Haiti

Fafo has worked in Haiti since late in 1997, when Fafo was asked by the International Peace Academy (IPA) to participate in a series of Consultations amongst Haitians concerning the political impasse in Haiti. In 1998, the country office of the UNDP invited Fafo to serve as a technical advisor to the Haiti Living Condition Survey. The survey is funded by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry. In addition, the UNDP Haiti has commissioned three other projects to Fafo, including a profile of poverty in Haiti, a project to establish as national poverty line and a study on child domestic labour. Results from the Living condition survey and the study on children in domestic are forthcoming from the summer of 2002. The poverty line 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.

Fafo is currently implementing a research project on Haitian youth. The project consists of a national youth survey, scheduled to be implemented over the summer 2008, as well as three qualitative studies. The qualitative studies are focused on youth and armed groups, youth and education and youth and labour migration, respectively. The results from the qualitative work will be published in three separate reports and the findings will be used in the design of the youth survey. The project is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Researchers

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

Projects

• 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)

Publications

Life as a Child Domestic Worker in Haiti. The Journal of Haitian Studies, vol 11 no 1/2005. Anne Hatløy

Poverty in Haiti. Pål Sletten and Willy Egset (2004)

Enquete sur les Conditions de Vie en Haiti (ECVH-2001) - Vol I. Published by Institut Haitien de Statistique et d'Informatique (2003). (Those interested in the publication, please contact Fafo)

Les fondements de la pratique de la domesticité des enfants en Haïti (pdf - 805kb). Tone Sommerfeldt (2002). See also: Synthèse des etudes (OIT-IPEC). See also revised draft in English (pdf - 448kb)

Determination of a poverty line in Haiti. Jon Pedersen & Kathryn Lockwood (pdf - 112kb) (2001)