Haiti - Politic : The Ministry of Planning discusses self-sufficiency with USAID
Stevenson Jacques Thimoléon, the Director General of the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) met this week with a delegation from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on the theme of self-reliance, while the latest report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reminds that Haiti still depends on the assistance of the United Nations to meet its food needs https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25642-haiti-humanitarian-haiti-depends-on-international-assistance-to-feed-its-population.html
The Ministry's Technical Directors and Senior Executives participating in this first working session of a series aimed at strengthening collaboration between the Department and this important financial partner, have learned from the new USAID analytical framework, which measures the commitment and capacity of the Government and Civil Society in Haiti. The delegation explained the indicators of this new analysis grid and their roadmap presenting USAID's new mission is to see the partners progress and become autonomous. In this perspective, USAID relies on the Ministry to increase the effectiveness of its actions and their alignment with national priorities.
Thimoléon reminded the delegation, the mission and the functions of the Ministry to help them better understand the tools and mechanisms promoted or developed by the MPCE, implemented in particular in the Strategic Plan of Development of Haiti (PSDH), the three-year investment plan (PTI) 2014-2016, the establishment of the PPPBSE chain and the coordination of development aid (CAED).
Thimoléon advocates "[...] an alignment, effective ownership of development cooperation and non-fragmentation in order to achieve the Government's development goals, but also to allow international aid to realize its real vocation to know how to be effective and to disappear [...]"
