Haiti

Fafo has worked in Haiti since 1997, when Fafo was asked by the International Peace Academy (IPA) to participate in a political dialogue project. In 1998, Fafo was invited by UNDP to serve as a technical advisor to Haiti’s first living condition survey. The Haiti Living Condition Survey (HLCS 2001/ECVH 2001) was implemented in cooperation with the Haitian centre for statistics, Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI) with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Follow up projects from the Haiti Living Condition Survey included establishing a national poverty line, which was used in the Haitian Human Development Report published by the UNDP Haiti in 2002. The Poverty profile was published by the UNDP in Haiti in 2003.

The Haiti Youth Survey

In 2009, Fafo implemented the Haiti Youth Survey (HYS 2009) in cooperation with the Haitian research institute Institut Haïtien de l’Enfance (IHE) and with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Haiti Youth Survey is a follow up to the Haiti Living Condition Survey with a special focus on youth aged 10 to 24. The result from the HYS 2009 was used as a baseline in the Government of Haiti’s national strategy for reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake.

The social mobility of Haitian youth is a research priority for Fafo and has been explored in empirical studies on topics such as labour migration, child domestic workers, the Haitian education sector, perceptions of politics, and participation in gangs/baz.

Projects

• Haitian Youth’s Perception of Politics and Participation (2010 - )
• Haiti Youth Survey (2007-)
• Haiti Living Condition Survey (1998-2002)
• Haiti Poverty profile (2003)
• Determination of a poverty line in Haiti (2001)
• Children in Domesticity in Haiti (2001-2002)
• Project on Policy Advocacy and Facilitation in Haiti (1998-1999)

Researchers

• Henriette Lunde
• Jon Pedersen
• Anne Hatløy
• Kathleen M. Jennings
• Tewodros Aragie Kebede

Publications on Haiti