UNIFEM's current programming in Haiti prioritises strengthening women's participation in governance, peace and security processes, including ending violence against women. This period of state stabilisation, marked by significant resource flows to the state sector, represents a crucial opportunity for ensuring women's experiences of inequality and marginalisation as well as their strategic and practical needs shape State and the development community's (including donor countries) priorities.
Guided by UNIFEM's strategic plan 2008-2011, the Beijing Platform for Action and Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), UNIFEM's programme in Haiti promotes the protection and respect for women's rights in Haiti through strengthening women's participation and influence in the formulation and implementation of gender-responsive governance processes.

The immediate objectives of the programme are to:

a)To promote gender-responsive governance and institutional support for gender mainstreaming
b)To secure women's voice, inclusion and influence in political participation processes
c) To strengthen institutional, legal and policy mechanisms for promoting gender justice, peace and security in particular through support to the implementation of the national action plan on violence against women

Key results of the programme expected include:

" Capacities built for the Haitian state and women's organisations to lead and advance gender-responsive governance processes
" Strengthened governmental planning and programming processes addressing the differential needs of women and men in Haiti
"Increased women's participation in political processes at national and local levels
"Strengthened institutional capacity of government and civil society to combat violence against women
"Decreased public and private tolerance of violence against women

Click here to download - Haiti Brochure on Women's Rights