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In Numbers
904 MT of food distributed*
USD 1.5 M cash-based transfers made*
USD 80 M six-month (May 2024 – October 2024) net funding requirements, representing 53 % of the total
588,409 people assisted* in APRIL 2024 *Preliminary numbers
Operational Updates
• In April, WFP supported 588,409 people with over USD 1.5 million in cash-based transfers (CBT) and 904 MT of food.
• Through the emergency programme, WFP reached 129,907 people with 453 MT of food, and 432,933 hot meals to 82,142 people, the majority of which were distributed to a total of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the metropolitan area of Port-auPrince (413,958 hot meals) and the remaining to returnees from the Dominican Republic. WFP also transferred USD 382,920 of CBT to 34,250 people.
• Through the school meals programme, WFP reached 320,798 school children with 451 MT of food. This includes 176,030 school children assisted through the Home-Grown School Meals programme.
• As part of its nutrition-specific activities embedded in emergency, resilience, and social protection activities, WFP partners screened 2,793 children. Out of those, 380 were moderately malnourished. In addition, 26,591 people participated in Social and Behavior Change Communication sensitization activities.
• As part of WFP's resilience activities, 2,675 households conducted rehabilitation activities and construction of community assets. A total of USD 326,620 was distributed to the participants and their family members (13,375 people).
• Furthermore, WFP supported the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in implementing the Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience project (social protection), providing support to 94,945 beneficiaries with USD 826,528 distributed.
• WFP supported the Hydro-meteorology Unit (Unité Hydrométéorolgique d'Haïti) to rehabilitate the weather station of Cap Haitian airport. The rehabilitation was finalized in April.
• In partnership with the University of Reading (UK), WFP started a set of cascade trainings on the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) approach to help communities make informed agricultural choices based on seasonal forecasts. Trained cooperating partners will replicate the training with the members of the farmers associations that supply the HomeGrown School Meals programme in three departments (Grand'Anse, Nord, Sud).
• Five flights chartered by WFP, through the logistics sector and the UN Humanitarian Response Depot, supported an ECHO funded airbridge between Panama and Cap Haitian. In total, 62 MT of medicine, shelter equipment and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) items were brought to support the World Health Organization’s activities and the International Organization for Migration’s operations with IDPs.