Framework Programme for State Reform: Administrative Reform and Decentralization
- Sets out the five-year framework for administrative reform and decentralization, October 2012 to September 2017, with a global forecast budget broken down by axis, component and fiscal year, so the programme is costed rather than declared.
- Restates the governing principles of the public administration as the frame for reform, including the unity of the state, bilingualism, continuity of the public service, equality before the public service and before public charges, mutability, neutrality, and proximity and subsidiarity.
- Quantifies one of the state's own overheads as a reform target, with the weight of rents in public expenditure estimated at 68 million US dollars, not including investments.
- Programmes implementation in three phases, launch, installation of the reform and development, each with its own action plans, plus a communication plan, resource mobilization and evaluation mechanisms.
- Opens with the Prime Minister stating that the country does not yet have a modern and effective public administration capable of supporting its major public policies, which is the premise the whole programme rests on.
- Frames the reform's purpose as leadership in change for the generalized wellbeing of the country's ten million people.
OMRH's framework programme for administrative reform and decentralization, covering October 2012 to September 2017 and published in February 2013. It is the document that gave Haiti's reform of the state a five-year plan with an axis structure, a phased implementation and a budget, rather than a statement of intent.
The Prime Minister's foreword sets the premise: the country does not yet have a modern and effective public administration capable of helping it overcome its difficulties and support its major public policies. From there the programme restates the governing principles the administration is supposed to operate on, unity of the state, bilingualism, continuity of the public service, equality before the public service and before public charges, mutability, neutrality, and proximity and subsidiarity, and treats them as the frame within which reform has to fit.
What makes it usable as a record is the last chapter: a global forecast budget broken down by axis, component and fiscal year. It also prices one of the state's own overheads, estimating the weight of rents in public expenditure at 68 million US dollars excluding investments, which is the kind of figure that turns an administrative argument into a fiscal one. Implementation is programmed in three phases, launch, installation and development, each with action plans, alongside a communication plan, resource mobilization and evaluation mechanisms.
How to cite
Office of Management and Human Resources (OMRH), 2012, Framework Programme for State Reform: Administrative Reform and Decentralization, https://omrh.gouv.ht/Media/1-DocumentsLegaux/Programme-Cadre%20de%20R%c3%a9forme%20de%20l%e2%80%99%c3%89tat%20Octobre%202012-Septembre%202017.pdf