UNICEF has been a development partner in Haiti for over 60 years. With expertise in education, child protection, nutrition, health and water sanitation and hygiene, UNICEF and partners have coordinated a large-scale emergency response for children and families.  We will continue to develop and strengthen systems that protect the rights of children.

Your crucial support has helped drive some extraordinary successes for children over the past year, as detailed below.

Education

• More than 80,000 children are now learning in 193 semi-permanent schools constructed by UNICEF since the earthquake
• Some 750,000 children and more than 15,000 teachers in 2,500 schools received learning and teaching materials in support of the October 2011 Back-To-School campaign and President Martelly’s initiative for free education
• 1,497,900 children in 5,760 schools received hygiene promotion materials including soap to protect against cholera

Child Protection

• Over 120,000 children in nine departments benefit from structured activities and referral networks in 520 Child Friendly Spaces managed by 92 different community-based organisations supported by UNICEF
• All ten departments equipped with psychosocial rehabilitation services specialized in emergency response
• 8,780 separated children have been registered and over 2,770 reunified with their families since the earthquake, thanks to the support of UNICEF and the Family Tracing and Reunification network
• An additional 13,440 children living in 336 of the estimated 650 residential care centres have been registered to provide social documentation, improved case management and family reunification where possible
• 336 residential care centers have been evaluated with standardized tools and a directory of all Residential Care Centres has been launched by IBESR, with UNICEF support
• 18,000 children were screened at border points and airports since the earthquake, by a division of the national police supported by UNICEF

Water, Hygine & Sanitation (WASH)

• In response to the continuing cholera outbreaks in 2011, the UNICEF WASH programme worked through 14 partners to provide hygiene promotion and cholera supplies for an estimated 2.2 million people
• In 2011, improved water supplies, safe sanitation and better management and monitoring of services reached about 600,000 people in camps and earthquake affected communities, and urban neighbourhoods to which displaced people are returning
• Some 95 communities hosting 89,000 persons launched the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach to expand WASH services
• Declining from a peak of 680,000 persons, some 196,000 persons in camps had access to at least 10 litres of safe water per day, supported by UNICEF
• The first human waste disposal site was established for Port-au-Prince (with UNICEF support) and UNICEF continues to finance the desludging fleet for the removal of liquid waste from CTCs/CTUs in Port-au-Prince and in camps

HEALTH

• Some 800 HIV positive pregnant women gained access to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) services as UNICEF supported the establishment of 11 new PMTCT sites in under-served areas
• More than 15,000 vulnerable adolescents in Port-au-Prince were sensitised on HIV prevention and 2,500 adolescents tested for HIV and 522 placed on antiretroviral treatment
• UNICEF supported 37 trainers and 115 service providers with enhanced knowledge and capacity to implement PMTCT
• Almost 170,000 children were protected against vaccine preventable disease in Haïti as the routine immunisation coverage increased from 58 per cent to almost 80 per cent between 2010 and 2011 with UNICEF support to the “RED approach”
• UNICEF provided medicine, equipment and technical support to the placement of international midwives in emergency obstetric clinics for at-risk pregnant women
• UNICEF supported the training of four trainers on the promotion of Kangaroo Mother Care to prevent neonatal deaths

Nutrition

• Some 393,000 children screened and over 15,300 treated for acute malnutrition in 2011 in one of the 290 out-patient treatment units and/or 24 Nutrition Stabilisation Units (which address malnourished children with complications). A recovery rate of 76 per cent and mortality rate under 2 per cent in patients indicates good quality of service
• Some 500,000 mother and baby pairs were provided with nutrition counselling and breastfeeding coaching in the 198 Baby-Friendly Corners established and maintained since the earthquake. Meanwhile, 40 Infant and Young Child Feeding committees and mothers clubs were created
• Over 500,000 women received iron-folic acid tablets in 2011 to prevent anaemia
• Over 775 health professionals and healthcare providers trained in Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)