ECW Multi-Year Resilience Programme for Haiti 2022-2025
Summary — A comprehensive education resilience program targeting 45,500 vulnerable children in Haiti to provide access to quality, inclusive education in crisis situations. The program addresses access, quality, governance and resource mobilization through a $28 million investment.
Key Findings
- Haiti ranks 170 out of 189 countries on the Human Development Index and faces multiple ongoing crises.
- Approximately 800,000 children cannot access safe education or follow normal schooling patterns.
- Only 60% net enrollment in preschool, 77% in basic education, and 15% in secondary school.
- 80% of teachers are unqualified and over 50% of schools lack water or toilets.
- The private sector educates 77% of all students and accounts for 85% of educational infrastructure.
Full Description
The ECW Multi-Year Resilience Programme for Haiti represents a comprehensive response to the country's prolonged education crisis stemming from multiple disasters since the 2010 earthquake. Haiti ranks 170 out of 189 countries on the Human Development Index and faces ongoing political, social, economic, health and institutional crises that have severely impacted its education system.
The program targets approximately 45,500 children aged 3-18 years across 35 districts, with 53% girls and 10% children with disabilities. It operates through four key outcomes: increasing access to formal and non-formal education, improving teaching and learning quality including socio-emotional development, strengthening education system governance and resilience, and mobilizing additional resources for scaling up interventions.
With a total budget requirement of $28 million, including $11.8 million in ECW seed funding, the program addresses critical challenges in Haiti's education system where 77% of students attend private schools, 80% of teachers are unqualified, and over 800,000 children cannot access safe education. The program is implemented through partnerships with UNICEF and World Food Programme, focusing on the most marginalized children including those with disabilities and in rural areas.
The initiative represents a humanitarian-development coherence approach, linking emergency assistance to long-term resilience building while ensuring child safeguarding and protection in educational environments disrupted by natural disasters, political instability, and socio-economic crises.