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Haiti

WFP Haiti Country Brief, January 2025

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In Numbers

1,825 MT of food distributed*

USD 4.8 M cash-based transfers made*

USD 40.9 M six-month (February 2025 – July 2025) net funding requirements, representing 27 % of the total of funding required

835,570 people assisted* in January 2025

*Preliminary numbers

Operational Updates:

• In January, WFP supported a total of 835,570 people across operations including through the distribution of 78,510 hot meals, USD 4.8 million in cash-based transfers (CBT), and 1,825 MT of food commodities.

• Through the emergency programme, WFP reached 313,700 people. Among them,188,145 received USD 4.1 million in CBT and 93,100 people received 1,055 MT of food. WFP also distributed 78,510 hot meals to 32,454, people, including 9,413 internally displaced people (IDPs) in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince (55,470 hot meals). The remaining hot meals were distributed to 23,040 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 450,000 children with 770 MT of food. Of those, 300,984 were assisted with 480 MT of food through the HomeGrown School Meal programme.

• As part of the nutrition activities embedded in emergency, resilience, and social protection initiatives, WFP partners screened 10,871 children (5,453 girls and 5,418 boys) for malnutrition. Of these, 363 girls and 331 boys were referred for Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treatment, while 80 girls and 88 boys required Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) treatment. Social and Behaviour Change and Communication (SBCC) efforts reached 1,405 people, including 383 pregnant and nursing women and 519 men, promoting better nutrition practices. Additionally, 1,926 girls and 1,893 boys aged 6- 23 months living in IDP sites of the metropolitan area received Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements through the Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme, while 7,029 households with pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls and/or children aged 6-24 months old received cash transfers to prevent malnutrition.

• Furthermore, WFP supported the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in implementing the Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience project (social protection), providing assistance to 26,660 beneficiaries with USD 447,850 distributed