National Civil Aviation Security Programme of Haiti (NASPH)
- Movements in Haitian airspace rose from 42,179 in 2022 to 47,867 in 2023, and most of them never touch Haitian ground: overflights were 23,638 of the 2022 total and 25,543 of the 2023 total, against 18,541 and 22,324 landings.
- The plan names inspector capacity, not regulation, as the first constraint on safety oversight. Its opening Safety Enhancement Initiatives are to recruit inspectors against a recruitment plan and then train them to qualification, and the indicator chosen is the ratio of qualified inspectors to established inspector posts. Surveillance of service providers is a later initiative that depends on the first two.
- Oversight capacity is measured against staged milestones rather than a single date: 50 percent by 2025, 65 percent by 2027 and 90 percent by 2030 on the implementation score, tied explicitly to the objectives and targets of the ICAO GASP and the NACC regional plan.
- The plan's horizon is three years, 2025 to 2027, and it postdates the publication of the Haitian Civil Aviation Regulations (RACH), which DSACH presents as the first milestone achieved in building an effective oversight authority.
- The indicator set is unusually granular for a Haitian sector plan: ten operational-event indicators covering runway incursions and excursions, losses of separation, TCAS resolution advisories, CNS equipment outages by number and duration, and events by domain, plus implementation rates broken down by audit domain. Whether the reporting exists to populate them is the open question the document does not answer.
Haiti's National Aviation Safety Plan (NASPH), version 2024, issued 28 June 2024 by the Civil Aviation Safety Directorate (DSACH) within OFNAC. It is the operational companion to Haiti's State Safety Programme manual: where the PNS manual sets out how the state manages safety, the NASPH states what will actually be improved over a fixed horizon, in this case the three years 2025 to 2027, and how progress will be measured.
The plan is built around three national safety objectives aligned to ICAO's Global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP) and the regional NACC plan: a continuing reduction in operational safety risk, stronger state safety oversight capacity, and full implementation of the State Safety Programme itself. Each objective carries targets and a numbered indicator set. Under the operational-risk objective the plan tracks accidents, fatal accidents and fatalities, and then a second family of ten operational indicators covering runway incursions and excursions, losses of separation, TCAS resolution advisories, the number and duration of communications, navigation and surveillance equipment outages, and events in aerodrome and installations, ground handling, flight operations, aircraft technical systems, and maintenance and repair. Under the oversight objective it tracks the rate of implementation of ICAO protocol questions overall, by priority, and by audit domain (PEL, OPS, AIR, ANS, AGA), plus the share of planned surveillance audits actually carried out. Staged milestones of 50 percent by 2025, 65 percent by 2027 and 90 percent by 2030 are set for the implementation score.
The plan then lists Safety Enhancement Initiatives (SEI), each with a responsible entity, stakeholders, measures, indicators, priority and target date. The first ones are candid about the binding constraint: recruit and qualify inspectors against a recruitment plan, with the ratio of qualified inspectors to established inspector posts as the indicator, then train them so they can carry out surveillance of service providers. An annex supplies the PNS evaluation grid, scoring effective implementation globally, by ICAO critical element (EC1 to EC8) and by audit domain.
For readers outside the aviation sector, the traffic table is the most reusable part of the document: monthly landings and overflights for 2022 and 2023, showing that most movements in Haitian airspace are overflights rather than traffic to and from Haitian airports.
How to cite
National Civil Aviation Office (OFNAC), 2024, National Civil Aviation Security Programme of Haiti (NASPH), https://ofnac.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NASPH-JUILLET-2024.pdf