(2024-09) Prime Minister's budget framing letter for FY2024-2025

Primature (Cabinet du Premier Ministre) • 2024

Summary — Memorandum from Prime Minister Garry Conille to all public spending authorizing officers, dated September 9, 2024, setting the framing directives for the FY2024-2025 budget. It links budget priorities to the crisis context (security, economic, social, humanitarian) and to the five 'grands chantiers' of the April 3, 2024 political accord.

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Key Findings

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.

Full Description

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.

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Time Coverage

2024-06 — 2024-09

Keywords

lettre de cadrage, budget 2024-2025, Premier ministre, Garry Conille, RCIA, Accord du 3 avril 2024, gestion des finances publiques, crise multidimensionnelle, PUMARSGV, ordonnateurs

Entities

Primature, MEF, MPCE, MAEC, PNH, FAD'H, IGF, ULCC, CSCCA, BAF, UCREF, PUMARSGV

Notes

doc_id and folder name attribute this to MEF, but the document itself is a memorandum signed by Prime Minister Garry Conille (Primature/Cabinet du Premier Ministre), dated Port-au-Prince, 9 September 2024, addressed to all ordonnateurs including the MEF and MPCE; organization field set to Primature accordingly. A companion Haitian Creole (HT) edition of this same letter is a sibling document. The letter references an annexed document ('Les grands Chantiers') not included in these pages.