The Need to Deconcentrate the Ministries of the Haitian Government by Department
- Concentration of the state in Port-au-Prince perpetuates regional inequalities and marginalizes provincial departments.
- The proposal keeps the sovereign ministries in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and places the other ministries in the nine other departments by socioeconomic potential.
- The examples given are the Ministry of Culture in the North, Agriculture in the Artibonite and Tourism in the Southeast.
- The author expects the model to reduce internal migration to Port-au-Prince and relieve urban, social and environmental pressure there.
- Implementation needs institutional reforms, interministerial coordination, public human resource management and stronger local capacity.
The article argues that the concentration of the state in Port-au-Prince, inherited from a rigid postcolonial history, perpetuates regional inequalities and marginalizes the provinces. It proposes keeping the sovereign ministries in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and redistributing the others by departmental potential, for example Culture in the North, Agriculture in the Artibonite and Tourism in the Southeast.
The author expects the model to bring the state closer to citizens, stimulate local economies, reduce internal migration and relieve congestion in the capital. He notes that it would need institutional reforms, stronger coordination between ministries, public human resource management reform and stronger local capacity.
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