Policy for Progress: Why Women's' Access to Education and Healthcare Matters

  Hi everyone! In our previous blog I talked about Haiti's economy and touched on some policy gaps in Haiti. This blog I want to talk about the policy gaps in Haiti more in depth, and even offer potential solutions. I will mostly talk about education and healthcare policy gaps in Haiti.  In the previous blog I talked about Haiti has 10 administrative departments: Ouest, Artibonite, Nord, Nord-Est, Nord Quest, Centre, Sud, Grand'Anse, Nippes, and Sud-Est. Ouest is the center of Haiti's deepest policy crisis. Although It contains the highest number of schools and hospitals, and infrastructure, many of these facilities ar private facilities, which many of Haiti's residents cannot afford. 80% percent of schools are also private schools, and depend on families to pay in order to get access to education, but over half of Haiti's population lives below the poverty line. This means that thousands of the new young generations living in Haiti do not have access to education. ...