From 1st to Saturday 3rd November, the Collectif Haïti de France and the Collectif Haiti Occitanie are organizing the 7th summit of the French actors of solidarity with Haiti, which is being held in Brens in the Tarn (France). These assises, which are organized around the theme "Growing up in Haiti, educating, training, acting and undertaking", bring together nearly a hundred representatives of the main associations and NGOs that provide development aid to Haiti, particularly in education. Several specialits and experts from different fields are also taking part in this national meeting of actors of solidarity with Haiti.

The means of education faced the Haiti's needs, access to health and drinking water, women's entrepreneurship, means for the reconquest of food sovereignty are the main topics discussed during the debates from this summit.

Dr. Délima Pierre, Director General of the National Office of the Partnership in Education (ONAPE), special guest of these assizes participating in the panel on education, took stock of the ongoing efforts for the reform of the sector of the Education in Haiti, presenting in particular the outlines of the Ten Year Education and Training Plan (PDEF), the final document has just been sent to the Office of the Minister of National Education https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25804-haiti-politic-last-line-for-the-education-and-training-ten-year-plan2018-2028.html

Several actors welcomed the creation in Haiti of ONAPE whose mission is to facilitate the coordination of actions and a better articulation of the cooperation between the public and non-public networks of the education sector as well as all the technical and financial partners. For them, it was time to find an interlocutor who could support them in order to facilitate field operations and help them find viable solutions to the difficulties encountered in launching and implementing projects and programs.

Delima Pierre emphasized the new approaches to results-based management and invited partners to join this dynamic to achieve the goals set and to allow Haitian children to have access to quality education.

In his speech, Miloody Vincent, the Director of Communication of the Ministry who accompanies the Director General of ONAPE in his tour, hailed this mobilization of the Haitian diaspora in France and the French wanting to accompany Haiti in its quest for sustainable development that passes necessarily, according to him, by education.

HL/ HaitiLibre