Alliance for the Protection of Children Project: Advisory Committee Co-Interpretation Workshop Report and Year 1 Research Findings

American Institutes for Research (AIR) held a Co-Interpretation workshop on July 18 and 19, 2017 in Pétion-Ville with stakeholders in the USAID-funded Alliance pour la Protection des Enfants project. Twenty-nine representatives of community leaders, government bodies, NGOs and international organizations read five Year 1 research reports: a systematic review, a positive deviance study, cultural models, broadcast and social media narratives, and a rapid qualitative assessment.

Participants wrote key findings and voted on the most important ones for designing interventions. The top six findings concern the children most vulnerable to violence, the role of the State and its agencies IBESR and BPM, community intervention models, psychosocial interventions and the responsibility of parents and family environment. AIR recommends that pilot interventions in years 2 and 3 target stateless children, street children, children not in school and restavèk, with a focus on girls, and that the Bony community model be strengthened and scaled up.