Preliminary Reflections on Haiti's School Building Stock (IDB)
- Argues that bringing only the public schools already counted up to a 9+2 standard, nine full fundamental classes plus two preschool classes, would double current public provision and move it toward parity with the private sector.
- Sets the financing requirement concretely: an average investment of 800,000 US dollars per department per year for ten years under a minimum scenario, giving a build rate of 400 classrooms a year and 4,000 over the decade.
- Ties the target to commitments already made, the Incheon Declaration of 2015 on enrollment rates and Engagement 1 of the 2015 Pacte National pour une Education de Qualité on rehabilitating public provision.
- Frames the technical strategy as diversification and decentralization of the client-side project management function, summarized in ten axes drawn from experience and lessons learned, each requiring its own action plan.
- States that its own figures are working hypotheses drawn from an interpretation of the 2013-14 DPCE census, sketching a trend for a medium-term vision, and that micro-planning will be needed to establish real needs and the organization of provision at commune level.
- Identifies the political condition rather than only the technical one: development and upgrading of the public school stock still has to be placed on the priority agenda at MENFP central level and in the territorial collectivities before adequate means can be committed.
Christian Ubertini wrote this note for consultation in September 2016. It argues that bringing only the public schools already counted in the 2013-2014 census up to a 9+2 standard, nine complete basic-education classrooms plus two preschool classrooms, would roughly double current public provision and move it towards parity with the private sector. That target is tied to Haiti's commitments under the 2015 Incheon Declaration and to the first commitment of the Pacte National pour une Éducation de Qualité. The note is explicit that its figures are working hypotheses read off the DPCE's 2013-2014 census and are meant to establish a medium-term direction, with micro-planning at commune level needed to establish real requirements. 19 pages.
How to cite
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), 2016, Preliminary Reflections on Haiti's School Building Stock (IDB), https://menfp.gouv.ht/#/documents/official