Conflict, Crime and Violence Research Ideas

Port-au-PrinceMarch 2016

Working with 30-50 economists including Nobel Laureates, 100+ sector experts, government, donor organizations, civil society, development agencies, businesses, youth, across rural and urban areas to identify, analyze and prioritize interventions that will deliver greater benefit per gourde spent, helping move Haiti towards a more prosperous long term future.

Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions

with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic

issues facing Haiti.

These roundtables are one of several sources

for research ideas.

Research Ideas

Top Ideas;(1 of 4)

• Adapt the economic model to the needs of the population (the elites, the masses, social organizations).

• Develop and implement a policy on job creation.• Create a formal space for dialogue, debate and

consultation between government and civil society, at local and national levels; promote active participation of the government in the activities or projects of dialogue and consultation.

• Relocate most NGOs headquartered in Port-au-Prince.• Reduce the amount in the national budget allocated to

renting venues: conference and hotel rooms, by 10%.

Top Ideas; (2 of 4)

• Extend the OPC’s education program.• Target population: School students.• Adapted the contained works to create a standard curriculum• 1 Hour programming on radio or television.

• Strengthen the capacity of the OPC to play its role as an intermediary between citizens and the state.

• Increase the budget from 43 million gourdes.• Increase the number of personnel at headquarters and in the

regional offices from the current total of 61 people.• Increase its capacity to follow judicial rulings.

• Legal prosecution or enforcement of laws against theft, bribery, and embezzlement.

• Implement laws on decentralization.

Top Ideas; (3 of 4)

• Make public services accessible to the citizens outside of Port-au-Prince, starting with departmental offices to provide passports, ID cards, driver’s licenses and birth certificates) and provide basic services within each department i.e. electricity, drinking water, housing, etc.

• Develop a results-oriented culture.• Practice transparency through the implementation of an

administrative policy which sets a term for each position or establishes guidelines for filling positions in public administration.

• Digitalize the delivery of basic services such as passports, birth certificates, access to judicial records, archives, etc.

Top Ideas; (4 of 4)

• Establish Transparency mechanisms. • regularly held audits.• strengthen the capacity of existing units to fight against

corruption.• increase the number of legal pursuits against those charged

with corruption by providing training in investigation techniques and standardizing the administrative and legal processes.

• Create a database linking DCPJ, Customs and DGI.• Establish the sustainability of public institutions.• Conduct a national campaign to identify all citizens :

birth certificate and voting cards.

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