Decree on the Procedure for Granting and Managing Study Scholarships for Civil Servants

The decree responds to a stated need to reform Haiti's scholarship management system toward greater transparency, and it creates the CGBE with representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (chair), the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (vice-chair), the Ministry of National Education, MEF, and OMRH (secretariat); the commission is formally constituted by administrative letter of the Prime Minister. Scholarships are non-reimbursable financing for training and skills development of civil servants, available to staff in initial training, advanced training cycles or continuing professional training, and administrations must respect a 30 percent quota reserved for women and a positive-discrimination principle for persons with disabilities.

Eligibility requires at least two years' seniority, success in a selection competition, and a performance evaluation score of at least 4 (out of presumably 5) in the two most recent evaluation periods. Applications go through OMRH to the CGBE, which must justify any refusal; beneficiaries must report status changes such as abandoning studies, prolonged illness or change of residence, and can have their scholarship suspended for fraud, non-enrollment, or repeated exam failure. The core obligation is that a beneficiary who received a degree-granting scholarship must return to Haiti and serve the state for three years; failing that, they must reimburse the full training cost (calculated by OMRH's Coordonnateur Général), or a pro-rated amount if they served at least two years, with recovery through the courts if necessary under the 17 August 1955 law on scholarship-holder obligations.

The state commits to reinstating the civil servant to their post or an equivalent one after training. This decree sits alongside the 2015 training/professional-development decree, the 2013 recruitment-competition and performance-evaluation decrees, and OMRH's founding 2009 decree, all part of the same institutional reform sequence for the Haitian civil service also present in this MEF tier-1 batch.