Roadmap for the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (Fritz Caillot)
Summary: A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Fritz Caillot at the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications. 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
- Covers a ministry whose remit here spans public works, telecommunications, transport, mines and energy, and organizes the instruction by those fields rather than as a single list.
- Asks first for an energy policy for the next five or ten years, and for the ministry's energy cell to be strengthened with a unit for rural electrification and another for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
- Instructs the minister to revise the January 2016 decrees reforming the electricity sector and to create the sector's regulatory authority, which places the regulator's existence inside this mandate.
- Requires the commercial and financial recovery of EDH alongside diversifying the generation mix and building a national grid, so the utility's balance sheet and the network build are treated as one problem.
- Provides for rehabilitating existing micro-hydro plants with the option of transferring their management to private operators, and for smart micro-grids to supply small towns in the regions.
- Directs an off-grid electrification plan based mainly on solar power, a national renewable energy development plan, and renegotiation of the power purchase contracts with sector operators.
Full Description
A roadmap sent on 29 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Fritz Caillot at the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications. 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 Public Works, Transport and Communications (Fritz Caillot), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Feuille-de-route-Ministre-TPTC.pdf