This document is based on a study executed in Haiti in January 1989 by the Consultant, Donna Plotkin. It responds to subregional concerns about the lack of data relating to women’s economic contribution to development. This study is part of the project “The Establishment of a Data Base on Women’s Participation in Social and Economic Change, Phase II” funded by the Government of the Netherlands.

Contexte. En Haïti, entre 2007 et 2013, l’Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (USAID) a financé le Multi-Year Assistance program (MYAP) avec pour objectif principal la réduction de l’insécurité alimentaire dans les communautés les plus vulnérables. L’autonomisation économique des femmes constituait l’un des piliers du MYAP. En effet, les études ont montré qu’une croissance des revenus des femmes avait des retombées positives sur la nutrition et sur la santé du ménage.

Ce rapport répond aux demandes d’information sur la situation des femmes vivant seules en Haïti. Il examine l’accessibilité à l’emploi, au logement, le traitement réservé par la société et les services de soutien offerts aux femmes seules, qu’elles soient en situation de précarité ou non. Malgré la constitution haïtienne qui garantit la liberté de travail pour tous et interdit la discrimination fondée sur le sexe ou l’état matrimonial, les femmes restent désavantagées sur le marché du travail, ayant 20 % plus de chances d’être sans emploi que les hommes.

This study examined individual, partner, and community characteristics associated with the occurrence of intimate partner violence among ever-married women of reproductive age, using data from the 2000 Haiti Demographic and Health Survey. Separate logistic regressions were analyzed to assess women's risks of experiencing emotional, physical and sexual violence and multiple forms of intimate partner violence in the past 12 months.

In Haiti, madan sans have for centuries personalised economics through a sistem pratik that has institutionalised market operations by connecting buyers and sellers. This study - based on 77 interviews, mainly (73%) with madan saras from northern Haiti - exposes gender-based violence (GBV) towards Black women entrepreneurs, examining the views of the madan saras about their work and using the framework of Black feminist theory to contextualise their experience.

This paper aims to analyze how the consequences of natural disasters affect gender relations in socioeconomic terms. To meet this objective, we quantitatively analyzed the effect of the earthquake that occurred in Haiti in 2010 based on data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) developed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). To measure the impact of the 2010 earthquake we used the differences in differences (DID) technique.

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, often negatively affect the economic wellbeing of affected individuals. Under such conditions, women may engage in transactional sexual behaviors in order to compensate for lost income and provide for their households. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between hurricane impact and transactional sex and if this relationship was moderated, or mediated, through economic factors.

Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, violence against women has frequently appeared in the media as one of the gravest consequences due to insecure living situations in settlement camps. This, however, is not newly arisen issue and has been occurring in the country at relatively high rates prior to the disaster. Violence against women presents an unconventional portrait in Haiti, meaning the characteristics of the situation run counter to the usual circumstance of violence in which the poorest and least educated form the majority of victims.

La recherche porte d’une manière générale sur les insécurités humaines liées aux risques de catastrophes d’origine naturelle en Haïti ; croisés à la problématique du genre et celle du handicap. Elle est structurée autour des concepts suivants :

- L’insécurité humaine
- Risques de catastrophe et situations d’urgence
- Impacts des catastrophes d’origine naturelle
- Le genre associé aux risques, menaces et catastrophes d’origine naturelle
- Le handicap et l’environnement physique et social

La présente publication est issue d'un rapport sur les femmes et les marchés inclusifs dans l'économie haïtienne élaboré dans un double objectif : organiser et transmettre des connaissances sur la situation des femmes sur les marchés et identifier les options de politiques publiques pour l'emploi.