Le PAM en Haïti : Bulletin d'information, février 2023

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets February 2023 Table of Content 1. Executive summary 2. Emergency response in Haiti 3. WFP as the main implementer of policy and social protection activities in Haiti 4. School feeding programme in Haiti and its transition to home-grown school feeding 5. Resilience activities in Haiti 6. Micro-insurance activities in Haiti 7. Contingency stock in Haiti 8. Supply chain and logistics in Haiti 9. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) 10. Thanks to WFP’s donors February 2023 Executive summary WFP has been in Haiti since 1969, providing humanitarian assistance during emergencies, and supporting development through long-term solutions to end hunger, address undernutrition and strengthen national social protection, education and food systems. To reach its goal of Zero Hunger, WFP implemented some of its flagship programmes such as homegrown school feeding, and has supported the Government of Haiti through policy development and capacity building. In addition, WFP’s robust logistics and supply chain capacities, including the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, allows it to reach people in need in hard-to-reach areas and to support other UN agencies and NGOs present in Haiti. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) covering September 2022 to February 2023, highlights that almost half the population in Haiti, or 4.7 million people, are acutely food insecure (IPC 3+). Close to 1.8 million are now in Emergency phase (IPC 4), an increase of nearly half a million since the previous analysis, and 19,200 people are facing catastrophic hunger (ICP 5), a first in Haiti and in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Food security trends show a steady deterioration of the food security situation since 2016. In 2022, WFP supported 1.8 million people in Haiti, and aims to support 2.5 million people in 2023. The country office needs USD 155.2 million to be able to implement its operations in the next six months (February 2023 – July 2023). February 2023 WFP’s emergency response in Haiti Through its emergency programmes, WFP by violence, and safeguard logistics routes. provides Additionally, on 27 October, a Corporate unconditional food and cash assistance to vulnerable households and ensures contingency stocks and preparedness measures are put in place to respond to shocks. Scale-Up Emergency was activated for Haiti. As part of WFP’s rapid responses, 325,378 hot meals were distributed across four departments in 2022, to assist with: In 2022, WFP supported 722,665 people with • Armed-group violence, leading to urban 5,381 mt of food, 325,378 hot meals, and USD displacement and month-long internally- 22.9 million of cash-based transfers. WFP’s displaced people crisis in the Metropolitan goal in 2023 is to reach 1.47 million people, area of Port au Prince; representing 80% of people facing emergency • Mass repatriations requiring a hot meal level of food insecurity, with 15,198 mt of food response in the North-East, Center and and USD 86,7 million. West departments; Almost half the population in Haiti, or 4.7 million people, are acutely food insecure and in need of food assistance, of which 19,200 people are facing catastrophic hunger, a first in Haiti and in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. In urban areas, WFP assists beneficiaires with cash transfers, and in semi-urban and rural areas with in-kind and cash-based transfers. Cash-based transfers aim to cover around 70 percent of the improved food basket, while the food rations are calculated to meet a • Cholera response in the Artibonite and West departments, including the Metropolitan Area of Port au Prince. Additionally, a second helicopter was contracted in 2022 and most of its flying time was dedicated to supporting the cholera response. WFP’s emergency activities were

underfunded in 2022, and WFP could only reach 60 percent of its initial target of 1.2 million people due to the funding shortfalls and complex emergency. household’s needs for one month. The security situation in Haiti has worsened throughout the year, especially after the beginning of the complex crisis in September 2022, and accessing beneficiaries has become more challenging. WFP Haiti created an Access Beneficiaries without IDs can still access WFP programmes by registering on SCOPE, WFP’s proprietary beneficiary management platform. They retrieve assistance with a SCOPE card, which is used to verify the recipient’s identity. unit to enable access to populations affected February 2023 WFP as the main implementer of policy and social protection activities in Haiti Social protection programmes are the set of partner, to carry out the social safety net included policies and programmes aimed at preventing or in the NSPPP. The program will also improve protecting health all people against poverty, vulnerability, and social exclusion throughout their lifecycles, with a particular emphasis towards vulnerable groups. WFP supported the Government in the and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June 2020. This policy provides the institutional framework future all nutrition outcomes for the WFP is tasked with designing and operationalizing the ASPIRE safety net while building government development of the National Social Protection for and households and promote financial inclusion. social protection initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has been working with the Government on a roadmap for its gradual implementation. WFP also supported the development of the National School Feeding Policy. capacity to take over the programme in 2024. So far, WFP has successfully supported the Ministry of Social Affairs in delivering the ASPIRE programme, resulting in the enrollment of more than 23,000 households and delivery of transfers to approximately 25,000 people in 2022, contributing to families meeting their food needs and healthy diets. Since 2017 WFP Haiti has invested USD 16.3 WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour’s Information System), a social registry developed in 2013 used to assess vulnerability and target programmes. It covers 74 social assistance communes and million in formulation, capacity design of strengthening, policy safety and nets, development of information systems. ASPIRE project coverage as of February 15, 2023 550,000 households (of which 100,000 registered in 2022), amounting to 2.5 million people, or 28% of the total population. WFP is supporting its continued geographical expansion, and the Government’s goal in 2023 is to increase that figure to 37% of the total population registered in the SIMAST. Both the NSPPP and the SIMAST support the ASPIRE (Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience), programme, a nationally led social protection programme. USD 75 million was awarded by the World Bank to the Haitian Government, with WFP as a key implementing February 2023 WFP’s school feeding programme in Haiti and its transition to home-grown school feeding School meals are a priority in Haiti: in a WFP’s objective is to increase that number to country where close to 45% of the population 182,000 school children fed through the needs urgent food assistance, a daily meal at HGSF programme in 2023, and to reach school is a simple way to ensure 100% by 2030, in line with the national policy that children receive at least one nutritious meal every day. School meals help keep children in school, and improve their completion rate, so that they become healthy, productive adults, contributing to their country’s development, and breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger, malnutrition and poverty. WFP aims to reach 460,000 school children in 2023.

for school feeding (PNAS). WFP works with over 70 OPAs (Organisations de Producteurs Agricoles) to source food from smallholder farmers. In 2022, over 2000 mt of local products were bought (or USD 2.3 million). WFP also provides capacity-building to the OPAs, and helps them improve the quality of their products, subsidizes the setup of processing facilities and provides them WFP’s goal is to switch from a traditional with control equipment. In partnership with school feeding programme (SF), through the Ministry of Agriculture, WFP also which most goods are imported, to a home- provides technical trainings on storage and grown school feeding programme (HGSF), grain through which all the goods (except oil) are reduction of post-harvest losses. Finally, WFP locally sourced. provides training on response to calls for Through the HGSF WFP supports (i) the Haitian economy through local purchases; (ii) conservation, tenders, access of smallholder farmers to markets. for children 5 to 10 years old: children benefitting from WFP’s assistance rice or bulgur) programme in 5 departments: Artibonite, Grand’Anse, Nippes, Ouest, and Sud. contracting 38-42 % of the recommended daily food intake - 120g of cereals (enriched HGSF and Standard meal ration As of December 2022, 96,500 of the school (or 28%) were eating food bought via the and control improve access to markets. the diversification of schoolchildren’s diet; and (iii) local farming by strengthening the negotiation quality - 30g of pulses (peas, lentils or black beans) - 10g of vegetable oil - 3g of salt to Additionally, WFP uses schools as a platform to improve gender norms and promote the equality of women and men and girls and boys. Other training complementary on literacy, activities include and water, on sanitation and hygiene practices, the setup of hand-washing stations and the construction and rehabilitation of latrines in the Grand’Anse, Nord and Nord-Est departments. WFP is also sensitive to the environmental impact of its programmes, and in 2022, the Clean Cooking project introduced heat retention bags (HRB), gas stoves and clean cooking training to school cooks. The HRB are produced entirely locally and create livelihood opportunities; 2,800 HRB were ordered and will be distributed to 1,400 cooks and 400 schools in 8 regions in 2023. February 2023 WFP’s resilience activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s exposure to rapid-onset community-led soil and water conservation shocks and stressors resulting from natural activities, including providing agricultural hazards, as well as the socio-political and inputs, technical and financial assistance to economic instability, WFP is reinforcing the actors, and animals throughout the food resilience of Haitians through Asset value chain. Yet, WFP’s resilience projects creation and Livelihood programmes. enable access to basic social services, to stimulate These programmes aim support market dynamics and communities in some of the most vulnerable contribute to conflict-reduction turmoil areas of Haiti by mitigating, adapting, and through the rehabilitation of rural roads, recovering installation from seasonal shocks and of potable water abduction recurring hazards, while also working to points and shock-related solutions such as improve micro-insurance assistance and creation their long-term food security, of temporary jobs based on conditional- livelihoods and community resilience. In 2022, WFP directly supported around 112,950 people through its resilience cash remuneration to programmes’ participation. activities and aims to increase its assistance Throughout the definition, design, delivery to 250,000 in 2023. and documentation for Participants receive conditional cash while they build, rehabilitate or improve

productive or protective community assets, as well as tools, inputs and technical assistance. In 2022, they participated in 80day cycles and received a cash-based transfer of around USD 100 per month to cover their food gap and meet basic needs. WFP delivers complementary activities in the same zones, prioritising a gender and nutrition sensitive approach with a social scale-up of its resilience programming, WFP adopts the Three-Pronged approach to guarantee that programmes are planned to bring together a plethora of actors through a participatory process and respond to local needs, therefore boosting community ownership and acceptance of climate adaptation and risk management measures. Assets created or rehabilitated in 2022 97 km of rural roads rehabilitated 53 km of irrigation canals rehabilitated to enhance 2,250 hectares of agricultural land behavioral communication change lens. WFP invests in three main pillars. The local ecosystem is strengthened through disaster 28 mt of seeds distributed and 4 mills for food transformation established risk 75,000 trees’ cutting planted reduction solutions, while environmental-related reinforcing agriculture and livestock through local 24,950 smallholder farmers supported through micro-insurance coverage February 2023 WFP’s micro-insurance activities in Haiti The objectives of introducing risk financing through a risk transfer mechanism, allowing actions in Haiti are to: (i) design microinsurance participants to protect their productive investments, products that are integrated in resilience building better reduce their vulnerability when faced with strategies promoting productivity that are easily risks such as excess rain and rain deficit, while scalable; (ii) introduce insurance components that understanding and adopting the use of new and well can be linked to other financial services and tools designed financial risk mitigation tools within their (formal and informal); (iii) guarantee a critical mass communities. through a smart subsidy approach, aggregation and distribution schemes; (iv) complement other WFP Haiti interventions aiming at reinforcing smallholder farmers’ capacities at the home-grown school feeding level; and (v) explore integration with macro level solutions - such as the coverage of The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility - and Forecast Based Financing (FbF). To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and reduce their exposure to climate-related risks in department of Grand Anse, the selected cooperatives provided agricultural insurance participants with technical assistance and knowledge risk mitigation and financial education. In the Sud department, support includes the implementation of environmental protection activities, such as soil and In October 2022, WFP Haiti in partnership with local water conservation works and reforestation activities. companies, the Alternative Insurance Company (AIC), weather risk management sytems (WRMS) (technical provider) and Scor Re (reinsurer), launched an index micro-insurance pilot, covering beneficiaries for one year, from October 2022 to September 2023. A total of 4,990 smallholder farmers households (24,950 beneficiaries), of which 51% are women, are protected against two major climate risks, excess rain and rain deficit, in the departments of Grand Anse and Sud. Over 1,000 farmers are existing asset creation beneficiaries based in the Sud, whereas the remaining 3,900 in Grand’Anse are part of the largest smallholder farmers’ network, and a Federation of Agriculture Cooperative. The pilot scale up target is to cover up to 10,000 smallholder farmer households (50,000 beneficiaries) by 2024. The cover aims to improve the resilience of farmer households and their cropping activity February 2023 WFP’s contingency stock in Haiti The contingency stock is a key tool that WFP’s WFP uses to ensure that crisis-affected

purchases. As a first step in 2023, while populations in Haiti can meet their 82% of in-kind commodities will be basic food needs in times of crisis. funded by USAID/BHA, WFP aims to Having locally pre-positioned commodities goal is purchase to increase the rest local of its available in country allows WFP to contingency stock with other donor respond to sudden-onset disasters and funds. The local purchases will be crises to meet the needs of affected contracted through local suppliers and populations quickly, while additional WFP is putting in place Food Supplier assistance is planned and prepared for Agreements to be able to fast-track the in later weeks, if needed. purchasing process. WFP will solely Fully stocked, the contingency stock trigger the local option if and when needed. This will allow the stock to be allows WFP to feed up to 300,000 more agile and to save costs. WFP is people still looking for a donor to fund the local with unconditional food assistance, including 50 kg of rice, 12.5 kg of beans, and 3.68 kg of oil per household for one month. This purchases. Following the looting of WFP represents 81% (1,693 Kcals per person/ warehouses in Haiti, part of the food will day) of daily caloric needs. be stored in the Dominican Republic as a mitigation measure. To distribute the emergency rations, WFP utilizes its own fleet of trucks (25 all Percentage of locally vs internationally purchased food for the contingency stock -terrain 4x4 trucks) to access the most difficult secondary and tertiary roads, its cooperating partners, and commercial transporters for main road routes. In 2022 the contingency stock was fully funded by USAID/BHA with in-kind commodities stored across Haiti. Locally purchased Internationally purchased February 2023 WFP’s Supply Chain and Logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are key to delivering WFP’s humanitarian assistance in the fastest, most Bilateral services provided in 2022 efficient and cost-effective way possible. In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, 2 helicopters, 1 fixed-wings and has access to maritime transport to support its operations, as well as other UN agencies, NGOs and governments entities’ through bilateral service provision. In 2022, 129 services were provided to 35 partners, compared to 86 services were rendered to 19 partners in 2021. The provision of fuel was most demanded service in 2022 due to recurring fuel shortages in the country. In 2022, 122,248 gallons of fuel were provided to 34 partners. Since the beginning of the cholera outbreak on 2 October 2022, WFP supported humanitarian and health partners through the provision of 73,000 gallons of fuel to 21 partners, with critical support from USAID/BHA. WFP contracted an exclusive maritime service with a local company in August 2021 to support the earthquake response, and contracted its own vessel between April and September 2022, as maritime transport is critical to reach the provinces to circumvent armed group controlled areas. After a three-month suspension due to the complex crisis that started in September 2022, WFP resumed the maritime transport services offered to the humanitarian community. WFP is working to set up regular maritime routes that would link Port-au-Prince to Artibonite, Nord-Ouest (north- * * WFP supports the Ministry of Health, thanks to funding from the World Bank, and stores and transports medical products worth USD 3 millions in 6 departments. Additionally, an Access unit was created in 2022 to enable access to populations affected by the violence, and safeguard logistics routes. WFP is also setting up a humanitarian corridor with the Dominican Republic, as well as part of its contingency stock, to be able to quickly dispatch humanitarian aid by land and sea to support its emergency response. WFP has 2 warehouses in Port au Prince and Cap Haitian, totalling 20,000 mt storage capacity, and a new

storage facility is under construction in Miragoane. WFP also has 9,000 mt of mobile storage capacities in case of emergency. west) and Grand Sud (south). February 2023 WFP’s United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Operating in Haiti since November 2019, the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) supports the humanitarian and development community to reach and assist the most vulnerable populations in remote areas, in addition to providing medical lifesaving equipment and evacuations. With port and road access severely limited, Key 2022 figures Flights 1,827 Number of passengers 12,836 Partners supported 152 (of which 77 NGOs) Cargo 218,364 kg Destinations 46 especially since the complex crisis started on of cargo were dedicated to the crisis September 12th, the UNHAS air services are response that started on September 12th, absolutely 2022. crucial for all humanitarian organizations and diplomatic missions to have a safe, reliable and timely means of transport in the country and keep providing immediate support to vulnerable populations who are facing difficulties in accessing their livelihoods or get vital supplies. As of January 16th, 2023, 786 In 2022, WFP acquired a third asset, and now has a fixed-wing and two MI-17 helicopters. UNHAS continues to play a crucial role for the cholera response, which it supported through 25 dedicated flights, and by transporting 75 mt of flights transporting 4,972 people and 195,599 kg medical supplies, medical equipment and teams as well as humanitarians in 2022. February 2023 Thanks to the Generous Support from our Partners REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI Contact: Jean-Martin Bauer, Country Director jean-martin.bauer@wfp.org Jurian Steegh, Head of External Relations and Reporting jurian.steeghs@wfp.org Further information: Haiti | World Food Programme (wfp.org) February 2023