IOM - Assessment on the Psychosocial Needs of Haitians Affected ...

element is crucial, given the combination of large numbers of displaced, and a
limited budget, which would make a large scale quantitative survey impossible.
Tools
The tools include:
A standard form for interviews with community’s stakeholders and a standard form for
interviews with international stakeholders.
Both interviews aim at receiving information on 1) the local understanding of
psychosocial concepts and related response systems 2) existing psychosocial trainings,
services and activities; 3) the stakeholders’ perspective on priority needs of displaced
Haitians; 4) stakeholders’ plans and suggestions concerning strategies to be implemented.
All questions are open ended, and the results are read in a qualitative way.
A standard interview, for displaced families.
The 57 questions are clustered on eight groups: living conditions, household list,
families’ understanding and definition of psychosocial needs and concepts, the family’s
view on existing coping mechanism, and their evaluation of the provision of services,
psychosocial needs self-assessment, response, including suggestions for future
programming and finally a focus on children. The questions and items, originally
developed by <strong>IOM</strong>, were reviewed 3 times by a global interagency committee, by
professors of the faculties of Human Sciences and Ethnology of the University of Haiti,
and by the group of Haitian practitioners, who participated to a training of trainers (ToT)
in Port Au Prince, to guarantee cultural and interagency appropriateness. The
questionnaire is compiled by the interviewer thanks to a guided discussion with the
interviewees, during which questions don’t have to be responded chronologically. The
discussions are conducted with all members of the families, who are willing to
participate. However, for each question one response only is to be agreed per household.
The questions are both closed and open ended and are read both in a quantitative and a
qualitative fashion. In particular, the most recurrent answers to certain items were
computed to analyze descriptive statistics and possible correlations with the items below.
A family well-being list
A measure quantifying the self-reported satisfaction on 6 basic social conditions:
Housing, Security, Scholarization, Social Life, Food, Water and Sanitation, is compiled
by the interviewer while discussing with the family (Annex IV)
1. Housing: For housing the family is asked whether they are residing in their own
house, in a rented one , in a hosting family’s house, in a shelter, in a tent in camp
or in a tent within the property of a hosting family or put in the neighborhood.
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