OMRH Status Note on Strengthening the Regulatory Framework of Public Administration
Summary: OMRH status note situating its regulatory output (arretes and circulars) within the Programme-Cadre de Réforme de l'État, reporting fifteen draft orders and fifteen draft circulars in progress at the time, part signed and published, part awaiting signature.
Key Findings
- Reports the regulatory output rather than the reform's ambitions: fifteen draft orders and fifteen draft circulars produced to renew the civil service's regulatory framework, part signed and published and part still in progress.
- Situates that work in the Programme-Cadre de Réforme de l'État covering the five years 2012 to 2017, itself set within the Plan Stratégique de Développement d'Haïti, with the OMRH both drafting and leading it.
- Identifies the legal source the instruments derive from, the decree of 17 May 2005 revising the general statute of the civil service, so the orders and circulars are application texts rather than free-standing rules.
- Describes regulation as a distinct function of the reform, contributing to the implementation of public policy through indirect measures such as rulemaking and administrative control, alongside strategic planning and service delivery.
- Makes renewal of the legal and institutional framework of the central administration one of the main axes of the reform project, on the argument that appropriate regulatory instruments have to be in place first.
- States the political purpose the administrative one serves, that the new public administration must win the population's confidence and make the rule of law durable.
How to cite
Office of Management and Human Resources (OMRH), 2013, OMRH Status Note on Strengthening the Regulatory Framework of Public Administration, https://omrh.gouv.ht/Media/Publications/5-Circulaires%20reglementaires%20ayant%20force%20normative/omrh_c_reglementaire0001.pdf