This Revised Emergency Appeal adjusts the appeal target downwards from 7,511,993 Swiss francs to 4,367,527 Swiss francs with operational changes based on detailed situation analysis. This amount excludes the Emergency Response Units (ERUs) value of 253,562 Swiss francs, which brings the operation budget to 4,621,089 Swiss francs.

UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo reports on how head of an adolescent clinic in Port-au-Prince Dr. Rachel Bertrand is on a mission to improve the care of HIV-positive children and young adults in Haiti.

By Thomas Nybo

An adolescent clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, provides care, support and education for youth who are HIV-positive, among other services.

Despite a brief respite, drought will keep some households in Crisis through August

KEY MESSAGES

• Many municipalities will remain in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) through August / September. The protracted drought and lack of seeds have delayed the planting of crops, putting farming activities behind schedule. The most affected areas are the Southern Peninsula, the Central Plateau, and the North.

Imagine there is a major crisis unfolding. While one region in the affected country is in crisis, there are available food supplies and resources in another. In situations like this, USAID disaster response professionals have several key decisions to make — all with the goal of helping as many people as possible in the most rapid, efficient and effective way possible. Does it make sense to bring in food from the United States? Should we purchase food locally to distribute to those in need? Should we provide people the means to buy the food themselves?

The World Food Programme (WFP) has been running Cash for Work programmes to tackle food insecurity in Haiti following the drought of spring 2012 and cyclones Isaac and Sandy. The main objective is to improve the food and economic security of the rural communities which have been affected by this series of shocks. The WFP is hoping to improve the quality of its operations by strengthening its monitoring and evaluation system. Groupe URD will be providing it with support in this endeavour via evaluations and training.

On May 31 the World Bank, PAHO and UNICEF announced $28.1 million in new funding for cholera elimination efforts in Haiti. The new funding was announced following a meeting in Washington, D.C. of the Regional Coalition to Eliminate Cholera Transmission in Hispaniola. In February 2013, a $2.2 billion, 10-year cholera elimination plan was announced by the Government of Haiti, with the support of the coalition. The plan calls for $443.7 million over the first two years. Thus far, however, there have been few details of how the plan will be funded and coordinated.

A further 6.7 million people in Haiti are struggling to meet their food needs on a regular basis. WFP urgently needs $17.2 million in funding to provide assistance.

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SITUATION OVERVIEW

• Food insecurity due to the destruction of crops by natural disasters
• Recurrent natural disasters and the residual consequences of the 2010 earthquake
• Resurgent localized cholera outbreaks