Roadmap for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (Roosevelt Bellevue)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Roosevelt Bellevue at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Assigns two instruments that would change the shape of Haitian social protection if enacted: a bill establishing a minimum solidarity income, and a universal compulsory health insurance system to pool the risks and accidents of life.
- Requires completion of the Registre Unique du Bénéficiaire, the single beneficiary register, which is the record any targeted transfer depends on.
- Extends the Ti Manman Cheri guarantee to every unemployed mother raising school-age children alone, with the benefit extendable under conditions to older people and people with disabilities.
- Attaches conditionality to an existing program, systematizing Koré Etidyan by connecting it to academic performance measures.
- Assigns pension reform for portability of rights and quality of benefits, and creation of reception and reintegration centers in border towns that have a customs post, which addresses returnees at the point they arrive.
- Asks Parliament to pass three bills through its committees: recognition and validation of professional experience, a framework law organizing trades and professions, and compulsory social service for university students receiving public funding.
- Places the family record book, grouping birth, recognition of a child, adoption, marriage and death, in this ministry's remit alongside the justice ministry's.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Roosevelt Bellevue at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Roadmap for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (Roosevelt Bellevue), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/7-Feuille-de-route-du-ministre-des-affaires-sociales-et-du-travail.pdf