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CONTEXT
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Worsening organized criminal group (OCG) activity due to political instability, combined with the erosion of basic services and impacts caused by droughts and other frequent natural hazards, continue to drive humanitarian needs in Haiti. An estimated 5.5 million people required humanitarian assistance in the country as of January 2024, according to the UN.
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High levels of insecurity and OCG violence—a result of ongoing political instability following the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse—have generated significant protection risks and led to widespread displacement. Nearly 703,000 people remained internally displaced across Haiti as of early September, with an estimated 83 percent of those displaced living with host families or utilizing other arrangements, and the remainder sheltering across 117 displacement sites countrywide, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Internally displaced persons (IDP) sheltering in sites reported limited health services, protection concerns, reduced access to food, and inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure as of August 2024. The recent rise in violence has also hindered civilian and humanitarian access in addition to limiting the availability of essential goods and services for vulnerable populations.
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Nearly 5.4 million people, 48 percent of Haiti’s population, will likely experience Crisis—IPC 3—or worse levels of acute food insecurity between August 2024 and February 2025, including more than 2 million predicted to face Emergency—IPC 4—conditions, particularly in Artibonite, Grand’Anse, Nippes, Nord-Ouest, Ouest, Sud, and Sud- Est departments during the same time period, according to according to a late September IPC report.1 Additionally, approximately 6,000 people in IDP sites in the national capital of Port-au-Prince’s metropolitan area are facing Catastrophe—IPC 5—conditions, indicating catastrophic levels of hunger and a collapse of livelihoods.2 Food insecurity in Haiti is largely driven by a combination of supply chain impediments, OCG violence, limited food supplies, high food prices, reduced household purchasing power, and climatic shocks.