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Haiti Prevention of Separation Messages FRENCH (189.5Kb)
Child Protection messages to prevent separation of children in Haiti, French.- Haiti Community Child Protection messages, FRENCH (48.5Kb)
Child Protection messages for communities in Haiti, French 
"Nobody Remembers Us": Failure to Protect Women's and Girls' Right to Health and Security in Post-Earthquake Haiti (594.1Kb)
From Human Rights Watch, this report documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care and the ways these gaps are harming vulnerable women and girls still displaced after the January 12 2010 earthquake. The report also describes how hunger has led women to trade sex for food and how poor camp conditions exacerbate the impact of sexual violence because of difficulties accessing post-rape care. It looks at how recovery efforts have failed to adequately address the needs and rights of women and girls, particularly their rights to health and security. According to the report, aid efforts that lack effective mechanisms for monitoring and reporting shortcomings compound the problem.
The report is based on research conducted by two Human Rights Watch researchers in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince in November 2010 and January, February, and June 2011.- "Nobody Remembers Us": Failure to Protect Women's and Girls' Right to Health and Security in Post-Earthquake Haiti (594.1Kb)
From Human Rights Watch, this report documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care and the ways these gaps are harming vulnerable women and girls still displaced after the January 12 2010 earthquake. The report also describes how hunger has led women to trade sex for food and how poor camp conditions exacerbate the impact of sexual violence because of difficulties accessing post-rape care. It looks at how recovery efforts have failed to adequately address the needs and rights of women and girls, particularly their rights to health and security. According to the report, aid efforts that lack effective mechanisms for monitoring and reporting shortcomings compound the problem.
The report is based on research conducted by two Human Rights Watch researchers in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince in November 2010 and January, February, and June 2011. - Roster of Trainers (35.5Kb)
Please complete this roster if you are a Trainer willing to go to Haiti to train or available to train teams in countries outside of Haiti who are preparing to go to Haiti. Please send your responses to the attached table to Nancy Baron who is preparing a master list that will be shared regularly with organizations working in Haiti. drnancy2@hotmail.com
- Negotiating Dangerous Fields: Pragmatic Strategies for Fieldwork Amid Violence and Terror (3.3Mb)
ABSTRACT: As anthropology turns toward the cultural issues of the 21st century, more and more ethnographic fieldwork is and will continue to be conducted in regions fraught with conflict,instability, and terror. Despite a growing literature that seeks to develop new theories and perspectives for the study of violence, little mention is made of the practical matters of survival in perilous field sites and how the anthropologist\'s experience of violence in the field should be considered. What is needed is a pragmatic strategy for dealing with threats to the safety, security, and well-being of anthropologists and informants who work amid the menace of violence. Drawing on my own fieldwork in Haiti, I suggest the adoption of new tactics for ethnographic research and survival in dangerous fields - strategies
that challenge the conventional ethics of the discipline, reconfigure the relationship between anthropologist and informant, and compel innovation in negotiating the exchange of data under hazardous circumstances. - Éd sikolojik apre tranbleman te a an Ayiti (75.9Kb)
- Training for Community Workers (español) (764.8Kb)
ATENCIÓN PSICOSOCIAL TRAS EL TERREMOTO DE HAITI
TRAINING PARA TRABAJADORES COMUNITARIOS - Psychological Support After the Haiti Earthquake (105.4Kb)
Produced by Medicos del Mundo - Haiti-MHPSS Mapping (french) (700.9Kb)
Ce document est une compilation des informations fournies apres le tremblement de terre jusqu\'au mois d\'Avril. Il represente un survol des efforts de la coordination SMSPS en Haiti. La mise a jour de ce document se fera mensuellement. - Choléra croyances et perceptions (french) (128Kb)
Épidémie de choléra : note sur les croyances, sentiments et perceptions de la communauté - Cholera Beliefs and Perceptions (111.5Kb)
Cholera outbreak : note on community beliefs, feelings and perceptions
Petit-Goâve/Carrefour/Canapé Vert/Léogane – December 2010 - Apoyo Psicológico Tras el Terremoto de Haití (132.4Kb)
Material de apoyo psicológico tras el terremoto de Haití - WHO Toolkit for Humanitarian Health Actors (601.5Kb)
Mental Health and Psychosocial Situation and Needs Assessments in Major Humanitarian Crises: WHO Toolkit for Humanitarian Health Actors (Draft Version) - The Political Economy of \'Trauma\' in Haiti (110.4Kb)
The Political Economy of \'Trauma\' in Haiti in the Democratic Era of Insecurity
ABSTRACT. This article explores the challenges that emerge at the intersection of economies of compassion and terror: local, national, and international forms of humanitarian assistance; security practices in insecure social and institutional environments; questions of victimization and global reparations; and quests for justice, as revealed through an analysis of political violence and humanitarian interventions in Haiti during and after the 1991–94 coup period. Each domain is constrained by politics and history but can engender “occult economies” that challenge the intended consequences of restitution policies at international, national, and local levels of exchange. ‘Trauma’ and discourses about traumatic suffering are the hinge around which these economies pivot, generating new forms of political subjectivity for Haitian activists. - Meeting minutes: Staff Support for NGO and Local Staff 2/2/10 (28.8Kb)
Agenda of the meeting on staff support for NGO and local staff. - Starting up Child Centered Spaces (309.8Kb)
This manual is divided into three sections. The first section describes CCF’s child protection framework, which provides the conceptual foundation for establishing CCSs. It includes CCF’s vision as it relates to child protection, child well-being and child rights; describes CCF’s Deprivation, Exclusion and Vulnerability Model; and explains the strategic rationale for establishing Child Centered Spaces. This section also provides information on the Child Centered Spaces approach,
describing in detail the principles, functions and activities that comprise CCSs. - South Asian earthquake: psychiatric experience in a tertiary hospital (834Kb)
ABSTRACT In October 2005, northern Pakistan was devastated by an earthquake killing 73 000 people. Some of the seriously injured were airlifted to a tertiary hospital in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. This field report describes the psychiatric services delivered at that hospital. It explains how the needs were assessed and psychosocial interventions designed at different levels. The training needs of the medical staff were also identified and efforts were made to enhance their skills for psychosocial care. Finally, the report formulates some recommendations for improving such services. - Situation and Needs Assessments Toolkit (601.5Kb)
The toolkit is written for health actors. However, some of the appendices may also be of interest to non-health actors.
The toolkit is based on the IASC Guidelines action sheet 2.1 and the draft mental health standard of Sphere 2010. It is very much a draft toolkit, and we are still revising it. We had planned to initiate peer review next month and to make many changes in the future.
Given the suffering in Haiti and the calls for collaboration on needs assessment, we want to share these draft tools now already even though they are very much draft. With the hope of collaboration and learning, please feel free to use them (and of course share with everybody the findings). Please note that the introduction of the toolkit has text on OCHA\\\'s framework for needs assessment, which gives useful guidance on how to modify the depth of the assessment depending on the phase of the assessment. If you read the toolkit careful, then you will find that it is important to only use the tools that you need rather than to use them all - Review (chapter) on coping skills of Haitians by Nicolas (2.4Mb)
Weathering the storm like Bamboo: the Strengths of Haitians in Coping with Natural Disasters. Nicolas, G., Schwartz, B., & Pierre, E. (2009).
In A. Kalayjian, D. Eugene, & G. Reyes (Ed.) International handbook of emotional healing: ritual and practices for resilience after mass trauma. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
