Different frameworks for building capabilities result in different material outcomes for women in four Haitian community-based organizations: two mixed-gender versus two women’s organizations. This study shows that frameworks deployed by the women’s organizations pay attention to gendered strategic interests by enhancing capabilities and functionings that communities and individuals value. Their frameworks resembled Nussbaum’s (2011, Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach.

L’ouragan Matthew qui a dévasté le grand sud et une partie du Nord-Ouest du pays n’a épargné personne. Les femmes n’ont pas été à l’abris des vent violent de l’ouragan.

Several prominent contemporary Francophone women writers have embraced activism in compelling forms. In her written creations, Maïssa Bey from Algeria has continually called attention to the lack of women's rights in her homeland; she has also initiated writing workshops for women to reflect and express themselves. Fatou Diome, who left Senegal for Strasbourg, has shed light in her work on racism and sexism that African immigrants often face in Europe, and she has created an association in her homeland to help individuals become financially solvent.

Adolescent girls in low-resource settings account for over 7.3 million births annually (generally unplanned). Unplanned teen pregnancies are increasing in lowresource settings. As part of a funded Round 20 Grand Challenges Exploration project (Healthy Minds for Adolescent Mothers), we investigated unplanned teen pregnancies in Haiti’s Cité Soleil shantytown, teens’ biopsychosocial challenges, and desirable interventions.

This work has as main objective to understand, through a basic investigatory process, the role of rural women, who participate in the peasant Movement Papaye- in community development in rural areas in Haiti to lay the groundwork and data necessary in a subsequent intervention of any national or international organization which aims to improve the living conditions of this category. The role of women, not only in overall percentage of the population, the issue of activities for the country's development is essential.

Cet article aborde les impacts et les limites du programme de coopération municipale canadienne (PCM). Il montre comment il tend à renforcer les capacités des femmes élues en Haïti et à les préparer aux fonctions et aux difficultés présentes du domaine politique. (Résumé par Mouka)

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Women represent more than 50% of the population of Haiti and embody the poorest group due to their lack of socioeconomic development. Numerous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) including diaspora NGOs (DINGOs) have engaged in the fight to reduce poverty in Haiti by enabling empowerment programs to help women become selfreliant. The programs appear to be ineffective because the level of poverty remains high and there has been little research on the relative effectiveness and sustainability of the programs implemented by the DINGOs.

Cette cartographie établit une liste des différentes organisations de la société civile qui œuvrent pour protéger les droits humains en Haïti et analyse les impacts de l’aide amenée par la communauté internationale. Elle permet de comprendre le contexte du travail des organisations luttant pour les droits humains, ainsi que les tendances dans lesquelles s’inscrivaient leurs actions, tout en mettant ces aspects en relation avec les besoins connus de la population.

Ce rapport aborde la question de l’égalité des genres dans le domaine foncier, plus spécifiquement l’accès, la sécurisation et le contrôle des biens fonciers. Si les textes juridiques ne sont pas nécessairement discriminatoires, les pratiques traditionnelles et sociales, elles, font en sorte que les femmes ne jouissent pas pleinement de leurs droits. Elles ont, en effet, moins accès aux terres et aux sources de financement puisqu’elles sont, en général, moins éduquées.

In rural Haiti, community development programs are delivered predominantly by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and commonly have goals related to empowerment, participation, and local capacity development. Yet attainment of these goals is often difficult, and analysis of these programs neglects the complex micropolitics of development interventions. This thesis investigates the local-level encounter and contestation of NGO and local discourses of development in a community in rural Haiti.