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Anticipating the Future: children and young people’s voices in Haiti’s Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)
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Plan International

On January 12, 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, causing large scale and widespread damages.

On January 25, the government of Haiti requested the international community’s support to conduct a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA). The PDNA took place over a period of one month when over 250 international and local technical experts gathered and analysed information of damages and short and longer term needs and priorities. It provided a mechanism to facilitate planning to support Haiti’s transition from relief to longer term development.

Children and youth represent more than half of the population affected by the January 12th earthquake. Children and youth are, on the one hand, among the most vulnerable groups affected by the disaster, yet on the other hand many of them have already mobilized to support their communities in the response and taken on strong leadership roles. Despite this, their voices, needs and priorities have yet to be ad equately listened to or taken into consideration.

For this reason, Plan International, in partnership with UNICEF, initiated a consultation process with close to 1,000 children and youth throughout Haiti, to hear their ideas and priorities for the country’s reconstruction.

Their views were gathered with the purpose of feeding into the PDNA. Local facilitators experienced in working with children and youth conducted 54 focus group consultations in nine departments (West, Artibonite, South-East, North, Grande Anse, Nippes, North-West and North-East, and the South).

This document presents key findings from the consultations with the children and youth.

[Abstract adapted from author]

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