Women's Representation in Local Governance in Haiti: State of Play and Proposals for Improvement
- Records only 12 women serving as principal mayors and 131 as assessor mayors out of 420 municipal council members.
- Puts women at 28.6 percent of Haiti's civil service against 71.4 percent men, on OMRH's 2018 census of public agents.
- Finds women holding only 35 percent of management posts in the civil service.
- Sets those figures against women being 52 percent of the population, which is the gap the brief is written about.
- Notes that the civil service headcount reports it draws on do not provide the full breakdown, so the figures are bounded by what those reports record.
A short policy brief rather than a study, setting out the gap between the constitutional and legal commitments to women's participation in local government and the observed position, and proposing gender-responsive governance measures across three lines of work: deconcentration and decentralization reform, modernization of territorial institutions, and women's access to decision-making. Its brevity is worth knowing before citing it as evidence.
How to cite
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2020, Women's Representation in Local Governance in Haiti: State of Play and Proposals for Improvement, https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/la-representativite-des-femmes-dans-la-gouvernance-locale-en-haiti-etat-des-lieux-et-quelques-propositions-damelioration