The 12 Haitian members present here today feel completely disconnected from the life of the HIRC. Even in this IT era, there exists a critical deficit of communication and information flow on the part of the Executive Secretariat and even more so with the Executive Committee despite our role in the governing structure of this institution, we have to this day, received no report on the activities of the HIRC.
Contact is established only the day before board meetings. As a result, as members, we have no time to read, analyze, or digest the information and even less time to react intelligently to the projects which are being presented to us at the last minute despite all the official complaints and all the promises made to address this issue.
Moreover, we are unable to answer, for lack of essential information, elementary questions from the public or from any interested persons. A good number of interlocutors think that there is a complete hold on information.
Mr. Co-Presidents,
No effective functional bond exists between the Executive Secretariat and the Haitian section of the council, or between the latter and the Executive Committee. Projects are transmitted to the council in the form of summaries the day before meetings. Procedural changes to the online submission of bids for projects are changed without any consultation.
The recruitment of the personnel and the choice of the consulting firms were made without the knowledge of the Haitian members of the Board of Directors. No documents were received informing the council of the criteria for recruiting or the profiles for the candidates. This is also true for the firms which have received contracts, the Haitian members of the council are unaware of even the name of these firms that work for the HIRC or their roles.
Taking into account this deficiency, Mr. Co-Presidents, the Haitian members of the HIRC invited the Executive Director to give a progress report on the status of collaboration between the two sides (Haitian and foreign). The invitation was ignored.
In reality, the Haitian members of the Council appear to fulfill a puppet role, which is to rubberstamp the decisions adopted by the Executive Director and the Executive Committee. The comments of Professor Jean-Marie Bourjolly in his memorandum of October 4, 2010 summarize the situation well. And we quote: "We must devote the greatest part of our energies to build a plan with a strategy and tactics that conforms with the general principles stated in the Action Plan.
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