The Alliance for the Protection of Children Project is a 3-year initiative implemented by American Institutes for Research (AIR) with the goal of leveraging local assets and strengthening the protection of children exposed to all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence in Haiti. The project is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and aims to strengthen the protection of vulnerable children, aligning with the National Child Protection Strategy and contributing to Objectives 3, 4, and 5.
The project will collaborate with various government agencies, ministries, and community-based and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Haiti to prioritize child protection through evidence-based interventions. These interventions will focus on reducing violence against children, mitigating the trafficking and forced labor of children, protecting unaccompanied and separated migrant, stateless, and displaced children, integrating street children into safer learning and care spaces, preventing the separation of children from their families, and exploring alternative care and protection services.
The project has four distinct phases: research, design of pilot interventions, implementation of pilot interventions, and evaluation and learning for scale-up. The Year 1 project plan covers the first and second phases, which involve research and the design of pilot interventions. The research team will use several different research methods to collect evidence on individual, family, community, and system-level attitudes, behaviors, and responses to violence against children.
The project’s focus on communications is part of a larger research project, the Alliance for the Protection of Children, which aims to collect evidence on the problem of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence against children in Haiti. The report summarizes the collection and analysis of social and broadcast media data in Haiti, which is a significant component of community-based research. The results of this research can be used to support interventions on how and with whom to communicate, as well as which people and organizations are particularly influential in their communications.
The report presents the findings related to the communication of the problem of child violence and protection in Haiti, including which topics are talked about by whom, which speakers have the most influence, and which topics are being talked about by the most influential speakers. The data collection process involved a media consumption survey taken on behalf of USAID in 2010, which showed that 83% of Haitians rely on radio as their primary source of news and information.
The research team designed a data collection process to examine and analyze broadcast media, focusing on radio station programming. The team collected data from 15 radio stations in Haiti, which were selected based on their popularity and relevance to the project’s objectives. The data collection process involved a qualitative review of collected data from radio broadcasting, which aimed to better understand the communication of the problem of child violence and protection in Haiti.
The findings of the research indicate that the Haitian people and organizations are engaging in discourse around the problem of child violence, with a focus on topics such as child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. The research also identified influential speakers in the Haitian media landscape, including radio hosts, journalists, and community leaders. The findings of this research can be used to support interventions aimed at reducing violence against children in Haiti.
The project’s research on broadcast media has provided valuable insights into the communication of the problem of child violence and protection in Haiti. The findings of this research can be used to inform the development of effective communication strategies aimed at reducing violence against children in Haiti. The project’s focus on communications is an important component of the Alliance for the Protection of Children Project, which aims to leverage local assets and strengthen the protection of children exposed to all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence in Haiti.