(2015-07) Decree on Training and Professional Development of Civil Servants
Summary — This decree, signed by Prime Minister Evans Paul on 22 July 2015 and published in Le Moniteur No. 152 (12 August 2015), establishes the right of Haitian civil servants to training and professional development. It creates a two-tier planning system, an annual training plan for each ministry (PAFPMO) consolidated by OMRH into a national plan (PAFPC), and distinguishes service-driven training from personal-development leave.
Key Findings
- Establishes a two-tier annual training planning system (PAFPMO at ministry level, PAFPC consolidated by OMRH).
- Ministry PAFPMO plans are due to OMRH by 30 November each year for integration into the following fiscal year's consolidated plan.
- Service-based training preserves salary, promotion and pension rights for staff with over two years of service.
- Personal-development training leave is capped at two years once per career, is unpaid, affects pension rights, and cannot be combined with service-based training.
- Any ad hoc or donor-financed training outside a ministry's approved plan must be cleared by OMRH before it proceeds.
Full Description
The decree defines an "organisme visé" as any public institution governed by the 17 May 2005 statute on the civil service, and it organizes training around two annual planning instruments: each ministry or agency must prepare a Plan d'Action de Formation et de Perfectionnement (PAFPMO) reflecting its staffing plan, submitted to OMRH by 30 November each year; OMRH consolidates these into the Plan Annuel de Formation et de Perfectionnement Consolidé (PAFPC) covering the whole civil service and sets the national training policy that ministry plans must follow. Funding for planned training actions is borne by the sponsoring ministry or agency, while any ad hoc training not already in a ministry's PAFPMO, including donor-financed training, must be declared to and vetted by OMRH before it proceeds. The decree then distinguishes two categories of entitlement: training for service needs, open to civil servants with over two years of service without loss of salary, promotion or pension rights; and a personal-development entitlement for staff with at least three years' seniority, capped at two years once in a career, granted as unpaid leave (imputable on salary and pension rights) that is not cumulative with service-based training days. It supersedes practice under a stack of prior legal texts on civil-service organization, OMRH's founding decree, and 2013-2014 decrees on recruitment competitions, performance evaluation and study scholarships, several of which appear in this same MEF tier-1 batch.