Friday, the documents of the National Pact for the Quality of Education have been transmitted to the Haitian Parliament by the Ministry of Education by mail addressed to Jocelerme Privert, President of the Senate and Cholzer Chancy, President of the Chamber of Deputies.

The Ministry recalls that the Pact initiated with the various components of the educational community (teachers, school principals, unions, socio-professional associations etc...) launched in October 2015 as already collected over 25,000 signatures and adhesion of different key players in national life.

The Pact contains 7 major commitments https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15429-haiti-education-towards-a-national-pact-for-quality-education.html whose second states "The signatories ensure that during the period 2016-2020, the Haitian government will dedicate to the public funding of education, the higher of these two amounts: either 35% of the national budget, or 8% of its GDP . This is the minimum amount to spend on public funding for Haitian education" which requires doubling the funding of the education sector, in the medium term, of about 12.5 billion gourdes.

The Ministry points out that the current challenges faced by the education sector must interpellate all stakeholders to find ways and means to address the urgent issues include those that: salary arrears, application of salary scale for educational staff, rehabilitation of a thousand public schools operating in an unacceptable condition and the regularization of the Universal Schooling Program Free and Compulsory (PSUGO).

7 main commitments of the National Pact for the Quality of Education : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15429-haiti-education-towards-a-national-pact-for-quality-education.html

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-15590-haiti-politic-national-pact-for-quality-education-adhere-to-it-online.html

HL/ HaitiLibre