Roadmap for the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities (Max Rudolph Saint Albin)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Max Rudolph Saint Albin at the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities. 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 reviving and coordinating the state's administrative and territorial action, and makes the departmental Délégué the principal animator of the administrative life of state services in the department.
- Proposes two new civil service bodies, a Corps des Délégués and a Corps des Administrateurs Civils in the delegations and vice-delegations, which would give deconcentrated administration a career structure.
- Assigns the delegations and vice-delegations an administrative control mission and enforcement of the state's land-use policy, so territorial administration carries a supervisory function rather than a representative one only.
- Requires a Sant Tout Kalite Sèvis in the communal sections, dedicated spaces offering the full set of public services citizens need, which is the service-delivery counterpart of decentralization.
- Assigns two draft bills with civil liberties implications on either side: one creating a Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur to seek, centralize and exploit intelligence concerning national security or the nation's fundamental interests, and one on the protection of personal data and privacy.
- Requires a responsible border policy to maintain security and stability in the border zone and resolute treatment of the migration question, alongside regular functioning of the immigration services.
- Includes institutionalizing and developing the capacities of the territorial collectivities, reviving decentralization, and creating an operational register of collectivity occupations.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Max Rudolph Saint Albin at the Ministry of the Interior and Territorial Collectivities. 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 the Interior and Territorial Collectivities (Max Rudolph Saint Albin), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Feuille-de-route-Ministre-de-lInt_rieur-et-des-Collectivit_s-Territoriales.pdf