2014-2016 Three-Year Investment Program And its Framework to Achieve Accelerated, Balanced Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty Tool for Implementing Haiti’s Strategic Development Plan Making Haiti an Emerging Country By 2030.

In 2010 the government of began working on the Haitian Strategic Development Plan (PSDH), whose end goal is to make Haiti an emerging country by 2030.
The PSDH presents the vision and strategic guidelines for the country’s long-term development, the four major areas of work for the recovery and development of Haiti, which comprise development and reorganization of the territory and the economic, social, and institutional reform of the county, as well as the programs and subprograms to be implemented within this framework.
In brief priorities to implement the PSDH were identified and are incorporate in the present three-year development framework for accelerated and balanced economic growth and poverty reduction, and consequently in the Three-Year Investment Program for 2014-2016, which will guide the preparation of the 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 public investment programs.
To achieve these objectives the national authorities have decided to give the highest priority to the following: (i) job creation, as this is the prime vehicle of economic growth and social integration, and a way to alleviate pressures on the environment; it requires equipment and infrastructure that will in turn generate a large number of jobs, (ii) protection and improvement of the environment, to ensure its sustainability, increase its attractions, improve the quality of life, and reduce vulnerability, (iii) strengthening the rule of law, to improve governance of public services, bring the services to the citizens, and increase local capacity and autonomy.
In order to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, a number of key strategies will be implemented by the program in order to improve food security conditions among others: (i) increase volume of agricultural and animal production, (ii) decrease volume of imported agricultural, (iii) increased volume of fish products consumed.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to implement the following strategies: (i) increase in collective wealth, increased participation in economic life, and a reduction in pressures on the environment, (ii) promotion of the participation of women in development, (iii) increase in school attendance and citizen involvement, as well as increased participation in economic activity on the part of women, youth, and persons with disabilities, (iv) improvement housing conditions and increase use of modern domestic facilities, (v) increase number of persons with disabilities in the labor market.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, the government plans to the risk and disaster management by an effective management of the natural environment and preservation, among others the following strategies: (i) increased plant and forest coverage, (ii) development of watersheds, (iii) improving land management.
In the context of governance, the implementation of this three-year framework will be based on participation and cooperation, in line with the legal framework governing Haiti’s public investments. Each ministry will be responsible for contributing to the implementation of the three-year framework. However, given the size of the investments involved in order to achieve the expected results in terms of both development and governance, Haiti will have to: (i) establish new mechanisms for implementing the PSDH, (ii) accelerate the implementation of the program approach in certain ministries, (iii) make significant investments in the major projects promising development, (iv) maximize the participation of the private sector, (v) develop models for equipment and infrastructure projects to be established, (vi) strengthen the quality and reliability of the needed management data.