Prime Minister's budget framing letter for FY2024-2025
- Rectified budget published August 13, 2024 did not cover all crisis-driven needs, prompting a tighter FY2024-2025 framing letter.
- Fiscal year 2023-2024 expected to close with a sixth consecutive year of real GDP contraction, estimated at -4%.
- Annual inflation reached 28.9% in June 2024, driven mainly by food/non-alcoholic beverages and communication services.
- As of end-June 2024, no expenditure had been committed against the 17.1 billion gourdes allocated to the Multisectoral Emergency Program (PUMARSGV).
- Over 60% of the population lives below the poverty line and nearly 25% in extreme poverty; about 4.9 million people face food insecurity.
This is a budget framing memorandum (lettre de cadrage) issued by Prime Minister Garry Conille on September 9, 2024, addressed to all authorizing officers (ordonnateurs) of Haiti's public administration ahead of the FY2024-2025 budget. The document describes a severe multidimensional crisis context (economic, financial, social, political, security, humanitarian) that a rectified FY2023-2024 budget published August 13, 2024 did not fully address, and states that the FY2024-2025 budget must respond to priority needs identified by the Rapid Crisis Impact Assessment (RCIA) conducted from July 2024 with technical and financial partners, structured around the five 'grands chantiers' of the April 3, 2024 political accord (also annexed to the letter).
The memo lays out five guiding budget-management principles (measurable impact, transparency/accountability, equity and inclusion of women and youth, coverage of all communes, national resilience) and six priority areas for budget preparation: mobilizing and optimizing domestic revenue (tax administration modernization, anti-smuggling coordination between customs/PNH/FAD'H, a ban on cash payments in public administration); strengthening economic governance and anti-corruption controls (IGF, ULCC, CSCCA, BAF, UCREF); increasing external resources aligned to actual financing agreements; supporting investment and economic resilience (green financing, job creation for youth and women); supporting private initiative and enterprise recapitalization; and reinforcing monitoring/evaluation with quarterly budget execution reports.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, Prime Minister's budget framing letter for FY2024-2025, https://budget.gouv.ht/storage/app/uploads/public/66e/373/176/66e3731762561657040684.pdf