This project was led by Handicap International in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2012).
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. Haitians’ overall living conditions, and especially their health, have worsened since the earthquake that hit the country on 12 January 2010. Access to any health, administrative, education or other services still operating has also been hard-hit. The Haitian government, which has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), has expressed its determination and commitment to improving structures and services in collaboration with various international organization, but there is little reliable data on the situation of people with disabilities in Haiti to help guide these actions.
In 2012, Handicap International and the International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) collaborated to conduct a cross-sector study of the situation of people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, with the aim of identifying operational mechanisms for effectively meeting their needs.
Specific objectives: (1) Provide statistically-reliable data on disability and people with disabilities in Port-au-Prince (global and disaggregated prevalence, declared causes of disability) ; (2) Obtain a picture of the situation of people with disabilities and compare it with that of a control population without disabilities in order to study the differences between the two groups in terms of family environment, standards of living, education, employment and health and identify the needs of people with disabilities in terms of services and specific aids; (3) Investigate from a qualitative perspective the difficulties encountered by people with disabilities in terms of inclusion, access and social participation.
Access to all the ressources pruduced as part of the research :
- The research report
- The brief
- The summary
- The methodological report, mean of application produced from the research results
