Minutes CP meeting 9 April 2010

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From: HaitiCPWG

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:35:21 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Apr 11 2010 3:35 am

Subject: Minutes CP meeting 9 April 2010

1. Update on the 13 April workshop in Hotel Karibe

The child Protection sub-cluster will organise on Tuesday 13 April a

one-day workshop to review the Child protection response for the past

3 months. The main objective of the workshop is to think together with

the government, local and international NGOs on ways to improve our

efficiency, coordination and impact on the beneficiaries.

Representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs and other Ministries

have been invited, as well as IBESR and BPM. The morning sessions will

be presentations of the government representatives and a panel

discussion on several Child Protection issues. The afternoon session

will be group work on 3 thematic issues: situation analysis of child

protection in Haiti; strategic planning; and policy strengthening.

2. Establishment of a new working group on Monitoring & Reporting

There was an ongoing discussion this week with MINUSTAH Child

Protection Unit on the establishment of a M&R mechanism. The mandate

of the MINUSTAH Child Protection Unit is based on the 1612 resolution

of the UN Security Council. This resolution requests the Secretary-

General to establish a M&R mechanism in conflict-affected countries

that will monitor 6 grave violations of children’s rights. Since Haiti

is not a conflict affected country, there cannot be a task Force on

M&R, which impedes the M&R activities to be really effective and

systematic. Therefore it was agreed to have the M&R mechanism below

the Child Protection sub-cluster to make it more visible and have a

group focusing on it. We are waiting for the official approval of

MINUSTAH to establish this mechanism and modalities of its functioning

will be discussed later.

3. Update on the relocation process

Populations from Vallee Bourdon and Petionville will be relocated to

Corail Cesslesse and Tabarre Issa 2. The relocation process is based

on three phases, the preparation, movement and settlement of

populations. In order to ensure proper information of communities on

the whole process, information kiosks will be set up at the origin and

destination camps. There will also be mobile teams circulating in the

camps. Registration kiosks will be set up in origin and destination

camps and to avoid family separations, family bracelets and bracelets

for children younger than 5 will be distributed. A team will also be

responsible for the identification and reunification of children who

lost their families during the relocation process. Regular meetings

are taking place between displaced and host communities to prepare the

ground for a smooth settlement of the newcomers. There will also be

1-2 monitors in the buses and persons on arrival to welcome and

orientate the displaced communities. Once more, it is important to

remind that this is not a forced movement. Communities have the choice

between 3 options. Chris Feliciano, from the US Joint Task Force in

Haiti, added that on April 15, populations from Vallee Bourdon will be

displaced to Tabarre Issa 2 and the movement to Corail Cesslesse will

start on Saturday and shall last 10 days. As a total, 7500 persons

were expected to move to Corail. 46% of the houses from communities in

Petionville were declared green. Therefore, only 5000 decided to move

to Corail. Populations from 3 other sites (camp 23, ancient aeroport

and Vallee Bourdon) will also have to be moved to safer camps.

Incentive packages have been thought of for displaced communities and

might comprise 2 week pay and hygiene kits. This is not a military

organized process; all trucks and vehicles are provided by MINUSTAH.

4. Update from the separated children working group

Carole Lalancette from UNICEF made a presentation of the workshop on

children in orphanages that took place last Tuesday and whose

participants were UNICEF, Arc-en-Ciel, CRS, Terre des Hommes and IBESR

through Mr. Vanel, from IBESR, Service of Youth and Mr. Perron, from

IBESR, Service of Protection of Minors. The workshop started with a

discussion on the policy and legal framework of orphanages. A first

decree on 28 August 1964 defined the mandate of IBESR. A second decree

on 22 December 1971 explained the role and responsibilities of IBESR

related to orphanages and crèches. Mr. Vanel stated that IBESR is in

line with the position of UNICEF regarding institutions and is in

favor of a process of deinstitutionalization. The difficulty that

IBESR is facing is its financial dependence on such institutions.

IBESR would be willing to have support from UNICEF to review the 1971

decree, improve standards of care in the institutions and include

children’s rights in the functioning of these institutions. The

results of the orphanages assessment will be presented at the next

Child Protection sub-cluster meeting.

Benoit Fournier from UNICEF presented the outcomes of the workshop

that took place last Monday and that dealt with the establishment of a

programme on temporary family-based care. IBESR, local and

international partners such as CRS, WVI, Concern, IOM, Zami Timoun,

maison Arc-en-Ciel participated in this workshop. A final draft of the

programme on family-based care will be presented to Mme Pierre for

review and final approval.

5. Briefing about the global peer-review on 18-24 April by Save the

Children and UNICEF

On 18-24 April, members from Save the Children and UNICEF inter agency

Child Protection working group will conduct a global peer review in

Haiti. The main objective of this visit is to identify lessons learnt

and provide immediate support/corrective action needed in the areas of

coordination and FTR. They would be interested in meeting with local

and international partners. The Child Protection sub-cluster will

contact some partners to agree on meetings with the global peer review

team.

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Countries: Haiti

Organizations: Unicef New York