Haiti has benefited from a $16 million grant from the IDB for the digital transformation of public management.
To improve policy implementation and service delivery to Haitian citizens through the digital transformation of public management, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $16 million grant for Haiti.
According to the IDB, this program to strengthen the foundations of the digital transformation of public management to improve government efficiency, aims to increase the institutional capacity of Haiti’s digital government agency, and to improve the efficiency of the basic management systems managed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) as well as the capacity for monitoring and managing the cybersecurity of public agencies.
The Public Sector Management Specialist at the IDB’s Citizen Services Innovation Division, Claudia Mendieta, stressed that this project will benefit Haiti’s citizens, who will be able to access improved and more inclusive public services through the digitalization of the MEF’s internal management, the strengthening of institutional, regulatory and technological capacities, as well as the development of talents for the digital transformation of the public sector.
She emphasizes that the project, structured in three parts, will respond to the critical need of the MEF to improve the resilience of its operation and the continuity of its activities in the current complex situation of the country, thus contributing to the resilience of the entire functioning of the public administration.
As for the project components, the BID informs that the first component will strengthen the digital governance of the public sector and the institutional capacity of the Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI) as a digital government agency, the second will promote the digital transformation of the centralized internal management of the MEF, by financing improvements to digital infrastructure, including connectivity, energy and cloud, as well as key digital solutions such as interoperability, digital document management, digital signature, digital payments and hybrid work, among others, and the third will improve the cybersecurity capabilities of the public sector.
Additionally, the third component will focus on developing public sector cybersecurity governance and the capacity to protect, monitor, detect, respond to and recover from cybersecurity incidents.
It should be noted that the disbursement period of the IDB’s $16 million grant to Haiti is five years.
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