(2024-01) Annex to the 2024-2025 Budget Framework Letter: Government's Major Undertakings (Kreyol)
Summary — This Kreyol-language annex to Haiti's FY2024-2025 budget framework letter sets out the government's five priority 'chantye' (major undertakings) that ministries must reflect in their FY2024-2025 budget submissions. It covers national public security, economic relaunch and reconstruction, food/water/health/education minimum services, the National Conference on constitutional reform and elections, and justice and human rights.
Key Findings
- Sets five government priority 'chantye' for FY2024-2025: national public security, economic relaunch/reconstruction, food and basic-service security, National Conference/constitutional reform/elections, and justice/human rights.
- Security chantye calls for rebuilding gang-attacked police stations, recruiting more police/army, and creating local security councils in communes.
- Economic chantye prioritizes infrastructure repair in Port-au-Prince and Artibonite, SME financing for agriculture/fishing/textiles, and digitizing tax/customs administrations.
- Food-security chantye includes strategic food reserves, reopening closed health centers, and rebuilding schools damaged by gang violence.
- Elections chantye commits budget funding to the Electoral Council for secure, transparent elections nationwide including rural voting stations.
Full Description
Issued by Haiti's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) as an annex to the FY2024-2025 budget framework letter, this Kreyol-language document lays out five thematic 'chantye' (major government undertakings) that budget allocations for the year must serve. Chantye 1 (national public security) calls for rebuilding police stations attacked by gangs, recruiting and training more police and army personnel, buying modern security equipment (armored vehicles, drones), fighting organized crime, improving officer working conditions, standing up local security councils in communes, deepening cooperation with international partners (UN, INTERPOL), protecting the population's rights during crisis operations, digitizing security systems, and strengthening the justice system's capacity to process detainees quickly. Chantye 2 (relaunching the economy and reconstruction) prioritizes rebuilding damaged infrastructure (roads, electricity networks) in Port-au-Prince, the Artibonite and other conflict/disaster-affected zones, financing for small and medium enterprises with attention to agriculture, fishing and textiles, gender- and youth-inclusive development, support for the Grand Nord and Grand Sud regions, digitizing public revenue-collecting institutions (including the Customs Administration/AGD and Direction Generale des Impots/DGI), a fund to help crisis-affected firms restart, spending discipline, redeployment of civil servants to match competencies, and an anti-corruption/anti-money-laundering push aligned with GAFIC requirements. Chantye 3 (food security and minimum public services) covers investment in national food production, agricultural input support, strategic food reserves, fisheries and aquaculture development, food distribution to the most vulnerable, rehabilitation of potable water systems, reopening of closed health centers, recruitment of doctors and nurses, mobile health clinics, vaccination campaigns, rebuilding schools damaged by gang violence, school-supply and school-feeding support for at-risk children, protection programs for women and children victims of violence, and social-assistance transfers to vulnerable households. Chantye 4 (National Conference, constitutional reform and elections) commits budget resources to organizing an inclusive National Conference on constitutional reform, financing communication and civic-education campaigns in Haiti's two official languages, funding the Provisional/Permanent Electoral Council to organize secure, transparent elections nationwide (including in rural areas), and creating a special oversight fund for a committee to monitor the reform and election process. Chantye 5 (respect for human rights and justice for all) prioritizes rehabilitating courts and prisons, reducing prolonged pre-trial detention, strengthening judicial and law-enforcement integrity units against corruption, and building courts and police stations in crisis-affected zones. The document contains no financial figures, tables, or a stated issue date; it is a narrative statement of budget priorities rather than a costed annex.
Notes
Cover and body carry no publication date or figures; month/year prefix (2024-01) is an inferred placeholder tied to FY2024-2025 (Haiti's fiscal year runs Oct-Sep), not a date printed in the document. Flag for reviewer to confirm actual issue date if known. No financial tables or figures appear anywhere in the 9-page document.