Haiti: Humanitarian Snapshot (31 May 2019)

The year 2018 in Haiti was marked by a particularly unstable and fragile economic, political and social context. The drought, which affected spring and summer cropping seasons in several departments of the country in 2018, the rise in staple food prices, inflation and the depreciation of the gourde, severely affected the households’ resilience capacities. According to the IPC analysis conducted in december 2018, 2.3 million people were in a situation of acute food insecurity between october 2018 and february 2019. Since the beginning of the cholera epidemic in October 2010, significant progress has been made. A total of 3,786 suspect cases and 41 deaths were reported by the MSPP in 2018, which represents a respective decrease of 72% and 74% compared to 2017. The change in legislation towards foreigners in the Dominican Republic has resulted in significant population movements. During the year 2018, 132,000 Haitians in an irregular situation were repatriated or expelled at the border according to DGM . Amongst the migrants registered in the CRF , 42% were women, 34% were children, 66% had no identity documents and 69% have crossed the border via smugglers. In October 2018, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nord, Nord-Ouest and Artibonite departments, killing 18 people and causing a psychological shock to the affected population. The earthquake caused significant damage to schools, public infrastructure and homes. Medium-term assistance remains to be provided to the nearly 157,000 people that have been affected by the earthquake