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Assessments, Monitoring & Evaluation
Emergency Nutrition
Food Aid
Food Security
HIV
Household Food Consumption
Infant & Child Nutrition
Women's & Adolescents' Nutrition

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Malawi
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Link bulletUSAID Mission [www.usaid.gov/ht/]

Link bulletConseil National de Sécurité Alimentaire (CNSA) [www.cnsahaiti.org/]

Link bulletFamine Early Warning System Network Country Page [www.fews.net/Pages/ country.aspx?gb=ht&l=en]

 
 
 

Haiti

See Also: Emergency Nutrition; Food Aid; Food Security; Infant and Child Nutrition


FANTA provides technical support to the USAID Title II Cooperating Sponsors to strengthen the implementation of their Title II development programs and to the USAID Mission in areas related to nutrition and food security. USAID/Haiti has also requested FANTA technical assistance to address the food and nutrition needs of PLHIV, including ART clients, pregnant and lactating women, and OVC in Haiti.

Preventive Vs. Recuperative Approaches in Food-Assisted Nutrition Programs: With partners IFPRI, Cornell University and World Vision, FANTA completed a five-year study in Haiti comparing preventive and recuperative approaches in nutrition interventions. A key finding was that the preventive approach was more effective in reducing population malnutrition levels than the recuperative approach. These findings provide the first evidence of the relative effectiveness of a preventive approach compared to a recuperative one. The results of the study, Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behavior change and communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition in Haiti: a cluster randomized trial, were published in the January 2007 issue of The Lancet.

Layers: The Layers monitoring system for Title II programming was originally developed in Haiti. It is now a mature system, sustainably and autonomously maintained by USAID/Haiti. Results from Layers survey rounds are now routinely used by the Mission to verify the quality of programs in the field and to develop recommendations to ensure that food assistance is being delivered with maximum effect to the intended populations.

Harmonization of Indicators: Considerable progress has been made over the years to harmonize monitoring and evaluation (M&E) indicators used by USAID/Haiti and its Title II partners. FANTA has expanded this work to include M&E indicators used by Management Sciences for Health, USAID/Haiti's bilateral contractor in health. FANTA has conducted a number of workshops and provided other technical assistance to examine discrepancies among the different M&E systems in order to build in greater convergence.

Early Warning System: Thanks to the efforts of CARE and its local partners, a simple but effective early warning system was developed in the northwest region of Haiti under their current Title II development assistance program. With support from FANTA, the CARE model was expanded and adapted to the other three CSs operating in the country, providing the first large-scale integrated early warning system in Haiti. This initial effort was later joined by FEWS NET under the umbrella of the Conseil National de Sécurité Alimentaire, the Government of Haiti's office in charge of food security and early warning.


Country Information

Link bulletUSAID Country Profile
[http://www.usaid.gov/locations/latin_america_caribbean/ country/haiti/index.html]

Link bulletPEPFAR Country Profile
[http://www.pepfar.gov/press/75915.htm]

Link bulletUNICEF Country Profile
[http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti.html]

Link bulletWFP Country Profile
[http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp? country=332region=4&section=9&sub_section=4]

Link bulletDemographic and Health Surveys Country Survey
[http://www.measuredhs.com/countries/ country_main.cfm?ctry_id=16]

Link bulletFAO Country Food Security Statistics
[http://www.fao.org/faostat/foodsecurity/ Countries/EN/Haiti_e.pdf]

Link bulletWorld Bank Country Data Profile
[http://devdata.worldbank.org/external/CPProfile.asp? SelectedCountry=HTI&CCODE=HTI&CNAME=Haiti&PTYPE=CP]


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