Gouvernance urbaine et évaluation des politiques publiques en Haïti: Vers un modèle territorialisé pour les métropoles fragiles

Towards a territorialized model for fragile metropolises

Abstract

This article examines the institutionalization of urban public policy evaluation in Haiti, in a context shaped by rapid urbanization, institutional fragmentation, metropolitan insecurity, internal displacement and dependence on external financing. Based on a qualitative, documentary and analytical methodology, the study mobilizes two complementary frameworks: territorial embeddedness, which explains the overlapping of actors, scales and responsibilities, and the incompatibility of public choices, which highlights tensions between central priorities, fiscal constraints, security imperatives and localized needs. The paper shows that urban evaluation in Haiti remains episodic, sectoral, weakly capitalized and insufficiently connected to budgetary decision-making. It proposes a territorialized evaluation model combining international evaluation criteria, citizen participation, territorial justice, resilience, maintenance and institutional learning. The contribution is theoretical, methodological and operational: it clarifies the conditions under which evaluation can become an instrument of accountability, coordination and transformation of urban public action in fragile metropolitan contexts.