects and supervise cultural infrastructure projects Convert the Triomphe cinema into the Jacques 40,000,000.00 Better public access to cultural products Triomphe cinema converted to MCC Roumain Cultural Center cultural center Sub-Total, Objective 3 80,400,000 Total GPRSP 1,752,020,000 Page 64 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 6.- URBAN DEVELOPMENT OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Contribute to sustainable urban development and poverty reduction through 1) preparation of slum development and rehabilitation plans and support for their implementation; 2) controlled growth SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Make local governance operational and efficient Actions Fiscal Years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Provide technological and methodological 2007-2008 and 216,000,000 Agencies supporting local governance, acting Development Plan for the MPCE assistance to local actors for the development, thereafter as actual structures to support local metropolitan area implementation, management and governance monitoring/evaluation of plans/programs/projects, 432,000,000 either in slum rehabilitation or in urban fabric Sub-Total, Objective 1 648,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Apply urban planning to cities and develop slum areas Foster the creation of a government agency 2007-2008 432000000 Mixed Corporation (Societe d’Economie *Development Plan for MPCE/MAST/EPPLS/MEF responsible for slum rehabilitation in order to Mixte ) for development and rehabilitation of metropolitan area. CLED: improve plan/project coordination urban environments documentation of assets in slum areas Foster the emergence of networks combining 2008-2010 96,000,000 MPCE government and non-government actors in order to promote rational use of funds in slum neighborhoods Systematize, model, validate and disseminate 2007-2010 96,000,000 Unit charged with monitoring/evaluation of CNIGS and its purview, I.e., MPCE actions implemented so they can be used in other agencies supporting local governance studies of siting and typology of areas of the country housing areas Sub-Total, Objective 2 624,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Strengthen the participatory process for slum rehabilitation Outreach, structuring, and capacity-building of 2007-2010 204,000,000 General contractors local populations to enable them to participate actively in all phases of the rehabilitation process Sub-Total, Objective 3 204,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4: Seek financing for grassroots projects Systematize and publish experiences to validate 2008-2010 72,000,000 Draft study or thesis Thesis produced and validated MPCE and others the concept of projects emerging from the grassroots level. Seek financing for ad hoc projects developed with 2008-2010 48,000,000 Specifications Inventory of typology of grassroots input proposed neighborhoods accepted for donor financing Sub-Total, Objective 4 120,000,000 Total GPRSP 1,596,000,000 Page 65 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 7.- TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Help rebuild the national territory as a contribution to balanced and sustainable development over the long term SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Establish the strategic and normative framework for national development Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Actions Fiscal Years Amount Sources Agency New judicial/legal and Reorganize the Ministry of Planning and External Better control over national planning and 250,000,000 organizational framework for MPCE and other institutions Cooperation development process MPCE is implemented Law on Regional Planning and Finalize the Regional Planning and Local Law on Regional and Local Development is 5,000,000 Local Development is MPCE and other institutions Development Law implemented promulgated Département -level directorates Regionalize the MPCE down to the are reorganized and 200,000,000 Better control over regional development MPCE and other institutions arrondissement level arrondissement -level technical departments are established New National Town and Develop the New National Town and Regional Medium- and long-term vision for national 120,000,000 Regional Development Plan MPCE and other institutions Development Plan town and regional development is defined adopted Develop local and arrondissement Medium- and long-term vision for Local and arrondissement -level MPCE and other institutions + local 400,000,000 development plans arrondissement -level development is defined development plans are available governments Better fit between regional divisions and the Updated document of Review the national territorial divisions 100,000,000 country's politico-administrative and subdivisional boundaries is MPCE+MICT+ other institutions + CT development framework available Framework tools for Implementation of better organized Put operational planning instruments in place 120,000,000 implementation of development MPCE + other institutions development activities are available PIP provides better view of development PIP documents and Reorganize the Public Investment Program (PIP) 10,000,000 policies and strategies for operationalizing the methodological framework are MPCE + other institutions country's judicial/administrative framework updated and used Consultative and participatory Organize actors involved in town/regional 60,000,000 Better regional development coordination structures are established and MPCE + other institutions planning and development functional Better inter- and intra-sectoral development 10 sectoral planning units are Strengthen sectoral planning units 300,000,000 MPCE + other institutions coordination strengthened Sub-total 1,565,000,000 Page 66 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Energize the regions Consultative and participatory Organize actors involved in town/regional Better regional development coordination structures are established and MPCE + other institutions planning and development functional Provide organizational support to local Better regional implementation and Capacity of CTs to manage 200,000,000 MPCE + other institutions governments in the area of development planning coordination of development development is strengthened All territories of arrondissements are brought Improved living conditions and Promote regional development 14,000,000,000 into coherence on the basis of planned MPCE + other institutions environment for CT populations development interventions Sub-total 14,200,000,000 Total GPRSP 15,765,000,000 Page 67 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 8 : RISKS AND NATURAL DISASTERS OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve interventional capacities of the SNGRD by strengthening the DPC, the SPGRD and regional civil protection entities SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Strengthen interventional capacities of the DPC and SPGRD Actions Years Resources Output indicators Outcome indicators Agency Mobilize the CNGRD on the 'risk' topic 2007-2008 300,000 Improvement of CNGRD Framework law proposed to the MICT/DPC/SPGRD, other relevant Chamber ministries Establish a CNGRD monitoring committee 2007-2008 100,000 Monitoring of PNGRD Monitoring committee created MICT/DPC/UNDP and other institutions and functional belonging to SNGRD Create an ad hoc committee on the topic of risk 2008-2009 100,000 Commission set up DPC, SPGRD, UNDP, PUGRD, EU management Create a consultative body to interface with civil 2007-2008 100,000 Consultative committee created MICT/DPC and other ministries society and functional Creation and strengthening of sectoral risk- 2007-2010 300,000 Sectoral committees created SPGRD and other ministries management committees Mobilize and raise awareness of the topic on the 2007-2010 400,000 Institutions aware and motivated MICT,DPC,SPGRD, UNDP, EU, other part of other public and private institutions ministries Risk management : Directorate for local 2007-2010 5,000,000 Minutes of meetings MICT/DPC/ SPGRD, PUGR , EU, governments; Département -level consultative Documents prepared and UNDP and other partners panels; municipal assemblies disseminated Training/ outreach and awareness 2007-2010 10,000,000 Modules prepared and DPC, SPGRD, MENFP and other disseminated partners Lobby for integration of risk management into the Training manuals developed curricula at elementary, secondary, university, graduate and technical levels of education. Protocols of agreement, etc. Raise awareness of the risk management concept 2007-2010 5,000,000 Minutes of meetings, protocols DPC, AMH, Parliament, chambers of on the part of parliamentarians, media, churches, of agreement commerce and other partners socioprofessional associations, chambers of Project documents prepared and commerce, and the general public. implemented, etc. Strengthen the interventional capacity of the DPC 2007-008 15,000,000 Interventional capacities of the DPC are Truck purchased and available MICT/DPC strengthened Vehicle purchased and available Office refurbished Construct an Operations Center of a national 2007-08 3,000,000 Various documents DPC/SPGRD/UNDP, EU, PURGRD agency (country contribution, document disseminated publication) Purchase consulting services 2007-2010 5,000,000 TORs prepared MICT/DPC Consultants' work reports available Sub-Total, Objective 1 44,300,000 Page 68 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen interventional capacities of field-level civil protection structures Strengthen 10 département -level committees/ in- 2007- 2,000,000 Interventional capacities are strengthened 10 committees performing more DPC/SPGRD and other partners service training effectively Strengthen municipal and local committees -- 2007 4,000,000 30 municipal and local DPC and other partners training and equipment committees trained and fully exploited Create 5 rapid intervention teams 2007 100 DPC staff trained and ready DPC, White Helmet troops (Argentina) 1,000,000 for intervention Create 5 rapid intervention teams 1,000,000 100 staff trained and ready for CRH, firefighters intervention Create and equip ten (10) new Civil Protection 2007 2,000,000 10 committees trained and DPC and other partners Committees equipped Organize 3 simulation exercises 2007 4,500,000 100 civil protection personnel DPC/CRH, firefighters, etc. Implement microprojects 2007 15,000,000 10 risk-reduction microprojects DPC, mayors' offices and relevant implemented sectors Sub-Total, Objective 2 25,500,000 Total GPRSP 69,800,000 Page 69 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 9.- STRENGTHEN GOVERNMENT CAPACITIES OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Strengthen institutional capacities SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Continue to reform the central government administration Resources Fiscal Years Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Drafts of Organic Law on departments of the Office of the President, central departments of the Office of the Prime Minister, Ministries and technically regionalized departments are prepared Establishment of structures to strengthen Update legal and institutional framework 28,600,000 public administration Draft Decree on Economic and Social Development Council, organization and operation of Budget Unit, organization and operation of CCS within BPM, Office of Management and Human Resources is prepared General Directorates of ministries are strengthened Operation of Strategic Orientation Councils defined Operation of Consultative Councils defined Forums held for General Directors of central government administration Operation of Interministerial Committees defined Coordinate interministerial administrative Improved coordination of interministerial 2007/2008 2,400,000 Decree on operation of Superior interventions administrative interventions Council of Administration and Civil Service Page 70 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Strategic plans of Ministries and their associated agencies are Surveys of existing practices and procedures developed Improve quality and transparency of public 2,000,000 in the public administration. Surveys on services productivity and quality of services provided Procedures manuals of central government departments are revised and functional Inventory and evaluation of fixed and movable government assets Establishment of criteria and procedures for is performed. Purchase and Government assets and operating costs 59,400,000 allocation and utilization of government maintenance policies for property government property are evaluated. Seminars, workshops, and Training and information workshops for civil outreach and facilitation Awareness campaigns and lobbying for reform 36,800,000 servants. Organization of training seminars missions targeting civil servants abroad with multiplier effects and civil society are carried out. Sub-Total, Objective 1 129,200,000 Page 71 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Establishment of new civil service system Resources Actions Fiscal Years Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Decrees on organization and functioning of ENAPP, job Modes of organization of civil service entrance classifications, and employment Regulatory framework of the civil service 51,800,000 examinations, and of the system for branch designations are evaluating civil servants. published in the 'Moniteur.' Studies of job nomenclature and grid classification. Office of Human Resource and Strengthening of the Office of Management ENAPP Management is Development of a management policy for the civil and Human Resources and ENAPP, as well 140,400,000 established. Systematized service as of Human Resources Directorates and processing of central civil service Departments files is re-instituted. Development of training and skills- Annual training and skills- Training and skills-enhancement in the civil enhancement programs for civil servants. upgrade plan for civil servants, 39,400,000 service Development of a training curriculum for civil along with curricula, are servants. prepared and functional. Performance chart of civil service is prepared and Improved descriptions of civil servants' tasks Civil servants' career path management 11,400,000 evaluation procedures are in and profiles and definition of needs place Staffing needs of ministries and technical departments are identified and adequate Improved civil servant hiring and assignment personnel is provided Policy on civil service recruitment/hiring 35,600,000 policies Competitive civil service recruitment examination is organized Improvement of the gender equality situation Study of gender issues in the Gender Policy 5,700,000 in the civil service civil service is conducted Studies of issues concerning contractual employees are Strengthening of policies on management of Policy on management of contractual employees conducted and criteria for contractual employees in the civil service awarding of civil servant status are developed Government seminars A dynamic, and much more service-oriented, organized; outreach seminars for Awareness campaigns and lobbying 44,000,000 civil service partners organized; forums for general directors and senior staff Sub-Total, Objective 2 328,300,000 Page 72 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 3: Implementation of effective deconcentration of public services Resources Actions Fiscal Year Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Surveys on status of deconcentration of ministries, Determine the extent of progress in Better knowledge of the deconcentration of 11,400,000 technical departments, and deconcentrating public services public services on the part of government regional delegations and representations are conducted Charter on deconcentration of public services is completed; Organic Law on delegations and vice-delegations is prepared; Strengthening of the legal aspects of public Develop the legal framework 32,000,000 jurisdictional framework of Office service deconcentration of General Accounting and Administrative Disputes is prepared. Promotion and Development Fund. Support provided to Develop the institutional framework for Strengthening of the institutional framework 26,000,000 Interministerial Commission on deconcentration for deconcentration of public services Territorial Administration Declaration of National Policy on National policy on deconcentration is drawn up; Develop the conceptual and technical framework National Plan and Organizational 33,100,000 for deconcentration Framework for deconcentration is prepared; and Procedures Manuals are produced deconcentration Organizational schema of delegations and vice-delegations Establish entity for regional coordination of Establishment of a National deconcentration 8,000,000 is prepared; criteria and profiles deconcentration Plan of staff of delegations and vice- delegations are strengthened Page 73 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES Organizational structures of directorates, coordinating entities and administrative districts are Strengthen regional echelons involved in Resource endowment for regional 30,000,000 prepared. Policy on resource deconcentration representatives of public services endowment of regional representations of public services is drawn up Government seminars organized and outreach seminars for parliamentarians conducted; Forum with participation of civil society Organize training, outreach and lobbying forums for general directors and 38,000,000 associations, general directors and senior seminars on deconcentration higher-level staff of public officials of the Public Administration administration are conducted. Forum with participation of association of [words missing?] Sub-Total, Objective 3 178,500,000 Page 74 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 4 : Initiate the decentralization process Resources Actions Fiscal Years Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Structures developed for coordination, preparation and implementation of a Develop the conceptual framework for 2007-2010 40,200,000 Appropriate conceptual framework decentralization policy; policy decentralization and implementation strategy document is prepared, along with proposed action plan Law on decentralization is prepared and adopted; proposed revisions of municipal, town and Strengthening of legal framework 2007-2010 8,000,000 Appropriate legal framework département-level legislation is prepared; reform of taxes, FGDCT for municipal section, town and département Operational rules and procedures of CT bodies are prepared; Studies of Improved capacity of regional governments to administrative organization of Build capacities of local governments 2008-2010 77,800,000 manage their local affairs CTs conducted; proposed position structures and descriptions are drawn up; procedures manual and administrative forms developed Procedures for monitoring of delegations and vice-delegations prepared; procedures for local 6,000,000 Improved government outreach structures government verification by General Accounting Office are defined Government seminars on decentralization; national forums Broader awareness of national school of on decentralization; seminar for Awareness of, and lobbying for, ENAPP 142,200,000 public policy delegation/vice-delegation and regionalized higher-level staff of public administration Sub-Total. Objective 4 274,200,000 Page 75 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 5 : Modernization of physical structures of public services Resources Actions Fiscal Years Output indicators Outcome indicators Implementing Agency Amount Sources Surveys of working conditions and space occupancy in public Development of a national policy on Improve physical environment in which public 6,000,000 modernization or construction of public administration are conducted; services are provided buildings administrative infrastructure needs estimated Office space constructed for General Secretariat of the Office Construct office space for agencies involved in Improvement of working conditions in the of the Prime Minister, Office of 1,200,000,000 steering or support of reform public administration Human Resource Management (OMRH) and National School of Public Policy (ENAPP). Office space furnished and equipped for General Secretariat of the Office of the Prime Minister, Office of Human Provide furnishings and operational/technical Improvement of working conditions in the capacity building for administrative entities 1,013,000,000 Resource Management public administration involved in reform (OMRH) and National School of Public Policy (ENAPP), and human resource directorates and departments of the civil service Sub-Total, Objective 5 2,219,000,000 Total GPRSP 3,129,200,000 Page 76 HAITI- NATIONAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER (DSNCRP) SPECIFIC AND CROSS-SECTORAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 10- GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF SUPPORT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR OVERALL OBJECTIVE: Improve the business climate SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 1: Develop the legal framework for economic and development activity in a market economy Inventory and review laws and regulations to bring them into sync with current realities and modernization/globalization of the economy 5,000,000 Judicial/legal framework of Modernization of the administrative and Encouragement of investment MCI business environment improved procedural framework 6,000,000 Establishment of agencies to monitor generally acknowledged norms and standards 12,000,000 Sub-Total, Objective 1 23,000,000 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE 2: Strengthen institutions that ensure private initiative, free enterprise, a market economy, and competitiveness Establishment of arbitration institutions 5,000,000 Establish security of fixed and movable property/assets Guarantee right to private property 12,000,000 Strengthen the land registration system 12,000,000 Strengthen forms of transactions and conveyance of goods and services between parties Monitor proper execution of contracts 23,300,000 Establish special conflict resolution chambers 35,000,000 87,300,000 Sub-Total GPRSP 110,300,000 Page 77 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ANNEX III English Translation of Official Original Document in French Page 1 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1-STRENGTHENING THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED A. BUDGET PREPARATION A.1. Integrate the operating and investment budgets and take account of the DGB/MPCE/MEF In the context of the Starting High multiyear nature of spending in the annual budget law. SPENDING 2009/2010 budget law, 2009/2010 INSTITUTIONS a pilot test is launched in line with these criteria A.2. Strengthen the capacity of the spending institutions in (i) the DGB/MPCE/MEF Pilot project underway • H1 High preparation of investment and operating budgets and (ii) the SPENDING for the decentralization 2008 formulation of budget strategies and their budgetization. INSTITUTIONS and installation of the new version of the budget preparation system “ELABUD” in seven ministries for the preparation of the next budget. Phase 1 of strengthening the planning and budgetization structures of the spending institutions is in effect. In the 2007-2008 draft budget law, the PIP includes a capacity building program for the sectoral programming units of the SPENDING INSTITUTIONS Page 2 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED A.3. Devise tools to improve harmonize linkages between the MPCE/DGB/DEE Starting 2009/2010, Q1 2008 High, in particular macroeconomic framework, the growth and poverty reduction policies these tools will be used for and strategies, and the public investment program (PIP). in preparing the budget. macroeconomic modeling. MTEF, Program Approach A.4. Adhere to the budget timeframe to facilitate greater involvement of all DGB/MPCE/MEF Budget process Starting Low actors and submit the budget law to the vote before the start of the SPENDING complied with. 2009/2010 budget year concerned. INSTITUTIONS/ Office of the Prime Minister/Parliame nt/Council of Ministers A.4. Add, as an annex to the budget law, income and expenditure estimates DGB/DT/MEF The 2008/2009 revised • March Low for all funds managed through special accounts, namely, CAS, FDU, budget law contains 2008 PENSION CIVILE, FER, and CFGDT. such an annex. A.5. Systematically annex to the budget law for the following year the DGB/DT/MEF/M The result of the • June Low cumulative results of the budget for the year (N-2). PCE 2006/2007 budget is 2008 annexed to the 2008/2009 budget law. A.6. Formalize the process of evaluating tax revenue in an administrative DGI/AGD/DGB/ An administrative text • H1 Medium text. MEF/DIF is prepared and 2008 distributed. A.7. Conduct an economic analysis of domestic and external borrowing and DD/DT/MEF/DE Analysis conducted and Starting High define a sustainable level of debt compatible with the macroeconomic E/MPCE/BRH formalized in a report. 2008/2009 framework established. A.8. Set spending caps for the spending institutions at the start of the budget DGB/MEF/MPCE Caps are set and Starting Low preparation process so as to improve the quality of their proposals. communicated in 2008/2009 writing to each spending institution. A.9. Expand the framework for transactions recorded in the budget. DGB/DT/MEF + September SPENDING 2009 INSTITUTIONS Page 3 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED A.10. Design and implement an information system on programs and projects MPCE/ An exhaustive project • H2 Medium DGB database is set up at the 2008 MPCE A.11. Improve the budget nomenclature for expenditures: DGB/DT/MEF The budget • Q4 Medium • Improve budget classification by putting in place three main nomenclature for 2007 segments: expenditures is - functional classification broken down into sub-functions, supplemented with the corresponding to the broad strategic areas of intervention segments referred to identified by the line ministries, in the various technical fields; and training sessions - administrative and territorial classification; are organized for all - economic classification or by type. users. • Finalize the budget nomenclature by making it compatible with the chart of accounts • Fine-tune the definition of budget lines for poverty spending by defining sub-functions of the functional nomenclature corresponding to the main objectives established by the ministries. • Identify and classify the sources of financing A.12. Improve the budget nomenclature for expenditures: DGB/DT/MEF/M A text is signed and • H2 Medium • Add a nomenclature for programs to the budget nomenclature. PCEcirculated for 2008 implementation of the new budget nomenclature for expenditures. A.13. Improve the budget nomenclature for revenue: DGB/DT/DGI A text is signed and • Q1 Medium • Consider the implementation of a budget classification, with two AGD/MEF circulated for 2008 main segments: implementation of the - administrative and territorial classification; new budget - economic classification. In discussion with the entities nomenclature for re concerned. venue. A.14. Plan the development of a medium-term expenditure framework MPCE/DGB/MEF A plan for phased Starting High (MTEF). SPENDING introduction in the 2008/2009 INSTITUTIONS priority sectors is established. B. BUDGET EXECUTION Page 4 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED B.1. Continue the AGD reform process by (i) preparing staff regulations for AGD The new AGD reform • Q4 High customs personnel, (ii) revising the Customs Code dating from 1987, (iii) is finalized and 2007 joining the WTO, (iv) setting qualifications for customs personnel, (v) implemented. It meets putting in place a new customs clearance procedure to facilitate the all the criteria processing of cases by the AGD in 48 hours maximum and (vi) described in the establishing an information and dispute settlement mechanism. Awaiting corresponding section feedback from the AGD of the “Measures to be taken” column. B.2. Acquire and install the new version of ASYCUDA. AGD The new version of • H2 High ASYCUDA is 2008 installed. The IT Unit has already linked the three offices of the AGD to the metropolitan network and is currently working on the installation of ASYCUDA in some regional offices. B.3. Strengthen the control capacities of the AGD (Installation of AGD; DIF; The level of customs • Q4 High ASYCUDA, establishment of inspection brigades and fixed control DGI/Direction de revenue in the offices 2007 posts) in particular to raise the level of revenue in local and regional Vérification in the interior of the customs offices. These offices need to be computerized. Awaiting fiscale (Tax Audit country increase from feedback from the AGD. Directorate). 10% of total customs revenue to: - 25% at September 30, 2008 - 40% at September 30, 2009 - 60% at September 30, 2010 Figures to be reviewed… Page 5 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED B.4. Detail in the public accounts disbursements for public interventions. Minister of Public interventions are December Low Finance, Prime detailed in the public 2007 Minister, accounts. President. B.5. Update and circulate the legal and normative public investment MPCE/MEF The legal framework is H2 of 2007- Low framework. updated and distributed 2008 fiscal to the spending year. institutions. B.6. Prepare a public expenditure procedures manual. DGB/DT/MEF/ A public expenditure September High MPCE procedures manual is 2008 developed and made available to all those involved in the expenditure chain. B.7. Produce the budget review law (loi de règlement) for the previous budget DGB/DT/ The budget review law Each month High year (2005/2006) and prepare the draft budget review law on a regular CSC/CA/MPCE is submitted to of June and basis as prescribed in the decree of February 16, 2005 on the preparation Parliament. starting from and execution of budget laws. June 2008 Page 6 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED B.8. Gradually implement the principle of decentralized management, as DGB/MEF/UI All spending ministries • H1 Low provided for by the Constitution, by appointing the ministers chief and agencies are 2008 authorizing officers for expenditure. currently connected to the SYSDEP system for the execution and monitoring of their respective budgets via the metropolitan network. A project on deconcentration of the secure printing of Treasury checks in the Regional Directorates will be prepared in Q2 2008. Decrees appointing the ministers have been supplemented with the mention of their capacity as chief authorizing officers for their ministry’s budget. B.9. Make quarterly appropriations or commitment caps available in a timely DGB/MEF/DT The quarterly Starting Low manner, on the basis of the budget, commitments made and cash flow appropriations status 2007/2008 plans. reports are made available to the public. B.10. Improve the reliability of the personnel database DGB and Office The personnel database • H1 Low of Human is up-to-date. 2008 Resources Management (OMRH)/DT/UI B.11. Complete the inventory of salary arrears and impose sanctions for DGB/DT/ The results of the • H1 Low unauthorized recruitments. inventory and the 2008 sanctions imposed are published. Page 7 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED B.12. Strengthen the capacity of the administration in charge of the Civil DGB/DT and A training plan is • Q2 Medium Service to enable it to carry out its functions. Civil Service available 2008 Commission (to be set up) B.13. Use bank transfer as the preferred payment method in order to DT/MEF/OMRH A text is adopted to that • H2 Low strengthen payment security. effect and circulated. 2008 B.14. Manage the “own resources” of the SPENDING INSTITUTIONS DT/SPENDING The 2007/2008 budget • H2 Low in the same way as other government revenue, that is, record them, INSTITUTIONS/ law includes the 2008 include them in the budget, and use them in conformity with government DGB amount of all “own accounting procedures. resources”. A text requiring that these sums be managed in accordance with government accounting rules is adopted and published. B.15. Establish and implement a new human resource management DGB/OMRH A text detailing the new • H2 High framework including qualifications, skills assessment, and a capacity mode of human 2008 building program. Develop a transparent, merit-based procedure for resource management recruitment and promotion. is adopted and published. B.16. Build the capacity of the DGB and the MPCE to strengthen the DGB/MPCE/DT Investment expenditure • H1 High performance of their role of controller, particularly regarding the is carried out in 2008 preparation of FIOPs and for physical, technical and financial conformity with the inspections. same procedures as operating expenditure. A staff training plan for the DGB and MPCE is approved. Page 8 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED B.17. Devise and put in place an accounting and financial framework for MPCE, DGB, DT An accounting and • H1 High investment projects financed through external resources. The framework financial framework for 2008 will, in particular, include: (i) a detailed budget classification, (ii) a externally-financed connection to SYSDEP, (iii) a specific charter for project accountants projects is designed and required to report to MEF, (iv) the obligation to open all project accounts implemented, with the BRH and (v) the organization of information gathering for on- consistent with the site inspections. points listed in the in the corresponding section of the “Measures to be taken” column. C. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL REPORTING C.1. Produce the General Government Accounts and the aggregate balance of DGB/DT/MEF The general Starting High accounts as provided for in the PCGE and attach all relevant information government accounts 2006/2007 required by law before submitting the end-year treasury account (compte and the aggregate de gestion) to the CSCCA. Produce the quarterly reports within four balance of accounts as weeks after the period concerned. well as their annexes are produced. The quarterly reports are produced within four weeks. C.2. Improve the presentation of public debt in the annual financial statements DD, DT/MEF Debt service March 2008 High by including debt service obligations and the outstanding debt balance. obligations and the outstanding debt balance are included in the annual financial statements. C.3. Integrate the current accounts into the double-entry accounting system DT/MEF The current accounts H1 2008 High and produce monthly bank reconciliations. are integrated into the double-entry accounting system and bank reconciliations are produced monthly. Page 9 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEASURES TO BE TAKEN EXECUTING START NEED FOR DONORS PERFORMANCE AGENCIES INDICATORS DATE ASSISTANCE CONCERNED C.4. Complete the deployment of government accountants to the SPENDING DT/MEF All SPENDING • H2 Medium INSTITUTIONS. INSTITUTIONS have 2008 a government accountant C.5. Reorganize the DT into a Directorate-General of the Treasury for the DT/MEF The Directorate- • H2 Low effective exercise of its attributions. General of the Treasury 2008 is created. C.6. Conduct a review of IPSAS to determine the appropriate areas for the DT/MEF A review of IPSAS is 2009-2010 High adoption of international standards and propose the revision of existing conducted. rules. Awaiting feedback. C.7. In coordination with the government accountants already deployed in the DGB/DT/MEF + Details on the non- March 2008 Low SPENDING INSTITUTIONS, annex the details of current account SPENDING requisition, current expenditure to the annual financial statements. INSTITUTIONS/ account expenditure of UI the seven ministries, the Office of the PM, and the Presidency are attached to the annual financial statements. The IT unit has developed a current account expenditure management module currently being used by the government accountants. C.8. Adopt a reliable accounting system for inventory and skilled personnel, DT/SPENDING An inventory • H2 High as well as a reliable procedures manual and management software INSTITUTIONS accounting system is 2008 program. For that purpose, identify and train inventory accountants. put in place and is Centralize, information on government property, both real and personal, operational. at the DT. Conduct annual inventories and send the reports to MEF and Information is to the CSCCA. Awaiting feedback. centralized at the DT and an annual inventory report is submitted to MEF and the CSCCA. Page 10 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Page 11 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM D. DEBT AND CASH MANAGEMENT D.1. Prepare an inventory and monitor all government bank accounts, MPCE/MEF/+ An inventory of all Q1 2008 Low including donor-financed projects, open with commercial banks in the SPENDING government bank banking private system. INSTITUTIONS accounts is drawn up. The cash section, It would be preferable to appoint to the DT a government accountant Central Accounting responsible for recording borrowing operations and ensuring that cash is Unit, is elevated to the managed in compliance with the limits set by the Budget Law. rank of a Cash and Debt Management Unit. D.2. Set up a cash planning and control committee, comprising DT/DGB/DGI+ A cash planning and • Q4 Medium representatives of the DGI, the AGD (revenue forecast), DEE, DGB, and AGD/DEE/BRH+ monitoring committee 2007 DT (expenditure forecast) as well as of the BRH (liquidity position of the SPENDING is established. accounts of the DT). This committee shall prepare cash-flow plans in INSTITUTIONS coordination with the SPENDING INSTITUTIONS and monitor their implementation on a monthly or quarterly basis. D.3. Appoint to the DT a government accountant responsible for debt DT/DE/MEF A government • H2 Low management and for establishing channels for information sharing accountant responsible 2008 between himself and the director for debt. Monitor all debt flows for debt is appointed recorded in the government accounting books and records. and functioning. • E. INFORMATION SYSTEMS E1. Design and implement a financial management master plan to serve as a DGB/DE/MPCE+ A computerized • Q2 High medium-term framework for organizing the improvements needed to the DGI/AGD/DD+ financial management 2008 financial management systems. This plan will prepare the institutions for SPENDING master plan is designed the necessary changes and establish the sequence of technical INSTITUTIONS and implemented. improvements and the review of administrative and control procedures. It will also coordinate the technical assistance and financial needs. E.2. Reduce the exceptions that make it possible to avoid recording DGB/SPENDING All current account • Q1 Low expenditures in SYSDEP, such as the current accounts of the INSTITUTIONS/ expenditures are 2008 SPENDING INSTITUTIONS. Authorize the execution of current DT recorded in SYSDEP. accounts expenditure through SYSDEP. Page 12 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM E.3. Develop and put in place the other modules of SYSDEP, in particular the DT/MEF Accounting • H2 High accounting applications. applications are added 2008 to SYSDEP. Finalize the computerization of the government accounting system (3rd Sysdep is strengthened objective of the DT for 2007-2008) in the context of the PCGE –ongoing by the following and should strengthen SYSDEP applications: Accounting, Fixed Assets and Investment Fund Management E.4. Finalize the installation of SYSDEP in the other SPENDING DGB/DT/SPENDI All SPENDING • H1 High INSTITUTIONS. NG INSTITUTIONS 2008 INSTITUTIONS equipped with SYSDEP. E.5. Extend SYSDEP to the regional level, with the possibility for checks to DGB.DT/UI- All Regional be issued by the regional directorates of MEF. MEF/UCDD/SPE Directorates of NDING SPENDING INSTITUTIONS INSTITUTIONS have access to SYSDEP and can issue checks. Page 13 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM E.6. Move towards the implementation of an integrated financial management DGB/DT/ The process of • H2 High system. SPENDING integrating the financial 2008 INSTITUTIONS management system is underway with the setting up of metropolitan and interregional networks for interconnection of the government expenditure management systems and revenue collection and management systems throughout the national territory. The various government expenditure management applications cluster around Sysdep, which is at the core of this infrastructure. An integrated financial management information system is designed and implemented. E.7. Put in place a harmonized contract monitoring system. F. INTERNAL CONTROLS F.1. Recruit, train and deploy financial comptrollers in the SPENDING DGB/MEF All SPENDING September Medium INSTITUTIONS. INSTITUTIONS have 2008 a financial comptroller. F.2. Develop methodological tools and manuals and make them available to DCB/IGF The control agencies September High the control agencies (DCB, IGF, etc.) to strengthen their operational have methodological 2008 capacity. tools and manuals. Page 14 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM F.3. Recruit and train General Finance Inspectors (GFIs) and incorporate into IGF/MEF The GFIs are recruited • Q4 High a regulatory text the procedures for utilizing the results of inspection and trained. A text 2007 missions and their publication, if necessary. Review the legal texts to establishing their eliminate the option of ex-ante control exercised by IGF, and include exclusively ex-post IGF personnel in operational activities. control responsibilities is finalized and published. F.4. Establish internal control structures in the financial administrations (DT, DT/DGI/AGD Internal control • H2 High DGI, and AGD). structures are 2008 established in the financial administrations. F.5. Establish a harmonized framework for information exchange between the IGF, DCB, DT+ A harmonized • H2 Low staff of the control structures (IGF, internal audit of ministries, ULCC, DGI/AGD+ framework for 2008 CSCCA). ULCC/CSCCA information exchange between the control structures is established. Page 15 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM G. EXTERNAL CONTROLS (JURISDICTIONAL CONTROL) G.1. Adopt a law on the attributions of the CSCCA CSCCA The new law on the 2008/2009 High - Use the draft law submitted to the Senate by the CSCCA to introduce functioning of the changes. The main measures required are as follows: CSCCA is approved. It • Assign the counselors of the CSCCA the same rank as Supreme Court takes into account the (Cour de Cassation) judges in order to align their status with that of the points listed in the in highest administrative and financial jurisdiction of the Republic, in the corresponding accordance with the rules established by the Constitution; section of the • Insist on the need for any democratic country desirous of entrenching “Measures to be taken” good governance in public financial management to have an column. operational and effective administrative and financial jurisdiction; in particular by creating the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) which will be the highest instance of said jurisdiction. • Limit Senate control to overseeing the accounts of the CSCCA. The Senate can always have the benefit of technical assistance from the CSC/CA as provided for by the Constitution of 1987. This collaboration between the CSC/CA, the Parliament and the government can be exercised in several ways. The most common practice is through the preparation of reports on the controls effected. These reports are submitted to Parliament, MEF, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister’s Office. • The CSC/CA is consulted on all draft contracts of works, goods procurement, agreements, subventions, grants, etc. with the exception of administrative contracts that the Court is competent to approve. - The regulatory texts governing the functioning of the Chambers, the rules of procedure, the status of the judges and other officers of the court, and the internal rules of the CSCCA, including its organizational chart, should be prepared and approved as soon as possible. - Analyze the texts governing the CSC/CA, the organization and functioning of the structures of the Court, their relevance, their efficacy, and their practical aspects and existing competencies. Page 16 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM G.2. The CSCCA should preparer a procedures manual and a code of ethics CSCCA A procedures manual 2008/2009 High based on international standards. An inventory and assessment of human and a code of ethics are resources should also be undertaken with a view to rationalizing the staff drafted. A human of the CSCCA and assigning qualified officers to operational activities. resources inventory and Identify and determine the causes of the institutional and technical assessment are difficulties that hinder performance of the CSC/CA’s missions. conducted. Analyze the amounts allocated to the CSC/CA in the 2007/2008 budget Qualified staff are law particularly for operating and investment costs. reassigned. G.3. Ongoing efforts to finalize the audits of the general government accounts CSCCA/DT A timetable for 2008-2011 High must be pursued. Emphasis needs to be placed on the quality of the execution of the audits audits of the various fiscal years. A timetable for the execution of these of the general audits (2003/2004, 2004/2005, and 2005/2006) should also be drawn up government accounts is in cooperation with the DT. The CSCCA should examine the possibility drawn up. The accounts of obtaining assistance, in particular from the private audit profession, to for fiscal years clear the backlog of these audits. 2003/2004, 2004/2005 Conduct a risk analysis in the form of an overall evaluation of the institutions and 2005/2006 are to be audited and the type of audit needed, taking into account the existence audited. and of efficiency of the internal audit system and the nature of the entities to Private firms are be audited. This is essential for determining the priority activities that the contracted. CSC/CA needs to undertake to fulfill its mandate. Competitive recruitment is Take stock of the activities conducted at the CSC/CA since the election and organized to achieve a installation of the council and assess their level of execution in relation to the staff complement to 50 human, technical and material resources available to the court. auditors, 25 for the general accounts, 25 for accounts clearance. Page 17 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM G.4. The CSCCA should prepare and publish an annual report presenting the CSCCA An annual report 2008 Medium main findings of its audits and the measures recommended to improve containing the main the functioning of the administration and the management of public audit findings and funds. recommendations is published. Publication of the latest report on the execution of the 2006/2007 budget law as well as the notice of compliance on the 2005/2006 draft budget review law submitted by MEF. Publication of a report on the audit of the end- year treasury accounts of public enterprises and autonomous agencies. G.5. The CSCCA should develop and implement a joint review mechanism CSCCA A joint review • H2 Low with another reputable Supreme Audit Institution. mechanism with 2008 another reputable Supreme Audit Institution is put in place. Introduce coordination of the supervisory agencies and seek to harmonize the working methods of such agencies operating in the same sector. Put in place a chain of control: IGF, ULCC, UCREF, CSC/CA, DGI, and UGCF. Page 18 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM G.6. The CSC/CA considers the establishment of three administrative courts CSC/CA Three regional 2008/2009 across the regions (cf. law on regionalization, September 1982). administrative courts are set up over the next five fiscal years. Recruitment of legal consultants with expertise in administrative and financial law. G.7. The CSC/CA should, through an education campaign, highlight the CSC/CA requirement for governments to report on their management. G.8. The CSC/CA should monitor good financial management, beyond CSC/CA Personnel trained in the ensuring that revenue and expenditure are in good order and on a sound legal techniques of: basis. Financial audit of autonomous agencies and public enterprises. Compliance audit of central government. Ex-post audit of public revenue. Information and Communication Technologies. Audit of the public debt. Bank auditing G.9. The CSC/CA should set aside the necessary resources to be able to CSC/CA A budget line is created 2008/2009 conduct annual inventories of personal and real government property. for carrying out these activities. H. PUBLIC PROCUREMENT Page 19 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM H.1. Make the new legal framework for public procurement effective: CNMP/Executive Law voted in the 2007 - 2008 Low • Validate the documents prepared in the context of the reform of the – Prime Minister’s Parliament. procurement system, namely, the preliminary draft law on Office/MEF/Parlia procurement of April 2007, enabling texts of the law, and standard ment Publication and tender documents application of the legal • Conduct an information campaign for MPs on the new legal framework. framework • Submit the legal framework to Parliament Spending institutions • Disseminate the legal framework and the Regulation have new legal instruments that they are applying. H.2. Strengthen the capacity of all parties involved in public procurement: CNMP/CEFOPAF Better presentation of 2007 High IDB ? • Intensify training in procurement to include all Ministerial OP/ENAF procurement files and Commissions, Specialized Commissions and the Town Halls and increased approval rate Regional Directorates involved in procurement. of submissions. • Adapt procurement training to include the private sector and civil society Fewer complaints from businesspeople. H.3. Develop a public sector career structure in procurement to facilitate an Office of the Incorporation of 2008 - 2009 High increase in the number of staff with qualifications in procurement Prime Minister – procurement expertise appropriate for their level of responsibility. Human at the spending . Resources/CNMP institutions. H.4. Integration of public procurement into the financial management DGB/MPCE/MEF Procurement plans in 2007-2008 Medium process in Haiti, mainly through the preparation and execution of /spending place in all spending procurement plans linked to sectoral policies institutions institutions. H.5. Facilitate the process of control of public procurement: CNMP becomes fully 2007-2008 Low • Strengthen the Technical Secretariat (ST) of the CNMP functional. • Deploy legal expertise at the CNMP CNMP • Supplement the administrative staff of the CNMP • Draw up an administrative and financial procedures manual CNMP operates in • Install a management accounting program conformity with the • Design, develop and install a computerized tool for monitoring the standards governing public procurement process public institutions. • Raise the threshold requiring approval from the CNMP • Establish four (4) Regional Commissions (Nord, Artibonite, Centre, Simplification of Sud) procedures for acquisitions of average CNMP/Executive size. – Prime Minister’s Office Page 20 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM H.6. Improve public procurement practice: CNMP/spending Increase the use of 2007-2008 Medium • Limit the award of negotiated contracts. institutions more competitive • Replace the restricted tender procedure with open tenders (national procurement methods. and international). • Minimize the use of the “three pro-forma” invoice procedure for Improved perception of small purchases and increase the use of open-ended contracts. transparency and access • Publish all tender announcements issued by the spending to information. institutions on the CNMP Web site. H.7. Collect, organize and analyze statistical data and information to support CNMP Improved availability 2007 High the recommendations for change to public procurement policy. of information on procurement. H.8. Manage the communication aspects of the procurement reform process CNMP The spending 2007 Medium by conducting an information campaign, aimed at the spending institutions and the institutions and the general public, on the mission of the CNMP and the general public have regulatory texts. balanced information on the CNMP and the regulatory texts at their disposal. I. ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT I.1. Refocus the ULCC on its core missions as defined in its establishment MEF/ULCC The ULCC operates • Q4 Low decree. AWAITING FEEDBACK only within the 2007 confines of the attributions set out in its establishment decree I.2. Review the institutional supervision of ULCC and make it independent MEF/ULCC The establishment • H1 Low of the executive branch to enable the unit to play its role fully. decree of the ULCC is 2008 AWAITING FEEDBACK reviewed to position it as a unit independent of the executive branch. J. OVERSIGHT OF AUTONOMOUS AGENCIES J.1. Strengthen oversight of the autonomous services by implementing the MEF The boards of directors Starting Medium requirements defined in the texts, in particular, boards of directors, of the autonomous 2006/2007 annual financial audits and periodic reporting requirements. AWAITING services meet regularly. FEEDBACK A financial audit is conducted each year and financial reports are produced each quarter. Page 21 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM J.2. Strengthen the capacities of the commissions of the public enterprises. MEF A training plan on • H1 High AWAITING FEEDBACK management 2008 techniques is approved. Page 22 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PEMFAR INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR TRANSPORT SUB-SECTOR Priority Action Plan Fiscal Available Input Output Performance Implementing Objective Actions Years Resources Indicator Indicator Indicator Agency Preparation of Quarterly the budget on expenditure the basis of the 2007-2008 DSNCRP framework Budgets sectoral Public Treasury and sectoral reflects the prepared MTPTC strategy and strategy strategic vision the DSNCRP of the transport sub-sector 1. Strengthen the links between the Strengthen the Deployment allocation of capacity of the of an Timely resources and MTPTC in 2007-2008 additional Officer preparation of government budget officer for the budgets of preparation and Public Treasury budget recruited priorities defined in the MTPTC and the DNSCRP and the monitoring preparation annual MTPTC/MEF sectoral strategy and monitoring of monitoring execution Network Identification Link rehabilitated of the investments to and/or built + Network network to be maintenance FER has rehabilitated 2008-2009 Public Treasury rehabilitated MTPTC/FER expenditure sufficient and/or built and/or built + resources to maintained minutes of ensure meetings maintenance Page 23 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan Input Output Performance Implementing Objective Actions Fiscal Years Available Resources Indicator Indicator Indicator Agency Update the skills of MTPTC Expertise of the Reduced delays for Accountants’ MEF/MPCE/MTP accountants in the 2007-2008 Public Treasury MEF/MPCE mobilizing Public skills updated TC budget execution mobilized Treasury funds procedures of MEF Eliminate the one- Current Review of the Faster budget twelfth rule in 2007-2008 Public Treasury MEF procedure procedure execution budget execution Prepare the Work of Procurement Faster and more procurement plan ministerial plan prepared efficient by June and launch procurement prior to start of acquisition of 2. Improve invitations to tender committee budget year goods and budget and requisitions as services needed execution soon as the budget is approved 2008-2009 Public Treasury CMPP Page 24 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan Available Input Output Performance Implementing Objective Actions Fiscal Years Resources Indicator Indicator Indicator Agency Close the Identification One single current of projects, Accounts project account 2009-2010 Public Treasury MTPTC accounts Letter from closed exists with sub- the Minister accounts Page 25 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan Fiscal Available Output Performance Objective Actions Input Indicator Implementing Agency Years Resources Indicator Indicator 4. Gradually integrate externally- funded expenditure into the sectoral budget Technical coordinating Involve principal External investment meetings held during the Reports of working donors in the 2008-2009 Public Treasury expenditure MPCE/MTPTC budget preparation meetings budget preparation correctly budgeted process process Page 26 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan Available Output Performance Implementing Objective Actions Fiscal Years Input Indicator Resources Indicator Indicator Agency Better knowledge Progress Strengthen the Appointment of of the link between Public reports from competencies of 2008-2009 an officer to the sectoral investment MTPTC Treasury/IDB the officer 5. Evaluate the the MTPTC UTPP and poverty appointed impact of the reduction budgetary Conduct of support spending and missions by monitor international and Less recourse to Reports on budget national external expertise Train HR MTPTC 2008-2009 DEFI-IDB missions and MTPTC outcomes consultants and for impact in performing training sessions training sessions assessment impact studies and strategic planning Conduct of support Better knowledge Specific impact missions by Report on of the link between studies to be 2008-2009 DEFI-IDB international and specific impact sectoral investment MTPTC conducted national studies and poverty consultants reduction Page 27 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – DRINKING WATER SECTOR AND REHABILITATION OF THE AUTOMONOMOUS METROPOLITAN DRINKING WATER PLANT (CAMEP) Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 1.- Strengthen the A- Upgrading of the drinking 2007 / 2008 Not yet Construction of Increase in production Number of CAMEP linkages between the water supply in Pèlerin, Pétion- 2008 / 2009 available reservoirs. complaints about the allocation of resources Ville, Péguy-Ville, Frères and 2009 / 2010 Improvement in the quality of water and the priorities of the Haut de Delmas Drilling equipment quality of the water flowing from the government as defined in supply faucets the DSNCRP and the Installation of brand new sectoral strategy networks Distribution by tiers Increase in the Construction of pumping number of paying stations customers B- Upgrading of the drinking 2008 / 2009 Not yet Drilling and drilling Increase in production Network yield and CAMEP water network and 2009 / 2010 available equipment coverage rehabilitation of “Bas de la 2010 / 2011 Establishment of Ville” including Mariani, Mon 2011 / 2012 Laying of new water community standpipes Increase in the Repos, Mahotière, Waney, mains where users can population with Bizoton, Diquini, Fontamara, purchase water access to water Martissant, Bolosse and the Establishment of a neighborhoods surrounding regulation system Increased protection Growth in revenue Blvd. J. J. Dessalines against fires C- Rehabilitation of the 2010 / 2011 Not yet Drilling in Gressier. Increased production Increase in the CAMEP Downtown network, including 2011 / 2012 available population with the major arteries, such as 2012 / 2013 Creation of new Creation of standpipes access to water Lalue, Canapé Vert, Turgeau, 2013 / 2014 backflow centers where users can Bois Patate, Armand Holly, and 2014 / 2015 purchase water Growth in revenue Blvd. Harry Truman Strengthening and development of the supply network. Page 28 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUTONOMOUS METROPOLITAN DRINKING WATER PLANT (CAMEP) Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 2.- Improve budget A- Prepare along with he 2007 / 2008 CAMEP The work of the Plan prepared ahead of Quicker and more CAMEP execution budget a procurement plan and onward Specialized Commission the fiscal year efficient purchase of for construction supplies, approved goods and fuel, material, and services equipment B.- Reduce the number of 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Sourcing and selection of Signing of service More streamlined CAMEP and contractors by transferring onward the companies contracts management of the selected management to certain stakeholders companies professional companies Page 29 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN– DRINKING WATER SECTOR AND REHABILITATION OF THE AUTONOMOUS METROPOLITAN DRINKING WATER PLANT (CAMEP) PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – DRINKING WATER SECTOR AND REHABILITATION OF THE AUTONOMOUS METROPOLITAN DRINKING WATER PLANT (CAMEP) Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 3.- Improve transparency A- Transfer staff payroll 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Preparation of the list of Payment of the Satisfaction of the CAMEP and in fiscal reporting management to a reputable onward employees to be paid employees by the bank paid employee the bank bank selected selected B.- Upgrade and maintain 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Renewal of the contract The software is More streamlined CAMEP and the customer management onward with the company operational customer the company software management selected C.- Begin operations of the 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Appoint the members of Specialized More effective CAMEP and Specialized Government onward the Commission Commission issues government CNMP Procurement Commission calls for bids procurement management Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 4.- Gradually integrate A- Involve main donors and 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Technical consultations Financing agreement Externally funded CAMEP and externally funded lenders in the preparation of onward organized before and from the donors and capital expenditure MPCE expenditures into the the budget throughout the budget lenders consulted carried correctly in sector budget preparation process the budget Page 30 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – DRINKING WATER SECTOR AND REHABILITATION OF THE AUTONOMOUS METROPOLITAN DRINKING WATER PLANT (CAMEP) Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 5.- Assess the impact of A- Carry out targeted impact 2007 / 2008 and CAMEP Selection of auditing Result of the audit Achievement of the CAMEP fiscal expenditures and studies onward firms objectives Audit firms monitor fiscal performance Page 31 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance resources indicator IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Modernize and strengthen TELECO and -Landline Network - the 150,000 landlines Satisfied customers TELECO infrastructure 2007-2008 external sources Renewal Plan available in the country TELECO and onward to be identified - Transport are now functional Increase in TELECO Network Renewal - loss of service rate revenues Plan reduced to less than 1% - Human and - improvement in the 1. STRENGTHEN Material Resources quality of service offered THE LINKAGES by Teleco BETWEEN RESOURCE - Installation of 50,000 ALLOCATIONS AND additional lines GOVERNMENT Expand basic telephone 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material -1,000,000 landlines and -Improvement in TELECO PRIORITIES AS service to a wider number and onward external sources and equipment mobile phones provided TELECO’s DEFINED IN THE of users to be identified Human resources penetration rate DNSCRP AND SECTORAL STRATEGY -Develop TELECOMS 2007-2008 TELECO and Execution of the - Implementation of a -Narrowing of TELECO infrastructure in Haiti and onward external sources Modernization Plan local optical network Haiti’s digital divide Material Resources around the major cities Human Resources - Link-up of Haiti with the Guadeloupe digital network - Develop NICT services 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material Implementation of the - Connectivity of TELECO and onward external sources and equipment Wimax network rural areas Human Resources Restructure the Utility 2006-2007 TELECO Implementation of Improved output and Effective TELECO Board and onward the Company’s efficiency of the Utility management of the of Directors restructuring plan Utility Observable profitability Page 32 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance years resources indicator IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Supervise execution of the budget 2007-2008 Resources to TELECO Board of Approval and Efficient execution of TELECO and be identified Directors monitoring of the the budget onward execution of the TELECO budget Ensure disbursements under the 2007-2008 Own resources Monitoring of the Implementation of the TELECO budget are made on time and TELECO implementation of the projects under the onward TELECO investment Investment Program program Make revenue generated by 2007-2008 Own resources Call for bids for financial Timely collection of Execution of the TELECO TELECO available on time and management platform revenue generated planned expenditures 2. IMPROVE onward BUDGET EXECUTION Authorize the opening of accounts 2007-2008 Resources to Purchase of modern Improved project Implementation of the by projects and be identified financial management implementation projects under the onward tools investment program Prepare the procurement plan on 2007-2008 Own resources Work of the TELECO Projects under the Implementation of the TELECO time for the purchase of planned and procurement steering program budget projects under the material and equipment onward committees available at the investment program beginning of the fiscal year Page 33 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 3. IMPROVE Ensure information on the 2007-2008 Own resources TELECO Intranet -Project expenditure Transparency in TELECO TRANSPARENCY IN budget is disseminated and onward report financial management FISCAL REPORTING - Financial statement Put in place tools and 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Accounting software Timely production of TELECO procedures for the fiscal and accounting budget execution monitoring of investment procedures manual for reports for investment projects investment projects projects Prepare software for capital 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Software installed Ability to produce in TELECO investment budget real time consolidated management and statements of the monitoring execution of the capital expenditure budget Page 34 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance resources indicator IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Modernize and strengthen TELECO and - Landline network - the 150,000 landlines Satisfied customers TELECO infrastructure 2007-2008 external sources renewal plan available in the country TELECO and onward to be identified - Transport network are functional Increase in TELECO renewal -Loss of service rate revenue - Human and reduced to less than 1% material resources - improvement in the 1. STRENGTHEN quality of service offered THE LINKAGES by Teleco BETWEEN - Installation of 50,000 RESOURCE additional lines ALLOCATIONS AND Expand basic telephone 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material -1,000,000 landlines and - Improvement in the TELECO GOVERNMENT service to a wider number and onward external sources and equipment mobile phones provided penetration rate of the PRIORITIES AS of users to be identified Human resources TELECO network DEFINED IN THE DNSCRP AND SECTORAL STRATEGY -Develop TELECOMS 2007-2008 TELECO and Execution of the - Implementation of a -Narrowing of TELECO infrastructure in Haiti and onward external sources Modernization Plan local optical network Haiti’s digital divide around the major cities Material Resources Human Resources - Link-up of Haiti with the Guadeloupe digital network - Develop NICT services 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material Implementation of the - Connectivity of TELECO and onward external sources and equipment Wimax network rural areas Human Resources Restructure the Company 2006-2007 TELECO Implementation of Improved output and Effective TELECO and onward the Company’s production of TELECO management of the Board of Directors restructuring plan Company Observable profitability Page 35 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance years resources indicator IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Supervise the execution of the 2007-2008 Resources to TELECO Board of Approval and Efficient execution of TELECO budget and be identified Directors monitoring of the the budget onward TELECO budget Ensure disbursements made as part 2007-2008 Own resources Monitoring of the Implementation of the TELECO of the execution of the budget are and TELECO implementation of the projects under the made on time onward TELECO capital Investment Program expenditure program Ensure timely availability of 2007-2008 Own resources Call for bids for financial Timely collection of Execution of the TELECO revenue generated by TELECO and management platform revenue generated planned expenditures 2. IMPROVE onward BUDGET EXECUTION Authorize the opening of accounts 2007-2008 Resources to Purchase of modern Improved project Implementation of the by project and be identified financial management implementation projects under the onward tools investment program Prepare the procurement plan on 2007-2008 Own resources Work of the TELECO Projects under the Implementation of the TELECO time for the planned purchase of and procurement steering program budget projects under the material and equipment onward committees available at the investment program beginning of the fiscal year Page 36 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 3. IMPROVE Ensure information on the 2007-2008 Own resources TELECO Intranet -Project expenditure Transparency in TELECO TRANSPARENCY IN budget is disseminated and onward report financial management FISCAL REPORTING - Financial statement Implement tools and 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Accounting software Timely production of TELECO procedures for the fiscal and accounting budget execution monitoring of investment procedures manual for reports for investment projects investment projects projects Prepare software to manage 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Software installed Ability to produce in TELECO and monitor the capital real time consolidated expenditure budget statements on the execution of the investment budget Page 37 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator OBJECTIVES Modernize and strengthen TELECO - Landline network - the 150,000 landlines Satisfied customers TELECO infrastructure 2007-2008 external sources renewal plan available in the country TELECO and onward to be identified - IP Plan are functional Increase in TELECO Transport network -Loss of service rate revenue renewal reduced to less than 1% - Human and material - improvement in the 1. STRENGTHEN resources quality of service offered THE LINKAGES by Teleco BETWEEN - Installation of 50,000 RESOURCE additional lines ALLOCATIONS AND Expand basic telephone 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material -1,000,000 landlines and -Improvement in TELECO GOVERNMENT service to a wider number and onward external sources and equipment mobile phones provided penetration rate of the PRIORITIES AS of users to be identified Human resources TELECO network DEFINED IN THE DNSCRP AND SECTORAL STRATEGY -Develop Haiti’s 2007-2008 TELECO and Execution of the - Implementation of a -Narrowing of TELECO TELECOMS infrastructure and onward external sources Modernization Plan local optical network Haiti’s digital divide Material Resources around the major cities Human Resources - Link-up of the country with the Guadeloupe digital network - Develop NICT services 2007-2008 TELECO and Purchase of material Implementation of the - Connectivity of TELECO and onward external sources and equipment Wimax network rural areas Human resources Restructure the Company 2006-2007 TELECO Implementation of Improved output and Effective TELECO Board and onward the Company’s production of TELECO management of the of Directors restructuring plan Company Observable profitability Page 38 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator OBJECTIVES Supervise budget execution 2007-2008 Resources to TELECO Board of Approval and Efficient execution of TELECO and be identified Directors monitoring of the the budget onward execution of the TELECO budget Ensure disbursements made as part 2007-2008 Own resources Monitoring of the Implementation of the TELECO the execution of the budget are made and TELECO implementation of the projects under the on time onward TELECO investment investment program program Make revenue generated by 2007-2008 Own resources Call for bids for financial Timely collection of Execution of planned TELECO TELECO available on a timely basis and management platforms revenue collected expenditures 2. IMPROVE onward BUDGET EXECUTION Authorize the opening of accounts 2007-2008 Resources to Purchase of modern Improved project Implementation of the by projects and be identified financial management implementation projects under the onward tools investment program Ensure timely preparation of a 2007-2008 Own resources Work of the TELECO Projects under the Implementation of the TELECO procurement plan for the planned and procurement steering program budget projects under the purchase of material and equipment onward committees available at the investment program beginning of the fiscal year PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Page 39 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 3. IMPROVE Ensure information on the 2007-2008 Own resources TELECO Intranet -Project expenditure Transparency in TELECO TRANSPARENCY IN budget is disseminated and onward reports financial management FISCAL REPORTING - Financial statement Implement tools and 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Accounting software Timely production of TELECO procedures for fiscal and accounting budget execution monitoring of investment procedures for reports for investment projects investment projects projects Prepare software for the 2007-2008 To be identified Call for bids Software installed Ability to produce in TELECO management and real time consolidated monitoring of the statements on the investment budget execution of the investment budget Page 40 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input indicator Output Performance indicator Implementing years resources indicator agency i) Prepare a law for the regulation 2007- TO BE Legal and economic Regulatory law Expansion of the sector MTPTC/EDH of the electricity sector and that 2008 IDENTIFIED expertise mobilized submitted to encourages private investment Parliament and free competition ii) Ensure that the strategy paper 2007- TO BE Communication and Validation and The electricity strategy MTPTC/ EDH for the development of the 2008 IDENTIFIED resource plan to foster the ownership of paper is disseminated electrical subsector is validation and buy-in electricity and adopted disseminated process strategy paper iii) Prepare a budget in the 2007- TO BE Needs identified and 2007-2008 The budget programs are Budget electricity sector 2008 IDENTIFIED priorities defined Budget is executed Department EDH 1. STRENGTHEN coherent, THE LINKAGES realistic, drafted BETWEEN and disseminated RESOURCE in a timely ALLOCATIONS AND fashion GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES AS iv) Boost material resources and 2007- TO BE Purchase computers, Department Electricity budget Budget DEFINED IN THE specialized human resources at the 2008 IDENTIFIED software, and retool staff activity report prepared on time; Department EDH DNSCRP AND budget level for budget preparation and regular reports on its SECTORAL monitoring execution STRATEGY v) Conduct a survey of available 2007- TO BE External expertise Expert report Consistency between EDH / MTPTC resources (human and material) and 2008 IDENTIFIED planned activities and existing procedures available resources 2007- TO BE Implementation of the New system Reduced losses and EDH 2012 IDENTIFIED new system implemented improved revenue Reduced subsidies from the Haitian Government. vi) Strengthen commercial and Better service to the network systems population 2007- TO BE Budget estimates of Output Improvement in quality MEF MTPTC vii) Ensure regular supply of oil and 2012 IDENTIFIED available expenditure and expectations met of life and assurance of fuel to the plants (PAP+PROV) requisitions economic growth Page 41 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – ELECTRICITY SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator Implementing years resources agency i) Update, draft if necessary and 2007-2009 TO BE National expertise Procedure handbook Reduced time needed to EDH/MEF disseminate procedures for IDENTIFIED mobilized prepared mobilize funds management of the capital expenditure budget ii) Improve preparation within the 2007-2012 TO BE EDH Resources Requisitions ready on Quicker disbursements MTPTC MEF and requisition deadlines IDENTIFIED time and in BRH compliance with all the rules iii) Prepare an annual procurement plan 2007-2012 TO BE List of projects concerned Quicker and more CNMP/EDH MEF 2. IMPROVE for the purchase of supplies, fuel, material, IDENTIFIED efficient purchase of MTPTC BUDGET and equipment planned in the budget pre-approved goods and EXECUTION services iv) Motivate managers and 2007-2009 TO BE Motivational session for Follow-up report Improved execution of EDH /MEF supervisors to monitor specific IDENTIFIED managers the fiscal calendar budgets v) Train/retool HR in budget 2007-2012 TO BE Professional training Training reports Consistency in the MEF / EDH procedures IDENTIFIED cycles in place budget preparation between objectives and mobilized resources ix) Ensure it is broadly disseminated 2007-2012 TO BE Document reproduced Document available Shorter periods for the EDH/MEF to all directorates and ministries IDENTIFIED payment of expenses MTPTC affected by the budget Page 42 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – ELECTRICITY SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency i) Exchange accounting 2007-2008 TO BE RH EDH and MEF IP projects More compliance with MEF, EDH information with MEF for IDENTIFIED expenditure report rules in the management of investment management of CE program (IP) projects projects ii) Establishment and 2007-2008 TO BE National and international Procedural manual for More compliance with EDH/ MEF implementation of a IDENTIFIED expertise closure of projects and rules in the procedure for the closure of project accounts in management of CE IP projects place projects iii) Set up an ongoing 2007-2008 TO BE Resources hired and Communication plan Better dissemination of EDH communication program IDENTIFIED trained implemented budget information internally and externally 3. IMPROVE iv) Include procurement 2007-2008 TO BE Budgeting of “government Manager training More effective EDH TRANSPARENCY IN (within the framework of and onward IDENTIFIED procurement” items on the government FISCAL REPORTING projects) among the EDH payroll procurement competencies of the EDH management v) Create an Internet site 2007-2008 TO BE IT expertise mobilized Information on the Easier monitoring of EDH/MEF where the information can IDENTIFIED budget openly expenditure be posted available to interested parties vi) Set up a system for the 2007-2008 TO BE Means of transport and Summary records of Tradeoffs resulting MEF monthly IDENTIFIED meeting room available meetings from more consistent MEF/MTPTC/EDH cash management tripartite meetings vii) Prepare software for 2007-2008 TO BE IT expertise mobilized Software installed Ability to produce in EDH managing and monitoring IDENTIFIED real time consolidated the capital expenditure statements on the budget execution of the investment budget Page 43 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN – ELECTRICITY SECTOR Objectives Actions Fiscal years Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing resources indicator agency 4.- Gradually (i) Involve the main 2007-2008 TO BE Technical consultation Reports on working Externally funded MPCE EDH MEF integrate externally donors and lenders and IDENTIFIED meetings organized during meetings capital expenditures MTPTC funded expenditures lenders in the preparation budget preparation process carried correctly in the into the sector of the budget budget budget (ii) Establish a harmonized 2007-2008 TO BE National expertise Database and manual Externally funded MPCE and framework for monitoring IDENTIFIED mobilized and broader of procedures capital expenditures MTPTC EDH investment with external consultation with MTPTC prepared and correctly monitored cooperation and donors and lenders negotiated with all donors and lenders (i) Conduct targeted 2007-2008 TO BE International and local Report on targeted Greater awareness of EDH impact studies IDENTIFIED consultants conduct impact studies the link between support missions sectoral capital 5. CONDUCT expenditure and IMPACT poverty reduction ASSESSMENT OF (ii) Strengthen human 2007-2008 TO BE EDH executive delegated Activity report from Greater awareness of MEF FISCAL resources specialized in IDENTIFIED to this activity delegated executives the link between EXPENDITURES AND impact studies sectoral capital MONITOR FISCAL expenditure and PERFORMANCE poverty reduction (iii) Train EDH HR in 2007-2008 TO BE National seminars and Training seminar Less dependence on EDH impact studies and IDENTIFIED workshops conducted reports external expertise for strategic planning impact assessments Page 44 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIORITY ACTION PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS LABORATORY Actions FY Available Input indicators Output indicators Performance indicator Executing OBJECTIVES resources agency . Identification of the . Signing of cooperation . Availability of foreign LNBTP’s specific agreements; technical assistance; 1. STRENGTHEN THE Resume and/or develop LNBTP training and technical . Drafting of a training . Availability of LINKAGES BETWEEN cooperative relations with 2007/2009 Own funds assistance needs; plan for supervisors and resources for LNBTP RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS foreign partners and .Identification of managers and technicians professional training of AND GOVERNMENT international institutions; potential sources of the LNBTP’s PRIORITIES AS DEFINED IN assistance; supervisors and THE DNSCRP AND SECTORAL . Contacts with managers and STRATEGY representatives of various technicians institutions; . Organizational chart of . Setting up of technical . Effective management the institution’s and administrative units of the institution from Strengthen operational . Own funds operations; that will be held the following capacity of the LNBTP 2004/2010 of the accountable perspectives : LNBTP LNBTP . Internal Regulation . research; Document available; . quality control; . Capital . Classification of the staff . applied research. expenditure completed budget Refurbish the LNBTP 2004/2010 . LNBTP Project document for the . Expansion of working . Increase in the Capital refurbishing of the areas; LNBTP’s physical expenditure LNBTP . More vehicles; capacities budget . Purchase of test equipment; . Availability of stand-by energy supply . Roster of consultants, . Awareness raising . Delegation of some Improve the visibility of . Own funds construction, and seminars on quality for quality control power to the LNBTP in the of the supervision firms in the stakeholders; bona fide oversight infrastructure sector and 2007/2008 LNBTP country; . Launch of a training firms; LNBTP construction in general . Laboratory website program for supervisors . Improvement of the . Capital Commercial on RTNH and managers and technical capacities of expenditure . Launch of the LNBTP technicians from the the local enterprises; budget technical review project private sector and . Increase in the construction sector. percentage of public (and private) works subject to systematic Page 45 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM quality control . Training plan for . 100% technical . Creation within the specialized supervisors supervisors and managers Research and Quality and managers; holding Masters or Control Departments of Train specialized . Own funds . Cooperation agreements equivalent degrees. units specialized in the supervisors and managers 2008/2015 of the with foreign institutions; . 30% of technical following areas: LNBTP in the various areas of the LNBTP . Training assistance supervisors and managers Geotechnical LNBTP’s activities and . External programs from are holders of PhDs engineering and natural develop a partnership with international . Partnership agreement risks – the university organizations (IDB, WB) with the University; Bridges– Roadways – and embassies of Recognition of the Roads and interested countries; LNBTP’s capacity to host environment– . Launch of a training and PhD candidates from Materials. research project in Haiti and abroad cooperation with the . Capacity of the university LNBTP to carry out more advanced research in its areas of activity PRIORITY ACTION PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS LABORATORY Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator Implementing years resources agency Train technicians and lab . LNBTP . Internal needs . 100% of the Improved Lab and Field LNBTP assistants to carry out their 2007/2008 own assessment forms for technicians master the Testing services. various tasks resources training of technicians tests run in the units to . External which they are assigned . List of main topics of . LNBTP applied . Creation of an 1. STRENGTHEN THE Promote the development of LNBTP concern; research program environment conducive LINKAGES BETWEEN research applied to materials Own . Meetings with other document supported to developing applied RESOURCES ALLOCATIONS AND and transport infrastructure 2007/2009 resources institutions involved by all stakeholders; research in the LNBTP GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES AS and minimization of the risks (Universities, Other construction sector DEFINED IN THE DNSCRP AND entailed in natural disasters Public Technical SECTORAL STRATEGY Utilities); . Formalization of interinstitutional partnership frameworks 2013/2015 . LNBTP . Recruitment of an . Quality manual . Improvement in the Set up a quality management own expert in Quality implemented; service offered by the LNBTP system resources Management; . ISO 9000 LNBTP; Page 46 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM . External . Drafting of the LNBTP certification obtained . International Quality Manual recognition of the LNBTP. PRIORITY ACTION PLAN FOR THE NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC WORKS LABORATORY Objectives Actions Fiscal Financial Input Output Performance indicator Implementing years resources indicator indicator Agency LNBTP 2. IMPROVE BUDGET EXECUTION 3. . LNBTP own . Creation of a . IT program . Streamlining of financial and IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY IN FISCAL Develop an IT tool to 2006/2008 resources working group in operation accounting management of the LNBTP REPORTING calculate the cost . Capital institution; price of the tests expenditure . Possibility of making budget provision for replenishment of assets; . Transparency in the structure of the costs applied by the LNBTP. 4. GRADUALLY INTEGRATE EXTERNALLY FUNDED EXPENDITURES INTO THE SECTOR BUDGET 5. ASSESS THE IMPACT OF FISCAL EXPENDITURES AND MONITOR FISCAL PERFORMANCE Page 47 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Page 48 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 1. STRENGTHEN THE LINKAGES BETWEEN RESOURCES ALLOCATIONS AND GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES AS DEFINED IN THE DNSCRP AND SECTORAL STRATEGY Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator Implementing years available agency (i) Disseminate the sectoral policy 2007- Public Reproduction of the Documents distributed The stakeholders are informed MENFP documents 2008 Treasury/WB documents (ii) Prepare the framework education 2009- TO BE Legal and economic expertise Framework law The budgets prepared by the MENFP law (framework law for capital 2009 IDENTIFIED mobilized submitted to Parliament MENFP are validated by the MEF expenditure in the education sector over and approved by Parliament a 5- or 10-year period) (iii) Prepare a manual of procedures 2007- WB Actions Information from the Procedure manual The 2008- 2009 budget and DAA, Budget, for budget preparation 2008 technical directorates, available subsequent budgets are prepared DPCE Expertise in financial in accordance with the procedures management in effect (iv) Strengthen human resources 2007- Public Procedure manual and Supervisors and The 2008- 2009 budget and DAA, Budget, specialized in budget preparation 2008 Treasury/BM trainers managers trained in subsequent budgets are prepared and MEF budget preparation in accordance with the procedures (v) Conduct a survey of available 2007- in effect resources (human and material) and 2008 existing procedures for government Consistency between planned action Expert report activities and available resources Expertise in public TO BE management MENFP/DAA IDENTIFIED (CIDA?) Page 49 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 2. Improve budget execution Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing years available indicator agency (i) Update, establish, if necessary, and 2007- TO BE National expertise mobilized Procedure handbook in Less time to MEF and MPCE in disseminate fiscal management procedures 2008 IDENTIFIED existence mobilize TP funds collaboration with MENFP (iv) Upgrade IT infrastructure 2007- IDB/CIDA/ New IT and communication Improved connection Less time to DAA, budget, (Architecture, Information System) 2008 AFD/UNESCO equipment, IT plan/architecture time, as well as DAA and commit DPCE, MEF /EU/WB/ DPCE expenditure USAID (v) Upgrade the software used to operate 2007- USAID/IDB/ IT expertise Information system up Less time required DAA, budget, the information system 2008 WB/EU/ and running for payment of DPCE, MEF UNESCO/ expenses CIDA/AFD Possible publication of report distinguishing Commitments from Payments (vi) Prepare the procurement plan for 2007- Public Projects, template for plan Procurement plan prepared Government DAA, Ministerial purchasing supplies, fuel, material, and 2008 Treasury/WB provided by the National ahead of the fiscal year contracts are Commission equipment planned in the Operation and Government Procurement awarded on time Capital Expenditure Budgets (including the Commission (CNMP) DDE) Page 50 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 2. Improve budget execution Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance indicator Implementing years available agency (vii) Expand the information system to the 2007- USAID/IDB/ IT Expertise Processing software for the “Deconcentrated” MENFP, MEF departmental level, school districts, area 2008 CIDA/EU/ information system installed in all the (subnational) expenses paid in inspectorates, and schools UNESCO/WB DDE, BDS, BIZ, and schools less time AFD/UNICEF (ix) Disseminate the 2005 budget lexicon 2008- Public Treasury Reproduction of Document available in the DDE Deconcentrated expenses paid DAA. DGA, and nomenclature in DDE 2009 the document in less time MEF (x) Strengthen technical capacities of the 2008- Public Treasury Expertise in public Supervisors and managers trained Less time for commitment to DAA, DGA, accountants and administrators at the central 2009 finances deconcentrated expenditures MEF and departmental levels Page 51 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 3. Improve transparency in fiscal reporting Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output Performance Implementing years available indicator indicator agency (i) Integrate procurement 2007- Public Budgeting of Supervisors More effective MEF/MENFP skills into the ministry 2008 Treasury/WB the and government (project managers) and “Government managers procurement onward procurement” recruited by management items on the the civil Ministry’s service payroll (ii) Expand the architecture 2007- USAID/CIDA/ IT and Information Closer DPCE, MEF, of the IT system at the 2008 UNESCO/IDB/ equipment software monitoring of DGA departmental level WB/EU/AFD/ expertise installed in all deconcentrated UNICEF the DDE expenditures (iii) Create a system of 2007- Public Treasury National and Accounting Tradeoffs MEF, monthly tripartite 2008 international software and resulting from Treasury, Budget/Treasury/MENFP expertise procedure more consistent DAA meetings (?) manual for cash management project accounting (iv) Set up, in tandem with 2007- USAID/CIDA/ National and Accounting Publication of MPCE/MEF UCF, procedures and tools 2008 /IDB/WB/EU/ international software and budget execution for harmonized monitoring of AFD/ expertise manual of reports made the accounts of the project possible investment program (IP) accounting projects procedures (v) Produce software to 2008- WB/UNESCO/IDB IT expertise Software Real time MPCE/MEF manage and monitor capital 2009 mobilized installed production of a expenditure budget consolidated statement on the execution of the capital expenditure budget Page 52 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 3. Improve transparency in fiscal reporting Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output indicator Performance Implementing years available indicator agency (vi) Appoint 2007- Public Public Expenditure from More MEF, MENFP accountants to 2008 Treasury accountants IP current standardized manage IP projects appointed to accounts are paid management of the DDE and by public funds from IP central MENFP accountants current accounts (vii) Establish and 2007- IDB/WB/EU/ National and Manual of Better allocation of MPCE/MEF/MENFP implement a 2008 CIDA/UNICEF/ international procedures for residuals procedure for closing USAID/AFD expertise project and IP projects and account closure in accounts existence (viii) Strengthen 2008- Public Treasury Letter from the Account audited Only one current MENFP, MEF auditing of 2009 Minister account with the transitional accounts minister’s signature for extra budgetary expenditures (ix) Inventory and 2007- IDB/WB/EU/ National Existence of an Harmonized MENFP and MEF specify the procedures 2008 CIDA/UNICEF/ expertise updated inventory management of for managing own USAID/AFD of own resources own resources, resources (especially and management budgeting made deconcentrated procedures manual possible resources) Page 53 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 4. Gradually integrate externally funded expenditures into the sector budget Actions Fiscal Resources Input indicator Output Performance Implementing years available indicator indicator agency (i) Involve the main 2011- Public Treasury Technical Records of Externally funded MPCE, MEF, donors and lenders 2015 consultations working capital MENFP in the preparation of organized during the meetings expenditures the budget budget preparation carried correctly in process the budget (ii) Establish a 2007- IDB/WB/EU/ National expertise Database and Externally funded Prime Minister’s harmonized 2008 CIDA/UNICEF/ mobilized and procedure capital Office, MPCE, framework for USAID/AFD expanded consultations manual prepared expenditures MEF, MENFP monitoring capital taking place with and negotiated carried correctly in expenditure funded technical ministries with all the the budget through external and donors and lenders donors and cooperation lenders Page 54 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective 5. Assess the impact of fiscal expenditures and monitor fiscal performance Actions Fiscal Resources available Input Output Performance Implementing years indicator indicator indicator agency (i) Conduct targeted 2008- IDB/WB/EU/ International Report on Greater MENFP, MEF, impact assessments 2009 CIDA/UNICEF/ and national targeted awareness of the DPCE USAID/AFD firms and impact studies link between consultants sectoral investment and poverty reduction (ii) Strengthen 2007- Public Treasury/WB Training of Impact study Greater MENFP/MEF DPCE human resources 2008 supervisors awareness of the specialized in and managers link between impact assessment of the DPCE sectoral investment and poverty reduction (vi) Establish 2008- UNESCO/IDB/CIDA/ Consultant Document on Consistency MENFP/DPCE benchmarks and 2009 AFD/USAID/WB-EU (international standards for between standards for impact and and national) capital education policy assessments in the onward expenditure objectives and the education sector and sectoral resources and prepare a template mobilized template for the education sector (forecast) (vii) Establish 2008- UNESCO-IDB-CIDA- Consultant Document on Consistency MENFP/DPCE/DAA benchmarks and 2009 AFD-USAID-WB-EU standards for between capital standards between and recurring costs investment capital expenditure onward budget and on education and operations recurring costs budgets Page 55 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Objectives Actions Fiscal Resources Input Output Performance Implementing Agency Years Available Indicator Indicator Indicator 1.- Strengthen the links 1.1. -**Hire technical 2007-2008 IDB-1632 TOR for Budget 2008- Have a MSPP/M between the allocation assistance for the technical 2009 includes sectoral EF of resources and the budgetary exercise, train assistance the links strategy of a government's priorities staff, and construct a between the multi-year defined in the NSGPR system for monitoring resources and budget with an and the sectoral execution of the budget the strategy estimate of strategy recurrent spending and investment 1.2.- Conduct a study on 2008-2010 Still to be Recruitment Availability of The MSPP has MSPP the financing of healthcare identified of a the study relevant for the disadvantaged consultant information for starting a pilot project on financing healthcare for the underprivileged 1.3. - Strengthen the 2008-2010 Still to be Recruitment Human The MSPP has MSPP human resources identified and training resources resources necessary for the of staff trained and capable of introduction of mobile available for managing, clinics in remotest areas the introduction operating, and of mobile maintaining clinics clinics in the areas in which they are located Page 56 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1.4.-** Support for the 2007-2008 Available Setting up of Availability of - The MSPP MSPP/IH creation of national a team national health has financial SI health accounts supported by accounts data on all an expenditure in international the sector expert - Actions are better planned - Better monitoring of objectives achieved 1.5.- Regulation of the 2008-2010 Recruitment Availability of Better control MSPP income generated and of legal a draft Law on of the funds used by health institutions experts and the income of generated by (hospitals, health centers, health public public health etc.) economists institutions and institutions its tabling before Parliament 1.6.- Building of MSPP 2008-2010 Strategy - Availability The MSPP has MSPP capacity to supervise paper on of legal the resources actions in the sector governance provisions for to play its role of the sector the control of as the sector's activities in the regulator sector - Availability of material, human, and Page 57 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM financial resources to perform supervision. 1.8-** Allocation of 2007-2010 Available ? Recruitment The target - The budget MSPP proper resources for and training entities are of the MSPP is administrative posts and of the staff provided with well prepared. economist posts in the to be qualified staff - various MSPP entities assigned to Administrative these posts and financial procedures are well applied - The rate of budget execution is improved 1.9.- Support for the Recruitment The health Availability of MSPP implementation of the of a information data on health health information system consultant system is indicators operational 1.10.- Granting of a Draft budget A budget line is Health care MSPP remote location allowance of the MSPP created and staff are not to retain staff financed for demotivated this purpose and do not leave the area to which they are assigned, as is the case at present. Page 58 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Drafting of a public health Recruitment The draft Law The MSPP has MSPP code (UCSs, hospitals, of a is updated and a powerful insurance companies, etc.) consultant ready to be tool with brought before which to Parliament implement its vision for the development of the system Page 59 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Objectives Actions Fiscal Available Input Output Indicator Performance Implementing Years Resources Indicator Indicator Agency 2. Improve 2.1.- ** Revision of 2007- Setting up of a Manual of Dissemination of the MSPP preparation of the MSPP 2008 working procedures for manual to facilitate the budget budgeting system group preparing acceptance of (budget taking own - Terms of bottom-up ownership of the resources into Reference budgeting budget and the account) (TOR) of the mechanisms with monitoring of the group greater budget - Document involvement of assessing senior MSPP budget administrators, execution prepared and available. - Holding of training seminars for senior administrators in directorates at headquarters and in the départements and hospital managers on procedures for monitoring execution of the Page 60 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM budget. 2.2.- Reduction of Implementation Expenditure is MEF/MSPP/ delays in execution of the executed on time CNMP/CSCCA recommendations made as a result of the analysis of the sector's budget execution 2.3.- Setting up of a Assessment of New plans for - Better control of the system for sharing the current the circulation of budget process data between the situation information - Dissemination, on a planning and budget accompanied by monthly basis, of a directorates a manual of table summarizing procedures actual expenditure as against planned expenditure by entity 2.4. - Extension of The The staff at SYSDEP to the communication headquarters and in départements network between the départements use headquarters and the communications the départements network to share is in place and financial information operational relating to the monitoring of the execution of their budgets Page 61 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Objectives Actions Fiscal Available Input Output Performance Implementing Years Resources Indicator Indicator Indicator Agency 3.- Improve the 3.1-** 2007-2008 IDB-1632 The Minister Current No more current MSPP transparency Establishment of a will issue a accounts are accounts budget reporting timetable for circular closed in reducing the approving the accordance number of current current with the accounts accounts timetable calendar 3.2.- Standardization IDB Current The The commitment MSPP of financial procedures in commitment and disbursement procedures relating to question and procedures are own funds disbursement monitored by the procedures sector’s are well administrative staff known to administrative staff 3.3.- Establishment TOR Unit Number of audits MSPP of an internal audit available. established conducted and unit at the MSPP - Availability and recommendations. of the skills operational - Implementation of recommendations 3.4.- Introduction of Application Number of MSPP/MEF mechanisms to of the administrative and and DGT ensure sound mechanisms financial staff management of funds to ensure applying the Page 62 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM sound mechanisms for management ensuring the sound of own funds management of by healthcare own funds institutions Page 63 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Page 64 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objectives Actions Fiscal Available Input Indicator Output Performance Implementi Years Resources Indicator Indicator ng Agency 4.- Gradually incorporate 4.1 ** Meeting with 2007- - Number of Database of - Number of MSPP/MEF expenditure financed by financial the sector's 2008 meetings held projects partners foreign resources in the stakeholders on with financial financed incorporating sector's budget incorporating the stakeholders with their resources in expenditure in the - Number of financial the budget budget financial projections - The budget stakeholders through to 2008-2009 taking part in the the end of includes foreign meetings operations resources 4.2.- Meeting with the - Number of Number of - The system's MSPP/MEF sector's financial meetings held partners stakeholders /MPCE stakeholders on with the financial including agree to provide inclusion of the stakeholders their information on expenditure in the - Number of resources the resources budget financial in the they have stakeholders who budget available and on took part in the their meetings procurement plan for the target fiscal year - NGOs and other stakeholders agree to align their budgets on the fiscal year of the Haitian government Page 65 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.3.- Carrying out of Number of Sources of The MSPP has MSPP/MEF specific field surveys institutions financing relevant /MPCE on the sources of visited to identify properly information to finance, broken down their sources of identified improve by expenditure the of finance targeting of the the health institutions, sector's financing programs, and projects implemented within the sector 4.4.- Inclusion of Finding of the Preparation Financing is MSPP sources of financing in specific surveys of the MSPP better the budget budget coordinated, the incorporates use of resources the different is efficient sources of financing Adoption of the The existing Adoption and Financing is MSPP implementation partnership charter partnership of the better defining relations charter partnership coordinated, the between the MSPP and charter by all use of resources the sectors' all stakeholders stakeholders is efficient involved in the provision of care Page 66 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Objectives Actions Fiscal Available Input Indicator Output Performance Implementing Years Resources Indicator Indicator Agency 5. Improve the 5.1.**- Hire a firm to 2007- Terms of The Estimate of MSPP government carry out an 2008 reference of the procurement the time and procurement assessment of the firm that will reform is cost of system new MSPP carry out the implemented procurement procurement unit assessment and (new make organization, recommendations new tools, to build and training procurement for senior capacity staff) Page 67 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ACTION PLAN HEALTH SECTOR (**Priority Actions) Objectives Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Output Performance Implementing Resources Indicator Indicator Indicator Agency 6. Consolidate 6.1.- Hire 2007-2008 IDB Development The new The new MSPP/ORH the management new of a human management- management- of human management- resources level staff level staff resources and level staff in strategy hired and improve the build the capacity accordance indicating working efficiency of of the budget and with the training and the ministry's expenditure ministry's recruitment programs and management human projects procedures resources plan and principles Page 68 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM JUSTICE SECTOR - PRIORITY ACTION PLAN Objectives Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Indicator Performance Implementing Agency Resources Indicator 1. Strengthen the 1) Validation by 2007-2008 Stakeholders and Strategy The elements of the MJSP links between the institutions partners in framework strategic MEF allocation of that are International document framework MPCE resources and the stakeholders in Cooperation and validated. document are government's the strategic Government The document considered in the priorities defined framework of the highlights the NSGPR in the NSGPR justice sector ministry's and the sectoral responsibility in strategy the area of public security. 2) Preparation of 2007-2008 Still to be The program Harmonization Budget MJSP a plan to and identified budget documents plan available consolidated harmonize the subsequent of the sector's budgets of the different sector's different components components 3) Preparation of 2007-2008 Strategic Investment plan for The investment MJSP the Public and framework the justice sector budget validated by Investment subsequent submitted to the the MEF and the Program and of MPCE and the MPCE and adopted the recurrent MEF by Parliament charges for the Document dealing Justice Sector with recurrent over three (3) charges prepared years and disseminated on time 4) Reinforce the 2007-2008 Public Treasury Assessment of the Availability of Preparation of the MJSP EPU and the existing material human resources. MJSP budget UEP / DAAB DAAB of the and resources and Acquisition of within the required ministry procedures for machinery and time limits carrying out equipment. Regular reports on investment execution of management budgets Page 69 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM activities Comparative 2007-2008 The two Laws The comparative The analysis makes analysis of the analysis is it possible to Law on the available. reevaluated the Supreme Council areas of expertise of the Judiciary of the ministry. and the Organic Law of the MJSP Amendment of The current The Organic Law Budgets reflecting the ministry's Organic Law of reorganizing the the new Organic Law, the ministry ministry and organization of the taking into defining the MJSP. account what powers of its emerges from the various comparative departments and analysis. directorates promulgated. Reevaluation of the areas of expertise of the MJSP. MJSP organization chart finalized Page 70 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM JUSTICE SECTOR - PRIORITY ACTION PLAN OBJECTIVES ACTIONS FISCAL AVAILABLE INPUT OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTING YEARS RESOURCES INDICATOR INDICATOR INDICATOR AGENCY Updating and Legal framework Dissemination of Application of the dissemination of the 2007-2008 and existing the legal framework MEF, MJSP AND legal framework and procedures framework and MPCE procedures for of the procedures management of the and new investment budget mechanisms. Build the 2007-2008 Recruitment of The staff is Better outcome in CNMP / MJSP procurement specialist staff. recruited. the compilation of 2.- IMPROVE capacity of the On the job Training public procurement BUDGET MJSP ministerial training workshop dossiers. EXECUTION committee. workshop. Increase in the number of procurement contracts awarded. Prepare the annual CNMP / MJSP procurement plan 2007-2010 Public Treasury The project Procurement Acquisition of the documents plan prepared works, goods, and available. before the start services concerned Proceedings of of the fiscal year more rapid and the ministerial and published on more efficient, in committee on the CNMP accordance with procurement website the timetable. Page 71 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM JUSTICE SECTOR - PRIORITY ACTION PLAN OBJECTIVES ACTIONS FISCAL AVAILABLE INPUT OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTING YEARS RESOURCES INDICATOR INDICATOR INDICATOR AGENCY Recruitment of 3) Implementation 2007-2008 Still to be adequate staff Accounting Presentation of MPCE / MJSP of harmonized identified software and budget execution 3.- IMPROVE accounting project reports by project THE procedures and tools management TRANSPARENCY for investment manual of OF BUDGET projects procedures REPORTING available JUSTICE SECTOR - PRIORITY ACTION PLAN Page 72 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OBJECTIVES ACTIONS FISCAL AVAILABLE INPUT OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTING YEARS RESOURCES INDICATOR INDICATOR INDICATOR AGENCY 1) Involve the main 2008-2009 Still to be Technical Foreign investment MPCE/MJSP donors and creditors identified coordination expenditure in the preparation of meetings budgetized the budget organized during the budget preparation 4.- process GRADUALLY INCORPORATE 2) Establish a 2007-2008 Still to be National Database and Foreign investment MPCE/MJSP EXPENDITURE harmonized identified expertise manual of expenditure FINANCED BY framework for mobilized and procedures correctly FOREIGN monitoring external broader dialogue prepared and monitored RESOURCES IN cooperation held with negotiated with THE SECTOR'S investment technical all donors and BUDGET ministries and lenders donors and creditors Page 73 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM JUSTICE SECTOR - PRIORITY ACTION PLAN OBJECTIVES ACTIONS FISCAL AVAILABLE INPUT OUTPUT PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTING YEARS RESOURCES INDICATOR INDICATOR INDICATOR AGENCY Focus the impact of investment on the 2008-2009 5.- EVALUATE main priorities of THE IMPACT the NSFGPR. OF BUDGET EXPENDITURE AND TRACK BUDGET OUTTURNS Priority Action Plan for Public Security (PNH) Page 74 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Indicator Performance Implementing Resources Indicator Agency 1. Strengthen the Preparation of a sectoral 2nd of 2007- Minustah National and Experts' report Implementation of the PNH links between the strategy for public 2008 fiscal Public Treasury international strategy allocation of security. year expertise. resources and the P2 government Design of a career 2007-2010 Minustah Study available Availability of a Availability of pay priorities defined management plan at the Public Treasury management and scales. in the NSGPR PNH and a strategy for operationalization Motivation of police and the sectoral putting it into operation. plan officers. strategy P4 Train PNH staff in 2nd quarter of Minustah National and Report on the PNH-MJSP public finance. fiscal 2007- Public Treasury international activities of the staff P3 2008 expertise who have received training Finalization of the 2007-2009 Current payroll data 100 percent of staff The MJSP budget has PNH-MJSP payroll, payment of included in the earmarked the salary arrears. payroll. resources necessary to pay liabilities and P1 salaries. Priority Action Plan for Public Security (PNH) Page 75 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Objective Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Indicator Performance Implementing Resources Indicator Agency 2. Improve 2007-2008 Evaluation of the Organizational Better budget PNH/MJSP budget execution Preparation of a current system. framework and execution. manual of budget missions of the procedures. Budget Department clearly defined. P1 Procedures for the preparation, execution, and monitoring of operating and investment budgets available. Design and 2007-2008 Recruitment of a Manual of Reduction in the PNH/MJSP/CMPP implementation specialist procedures proportion of of a manual of available expenditure internal challenged by the purchasing control bodies. procedures in Reduction in the compliance with number of files the rules in force returned by the at the CNMP. CNMP P2 Increase in the absorption rate of the sector's appropriations. Reduction in the delays in process files. Purchases in compliance with the rules in force. Strengthening of 2007-2009 Recruitment of The staff is Better outcome PNH-MJSP-CNMP the PNH qualified staff. recruited. in the specialist On the job Training workshop. compilation of procurement training. public committee. procurement files. Page 76 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Increase in the number of procurement contracts awarded. Introduce 2008-2009 Acquisition of Inventories are The PNH has PNH/MJSP/CSC/CA compulsory software for conducted half- constantly physical asset carrying out and yearly and yearly. updated inventories, half- updating information yearly and yearly. inventories. about its moveable and immoveable assets. Priority Action Plan for Public Security (PNH) Objective Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Performance Indicator Implementing Resources Indicator Agency 3. Improve the Have an yearly 2008-2010 Availability of a Procurement The PNH can monitor PNH/CNMP/MJSP transparency of procurement plan public plan prepared budget execution better budge reporting. procurement every year no in future. P1 specialist within later than the the PNH. beginning of September and published on the CNMP website. 2008-2010 Public Treasury Specialist in the Better use of the Higher level of budget PNH Data processing, budget budget execution budget monitoring monitoring and and evaluation evaluation available. Presentation and 2nd quarter Public Treasury FIOP Progress report The PNH significantly PNH/MJSP/MPCE periodic evaluation 2007-2008 Assignment of on the projects is improves the bailout of of the progress PNH staff to this produced on a its investment project report on project committee. half-yearly basis. account. Page 77 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM financed by the The committee is Possibility of better investment budget operational. performance in the and creation of a execution of projects joint committee to financed by public monitor, inspect, investment. and evaluation the projects financed by the investment budget. P2 Creation of a 2nd quarter Public Treasury Assignment of The committee is PNH ensures a more PNH/MJSP multidisciplinary 2007-2008 PNH staff to this operational. rigorous approach committee with the committee. toward the acquisition of task of receiving, goods and services. inspecting, and evaluation all purchases of goods and services Systematic 2008-2010 Formal decision The production Better interaction PNH/MJSP/MEF production of PNH taken on of financial between the different financial production of statements is operational functions of statements PNH financial mandatory. the PNH (accounting, statements. budget, payroll, Acquisition of procurement, personnel, software to and logistics). enable the production of financial statements. Page 78 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan for Public Security (PNH) Objective Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Performance Implementing Resources Indicator Indicator Agency 4. Gradually Joint management 2008-2009 Preparation of a Memorandum of The government, PNH/MJSP integrate of people and memorandum of understanding through the PNH, expenditure projects financed by understanding signed. has genuine financed by foreign aid between the PNH Manual of control over foreign resources and the different procedures actual in the foreign partners. available. expenditure government Preparation of Legal provisions financed by budget manuals of available. foreign aid in the procedures sector. allowing this joint management. Legal provisions governing that management. Steer expenditure 2008-2009 NSGPR Expenditure is The funds PNH/MJSP financed by foreign document, the determined on received from the resources toward PNH strategy the basis of the international government document. priorities defined community are objectives. by the PNH. used to speed up reform of the P1 PNH and to relaunch the justice system reform. Formulate and 2nd quarter Public Treasury Setting up of the The framework Better regulation PNH/MJSP implement a 2007-2008. team to prepare plan is available. of the financing framework plan this plan. of the sector. with a view to administering, monitoring, and evaluating projects financed by the various donors and lenders. Page 79 of 80 NATIONAL STRATEGY DOCUMENT FOR GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION (DSNCRP/HAITI) ACTION PLANS TO REFORM THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Priority Action Plan for Public Security (PNH) Objectives Actions Fiscal Years Available Input Indicator Output Indicator Performance Implementing Resources Indicator Agency 5.- Evaluate the 2nd quarter Recruitment of a The plan is available Evaluation of the PNH/MJSP impact of Put in place a 2007-2008 specialist The IGPNH is impact of the budgetary plan to review Strengthening of strengthened and can contribution of expenditure and performance with the IGPNH ensure that the tools justice and public track budget a view to are put into security to outturns ensuring that operation. reducing poverty. budgetary A professional, expenditure efficient, policy is effective, and conducted in a efficient police reliably force. disciplined environment. As well as tools to efficiently monitor the meeting of objectives on the basis of budget execution Page 80 of 80