Leveraging Haiti's Assets in Combatting Violence Against Children

The APC aimed to support strategic objectives on the part of USAID and the Government of Haiti (GoH) to strengthen the protection of vulnerable children.

The APC worked to ensure that its work supported the Haitian National Child Protection Strategy (SNPE) through a plan of work that would strengthen activities under Objectives 3, 4, and 5, as well as reinforce laws that govern the protection of children in Haiti.

AIR in the course of its 19 months of operation worked in partnership with the Institut du Bien-tre Social et de Recherches (IBESR), Brigade de Protection des Mineurs (BPM), National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (CNLTP), Lumos, UNHCR, UNICEF, Universit dEtat dHaiti (UEH), Zanmi Lasante (ZL), Combite pour la Paix et le Dveloppement (CPD), Restavk Freedom/OPREH (RF), ENPAK, Terre des Hommes and others.

Protection of children from abuse, exploitation and violence was the priority of this program; this was realized through the design of project activities and deliverables that were centered on the premise of reducing violence against children; mitigating the trafficking and forced labor of children; protecting unaccompanied and separated migrant, stateless, and refugee children; integrating street children into safer learning and care spaces; preventing the separation of children from their families; and exploring alternative care and protection services.

The Alliance for the Protection of Children had four distinct phases, of which the first and second were realized prior to USAIDs request for close-out: (1) Research; (2) Design of Pilot Interventions; (3) Implementation of Pilot Interventions; and (4) Evaluation and Learning.