Order Setting Implementation Rules for the Public Investment Program
Summary: The order of 17 September 1985 setting the terms of application of the decree of 4 October 1984 on the Public Investment Fund, published in Le Moniteur No. 72 of 11 October 1985 at pages 1390 to 1396. It is the operating manual of the PIP: how a project is inscribed in the program, the project identity and operation sheet (FIOP) due by 1 March, the legislative vote on the program, the Special Treasury Account for Development, quarterly disbursement programming, the initial two-month advance, the replenishment dossier, and what happens to ongoing projects when the program is not voted before the fiscal year starts.
Key Findings
- Inscription in the PIP is conditional on two things, and both are stated as requirements rather than preferences: respect for the priorities set by the government in its five-year and annual plans, and approval of the definitive project document by the relevant Ministry of Plan services (article 1).
- The FIOP is the unit of account of the whole system. The project directorate must transmit, through its supervising authority and by 1 March at the latest, an annual synthesis of the definitive project document recorded in a Project Identity and Operation Sheet, accompanied by the project documents and any agreements with external financing agencies (article 3). The Minister of Plan may amend a FIOP on the basis of execution and monitoring reports, after consultation with those responsible and the external financiers (article 4).
- The program is voted by the legislature, and amendment flows back down: if the Legislative Chamber amends it, the FIOPs are readjusted by those responsible and transmitted to the Ministry of Plan within fifteen days of the vote (article 5).
- There is a standing continuing-resolution mechanism for a late program, which is the provision most worth knowing today. If the PIP has not been voted before the fiscal year begins, each ongoing and unfinished project receives, under the law on the budget and public accounting and until the program is adopted or the project completed, a monthly provision equal to one twelfth or the monthly average of the previous year's financial envelope (article 10).
- Cash flows on a rolling quarter, not a calendar quarter. Each project's periodic disbursement program covers a quarter's forecast expenditure plus the first month of the following quarter, explicitly to reconcile uninterrupted financial supply with control of operations (article 9). Transfers are made by MEFI on the Ministry of Plan's quarterly program, or failing that the annual program, and the Ministry of Plan may modify disbursement programs at any time after consulting the financing bodies.
- Projects start with money in hand: each receives an initial advance equal to its programmed expenditure for the first two months (article 11).
- Replenishment is documentary and is where control actually bites. The dossier must carry the statement of expenditure with supporting documents, a summary of financial operations, the state of progress of the project, and the statement of revenue collected (article 12).
- The money path is explicit and single: resources sit in a Special Treasury Account for Development held by MEFI, which transfers Treasury resources and those delegated to the Haitian government from that account to the current accounts of the projects concerned (articles 6 and 7), on a general calendar of annual financing needs supplied by the Ministry of Plan at the start of each fiscal year (article 8).
How to cite
Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE), 1985, Order Setting Implementation Rules for the Public Investment Program, https://www.mpce.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Arrete-1985-fixant-modalites-application-PIP.pdf