Roadmap for the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Limond Toussaint)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Limond Toussaint at the Ministry of Culture and Communication. 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 the creation, organization and operation of a Haute Autorité de l'Audiovisuel, a broadcasting regulator, alongside the ministry's own communication duties, so regulation and government communication sit in the same instruction.
- Requires state media to be better managed and turned into public service media, which is a change of status rather than of output.
- Assigns public-service performance reporting to this ministry: publishing a public service quality barometer, producing and circulating reports on public service performance, and building an internet portal giving the population information on state services.
- Treats access to culture as an equity question, working to reduce material inequalities and disparities in access to cultural facilities and leisure infrastructure between neighborhoods, and renovating socio-recreational and cultural facilities in poor condition.
- Requires rational management of the public infrastructure dedicated to culture and leisure and of historic monuments and places of memory, which addresses upkeep rather than construction.
- Assigns protection and valorization of Haiti's material and immaterial cultural heritage together with follow-up of the conventions the Haitian state has signed in the field.
- Ends on an inventory: a survey of the country's cultural heritage and a heritage data bank in the service of Haitian cultural diplomacy.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Limond Toussaint at the Ministry of Culture and Communication. 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 Culture and Communication (Limond Toussaint), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/10-Feuille-de-route-du-ministre-de-la-Culture-et-Communication.pdf