DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Women Migrants Advocacy in Latin America--Dominican Republic:

For the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

focus groups, focus group training, focus group discussions, women in development, program evaluation, impact evaluation

At the Haitian Flower Market, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

This review for the Women’s Rights and Citizenship Program (WRC) used field visits and desk reviews of multiple projects in three regions—Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South/Southeast Asia—and one project in Middle East and North Africa. The review explored WRC’s programmatic relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency in supporting three core objectives–fostering quality research and analysis, building research capacity, and supporting research that results in evidence-based, concrete recommendations for policy influence and social change.

 GDI Director, Janet Mancini Billson, conducted focus group and key informant interviews in 2009 with members of the research team and several non-profit organizations involved in studying Haitian women migrants to Dominican Republic.