(2013-04) Decree on Procedures for Organizing Civil Service Recruitment Competitions
Summary — Also signed by Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe and published in the same Le Moniteur No. 63 (11 April 2013), this decree standardizes merit-based recruitment competitions for permanent and contractual civil-service positions, defines the roles of OMRH and ministry human-resources directorates, and sets equal-access, gender and disability quotas in the hiring process.
Key Findings
- Standardizes a merit-based, six-stage recruitment cycle: call for applications, selection jury, selection, probationary stage, appointment and tenure.
- Reserves permanent posts to Haitian nationals with narrow exceptions (higher-education faculty, hospital physicians).
- Applies constitutional/legal quotas for women and persons with disabilities in recruitment.
- Bars sitting political appointees from competing in civil-service competitions during their mandate.
- Requires publication of results in a major newspaper and on institutional websites, with a qualification list and waiting list valid up to 18 months.
Full Description
The decree sets out that recruitment to permanent civil-service posts is by competition (concours), reserved to Haitian nationals except for specified categories such as higher-education professors or hospital physicians which may be opened to foreigners, while contractual agents need no nationality condition but must be legally resident. It enshrines principles of equal access, impartiality, neutrality, competence, integrity and accountability, plus quotas for women and persons with disabilities set by the constitution and law. Recruitment can be external (open to first-time applicants and contractual staff seeking tenure) or internal (open to serving civil servants seeking promotion, exceptionally opened to contractual agents when in-house competencies are lacking), and is barred to persons holding political posts for the duration of their mandate. Ministry or agency human-resources directorates coordinate with OMRH to publish vacancies, terms of reference and budget provisions before launching a competition; results must be published in a wide-circulation newspaper, on OMRH's and the recruiting institution's websites, and posted at the institution's entrance, listing successful candidates' scores and a waiting list valid for up to a year (extendable to 18 months). OMRH supervises the full cycle from call for applications through examination, probationary stage, and appointment, and transmits verified shortlists to the Prime Minister for authorization to begin the probationary period; institutions must submit a probation report to OMRH before tenure is proposed. The process comprises six defined stages: call for applications, selection jury, selection process, probationary stage, appointment and tenure (titularisation).