Dominican Republic

Region: Latin America and The Caribbean

  • Strengthening Human Security and Resilience to Transnational Organized Crime in Coastal Communities?

    Duration: February 2023 - October 2025
    Budget: US$299,951
    Implementing Agencies: ±¬ÁÏÍøODC (lead), FAO

    Many coastal communities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing an increase in violence and transnational organized crime, which is undermining the rule of law and threatening multiple dimensions of the human security of local populations.
     

     

     
  • An elderly man stands in a green field with a dog. He looks out to the distance and is holding a long knife. There is a sunset in the background and a sugarcane plantation.

    Improving Human Security in the Bateyes of the Dominican Republic by Securing Documentation and Ensuring that Vulnerable People¡¯s Needs Are Met

    Duration: October 2012 - December 2015
    Budget: US$2,569,600
    Implementing Agencies: ±¬ÁÏÍøHCR (lead), ±¬ÁÏÍøDP, ±¬ÁÏÍøICEF

    Geographically and socially isolated, bateyes lack basic healthcare, adequate water and sanitation, and access to education, while employment and income generation opportunities have grown increasingly scarce. Moreover, many residents in the bateyes, including an overwhelming 85% of adolescents, lack civil status documentation including birth certificates (either Dominican or Haitian) and are therefore unable to access education, vocational training, employment opportunities or healthcare offered outside of the bateyes.