In the interest of a better articulation of the external development assistance with the national priorities, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe officially launches this Monday 26 November 2012, at the Hotel Karibe, the "Coordination framework of the External Aid for Development" (CAED), under the patronage of President Michel Martelly.

The CAED is a fully Haitian initiative, which reaffirms the authority of the State on the effective coordination of external funding, dedicated to the development of the country.

Presided by the Prime Minister, the CAED is a new institutional arrangement, in which national authorities fully exercise their strategic leadership and technical. Mechanism sovereign of planning and of coordination of external aid funds, the CAED is controlled by the Government and provides a platform for exchanges and of high-level discussions, involving all stakeholders national and international of development, whose technical and financial partners as well as civil society and the private sector.

"This new mechanism represents a major advance in the field of efficient and transparent management of the development aid, in accordance with the principles of the Paris Declaration," pointed out the Prime Minister Lamothe, at the announcement made in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 27.

To operationalize the CAED, the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation, now hosts a Technical Secretariat of coordination, supported by various technical directorates of the Ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry Foreign Ministries and other technical ministries.

The technical and financial partners of Haiti have already expressed their support for this new mechanism sovereign.

HL/ HaitiLibre