Crime & violence prevention via Slum. Honduras and Jamaica

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1 Crime & violence prevention via Slum Upgrading Projects Examples from Honduras and Jamaica Lorena Cohan, Social Development Specialist, LCSSO Urban Week, February 1 st, 2011

2 «BARRIO CIUDAD PROJECT» Community-based Crime and Violence Prevention in Honduras

2/100,000 000 Homicide rate in la Ceiba 2009: 106.

3 Violence in Honduras National homicide rate 2009: 66.8/100,000 Homicide id rate in San Pedro Sula 2009: 111.2/100, Homicide rate in la Ceiba 2009: 106.1/100,000 84% of homicides occur in urban areas 64.9% of homicides occur in public spaces

4 Our Neigborhoods Neigborhoods g Inequity, unemployment, lack of public services, disintegrated families, gender based violence and child abuse, drug abuse, school drop-out, firearms, maras

5 The consequences Fear, insecurity, homicide, extorsion, threat to governance, high economic cost of violence

6 Honduras Barrio Ciudad Project: *Standard urban upgrading project with crime and violence prevention component, targeting marginal neighborhoods in secondary cities in Honduras *Total project amount: US$15 million; C&V component:us$1million *Implemented by Honduran Social Investment Fund in 7 municipalities Crime and violence prevention component includes: 1) Situational prevention (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design - CPTED), urban renewal, broken windows 2) Capacity building, training and technical assistance in multi-sectoral C&V prevention including: community crime mapping and diagnostics, preventing juvenile delinquency and domestic violence, community safety, and M&E. 3) Complementary investments and activities, including municipal plans for C&V prevention and grant funds for complementary infrastructure and programs for community safety.

7 Implementation Model Primary Prevention Situational Prevention (CPTED) Secondary Prevention

8 Strategic Guidelines Community Development Environmental Protection Crime and Violence Prevention

9 Mobilizing Communities around Violence Prevention

10 Peace March

11 Mobilizing Youth

12 Participatory Creation of Insecurity Maps to inform project design

13 Presentation of Insecurity Maps to inform project design

14 Walk through of hotspots with the community at night

15 Alliances and partnerships

16 Municipal level Training and Creation of C&V prevention Plans

17 Improved relations with and involvement of the local Police

18 Community Contribution

19 Tree Planting days

20 Community Clean up Days

21 Capacity building, conflict resolution, skills training, leadership

22 Technical urban and social staff at the municipal level play a key role

23 Arts and Culture

24 Social Cohesion Health, Safety and Environment Fair, 2009

25 Leadership and self-esteem Youth Network, Santa Rosa de Copán, 2009

26 After school reinforcement

27 Capacity Building Vocational Training

28 Barrio Scouts

29 Community-Police Relationship Building the Police Station in Danli, 2009

30 Yes, We can! Youth-Exchange Activity, Chamelecon, 2009

31 Caring for the environment Clean up campaigns, reforestation, visiting watersheds

32 Winning the championship

33 Another Kid s Day in the Barrio

34 Situational Prevention Parque Lo Nuestro, Danli 2009

35 Natural Surveillance

36 Access and control

37 Recovering public spaces Municipal Stadium, Villanueva

38 Initial results are very promising In first community where all infrastructure works have been completed and where social interventions have been delivered since beginning ofproject: 85% of community residents feel safe in their neighborhoods; 76% of residents feel safe in their own homes (compared to 51.4% before the Project began); 85% of residents no longer avoid certain places in their neighborhoods for fear of being victimof a crime (up from 62% before the beginning of the Project); 88% of residents feel that the danger that they or their households will be affected by crime and violence has decreased (up for 47%);and None of the communityresidents had anyknowledge of a death as a result of violence (as opposed to 20% before project)

39 Jamaica Inner Cities Basic Services for the Poor Project (ICBSP)

40 Violence in Jamaica Source: Jamaica Constabulary Force (2008)

41 Violence in Jamaica Source: Jamaica Constabulary Force (2008)

42 Jamaica Inner Cities Basic Services for the Poor (ICBSP) Project: *Urban upgrading project with iha Public Safety Component implemented in 12 inner city communities across Jamaica *Basic services provision + community based social prevention *Objective ofcomponent isto improve perceptions of safety and reduce crime via short term and medium term interventions *$30 million project; Public Safety Component: US$3.9 million * Implemented by Jamaica Social Investment Fund Public Safety Component includes: * Mediation and conflict resolution * Alternative livelihoods lh and skills kll development * Family support programs * Youth education and recreation * Communitycapacity buildingandpublicawareness awareness *Important links between public safety interventions + access to services (i.e. community centers, zincfence removal, solid waste collection, street lighting)

43 Homework classes

44 GSAT classes

45 Summer camps

46 Sports competition

47 Zinc fence removal

48 Zinc fence removal

49 Conflict resolution workshops

50 Lessons Learned and Best Practices in Community-Based Crime and Violence Prevention Full integration of infrastructure and crime and violence/public safety components/partnership between urban and social project staff Direct municipal participation in coordinating crime and violence prevention efforts Strengthen leadership at community level Always use participatory approaches (diagnostics, program design, maintenance of public works) Build up community-police relations and citizen confidence in its authorities Work with partners (government, civil society, private sector) Keep politics out of the game!

USAID Experiences with Community-Based Social Prevention Programs

USAID Experiences with Community-Based Social Prevention Latin American and Caribbean Bureau April 2014 November 2010 USAID Experiences with Community-Based Prevention Remarks by President Obama, Santiago,