PAPDA Opens Its Doors to Celebrate 30 Years of Existence

Friday, November 7, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development Advocacy (PAPDA). On this occasion, several activities were organized: an exhibition, debate conferences, book and photo exhibitions, among others.

Speaking during the discussions, PAPDA Executive Director Camille Charlemers immediately traced the history of this platform born from popular struggle, the path it has traveled, and the philosophy of this political combat structure, born from popular struggle," Charlemers recalled.

“PAPDA was created to combat social inequalities. Its purpose: To assist in the formulation and implementation of a national development plan, focused on the participation of marginalized and oppressed sectors of society and primarily responding to their fundamental aspirations,” emphasized economist Charlemers.

The professor also praised the commitment of various local organizations supporting the struggle for resistance and popular alternative construction, as well as the partners.

Furthermore, economist Chalmers denounced the hegemony of imperialist forces which, he said, want at all costs to annihilate the popular struggle, particularly with the repression by armed gangs. He thus calls on Haitians to resist.

Founded on November 7, 1995, the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development Advocacy (PAPDA) is a coalition bringing together organizations and networks of various types that reject the diagnosis, policies, and exhausted recipes of those who consider themselves masters of the world.

The platform's member organizations work tirelessly with the subjects of the Haitian popular movement towards the emergence and consolidation of popular economic alternatives capable of ending the socio-economic and cultural apartheid that characterizes our society.