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WFP has been working in Haiti since 1969, providing humanitarian assistance during emergencies and implementing long-term solutions to end hunger and address undernutrition, while strengthening national social protection, education and food systems. To reach its goal of Zero Hunger, WFP implements flagship programmes such as home-grown school meals, and has supported the Government of Haiti through policy development and capacity building. All WFP programmes are implemented in partnership with the Government of Haiti.
In addition, WFP’s robust logistics and supply chain capacities, including the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, enables the humanitarian community to reach people in need, sometimes in the most hard-to-reach areas.
The latest IPC analysis (March to June 2024) found that close to 5 million people in Haiti are acutely food insecure (IPC3+), or half of the analysed population, compared to 44% in the previous analysis. Of those, about 1.65 million are in the emergency phase (IPC 4). This is the highest ever recorded, placing Haiti as the world's third highest in terms of the percentage of its population facing acute food insecurity.
In addition to the food security crisis, over 580,000 people are internally displaced due to armed group violence, with 185,000 in Port-au-Prince. Haiti is also exposed to natural hazards, worsened by climate change, such as flooding, landslides and droughts.
WFP, in partnership with the government, is implementing its new Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028 (CSP) with a budget of USD 1.5 billion, approved in late 2023. In the first year, 50% of planned programmes are slated to promote resilience and Haiti's development. This percentage will grow over time as beneficiaries shift from emergency assistance to long-term initiatives.
Since late February, armed groups have coordinated attacks on key infrastructure, especially in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, including hospitals and schools, leading to blockades at the main airport, seaport, and critical roadways in the capital, severely restricting movement and exacerbating shortages of fuel and essential supplies. This has resulted in a 27% increase in the cost of the food basket since January. WFP has been scaling up its operations, maintained access thanks to local partners' engagement and decentralized its supply chain by procuring supplies locally to respond to the crisis. This has enabled WFP to reach close to 129,000 internally displaced people with more than 1.3 million hot meals in 95 sites in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.
As of June 2024, WFP supported 1.4 million people in Haiti in 2024, with over 1.3 million hot meals, 4,840 mt of food and USD 17.2 million of cash-based transfers. WFP also bought USD 2 million worth of locally produced food from smallholder farmers, which aligns with the government’s policy and WFP’s new CSP.
The country office’s goal is to reach 2.35 million people in 2024, and needs USD 75.3 million to be able to implement its operations in the next 6 months (July – December 2024).