WFP in Haiti: Information Booklet, June 2023

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets June 2023 Table of Content Executive Summary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 Lifesaving Emergency Response in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 WFP as the Main Implementer of Policy and Social Protection Activities in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 School Feeding Programme in Haiti and its Transition to Home-Grown School Feeding _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _4 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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _11 June 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 home-grown 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-toreach areas and to support other UN agencies and NGOs present in Haiti. Food security trends show a steady deterioration of the food security situation since 2016. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) covering March to June 2023, highlights that almost half the population in Haiti, or 4.9 million people, are acutely food insecure (IPC 3+), an increase of 200,000 people compared to the previous analysis. Approximately 1.8 million are in Emergency phase (IPC 4), an increase of nearly half a million compared to the same period last year. There is no longer record of people facing catastrophic hunger (ICP 5), thanks to sustained humanitarian support. This remains a fragile victory as any disruption to humanitarian support could result in deepening hunger. In addition, according to WFP and FAO latest Hunger Hotspots analysis, Haiti is one of 9 countries facing starvation risks, and is amongst 5 countries with more than 10% of the population in IPC 4 (Emergency), at 18%, according to the 2023 Global Report on Food Crises. As of 31 May 2023, WFP supported 1.35 million people in Haiti, and is on track to reach its goal of supporting 2.3 million people in 2023. WFP reached the same number of people in November of last year. The country office needs USD 122.9 million to be able to implement its operations in the next six months (June 2023 – November 2023). June 2023 1 WFP’s Lifesaving Emergency Response in Haiti Through its provides unconditional assistance emergency to vulnerable programmes, WFP As part of WFP’s rapid responses food and cash mechanisms, 142,000 hot households and distributed across 4 departments as of May meals were ensures contingency stocks and preparedness 23, 2023, to assist vulnerable people facing: measures are put in place to respond to shocks. • As of 23 May 2023, WFP assisted 536,000 people with 1,018 mt of food, 142,000 hot meals, and USD 20.9 million of cash-based transfers. Funding permitting, WFP is on track to reaching its goal of supporting 1.45 million people in 2023, representing 80% of people facing emergency level of food insecurity, with 15,198 mt of food and USD 86.7 million. In 2022, WFP emergency activities supported 777,019 people. Armed-group violence, leading to urban displacement and internally-displaced people crises in the Metropolitan area of Port au Prince; •

Mass repatriations requiring a hot meal response in the North-East, Center and West departments. This response was halted in February 2023 and resumed mid-May, indicating that mass repatriations have started again; • Cholera response in the Artibonite and Almost half the population in Haiti, or 4.9 million West departments, including the Metropolitan people, are acutely food insecure and in need of Area of Port au Prince. food assistance. WFP’s emergency activities are 19% funded In urban areas, WFP assists beneficiaires with cash for the next 6 months (June-November 2023) transfers, and in semi-urban and rural areas with in- and requires additional funding to be able to kind implement its lifesaving activities. 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 household’s needs for one month. The security situation in Haiti has worsened throughout the year, especially following the beginning of the complex crisis in September 2022, and accessing beneficiaries has become more challenging. WFP Haiti created an Access unit to enable access to the most vulnerable populations affected by violence, and safeguard logistics routes. Additionally, between 27 October 2022 and 27 April 2023, a Corporate June 2023 Scale-Up was activated for Haiti. 2 WFP is the Main Implementer of Policy and Social Protection Activities in Haiti Social protection programmes are the set of Moving forward, WFP and its partners will continue policies and programmes aimed at preventing or to protecting all people against poverty, vulnerability, systems (G2P) in Haiti, while strengthening the and social exclusion throughout their lifecycles, institutional capacity of the government, which will with a particular emphasis towards vulnerable take over the management of the Klere Chimen groups. programme (ASPIRE project Creole name) in the WFP supported the Government of Haiti in the development of the National Social Protection and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June 2020. This framework build inclusive Government to People next two years (2024-25). WFP’s work has centered around building Digital Public Infrastructure for more inclusive Social Protection in Haiti. policy provides the institutional So far, WFP has successfully supported the for future social protection Ministry of Social Affairs in delivering the ASPIRE initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has been all programme, resulting in delivery of transfers to working with the Government on a roadmap for its more than 125,000 people in 2023, contributing to gradual implementation. WFP also supported the families meeting their food needs and healthy development of the National School Feeding Policy. diets. Despite common perceptions that Haiti is a 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 social assistance programmes. It covers 82 communes and 609,007 predominantly cash-based society, WFP has sped up assistance delivery through e-wallets. Within less than a year, the proportion of Klere Chimen safety net recipients receiving transfers digitally climbed from 3% (May 2022) to 60% (March 2023). households (of which 100,000 registered in 2022), Since 2017, WFP Haiti has invested USD 16.3 amounting to 2.5 million people, or 28% of the million total population. WFP is supporting its continued formulation, design geographical expansion, and the Government’s development of information systems. in capacity strengthening, policy of safety nets and the

goal by 2025 is to increase that figure to 40% 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 partner, to carry out the social safety net included in the NSPPP. The program will also improve health and nutrition outcomes for the households and promote financial inclusion. June 2023 3 WFP’s School Feeding Programme in Haiti and its Transition to Home-Grown School Feeding School meals are a priority in Haiti: in a the total) through the HGSF programme in country where close to 49% of the population 2023 needs urgent food assistance, a daily meal at Grand’Anse, Nippes, Ouest, Nord and Sud. school is a simple way to ensure 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. As of April 2023, WFP has reached 429,236 school children and is on track to reach its goal of providing 460,000 school children with school meals for the school year 2022-2023, funding permitting. WFP had reached 358,000 school children during the school year 2021-2022. WFP’s goal is to switch from a traditional school feeding programme (SF), through which most goods are imported, to a home-grown school feeding programme (HGSF), through which all the goods (except oil) are locally sourced. Through the HGSF, WFP supports (i) the Haitian economy through local purchases; (ii) the diversification of schoolchildren’s diet; and (iii) local farming by strengthening smallholder farmers’ access to markets. in 6 departments: Artibonite, WFP’s objective is to reach 100% by 2030, in line with the national policy for school feeding (PNAS). WFP works with over 100 OPAs (Organisations de Producteurs Agricoles), to source food from smallholder farmers. In 2023, as of April, over 1,727 mt of local products were bought (equivalent to approximately USD 3 million). WFP also provides capacity-building to the OPAs, and helps them improve the quality of their products, subsidizes the set-up of processing facilities and provides them with control equipment (such as thermometers). In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, WFP also provides technical trainings on storage and grain conservation, quality control and reduction of post-harvest losses. Finally, WFP provides training to respond to calls for tenders, negotiation and contracting to improve access to markets. Standard meal ration 38-42 % of the recommended daily food intake for children from 5 to 10 years old: - 120g of cereals (enriched rice or bulgur) - 30g of pulses (peas, lentils or black beans) June 2023 As of April 2023, WFP has reached its goal of - 10g of vegetable oil feeding 177,681 school children (or 41% of - 3g of salt 4 Additionally, WFP uses schools as a platform to improve gender norms and promote the equality of women and men as well as girls and boys. Other complementary activities include training on literacy, and on water, sanitation and hygiene practices, the set-up of hand-washing stations and the construction and rehabilitation of latrines in the Grand’Anse, Nord and NordEst 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. WFP Haiti directly contributed to the recycling of 2,500 m3 of plastics. In 2023, 2,800 HRB were distributed to 1,400 cooks and 400 schools in 8 regions. June 2023 5

WFP’s Resilience Activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s exposure to rapid-onset shocks WFP invests in three main pillars. The local and stressors resulting from natural hazards, ecosystem is strengthened through disaster as well as the socio-political and economic risk instability, WFP is reinforcing the resilience solutions, while reinforcing local agriculture of Haitians through Asset creation and and livestock through community-led soil Livelihood These and water conservation activities, including programmes aim to support communities in providing agricultural inputs, technical and some of the most vulnerable areas of Haiti by financial assistance to actors, and animals mitigating, adapting, and recovering from throughout the food value chain. Yet, WFP’s seasonal shocks and recurring hazards, while resilience projects enable access to basic also working to improve their long-term food social services, stimulate market dynamics security, and programmes. livelihoods and community contribute environmental-related to conflict-reduction resilience. through the rehabilitation of rural roads, Between January and mid-May 2023, WFP and shock-related solutions such as micro- supported around 85,965 people through its resilience activities, and is on track to reach its goal of supporting 250,000 people in 2023, funding permitting. In 2022, WFP had installation of potable water abduction points insurance assistance and creation of temporary jobs, based on conditional-cash remuneration to programmes’ participation. reached 112,950 people. Throughout the definition, design, delivery Participants receive conditional cash while resilience programming, WFP adopts the they build, rehabilitate or improve productive Three-Pronged approach to guarantee that or protective community assets, as well as programmes are planned to bring together a tools, plethora of actors through a participatory inputs and and technical assistance. documentation for scale-up of its Between January and mid-May 2023, 12,203 process households (61,015 people) participated in 80 therefore boosting community ownership and -day cycles and received cash-based transfers acceptance of climate adaptation and risk of around USD 100 per month to cover their management measures. food and basic needs. A total of HTG 193 million (around USD 1.3 million) were distributed. In addition, 24,950 people benefit from WFP's micro-insurance coverage (please and respond to local needs, Assets created or rehabilitated in 2023 (as of end of April 2023) 56,2 km of rural roads rehabilitated see factsheet on micro-insurance for more 5,9 km of irrigation canals rehabilitated to enhance agricultural land details). 3,000 trees planted WFP delivers complementary activities in the same zones, prioritising a gender and nutrition sensitive approach with a social behavioral communication change lens. June 2023 reduction 17,5 km of gullies treated or stabilized to decrease flood risk, and for soil and water conservation 6,175 m³ of dry stone thresholds built to decrease flood risk, and for soil and water conservation 6 WFP’s Micro-Insurance Activities in Haiti The objectives of introducing risk financing actions The cover aims to improve the resilience of farmer in Haiti are to: (i) design microinsurance products that households and their cropping activity through a risk are integrated in resilience building strategies promoting transfer mechanism on one hand, and reinforce productivity and securing livelihood that are easily livelihood of social protection beneficiaries on the scalable; (ii) introduce insurance components that can be other. It allows participants to protect their linked to other financial services and tools (formal and investments, better reduce their vulnerability when faced informal); (iii) guarantee a critical mass through a smart

with risks such as excess rain and rain deficit, while subsidy understanding and adopting the use of new and well approach, aggregation and distribution schemes; (iv) complement other WFP Haiti interventions designed aiming at reinforcing smallholder farmers’ capacities at households and communities. the home-grown school feeding level and livelihood at social protection level; and (v) explore integration with macro level solutions - such as the coverage of The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility - and financial risk mitigation tools the productive within their To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and reduce their exposure to climate-related risks in the Grand’Anse department, the selected cooperatives provided Forecast Based Financing (FbF). agricultural insurance participants with technical assistance In October 2022, WFP Haiti in partnership with local the Sud department, support includes the implementation companies, the Alternative Insurance Company (AIC), of environmental protection activities, such as soil and weather risk management systems (WRMS) and Scor Re water conservation works and reforestation activities. and knowledge risk mitigation and financial education. In (reinsurer), launched an index micro-insurance pilot, covering beneficiaries for one year, from August 2022 to July 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, and the remaining 3,900 in Grand’Anse are part of the largest smallholder farmers’ network, as well as a Federation of Agriculture Cooperative. An additional 6,000 households, of which 1,500 benefit from the ASPIRE project (read more under the Policy and social protection factsheet), will benefit from a micro-insurance * * coverage during the upcoming 2023 hurricane season. The scale up target is to cover up to 15,000 households, including small holder farmers (75,000 people) by 2024. This increase in the number of covered households from the initial scale-up plans is made possible thanks to flexible funding. June 2023 *USD 40 average value of yearly premium for USD 500 average yearly value of sum insured for ASPIRE beneficiaries 7 WFP’s Contingency Stock in Haiti The contingency stock is a key tool that funded by USAID/BHA, WFP aims to WFP uses to ensure that crisis-affected locally populations in Haiti can meet their contingency stock with other donor basic food needs in times of crisis. funds. The local purchases will be Having commodities contracted through local suppliers and available in country allows WFP to WFP is putting in place Food Supplier respond to sudden-onset disasters and Agreements to be able to fast-track the crises to meet the needs of affected purchasing process. WFP will solely populations quickly and effectively, while trigger the local option if and when additional assistance is planned and needed. This will allow the stock to be prepared for in later weeks, if needed. more agile and save costs. WFP has pre-positioned Fully stocked, the 3,971 mt contingency stock allows WFP to feed up to 300,000 people with unconditional food purchase the rest of its identified some additional funding to fund the local purchases. Following the looting of WFP assistance, including 50 kg of rice, 12.5 warehouses in Haiti, 750 mt of food will kg of beans, and 3.68 kg of oil per be stored in the Dominican Republic household as a mitigation measure. for one month. This represents 81% (1,693 Kcals per person/ Percentage of locally vs internationally purchased food for the contingency stock

day) of daily caloric needs. To distribute the emergency rations, WFP utilizes its own fleet of trucks (25 all -terrain 4x4 trucks) to access the most difficult secondary and tertiary roads, its cooperating partners, and commercial transporters for main road routes. WFP’s goal is to increase local purchases. As a first step in 2023, while 82% of in-kind commodities will be Locally purchased June 2023 Internationally purchased 8 WFP’s Supply Chain and Logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are key to maritime service, allowing the passage of more delivering WFP’s humanitarian assistance in the than 300 trucks to the South of the country. fastest, most efficient and cost-effective way possible. to enable access to populations affected by the In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, 1 helicopter and has access to maritime transport to support its operations, as well as other UN agencies, NGOs and governments entities’ through bilateral service provision. Since January 2023, 45 requests were received from 16 partners, including storage, transport and fuel. The most demanded service was fuel provision, with more than 26,300 gallons provided to 9 partners. WFP also contracted an exclusive maritime service with a local company to support the humanitarian community to circumvent armed group controlled areas. After a three-month service suspension due to the complex crisis that started in September 2022, WFP resumed the maritime transport services offered to the humanitarian community. Since January 2023, 17 partners have used the June 2023 Additionally, an Access unit was created in 2022 violence, and safeguard logistics routes. WFP set up a logistics corridor with the Dominican Republic, as well as part of its prepositioning strategy, to be able to quickly dispatch humanitarian aid by land and sea to support its emergency response. A total of 750 mt of contingency stock will be stored in Dominican Republic bounded warehouse. WFP has 2 warehouses in Port au Prince and Cap Haitian, capacity. A totalling new 20,000 storage mt facility storage is under construction in Miragoane which will cover the Southern peninsula. The hurricane-proof warehouses will allow for the storage of 2,500 mt. WFP also has 7,500 mt of mobile storage capacities and different equipment ready to be deployed in case of emergency. 9 The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Operating in Haiti since November 2019, the Key figures 2022 2023 United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Flights 1,827 720 development community to reach and assist Number of passengers 12,836 5,687 the most vulnerable populations in remote Partners supported 152 130 areas, in addition to providing medical Cargo 218,364 92,253 kg lifesaving equipment and evacuations. Destinations 53 55 With port and road access severely limited, 9,876 people and 255,488 kg of cargo especially since the complex crisis started on were dedicated to the crisis response that September 12th, the UNHAS air services are started on September 12th, 2022. (UNHAS) supports the humanitarian and absolutely 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 June 2023 As of May 2023, UNHAS has one MI-17 helicopter to support the humanitarian response in Haiti. Two assets were released earlier in the year, an MI-17 helicopter in February and the fixed-wing livelihoods or get vital supplies. in April, following the implementation of As of May 18th, 1,387 flights transporting decrease in the number of bookings. the partial cost recovery modality and the 10 Thanks to the Generous Support from our Partners REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI Contact: Jean-Martin Bauer, Country Director jean-martin.bauer@wfp.org

Jurian Steeghs, Head of External Relations and Reporting jurian.steeghs@wfp.org Further information: Haiti | World Food Programme (wfp.org) June 2023 11