SBC II – State Building Contract in Haiti
Assisting central and local public institutions in Haiti with taxation, territorial governance and the financial governance of education

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Haiti
Public finances
Democratic, economic and financial governance
Published on 16/11/2021

Objective

The SBC II project aims to increase tax revenues in the Republic of Haiti in order to finance the activities of the State and be less dependent on international aid.
  • €5.5m
    BUDGET
  • 02/07/2018
    PROJECT START
  • 44 months
    DURATION
    PROJECT FUNDED BY
  • European Union (EU)
    PARTNERS
  • French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery - Public Finances Directorate General

Under the 11th European Development Fund, the European Union is assisting the Republic of Haiti through the State Building Contract II (SBC-II). The objective of this programme is to strengthen the capacity for resilience of the Haitian State in order to ensure sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

SBC-II follows on from SBC-I with the objective of strengthening and operationalising the actions to reform public finances and public administration and for education.

Two implementation methods have been defined for this programme:

• Budget support to strengthen the State, divided into several fixed and variable tranches, and including activities such as political dialogue, financial transfers, performance reviews, reporting and capacity building.

• Additional support for the technical assistance required for the reform of the State and public finances, local governance, resilience and education.

Three areas of operation


Component A: support for the tax administration reform

This component provides support in four priority areas:

• Management and organisation of the Directorate-General of Taxes;
• Professionalisation of activities;
• Increase the reliability of the tax base and broaden it;
• Improve service quality for users.

 

Component B: help strengthen local governance

This component concerns three priority activities: strengthen local institutions, mobilise the financial resources of territorial authorities and local fiscal governance.

 

Component C: support the financial and budgetary management of the education sector  

This component takes action on four thematic areas:

• Monitor the work on conducting the survey to monitor public expenditure;
• Support the procedures to develop/prepare the budget of the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP);
• Support the budget implementation procedures of MENFP;
• Renew MENFP’s dialogue with the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.

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