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Haiti

WFP Haiti Country Brief, February 2025

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Numbers

1,730 MT of food distributed*

USD 3.1 M cash-based transfers made*

USD 156.4 M twelve-month (March 2025 – February 2026) net funding requirements, representing 52 % of the total of funding required

763,025 people assisted* in February 2025

*Preliminary numbers

Operational Updates:

In February, WFP supported a total of 763,025 people across operations including through the distribution of 144,217 hot meals, USD 3.1 million in cash-based transfers (CBT), and 1,729 MT of food commodities.

Through its emergency programmes, WFP reached 178,450 people. Among them,106,790 received USD 2.3 million in CBT and 32,160 people received 308.59 MT of food. WFP also distributed 144,217 hot meals to 39,500 people, including 11,978 internally displaced people (IDPs) in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince (70,323 hot meals). The remaining hot meals were distributed to 21,012 people as part of WFP response to support returnees from the Dominican Republic at two border crossing locations in the North and Center departments.

Through the school meal programme, WFP reached 514,304 children with 1,416 MT of food. Of those, 341,715 were assisted with 935.38 MT of locally produced food through the HomeGrown School Meal programme. As part of the cross-cutting nutrition activities embedded in emergency, resilience, and social protection initiatives, WFP partners screened 16,468 children (8,617 girls and 7,851 boys) for malnutrition. Of these, 391 girls and 354 boys were referred for Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treatment, while 85 girls and 105 boys required Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) treatment. Social and Behaviour Change and Communication (SBCC) efforts reached 3,526 people, including 2,656 women (of which 383 were pregnant and nursing women) and 870 men, promoting better nutrition practices. Additionally, 1,094 girls and 1,035 boys aged 6-23 months living in IDP sites of the metropolitan area received Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements (LNS) through the Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (BSFP), while 24,400 households with pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls (PBWG) and/or children aged 6- 24 months old received cash transfers to prevent malnutrition. Furthermore, in support of the national social protection system, WFP continued to provide cash transfers and complementary services to vulnerable populations. In February, WFP distributed USD 420,224 to 13,535 individuals, either through the national social protection programme "Klere Chimen" or directly to complement national capacities, in line with the National Social Protection and Promotion Policy (PNPPS, for its acronym in French)