Strong Beginnings for Children in Haiti: 2020-2024 Learning Report

There are numerous challenges facing young children in Haiti, including political upheaval, gang violence, civil unrest, community violence/closures, shortages of necessities, and natural disasters. This fragility can have a detrimental impact on the learning and development of young children. To address these multifaceted risk factors facing children in Haiti, the Strong Beginnings initiative has focused on leveraging the assets of the primary settings—lakay, lekol, legliz (home, school, and parish)—where young children learn and develop daily. Over four years and spread across six of the 10 departments in Haiti, Strong Beginnings has worked to activate this lakay-lekol-legliz (L3) system through interventions and approaches that were need-based, developed in partnership with communities, iteratively tested and improved, and gradually scaled. This report summarizes what we have learned through this L3 systems activation work over the last four years. 

Read the Strong Beginnings for Children in Haiti: 2020-2024 Learnings Brief here.

Read the full report here.