Post-Cyclone Matthew Needs Assessment: Governance Sector
- Damage and losses to the governance sector total 122,540,472 gourdes, or 1,885,238 US dollars, comprising 24,056,179 in damage and 92,484,292 in losses.
- Two thirds of the total falls on local governance, and within that sub-sector 72 percent falls on the town halls.
- The rule of law sub-sector accounts for 41,925,000 gourdes, made up of 12,577,500 in damage and 29,347,500 in losses.
- Damage concerns buildings above all at 20 percent of the amount, while losses are 80 percent and consist largely of replacement cost.
- Notes budgetary losses at the local level as smaller but compounding, which is why the recovery need is framed around equipment.
The governance volume of the post-Matthew needs assessment, covering local governance and the rule of law as one sector. It is the volume about the administrations that had to carry the response while being damaged themselves.
Damage and losses to the sector total 122,540,472 gourdes, or 1,885,238 US dollars, split as 24,056,179 gourdes of damage and 92,484,292 of losses. Two thirds of that falls on local governance, and within that sub-sector 72 percent falls on the town halls. The rule of law sub-sector accounts for 41,925,000 gourdes, made up of 12,577,500 in damage and 29,347,500 in losses.
The composition matters more than the total. Damage concerns buildings above all and represents 20 percent of the amount, while losses make up 80 percent and consist largely of replacement cost. Read with the recovery needs, the volume argues for equipment that local governance institutions require to respond to their communities at all, and notes that budgetary losses at that level, while smaller, compound the problem.
How to cite
Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP), 2016, Post-Cyclone Matthew Needs Assessment: Governance Sector, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/pdna-matthew-2016-secteur-gouvernance