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Haiti - Michaelle Jean : Towards a paradigm change in the country
09/10/2011 10:06:33
In an interview on TV5 as part of the program "L'invité", Michaëlle Jean, the UNESCO Special Envoy to Haiti, has declared that "it's fabulous, it's great to see the energy there is in this country, even when remotely we have the impression that nothing happens, for example the President is struggling to form his government [...] but nevertheless, the things moves in Haiti, it is a country always in effervescence" stating that the country "needs investment" she said thinking "that what is taking shape in Haiti, is a complete change of paradigm, that is to say abandon the logic of assistantship which has produced only the dependence, [...] but has never produced anything of sustainable for "to switch to a logic of investment [...] the economic investment for the socio-economic developmentof country, but also the investment in the capacities. This is what UNESCO is doing, that is to say strengthening the capacity at the level of the governance of institutions. Including education, [...] it is fundamental, we can not think reconstruction in Haiti, if we do not put the emphasis on education and vocational training. It is a country of youth and if the reconstruction not led to the creation of opportunities, of training and capacity building for all this mass of young, often in extremely risky situation, we will go nowhere in Haiti."
Concerning the international aid Michaëlle Jean recommends that the country takes care of itself completely "we can no longer think of a sustainable development in this country based on total dependence on international aid, it is no longer possible [...] this fragmentation that has transformed the country into a laboratory, where there are tens of thousands of NGOs, that make that the state is increasingly deprived of means to implement its policies. You are taking three major NGOs in Haiti, you are putting their budgets together and they have more financial resources than the state itself, is a total nonsense ! This creates a kind of parallel state, which is why we speak of the Republic of NGOs in Haiti. It is not possible, if we want there is a major advancement at the level of governance, it is necessary to have a state with resources to really put forward its policies. Haiti has plans, there is a Haitian plan for education, a plan for the development of Haiti, to the against poverty, we must work with these parameters there."
HL/ HaitiLibre
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