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Prévenir la séparation des familles et favoriser la réinsertion familiale est une enquête de base menée par Changing the Way We Care Haïti visant à informer la conception d'un programme de réforme des soins axé sur la prévention de la séparation des familles et la promotion d'une réunification familiale durable. Cette initiative a donné la priorité aux points de vue des enfants et des familles afin d'acquérir une compréhension nuancée des défis entourant la séparation des enfants et de leur famille.
Les objectifs de l'enquête étaient multidimensionnels et comprenaient : l'exploration…
Preventing Family Separation and Promoting Reintegration is a comprehensive baseline survey by Changing the Way We Care Haiti aimed at informing the design of a robust care reform program focused on averting family separation and fostering sustainable reintegration. The initiative prioritized the perspectives of both children and families to gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges surrounding child-family separation. The survey objectives were multifaceted, encompassing the exploration of caregivers and children's perceptions regarding the phenomenon, identification of pre-…
Introduction
This publication is presented in three parts. Part 1 discusses how seeing Haitian children as part of a complex and beautiful social system can inform best practices in child care reform. Part 2 highlights eight organizations working towards family-based care and the preservation of families and communities. Part 3 provides inspiration for collective action and transformation.
Child development happens within a social and ecological system. In the first section, a Whole Haiti, we consider child protection from the individual (child), family, community…
The Finding the Way Home documentary highlights the painful realities of the eight million children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world. The film draws on intimate access to families from Brazil, Bulgaria, Haiti, Nepal, India and Moldova to tell six stories of children who have found their way into the care of loving families after spending periods of their lives in an institution. The documentary was made with the support of ACER (Brazil), Catalysts for Social Action (CSA, India), Next Generation Nepal, Lumos and others who helped identify and support some…
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This report is an analysis of the overall findings from the research project on Haitian child domestic workers. The research was initiated by UNICEF, the Haitian Ministère des Affaires Sociales et du Travail (MAST), the Institut du Bien-Etre Social et de Recherches (IBESR), ILO, IOM, the IRC and the Terre des Hommes Lausanne Foundation. Additional organisations joined during the course of research, and eventually a group of 28 different organisations supported the research and made up a Technical Committee.
Representations of child domestic work in Haiti seem to fall into…
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Introduction This study explores findings of a population-based approach to measure the prevalence of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) during the Hurricane Matthew aftermath in Haiti.
Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey using two-stage cluster sampling. Participants were asked to provide information on their own household composition, as well as the household composition of their closest neighbour (the Neighborhood Method). The study took place between February and March 2017 in Haiti’s Sud Department, a region…
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BACKGROUND:
Governments have an ethical imperative to safeguard children in residential care institutions at all times, including in the aftermath of an emergency. Yet, a lack of accurate data about how the magnitude and characteristics of this population may change due to an emergency impedes leaders' ability to formulate responsive policies and services, mobilize resources and foster accountability. The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the feasibility of evaluating movement of children into residential care following an emergency.
METHODS:
The pilot…
Este documento discute el enfoque integral utilizado por Save the Children para promover la sinergia entre la autonomía personal y el desarrollo económico. A través de este enfoque, Save the Children espera proteger a los niños y adolescentes de la violencia, garantizar el acceso a la educación, el empleo y permitirles optar por retrasar la paternidad.
Este programa opera a través de tres áreas temáticas: la capacitación personal, de salud sexual y reproductiva, y los derechos económicos.
Este documento ofrece una visión general del enfoque integral de Save the Children por país. Los…
This report, first distributed at the seminar co-hosted by Lumos and USAID on the challenge of institutionalization in Haiti, provides some background information on the effects of institutionalisation as well as the particular situation in Haiti, and draws on existing international legal and policy frameworks in favour of the transition from institutions to community-based services. It includes recommendations on how all stakeholders could work together to implement lasting change for many thousands of children.
This video reveals the adverse conditions in the many unregistered orphanages in Haiti. Eighty percent of children living in orphanages are not orphans. After the earthquake in 2010, numerous orphanages were set up to support children who lost parents in the earthquake; however, most children in these institutions are not there because of the earthquake. Quite often children go to orphanages because they are poor. As children start to adapt to their lives in orphanages, relationships with families are broken. Some directors of orphanages actively prevent parents from…