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As Haiti enters the final quarter of its 2025-2026 fiscal cycle, national planning officials have brought together cross-agency stakeholders to update the country’s core public investment framework, aligning ongoing and planned projects with the government’s top priorities for stability and institutional recovery.

On June 12, 2026, Haiti’s Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) hosted a dedicated working session focused on amendments to the 2025-2026 Public Investment Program (PIP). The gathering drew leadership from the nation’s Planning and Programming Units (UEPs), senior representatives from all sectoral ministries, and executives from Haiti’s autonomous public agencies, uniting key decision-makers across the public planning ecosystem.

Opening the workshop, Planning Minister Sandra Paulemon reaffirmed her ministry’s central mandate: steering national development planning, aligning public investment flows, and ensuring all state-backed projects advance the government’s stated strategic goals. She highlighted the foundational role UEPs play across the full project lifecycle, from initial identification and programming to ongoing monitoring and final impact evaluation.

Paulemon stressed that every project included in the revised PIP must directly advance priorities laid out in the government’s National Pact for Stability and the Organization of Elections, as well as established sectoral development roadmaps. Priority focus areas include public governance reform, expanded infrastructure, improved access to basic social services, broad economic recovery, and long-term institutional strengthening—all core to addressing Haiti’s ongoing systemic challenges.

With just three months remaining in the current fiscal year, the minister issued a clear call for adhering to strict monitoring and reporting protocols set by the MPCE. She urged all participating institutions to submit required project data within mandated deadlines, a step critical to maintaining transparent and effective management of the country’s entire national investment portfolio.

A key topic of discussion among attendees was updating PIP performance metrics to be finalized by September 30, 2026. Participants prioritized developing indicators that are measurable, realistic, and objectively verifiable, creating a clear framework to assess exactly how public investments are delivering tangible benefits to Haitian communities.

In her closing remarks, Paulemon called for deeper collaboration across all branches of the national planning system, urging strengthened inter-institutional coordination, more open information sharing, and a sustained shift toward a results-oriented institutional culture. The ultimate goal, she emphasized, is to amplify the positive impact of all public interventions for the Haitian people.

MPCE Director General Guy Roméro Latry echoed this call, urging stakeholders to increase their efforts to strengthen project delivery. Latry noted that the success of the revised PIP will hinge on the collective ability of all participating bodies to turn allocated resources into concrete, measurable, and sustainable outcomes that improve daily life across the country.

Frantz Bastien, Director of Public Investment at the MPCE, framed the workshop as a critical mobilization effort for the national public investment system, designed to accelerate implementation over the remaining fiscal quarter. Bastien emphasized that the revised PIP is far more than a routine administrative adjustment: it is a strategic management tool that allows officials to update existing projects to reflect Haiti’s evolving national context, revise project costs, timelines and delivery strategies, and integrate newly adopted government priorities into active planning.

Following opening remarks, the workshop moved into a hands-on working phase, where participants conducted a line-by-line review of all projects included in the amended 2025-2026 PIP, assessed current implementation progress, and mapped out next steps for project completion in the coming months.

In an early-June Council of Ministers meeting, Haiti’s governing administration formally adopted an amended 2025-2026 national budget, marking a 4.3% upward adjustment from the fiscal period’s initial spending plan to total 360.3 billion Haitian gourdes. The revised budget is crafted to advance three core national priorities that top the government’s current agenda: restoring widespread public security, organizing long-planned national elections, and stabilizing Haiti’s fragile macroeconomic landscape.

Beyond addressing pressing immediate public security needs, the supplementary budget is structured around three overarching strategic pillars that guide all allocated spending. First, the plan prioritizes advancing food security across the country, expanding existing government social safety net programs, and expanding access to critical basic social services for vulnerable populations. Second, it targets broad economic rebound through large-scale infrastructure rehabilitation and the revitalization of Haiti’s agricultural sector, a backbone of rural employment and domestic food production. Third, it allocates dedicated resources to fully support the administration of upcoming national elections.

Based on current projections for public revenue collection, policymakers forecast that Haiti’s overall tax burden will remain largely unchanged from the 2024-2025 fiscal year. To cover the adjusted spending totals, the government plans to modify planned Treasury bond issuances to align with current market conditions and the absorption capacity of Haiti’s domestic financial system.

Breaking down the budget’s funding structure, 67.5% of the total 360.3 billion gourdes, equal to 243.1 billion gourdes, will come from tax revenue collected by Haiti’s Directorate General of Taxes and customs revenue administered by the General Customs Administration. Combined international grants and concessionary loans contribute an additional 70 billion gourdes, accounting for 19.4% of the total budget. When combined with other domestic funding sources—including 24.8 billion gourdes from Treasury bonds, 16.45 billion gourdes from a loan from the Bank of the Republic of Haiti, and 4.3 billion gourdes in other domestic project financing—total domestic resources reach 288.7 billion gourdes, covering 80.1% of the full amended budget.

On the expenditure side, current operating spending makes up 59.3% of the total budget at 213.7 billion gourdes, with personnel costs accounting for 31.5% of the overall budget and goods and services expenditures making up 19.4%, the two largest spending categories. Capital expenditures, totaling 146.6 billion gourdes, represent 40.6% of the total revised budget—a notable increase from the initial budget’s capital allocation. This expanded capital spending underscores the government’s stated commitment to advancing the public investments required to improve security conditions and lay the groundwork for long-term economic recovery.

Compared to the original 2025-2026 budget, the amended plan increases domestic resources from 279.61 billion gourdes to 290.2 billion gourdes, while external resources rise from 65.9 billion gourdes to 70.12 billion gourdes. Current operating expenditures see only a minor uptick from 213.56 billion to 213.72 billion gourdes, while capital expenditures get a far more substantial boost from 131.95 billion to 146.59 billion gourdes. The share of total budget funding covered by current tax and customs revenue has edged down from 70.5% in the initial plan to 67.5% in the amended version, offset by increases in both domestic borrowing and external financing.

Amid the buzz of the 2026 FIFA World Cup where Haiti’s national team is competing, a high-stakes diplomatic and community engagement unfolded on June 12, 2026. Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé carved out time from World Cup-related official activities to sit down with members of the large Haitian diaspora community based in Boston, in what both sides described as a warm and collegial gathering. The discussion, framed as open and solution-focused, centered on one core topic: the long-term trajectory of the Caribbean nation amid its ongoing security and political challenges.

During the meeting, Prime Minister Fils-Aimé laid out a detailed update on the key policy priorities his administration has advanced over recent months. Top of the agenda was the Haitian government’s ongoing push to reclaim stability across the country, after years of widespread gang violence that has disrupted daily life and derailed political processes. A central pillar of this effort, he explained, is preparing the groundwork for democratic elections that are free, inclusive, open to all segments of Haitian society, and widely recognized as credible, with the administration targeting the earliest possible timeline for polls.

The Prime Minister specifically highlighted the government’s sustained work to boost the operational capabilities of two core national security institutions: the Haitian National Police (PNH) and the Armed Forces of Haiti (FAd’H). Both domestic forces, he noted, are continuing their frontline mission to restore public order, backed by the Multinational Force for the Suppression of Gangs (GSF), the international mission deployed specifically to counter the power of armed gangs and terrorist groups operating within Haiti’s borders.

Beyond security and electoral planning, Fils-Aimé took time to recognize the critical role the Haitian diaspora plays in the country’s ongoing development. He praised the deep, enduring connection that Haitians living abroad maintain to their home country, noting that diaspora contributions—both financial and social—form a backbone of Haiti’s economic activity and social resilience. The Prime Minister also reaffirmed the national government’s formal commitment to keeping an open, consistent channel of dialogue with Haitian expatriate communities around the world, and to increasing their inclusion in key decisions that will shape Haiti’s future.

The closed-door gathering itself serves as a clear signal of just how much priority the Haitian government places on strengthening ties with the global diaspora. For the current administration, the millions of Haitians living outside the country are not just a community to engage, but an indispensable partner that will be central to advancing Haiti’s recovery, entrenching long-term stability, and building shared prosperity for all Haitians—whether at home or abroad.

On June 13, 2026, the Haitian government formally approved the Medium-Term Recovery and Development Plan for the country’s Great North region, a strategic roadmap spanning 2025 to 2030, during a national videoconference hosted under the patronage of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé. The cross-sector gathering drew more than 120 stakeholders, including representatives from national public agencies, local governing bodies, the private business community, domestic civil society organizations, and international technical and financial partners (TFPs) backing the initiative.

In his opening address to attendees, Marc-Kenley Mogene, Chief of Staff for Haiti’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, outlined the plan’s core mission: to drive accelerated economic transformation across the Great North by rolling out large-scale structuring investments, generating thousands of new formal jobs, and boosting the region’s overall competitiveness to attract additional outside investment. Mogene stressed that successful execution of the plan depends on three non-negotiable foundational conditions: mobilizing sufficient domestic and international financing to fund planned projects, strengthening collaborative alignment between all public and private sector stakeholders, and leveraging the central coordinating role of the Northern Corridor Development Council, which will oversee implementation tracking, cross-initiative alignment, and accountability for all activities outlined in the plan.

Prime Minister Fils-Aimé framed the plan’s validation as a landmark milestone for Haiti’s broader national efforts to rebuild the economy and address long-standing territorial development imbalances across the country. He reiterated that the regional planning initiative grows out of a new national development vision centered on leveraging the unique realities, inherent strengths, and untapped potential of each of Haiti’s geographic regions. The prime minister added that the region-first framework, first piloted in the Great North, will be gradually rolled out to other parts of the country, with the Far South slated as the next region to receive a customized development plan, all in service of building more inclusive, sustainable national growth.

Senior public sector officials presented the plan’s four mutually reinforcing strategic pillars that guide all priority actions. First, the plan prioritizes broad economic diversification to reduce the Great North’s dependence on a small set of vulnerable industries. Second, it targets transformative infrastructure upgrades and private sector revitalization to build a resilient productive base that supports long-term expansion. Third, it commits to large-scale investments in human capital and expanded access to essential public services to widen economic opportunity and advance social inclusion for marginalized communities. Fourth, it includes targeted reforms to strengthen regional governance, rebuild public trust in state institutions, and ensure long-term accountability for results.

The plan was developed over months of collaborative work under the leadership of Haiti’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, in close coordination with national sectoral ministries, and with technical and financial support from key international partners including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, the European Union, and the United Nations system operating in Haiti. It now serves as the official strategic framework guiding all public and private investments, policy reforms, and priority development actions focused on the Great North for the next six years.

Following the formal validation, representatives of international technical and financial partners, local government leaders, and private sector executives all expressed broad support for the initiative, and reaffirmed their ongoing commitment to working alongside the Haitian government to turn the plan’s development vision into tangible results for residents of the Great North. With the approval process complete, the milestone marks the end of an extensive nationwide consultation process that incorporated input from all affected stakeholder groups, and clears the way for the formal implementation phase, where planned investments, governance reforms, and accountability mechanisms will be put in place to drive lasting, sustainable development across the Great North region.