Project 19

Focus on Local Authorities

In Haiti, successive governments have never really placed the development of local authorities at the center of priorities. But national development requires regional development. How can we create economic activities that generate employment and growth in remote municipal sections? This is the fundamental question to which we will have to find adequate answers in the decades to come.

The national project recommended by En Avant is in favor of the compulsory allocation of a percentage of at least 20% of the national budget to communities. It is a way of injecting funds into the municipality and creating economic opportunities. Thirty-three years after the Constitution came into force, the country has still not achieved effective decentralization. The implementing law was not passed to organize indirect elections and no monitoring mechanism has yet been put in place. Obviously, a constitutional reform must streamline and simplify the provisions aimed at decentralization.

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