Haiti: Conflict Prevention and social cohesion through Local Community Empowerment and Institutional Capacity Building
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $7,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNFPA, UNESCO, IOM, UNDP, UNIFEM
Main Achievements
- Awareness training on violence and crime given to 2,000 youth from underprivileged neighborhoods.
- Establishment of a National Observatory on Violence and Crime.
- Establishment of three drop-in centers with multidisciplinary services for victims of gender-based violence.
Through a solid collaboration arrangement between five UN agencies and the UN Peacekeeping Mission, the Joint Programme will tackle the immediate causes of violence in 10 communities particularly prone to violence in Haiti by supporting violence prevention strategies, thereby providing a breathing space for longer term recovery and development efforts to take hold.
To support these local level efforts and to ensure a sustainable and comprehensive response to violence in Haiti, the programme will also promote a more systematic integration of violence and crisis related considerations into development policies and other responses by the national government. It will achieve this by strengthening the capacities of local and national institutions to gather, and analyze violence and crisis related data, with a view to producing and sharing credible analysis to improve the impact of programmes and policies on the dynamics of violence, including from the national government.