Roadmap for the Ministry for the Status of Women and Women's Rights (Eunide Innocent)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Eunide Innocent at the Ministry for the Status of Women and Women's Rights. 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
- Defines the mandate as the socio-economic and political integration of women, and lists seven actions rather than principles.
- Puts gender-responsive budgeting in writing as a deliverable: a document on gender-sensitive budgeting for the finance laws across the five-year term, which would apply to every annual budget rather than to a single program.
- Names the three economic accesses the policies must address, employment, property and credit, which is narrower and more testable than a general commitment to inclusion.
- Assigns contribution to passing a law protecting women against sexual violence, sexual harassment and domestic violence, with legal assistance to victims coordinated with the justice and public security ministry.
- Requires a positive discrimination policy for girls in vocational training, coordinated with the relevant institutions.
- Asks for public childcare services starting with crèches in the textile sector, which locates the first provision where the female workforce is concentrated.
- Assigns the ministry the same cross-cutting duties as the others, preparing the 2017-2018 budget and strengthening transparency and the fight against corruption, and notes that coordination with other executive institutions is often slowed by systemic heaviness.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Eunide Innocent at the Ministry for the Status of Women and Women's Rights. 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 for the Status of Women and Women's Rights (Eunide Innocent), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/8-Feuille-de-route-de-la-ministre-a-la-Condition-Feminine-et-aux-Droits-des-Femmes.pdf