(2024-09) Budget Framework Letter for FY2024-2025 (Lettre de Cadrage)

Primature (Cabinet du Premier Ministre) • 2024

Summary — A budget framework letter from Prime Minister Garry Conille to all budget authorizing officers (Ordonnateurs) setting out the economic, social, security and political context for preparing the FY2024-2025 national budget. It lays out five guiding principles and a set of government priorities (domestic revenue mobilization, anti-corruption, governance, private-sector and agricultural support) that ministries must follow when drafting their budget requests.

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Key Findings

FY2023-2024 real GDP growth projected at -4%, a seventh consecutive year of contraction.
Annual inflation reached 28.9%, driven mainly by food, non-alcoholic beverages and communications prices.
60% of the population lives below the poverty line and 25% in extreme poverty.
9 million people (nearly half the population) face food insecurity.
The rectified 2023-2024 budget (13 August 2024) allocated over 17 billion gourdes for an emergency program, but disbursement only ran from October to June 2024.
The letter sets five budget-preparation principles and directs quarterly public reporting on budget execution.

Full Description

This letter, signed by Prime Minister Dr Garry Conille, instructs all government budget authorizing officers (Ordonnateurs) on the preparation of the FY2024-2025 national budget. It opens by describing a deteriorated preparation context across seven dimensions: economic (GDP projected to contract by 4% in FY2023-2024, inflation at 28.9%), financial-sector (insecurity disrupting banking and investment), social (60% of the population below the poverty line, 25% in extreme poverty), political (no functioning Parliament since President Jovenel Moise's 2021 assassination, pervasive corruption), security (armed gangs controlling large parts of the Port-au-Prince area), and humanitarian (4.9 million people, nearly half the population, facing food insecurity). It notes that the transitional government inherited this crisis in mid-2024 and issued a rectified 2023-2024 budget on 13 August 2024 that only partially addressed it. The letter then sets five principles for budget execution (spending tied to government priorities, transparent revenue collection, gender- and youth-responsive spending, communal-level support, and resilience-building) and a detailed list of government priorities: modernizing revenue collection and IT systems, fighting contraband and illegal money flows, publishing quarterly expenditure-quality reports, strengthening the fight against corruption, mobilizing external financing including through international partners, prioritizing investment projects that boost the economy and job creation, expanding access to finance for private enterprises hit by the crisis and for the agricultural sector, and instituting quarterly public reporting on budget execution. It closes referencing the 3 April 2024 political accord (transition roadmap) and an accompanying 'Gran Chantye' document meant to guide ministries' investment project preparation.

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Time Coverage

2023 — 2025

Keywords

lettre de cadrage, budget framework, FY2024-2025, bidjè, Garry Conille, Primature, priorites budgetaires, insecurite, pauvrete, gouvernance, transition politique

Entities

Primature, Ministè Ekonomi ak Finans (MEF), Ministè Planifikasyon ak Koperasyon Ekstèn, Ministè Afè Etranjè, Fon Monetè Entènasyonal (FMI), Bank Mondyal

Notes

Cover is undated; publication month (2024-09) inferred from internal references to the 13 August 2024 rectified budget and the FY2024-2025 budget-preparation cycle (fiscal year starts 1 October). Document is a Primature (Prime Minister's Office) cadrage letter, not an MEF-authored publication, though addressed to the MEF among other ministries; organization field reflects the actual signatory.