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

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.

The goal of the programme is to protect residents in the bateyes from physical threats to their human security, while empowering isolated communities to access their rights by way of: (i) ensuring that Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent, and Dominicans living in the bateyes are protected from threats to personal and political security; (ii) strengthening economic security by enhancing people’s income generation capacity and providing educational opportunities; (iii) decreasing the high levels of food insecurity; (iv) advancing health security by increasing access to basic primary care and health education; and (v) improving natural disaster preparedness as well as access to clean water and safe housing conditions.

KEY MATERIALS
Programme Summary
Stateless No More
Brochure Human Security in Bateyes, Dominican Republic (“Seguridad Human en Bateyes, República Dominicana”)
Flyer Human Security Programme in Bateyes (“Proyecto Seguridad Humana en Bateyes”)