Manifesto for a Prosperous and Lasting Peninsula
Summary: Manifesto of November 3, 2022 signed by citizens, university rectors, regional chambers of commerce and representatives of the 59 communes of the southern peninsula. It asks for a regional growth pole built on a peninsula development authority, a southern economic zone, a public-private partnership law and a capital-market reform, and it grounds the project in the unity meeting held at Camp-Gérard in July 1803.
Key Findings
- The manifesto defines the southern peninsula as the Région des Palmes, Nippes, Grand'Anse, Sud-Est and Sud.
- It proposes a regional econometric model with four elements: a peninsula development authority, a southern economic zone, public-private partnership legislation and a capital-market reform.
- It lists the peninsula's assets as a position facing the Panama Canal, agricultural and agro-industrial potential, water resources and several forms of tourism.
- It invokes the meeting of Dessalines and Geffrard at Camp-Gérard on July 5 and 6, 1803 as the model of unity between North and South.
- It is dated November 3, 2022 and signed by citizens, university rectors, regional chambers of commerce and representatives of the 59 communes.
How to cite
Forum Économique de la Péninsule du Sud (FEPS), 2022, Manifesto for a Prosperous and Lasting Peninsula, https://www.peninsulesud.ht/manifeste-de-la-peninsule-2/
- Rights holder
- Forum Économique de la Péninsule du Sud (FEPS)