Haiti Annual Country Report 2024 - Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028
Summary — WFP provided vital assistance to 2 million people in Haiti in 2024 through emergency response and resilience programs amid escalating violence and worsening food insecurity.
Key Findings
- WFP assisted 2 million people in Haiti in 2024, with 56% receiving crisis response support and 44% benefiting from longer-term programs.
- Food insecurity reached its worst level since 2010, affecting 5.4 million people (half the population) in acute food insecurity.
- Over 1 million people are internally displaced, with 6,000 in IDP sites facing catastrophic food insecurity (IPC 5).
- WFP increased digitalized assistance from 30% in 2023 to 70% in 2024, enhancing transparency and financial inclusion.
- School feeding programs reached 602,713 children, including 411,865 through home-grown school meals using locally sourced products.
Full Description
In 2024, WFP implemented the first year of its new Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028 in Haiti, providing assistance to over 2 million people through emergency response and resilience-building programs. The operational context was extremely challenging, with escalating violence from armed groups, mass displacements affecting over 1 million internally displaced persons, and worsening food insecurity affecting 5.4 million people - the worst figures since the 2010 earthquake. Despite these challenges, including airport closures and staff evacuations, WFP maintained operations through adapted supply chains and enhanced digitalization.
WFP's response included emergency assistance to 1.15 million people, school feeding programs reaching 602,713 children (including 411,865 through home-grown school meals), and resilience projects benefiting 99,850 individuals through conditional cash transfers. The organization distributed 12,604 mt of food and provided USD 35.4 million in cash-based transfers while increasing digitalized assistance from 30% to 70%. WFP also supported government capacity building and provided enhanced supply chain services to the humanitarian community.
Key achievements included the rehabilitation of 31 km of roads, 16 km of irrigation channels, 19 water points, and planting over 50,000 trees. The program injected USD 14.4 million into the local economy through procurement of locally sourced food. WFP worked in close collaboration with various government ministries and aligned interventions with Haiti's National Strategic Development Plan 2012-2030.
The deteriorating security situation, marked by coordinated attacks on critical infrastructure and at least 5,600 reported murders in 2024, presented unprecedented operational challenges. However, WFP adapted its operations through pre-positioning, diversified transport routes, and enhanced community engagement to maintain access across areas controlled by armed groups.