2017-2021, The Great Leap Forward: Four-Year Record of the Presidency of Jovenel Moïse
Summary: The record the presidency of Jovenel Moïse published on its first four years, sector by sector: electricity, roads, agriculture, education, health, social protection and public finances, with the projects claimed and the figures advanced. It is government communication rather than an evaluation, and it reads as the official account of a period that other sources in the corpus document differently.
Key Findings
- Government communication rather than an evaluation: the figures are what the presidency claims for itself, unverified, and the volume itself calls the record one that could have been better although flattering.
- Claims more than 5 billion gourdes spent to clear arrears, the regularization and payment of more than 13,000 agents, and salary adjustments of 10 to 30 percent for school staff from fiscal year 2017-2018, with a further adjustment of up to 30 percent in 2020.
- Reports a health workforce of 13,922 budgeted employees including 1,841 doctors and 1,782 nurses, plus 2,251 supported by partners, a ratio of 10.47 health staff per 10,000 inhabitants, and 1,007 facilities of which 344 are public.
- Records maternal mortality falling from 630 per 100,000 live births in EMMUS 2006 to 529 per 100,000 in 2016, and HIV incidence down 30 percent over ten years.
- Gives COVID-19 figures of 10,127 confirmed cases, 8,725 recovered and 236 deaths against 43,093 suspected cases, with 198,619 screenings at airports and 131,164 at border posts; the date printed in the text, 4 January 2020, is inconsistent with figures that are end-2020.
- Useful as the official account of a period other sources in the corpus document differently, and as one place where scattered sectoral figures are collected.
Full Description
The record the presidency of Jovenel Moïse published on its first four years, sector by sector: electricity, roads, agriculture, education, health, social protection and public finances, with the projects claimed and the figures advanced. It is government communication rather than an evaluation, and it reads as the official account of a period that other sources in the corpus document differently.
How to cite
Presidency of the Republic of Haiti (PRH), 2020, 2017-2021, The Great Leap Forward: Four-Year Record of the Presidency of Jovenel Moïse, https://www.haiti.org/