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Executive Summary
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 the goal of Zero Hunger, WFP facilitates the implementation of flagship national programmes such as the home-grown school meals, supporting and strengthening the Government of Haiti's implementation capacity as well as its development of key policies.
In addition, WFP’s robust logistics and supply chain capacities, including the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, enable the humanitarian community to reach people in need, often in the most hard-to-reach areas.
The latest IPC analysis (September 2024 – February 2025) reveals that 5.4 million people in Haiti, or half of the population, are acutely food insecure (IPC3+), compared to 4.9 million people in the previous analysis, marking the worst figures since the 2010 earthquake. Of these, 2 million are in the emergency phase (IPC 4), a 42% increase from August 2023, with 15 regions classified as IPC 4, up from five a year ago. Additionally, 6,000 people in Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) sites are facing catastrophic food insecurity (IPC 5), the first occurrence since September 2022 and only the second in the region’s history.
In addition to the food security crisis, over 1 million people are internally displaced due to armed group violence as of December 2024, which represents 9% of the Haitian population, and more than a threefold increase compared to December 2023. Of these, 261,000 are located 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 with an overall budget of USD 1.5 billion, approved in late 2023, balancing lifesaving emergency response activities with the promotion of resilience and development initiatives overtime.
In parallel, despite the formation of a new government and the arrival of the non-UN multinational security support mission first troops in June 2024, the security situation in Haiti remains volatile. The latest peaks in violence, in November, triggered the closure of the capital’s airport and a U.S federal aviation association’s ban on flights to the country, except Cap Haitian. WFP continues scaling up operations, ensuring access through local partnerships and decentralizing its supply chain with local procurement. UNHAS also remains a lifeline, allowing movement in and out of Port-au-Prince for humanitarians since November, and until commercial airlines resume flight to the capital.
In 2024, WFP supported 2 million people across its programmes in Haiti, including through the distribution of 3.2 million hot meals, USD 54 million injected in the Haitian economy (USD 34.5 million of cash-based transfers across its programmes, and USD 14.4 million worth of food bough from smallholder farmers for school meals and emergency programmes), and 12,604 metric tons (MT) of food.
The country office needs USD 51.2 million to continue implementing its operations for the next 6 months (March – August 2025).