Less than a year after the release of the draft of Operational Plan (OP) 2010-2015, the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) organized last Thursday, a workshop, in order to proceed with the validation of the final text.

Inscribed in a spirit of partnership, the meeting allowed the MENFP, to collect the last comments of agents and operators of the education system on the various axes of the OP, including the funding strategies. More than a hundred persons belonging to various sectors of the education community attended the workshop. At the request of the Minister of Education, Réginald Paul, some changes were made to the document to address the concerns of the current government, especially about universal education.

The new text of 153 pages, is divided into four chapters relating respectively to: the general problem of the refounding of education system - the axes and intervention strategies - the necessary funding and the funding strategies - the modalities of implementation and of monitoring-evaluation.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Pierre Michel Laguerre, Director General of the Ministry, welcomed such an approach which should lead to the finalization of this document for the education sector for the next five years.

For the Minister, there is no doubt that the new version of the of Operational Plan will be finalized by taking into account the concerns, vision and goals of the Executive Martelly-Conille. Adding that "sectoral structures of implementation, including the Directorate General of MENFP, will have the primary responsibility for the management of educational interventions."

This is for the Minister, to have an education system with greater resilience, which is able both to lay the foundations of the new Haitian society and to meet the needs and challenges of this shift towards social modernization. Calling for work towards the emergence of a Haitian school, that can find its image within our society and respond to its true mission : that of training a citizen, a citizen informed and warned at the service of his country.

HL/ HaitiLibre