Attachments
Key highlights
- Together with UNHCR and Civil Defense, WFP delivered food assistance to flood-affected households, while supporting a national emergency simulation to strengthen adaptive social protection.
- WFP prepared geospatial coordination with SINI and EIGEO and laid the groundwork for inter-municipal collaboration under the Resilient Watershed project.
- In nutrition, WFP co-led the Technical Table on Food Fortification, prioritizing rice fortification as a cost-effective policy, while community workshops strengthened grassroots resilience.
- WFP sustained support to the DR–Haiti logistics corridor, ensuring humanitarian air services and highlighting the value of inter-institutional coordination.
SITUATION OVERVIEW
- The Dominican Republic, like other Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean, is highly exposed to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and droughts, which disrupt livelihoods, damage
infrastructure, and strain food systems. Ecosystem degradation further reduces natural protection against extreme events. Around 25% of households are highly vulnerable to climate shocks, disproportionately affecting poor and hazard‑prone communities. Territorial inequalities leave rural and border provinces with fewer opportunities and higher poverty rates, while 53.4% of total employment is informal. Global food price volatility, dependence on remittances, and localized migration pressures compound these risks, intersecting with persistent micronutrient deficiencies and the double burden of malnutrition disproportionately affecting women, children, and excluded groups. These vulnerabilities are now exacerbated by global market instability linked to the Middle East crisis, which is driving food price volatility, energy cost increases, and risks of supply chain disruption, raising concern for national food security and household resilience. - WFP’s strategy links national planning with local action to address recurrent shocks systemically. Evidence and data guide interventions, building government capacity so central decisions translate into community protection. Climate services and risk management tools are embedded in social protection through local networks, enabling anticipatory action. Pre‑positioning, disaster risk finance, and logistics corridors ensure rapid response when systems are strained. Platforms such as ANACAONA and the DR–Haiti corridor exemplify collective resilience.