(2024-01) Annex to the 2024-2025 Budget Framework Letter: Major Reconstruction Sites (Grands Chantiers)
Summary — This MEF annex to the 2024-2025 budget framework letter (lettre de cadrage) sets out five priority 'Grands Chantiers' (major sites) that should guide sectoral budget allocations: public security, economic recovery and infrastructure rehabilitation, food security and basic social services, the national conference on constitutional reform and elections, and rule of law/justice. It lists concrete budget-orientation measures under each chantier without providing costed figures.
Key Findings
- The government's 2024-2025 budget framework is organized around 5 priority 'Grands Chantiers': public security, economic recovery/infrastructure, food security and social services, national conference/elections, and rule of law.
- Security spending priorities include a new Fonds de Soutien a la Securite, PNH/FADH recruitment expansion, and acquisition of armored vehicles and drones.
- Budget guidance directs cuts to 'excessive rents paid by public institutions' to redirect funds to high-impact projects.
- Haiti is directed to meet GAFIC (Caribbean FATF) requirements to exit the anti-money-laundering grey list.
- The annex contains no costed figures, expenditure ceilings, or fiscal tables.
Full Description
This document is an unnumbered annex titled 'Les Grands Chantiers' to Haiti's 2024-2025 budget framework letter (lettre de cadrage), issued by the Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances (MEF). It organizes government budget priorities for FY2024-2025 into five 'chantiers' (work sites/priority areas). Chantier 1 (public security) calls for rehabilitating police stations in gang-affected zones, expanding PNH and FADH staffing and training, creating a security support fund, acquiring modern security equipment, strengthening anti-organized-crime units, improving conditions and benefits for security forces, establishing municipal security councils, deepening international security cooperation, protecting populations' human rights, and digitalizing security management, plus reinforcing judicial infrastructure to support security actions. Chantier 2 (economic recovery and infrastructure) covers rehabilitation of critical infrastructure (roads, bridges, electricity) in Port-au-Prince and the Artibonite, MSME development, modernization of economic and social infrastructure, digitalization of public services (notably tax and customs), support to crisis-affected firms via central-bank-managed recapitalization programs, value-chain reinforcement in agriculture/fisheries/crafts, optimization of public spending (including cutting excessive rents paid by public institutions), human-resource reallocation in the public sector, modernization of AGD and DGI, rural road reconstruction, women's and youth economic empowerment, and anti-money-laundering reforms tied to exiting the GAFIC (Caribbean Financial Action Task Force) grey list. Chantier 3 (food security and basic social services) addresses agricultural production support, food stock creation, fisheries and aquaculture rehabilitation, food aid to IDPs and vulnerable households, water and sanitation infrastructure, health service restoration (reopening closed health centers, mobile health programs, cholera/measles response), education (school rehabilitation, school-in-a-box support, teacher training for displaced children), and social protection (gender-based-violence response, cash transfer programs, health insurance expansion). Chantier 4 covers financing for a national conference on constitutional reform and for organizing elections, including CEP capacity building, electoral material and technology, and civic-education/communication campaigns. Chantier 5 (rule of law and justice) covers rehabilitation of courts and prisons, strengthening the anti-corruption unit (ULCC), reducing prolonged pretrial detention, and improving access to justice for women and youth. The annex is entirely narrative and qualitative: it contains no costed budget tables, expenditure ceilings, or macro-fiscal figures.
Notes
Cover page is undated and gives no explicit day/month; the document only identifies itself as the annex to the 2024-2025 budget framework letter (lettre de cadrage), so the (2024-01) month prefix is an inference (year of the framework letter's likely issuance, prior to the FY2024-2025 start in October 2024), not a date printed in the document.