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ADF initiated its work in Haiti in 1985, shortly before Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was deposed as "President for Life." ADF has provided significant assistance to the Haitian people in their struggle for democracy. Over the years, ADF with support from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID/Haiti, and several private foundations, has provided assistance to numerous Haitian NGOs promoting the development of democracy. ADF technical assistance, training and grants was provided to Haitian NGOs for activities in civic education, organization of grassroots democratic networks; human rights education and protection; legal assistance and education; support for an independent media; and voter education and participation in electoral processes.
Haiti
Central America and Caribbean: Haiti
ADF initiated its work in Haiti in 1985, shortly before Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier was deposed as "President for Life." ADF has provided significant assistance to the Haitian people in their struggle for democracy. Over the years, ADF with support from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID/Haiti, and several private foundations, has provided assistance to numerous Haitian NGOs promoting the development of democracy. ADF technical assistance, training and grants was provided to Haitian NGOs for activities in civic education, organization of grassroots democratic networks; human rights education and protection; legal assistance and education; support for an independent media; and voter education and participation in electoral processes.The ADF donor supported programs to strengthen civil society and improve the prospects of democratic governance included the following: large scale civic education programs through local NGO networks; the civil society and local government components of the Democracy Enhancement Project phase I and the civil society component of phase II; the Human Rights Fund including its Community Police Relations Program; and the Citizens' Networks Program: Mobilizing Popular Organizations for Democratic Governance.
Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake, ADF has been working in partnership with Haiti’s NGOs in providing food, shelter and other emergency relief resources to earthquake victims in orphanages, schools, displaced persons camps and rural mountain regions. Also, ADF is mobilizing resources and building transitional shelters for displaced persons in the town center as well as the rural mountain regions of Petit Goave. In addition to the provision of earthquake relief services, ADF is assisting in Haiti’s reconstruction and development.
ADF programs for Haiti’s reconstruction and development will promote strengthening the capacities of civil society, private sector and government to work together for responsive democratic governance and social and economic development. Such ADF programs include assistance in civil society capacity building, public transparency and accountability, local governance, economic development, infrastructure development, housing development, small and medium enterprises development, and agricultural development. Please see the photos below on earthquake damage in Haiti and needs for increased relief services.
Highlights Haiti: Civic Education
With funding from the NED and USAID, ADF developed partnerships with a number of Haitian CSOs to conduct civic education from 1985–1991. The first phase of this activity took place prior to the departure of Jean Claude Duvalier...
Highlights Haiti: Democracy Enhancement Project
ADF received funding from the USAID-funded Democracy Enhancement Project (DEP) over a period of eight years, from 1991-1999, to support the development of civil society and democratic governance in Haiti...
Highlights Haiti: Human Rights Fund (HRF)
In July 1994, ADF developed and operated the Haiti Human Rights Fund at the height of one of the worst human rights crises in Haiti’s troubled history. ADF provided urgently needed assistance to victims of politically motivated violence and supported Haitians to redress human rights abuses...
Highlights: Haiti Community Mobilization and Development
ADF implemented the Citizens’ Networks (Réseaux des Citoyens) Program funded by USAID from 2000-2002 to foster to conditions necessary for greater influence of civil society organizations on policies, civil society oversight of public institutions and the responsiveness of elected officials...
National Survey of Haitian Democratic Values And Implications For The Development Of Democracy
National Survey of Haitian Democratic Values And Implications For The Development Of Democracy
Human Rights Fund Haiti
HUMAN RIGHTS FUND HAITI
Summary
During the three years of military rule and President Aristide's exile, large elements of Haiti's mosaic of peasant, human rights advocacy and citizen action groups felt compelled to shut down or adopt low profiles. Others continued to speak out against the injustices their members experienced and seek local resources with which to expand their aid to the victims and their families. They urgently needed additional resources, an opportunity to coordinate their actions and a focal point for mutual support and counsel.
To fill this need, the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Haiti (USAID/Haiti), launched a series of human rights round-table discussions in April 1994, and established the $1 million Human Rights Fund in July 1994.
From July through November 1994, the fund provided critically needed services, including urgent medical care and trauma counseling, temporary housing, safe haven and subsistence allowances, and legal aid, asylum advice and prison monitoring to nearly 2,500 families, including over 700 direct victims of violence. With the return of President Aristide, the number of new cases dropped dramatically, and by February 1995, this portion of the Fund’s work ended.
The Fund shifted its focus to training civic education trainers and developing the "Files of Abuse and Persecution" (FAP) database.
Note: Artwork in report is by Frantz Ewald
Summary
During the three years of military rule and President Aristide's exile, large elements of Haiti's mosaic of peasant, human rights advocacy and citizen action groups felt compelled to shut down or adopt low profiles. Others continued to speak out against the injustices their members experienced and seek local resources with which to expand their aid to the victims and their families. They urgently needed additional resources, an opportunity to coordinate their actions and a focal point for mutual support and counsel.
To fill this need, the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Haiti (USAID/Haiti), launched a series of human rights round-table discussions in April 1994, and established the $1 million Human Rights Fund in July 1994.
From July through November 1994, the fund provided critically needed services, including urgent medical care and trauma counseling, temporary housing, safe haven and subsistence allowances, and legal aid, asylum advice and prison monitoring to nearly 2,500 families, including over 700 direct victims of violence. With the return of President Aristide, the number of new cases dropped dramatically, and by February 1995, this portion of the Fund’s work ended.
The Fund shifted its focus to training civic education trainers and developing the "Files of Abuse and Persecution" (FAP) database.
Note: Artwork in report is by Frantz Ewald
Final Report Civic Society Component Haiti 1999
Final Report Civic Society Component Haiti 1999
ADF Haiti Citizens Networks Final Report
ADF Haiti Citizens Networks Final Report
ADF Haiti Human Rights Fund Final Report
ADF Haiti Human Rights Fund Final Report
ADF Haiti Final Report - Citizens Network Program
ADF Haiti Final Report - Citizens Network Program
Port au Prince Presidential Palace
Port au Prince Sacred Heart Church
Petit Goave also tsunami damage
Petit Goave Camp Mendes France
Petit Goave Integrated Relief Rehabilitation Development Initiative (IRDH)
Petit Goave Sisters of Sacred Heart School 2
Port au Prince 1
Port au Prince 2
Port au Prince 3
Petit Goave Comite Communale de Protection Civile
Petit Goave Association of Peasants Vallue 2
Petit Goave Camp 1
Petit Goave Camp 3
Petit Goave Camp 4
Petit Goave Notre Dame Cathedral
Carrefour Camp in Highway
Leogane Camp 1
