The Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the National Council for Children and Adolescents and the Bilateral Dominican-Haitian Commission has organized various conferences , visits , meetings , workshops and bilateral coordination projects between the two countries so as to define a tool to care and provide protection for the children and adolescents who were affected by this terrible disaster . This has resulted in the preparation by CONANI , in coordination with the United Nations agencies ( UNICEF , the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) ) and NGOs , of a Protection Protocol for Haitian children and adolescents who were affected by the situation described above .