Haiti's Commerce Ministry launches regional caravan to formalize businesses
The initiative, run with the Planning Ministry, targets the country's largely informal economy across ten departments.
Haiti's Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) launched a regional caravan for the formalization and revitalization of commerce and entrepreneurship on October 16, 2026, at the Hotel Montana, according to Le Nouvelliste. The ceremony marked the start of a series of activities, including training sessions and the establishment of mechanisms to help businesses operating informally regularize their status by registering. Conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, the initiative aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of a sector that remains largely informal, the newspaper reported. The program is described as spanning ten departments, combining a training and registration caravan with the setup of equipped offices, as the ministry moves to tackle informality in the economy. Further operational details on the caravan's schedule and reach were not fully available in the published report. The effort follows other recent MCI initiatives, including the AIESU project to encourage innovative ideas and job creation in university settings, according to Le Nouvelliste. Additional coverage was reported by vantbefinfo.com.