National Development Planning and Management System

The document describes the framework of five subsystems that the MPCE had begun to set up before the earthquake of January 12, 2010. The work was temporarily suspended and its main points were to be folded into an action plan for the recovery and development of Haiti. The planning subsystem works at two levels: national, with a long-term vision, a national land use plan and sector and regional strategies, and local, at the level of the arrondissement and meso watershed, with local strategies, local schemes, urban plans and annual local development contracts between the Government and local authorities. The document also proposes revising the limits of arrondissements, communes and communal sections to fit watersheds.

The financing and investment subsystems restructure the national budget into a national and a local component and create a local development and land use fund equal to 20 percent of the public investment budget, shared by the number of territories and their population. A national investment company would receive 2 billion gourdes (US$50 million) a year for 10 years and have an authorized capital of 20 billion gourdes (US$500 million), and at least 30 percent of the local fund in each arrondissement would go to financial aid to firms, capped at 2 million gourdes (US$50,000) per firm per year. The public investment cycle has four phases and ten steps. The partnership and information subsystems are described more briefly, and the partnership graphic is marked as still to be done. Annex 1 lists drafts and studies completed, including a draft law on land use planning and local development, a proposal to revise territorial limits and a draft order creating local commissions, and work under way, including a regional strategy and a business plan for the Southern Peninsula and a project for Pic Macaya.