In 2021-22, the Haiti team established a Haitian Guidance Committee made up of the following organizations: Bureau du secrétaire d’état à l’intégration des personnes handicapées (BSEIPH); Réseau associatif national pour intégration des personnes handicapées (RANIPH); three smaller organizations led by women with disabilities; Université d’État d’Haïti (UEH); Égalité pour la connaissance, la communication et la liberté (ECCEL); and the University of Ottawa.
The partners within the Haitian Guidance Committee have highlighted the need to address the access to research awards for women with disabilities (i.e., expanding eligibility to women with disabilities in the fourth year of an university undergraduate program) and creating internship opportunities to work within organizations of women with disabilities. Following this feedback, in 2021-22, the Haiti team awarded scholarships to two Haitian master’s students researching women with disabilities’ access to justice and microcredit. The Haiti team plans to offer one scholarship to a fourth-year student in 2023, with preference given to women with disabilities.