Haiti: Response Strategy - Contribution to the Humanitarian Response Plan (2019-2020) for the Period January-December 2020

This FAO response strategy presents the organization's contribution to Haiti's 2019-2020 Humanitarian Response Plan for January-December 2020, revised to address COVID-19. It responds to severe acute food insecurity and seeks to protect and restore agricultural livelihoods while respecting prevention measures against the pandemic. The context section describes repeated shocks over the previous decade, including earthquakes, hurricanes, severe droughts, social unrest, insecurity, high food-price inflation, gourde depreciation and weakened income-generating activities.

It cites the October 2019 IPC analysis estimating 4.1 million Haitians, or 40 percent of the population, in severe acute food insecurity, including 1.2 million people in Emergency phase and 2.8 million in Crisis phase. The strategy targets 240,000 vulnerable households, or 1.2 million people, through integrated interventions in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, cash transfers, hygiene and COVID-19 prevention, rural community radio, support to women's and youth associations, agroforestry seedlings, irrigation rehabilitation, restoration of degraded farmland, field schools, savings and credit associations, food-security coordination and government support. It links humanitarian assistance with resilience and medium- to long-term development interventions.