(2024-02) WFP in Haiti: Information Booklet, February 2024

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets February 2024 Table of Content Executive summary_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 Engagement with the Haitian government_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 Emergency response in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _3 Policy and social protection activities in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 School meal programme in Haiti and its transition to homegrown school meal_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 Resilience activities in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 Micro-insurance activities in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 Climate action in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 Contingency stock in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _10 Supply chain and logistics in Haiti_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)_ _ _ _ _12 Thanks to WFP’s donors_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 February 2024 Executive Summary WFP has been working in Haiti since 1969, providing humanitarian assistance during emergencies and supporting development through long-term solutions to end hunger and address undernutrition, while strengthening national social protection, education and food systems. To reach its goal of Zero Hunger, WFP implements flagship programmes such as home -grown school meals, and has supported the Government of Haiti through policy development and capacity building. All WFP programmes are implemented in partnership with the Government of Haiti. In addition, WFP’s robust logistics and supply chain capacities, including the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, enables the humanitarian community to reach people in need, sometimes in the most hard-to-reach areas. Trends show a steady deterioration of the food security situation since 2016. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) covering August 2023 to February 2024, highlights that 44 percent of the population in Haiti, or 4.35 million people, are acutely food insecure (IPC 3+), of which approximately 1.4 million are in Emergency phase (IPC 4). In addition to the food security crisis in Haiti, there are more than 310,000 internally displaced people in the country due to armed group violence, 60 percent of which were displaced in 2023. Haiti is also exposed to natural hazards, which are 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 (CSP) with a budget of USD 1.5 billion, approved in late 2023. In the initial year, 50% of beneficiaries will participate in programs promoting resilience and Haiti's development. This percentage will grow over time as beneficiaries shift from emergency assistance to long-term initiatives. In partnership with: In 2023, WFP supported 2 million people in Haiti, with 1 million hot meals, 9,000 mt of food and USD 80 million of cash-based transfers, a record for WFP in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. WFP also bought USD 8.4 million worth of locally produced food from smallholder farmers, which aligns with the government’s policy and WFP’s new CSP. The country office’s goal is to reach 2.25 million people in 2024, and needs USD 104.1 million REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI to be able to implement its operations in the next 6 months (February – July 2024). February 2024 1 Engagement with the Haitian Government WFP is fully committed to supporting Haiti in its WFP works with the Ministry of Education to efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development improve the scale and quality of the national school Goals and national development goals through well- meals programme and facilitate ownership. In line established with the National School Meals Policy and Strategy, partnerships with key state updated in 2024 with WFP’s support, WFP aims to institutions. WFP collaborates closely with the Directorate for Civil Protection (DGPC) to strengthen its capacity to anticipate and react to shocks and reach those in urgent need with high quality assistance and programme by 2030, contributing to the triple nexus by boosting the local economy and significantly reducing WFP’s environmental footprint. support. For example, the two entities co-lead the WFP is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Logistics Sector together to facilitate coordination Natural Resources and Rural Development, and information sharing. support smallholder WFP contributes to collective efforts to increase access to national social protection systems that safeguard and foster Haitian’s ability to meet needs including food security, nutrition and other essentials, to reduce the negative effect of risks and shocks. WFP supported the Government of Haiti in the development of the National Social Protection and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June 2020, and its Action Plan, adopted in October 2023. This productivity and to climate change adaptation through various initiatives, such as the delivery of last-mile climate services through Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture or scaling up parametric microinsurance against extreme weather events, which additionally serves as entry point for financial literacy and promotion of saving and credit groups. WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture signed a Memorandum of Understanding in April 2023. policy provides the institutional framework for all With future social protection initiatives. Since its adoption, supporting WFP is supporting enhancements to the quantity and financing in Haiti given its fragile context and quality of national social protection programming, complex emergency. This joint collaboration aims to through established partnership with the Ministry of scale-up nature-based solutions to reduce the Social Affairs and the Fund for Economic and impacts of climate risks and build climate resilience, Social Assistance, by providing on-demand cash leveraging WFP’s asset creation and community- transfer and associated services to governments and based participatory planning tools. partners. WFP is working to establish government-toperson payments systems (G2P) for social protection through end-to-end technical assistance, payments In partnership with : locally source all the food for its school meals and insurance services for national programmes. the Ministry of Environment, WFP advocacy climate for increasing is WFP also plans to enhance its collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to enable inclusive macro-insurance coverage reach Haitians via the Caribbean to Catastrophe Risk WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (Ministry of insurance Facility (CCRIF) as part of its support to Social Affairs and Labour’s Information System), a integrating anticipatory actions into the social social registry developed in 2013 which is the only protection’s disaster risk management system and comprehensive social registry in the country, with disaster risk finance layering. more than 615,000 households registered. REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI February 2024 2 Emergency response in Haiti Through its emergency programmes, WFP provides September 2022, and accessing beneficiaries unconditional has food and cash assistance to increasingly challenging vulnerable households and ensures contingency throughout the year. WFP Haiti created an stocks and preparedness measures are put in place Access unit to facilitate access to the most to respond to shocks. WFP’s emergency response is vulnerable populations affected by violence, done in coordination with the government, and to safeguard logistics routes. through the Fund for Economic and Social Assistance (FAES), funded by the Inter American Development Bank and providing emergency social assistance through hot meal distributions and cash distributions, and with the Directorate for Civil Protection for hot meals distributions. As part of mechanisms, 1 WFP’s rapid million hot responses meals were distributed across 4 departments to assist vulnerable people facing: • Armed-group violence, leading to urban displacement in the Metropolitan area of In 2023, WFP assisted 1.26 million people with Port 2,504 mt of food, 1 million hot meals and USD 43.3 distributed for this response); million of cash-based transfers. In 2024, WFP aims to reach 1.5 million people with its emergency In partnership with : become • operations are 30% funded for the next six-months. Almost half the population in Haiti (4.35 million people) are acutely food insecure and in need of food assistance. WFP assists beneficiaires with inkind and cash-based transfers. The transfers aim to cover around 70 percent of the improved food basket, while the food rations are calculated to Prince (70% of hot meals Mass deportation and repatriation from the Dominican Republic the North-East and operations, with 15,400 mt of food and USD 80.6 million in cash transfers. Currently, WFP emergency au Center departments. • Natural disasters and the flood of June 2023. WFP is increasing the digitalization of its emergency response, with 40% of it done through digital cash responses, compared to 6,8% for other humanitarian actors on average in Haiti. meet a household’s needs for one month. The security situation in Haiti has worsened following the beginning of the complex crisis in IPC evolution from 2020 to 2024 IPC 3+ : 4 million people IPC 4: 905,471 people February 2024 IPC 3+ : 4.3 million people IPC 4: 1.3 million people IPC 3+ : 4.7 million people IPC 4: 1.7 million people IPC 3+ : 4.35 million people IPC 4: 1.4 million people 3 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’s name in Creole) in WFP supported the Government of Haiti in the development of the National Social Protection and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June build inclusive Government to People the next two years. WFP’s work has centered around building digital public infrastructure for more inclusive social protection in Haiti. 2020, and of its Action Plan adopted in October In 2023, WFP has successfully supported the 2023. This policy provides the institutional Ministry of Social Affairs in delivering the ASPIRE for future social protection programme, resulting in the delivery of cash-based initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has been transfers to more than 120,035 people in 2023, working with the Government on a roadmap for its contributing to families meeting their food needs gradual implementation. WFP also supported the and healthy diets. Despite common perceptions development of the National School Feeding Policy. that framework all WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (the 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 85 communes and 626,321 Haiti is a 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 67% (Dec 2023). households (of which 78,000 registered in 2023), WFP supports establishing shock-responsive amounting to 3.1 million people, or 26% of the social protection by assisting the Ministry and the population in Haiti. WFP supports its continued Directorate for Civil Protection in adopting a geographical expansion, and the Government’s framework and early warning system. This involves goal by 2025 is to increase that figure to 40% of the utilizing the social protection system to provide total population registered in the SIMAST, as well emergency assistance before (Anticipatory Action) as the assessment of other data collection or after a shock. methodologies focusing on innovation to support data sources (ex. cellular data). Both the NSPPP and the SIMAST support the ASPIRE (Adaptive Social Protection for Increased In partnership with 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 programme will also improve ASPIRE operations Haiti—Dec 2023 the expansion, including the use of non-traditional health and nutrition outcomes for the households and promote financial inclusion. February 2024 4 The school meals programme in Haiti and its transition to home-grown school meals School meals are a priority in Haiti: in a country 450,279 school children in 2023, and aims to where 44% of the population needs urgent reach 492,000 in 2024. The school meals food assistance, a daily meal at school is a programme is also reactive to shocks, as simple way to ensure children receive at WFP least one nutritious meal every day. School students when schools are closed due to meals help keep children in school, and shock. improve their graduation rate, so that they become healthy, productive adults, contributing to their country’s development, and breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The In partnership with : vision and distributes take-home rations to WFP is also supported the MENFP in updating the National School Feeding Policy and Strategy (PSNAS), which aims to strengthen local procurement and management, and governance of the sector. The PSNAS aims to goal of the Haitian use only locally produced food for school Government through the Ministry of National canteens in Haiti by 2030. WFP supports this Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) is to objective, ensure all schoolchildren have access to the traditional school meals programme, which nutritious food they need to be able to learn, uses mostly imported goods, to a home- through the provision of a healthy and grown school meals programme, through balanced complementary diet in schools, which all the goods (except oil) are locally prepared with almost exclusively locally produced food and respecting nutritional standards so that hunger is not a barrier to education. The overall objectives are: (i) the provision of quality food services; (ii) supporting the local economy and local food production; (iii) the development of good governance mechanisms; and (iv) participatory management and community ownership. and is transitioning from sourced. Through home grown school meals, 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. At the end of 2023, WFP has reached its goal of providing locally-sourced meals to 225,927 school children (50% of the total) in Despite access constraints to reach schools in 7 Croix-des-Bouquets and Arcahaie, WFP reached Grand’Anse, Nippes, Ouest, Nord and Sud. February 2024 a departments: Artibonite, Centre, 5 WFP works with 170 OPAs (Organisations de and the construction and rehabilitation of latrines in Producteurs Agricoles) and their 20,000 members, to the Grand’Anse, Nord and Nord-Est departments. source food from smallholder farmers. In 2023, 4,340 mt of local products were bought, worth approximately USD 8.4 million, a record for WFP in the region and in Haiti. WFP is also sensitive to the environmental impact of its programmes. In 2022, the Clean Cooking project introduced heat retention bags (HRB), gas stoves and clean cooking trainings to school cooks. WFP also provides support to the OPAs, helping them The HRB is a non-electric slow cooker developed for improve the quality of their products, subsidizing the people cooking over open fires. WFP trained its set-up of processing facilities and providing them with staff, cooperating partners, school cooks and quality control equipment. In partnership with the communities around the country, explaining how to Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and combine HRBs with any energy source (firewood, Rural Development, WFP also provides technical charcoal, gas stoves etc) to cook traditional recipes. trainings on storage and grain conservation, quality HRBs decrease energy costs by up to 70 percent control and reduction of post-harvest losses. Finally, for recipes prepared in schools and improve the WFP provides training to respond to calls for tenders, health of cooks by decreasing indoor pollution in negotiation and contracting to improve access to closed spaces by 60 percent. Furthermore, HRB are markets. made from recycled plastic, diverting waste from Additionally, schools are used as a platform to landfills and reducing environmental pollution. improve gender norms and promote the equality of In 2023, 3,290 HRBs were distributed to 1,400 cooks women and men as well as girls and boys. Other and 350 schools in 8 regions. WFP plans to complementary activities include literacy training, as distribute another 1,150 HRBs to schools and 350 to well as guidance on water, sanitation and hygiene the cooks at the start of the new school year. practices, the establishment of hand-washing stations February 2024 6 Resilience activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s high exposure to rapid-onset shocks WFP delivers complementary activities in the and stressors resulting from natural hazards, as same zones, prioritising a gender and nutrition- well as socio-political and economic instability, sensitive approach with a social behavioral WFP is working to reinforce the resilience of communication change lens. Haitians through asset creation and livelihood programmes. WFP works in partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development and in alignment with its Agricultural Development Plan. The asset creation and livelihood programme aims to support communities in some of the most vulnerable areas of Haiti by mitigating, adapting, and recovering from seasonal shocks and recurring hazards, while also working to improve their long-term food security, livelihoods and community resilience. ecosystem is strengthened through disaster risk reduction environmental-related solutions, while reinforcing local through agriculture community-led conservation activities, and soil livestock and including water providing agricultural inputs, livestock, and technical and financial assistance to actors throughout the food value chain. WFP’s resilience projects enable access to basic social services, stimulate market dynamics and contribute to conflictreduction through the rehabilitation of rural In 2023, WFP supported around 210,000 people roads, installation of potable water abduction through its resilience activities. WFP was unable to points and shock-related solutions such as micro- meet its goal of reaching 250,000 people due to insurance assistance. Resilience activities also funding shortfalls. In 2024, WFP aims to reach provide a source of income for participants who 250,000 people, funding permitting. receive Participants receive conditional cash while they build, rehabilitate or improve productive or conditional-cash remuneration in exchange for taking part in construction or rehabilitation conducted through the programme. protective community assets, as well as tools, Throughout the definition, design, delivery and inputs and technical assistance. In 2023, 34,437 documentation for scale-up of its resilience households (172,185 people) participated in 80- programming, WFP adopts the Three-Pronged day cycles and received cash-based transfers of approach to guarantee that programmes are around USD 100 per month to cover the cost of planned to bring together a plethora of actors food and basic needs. A total of around USD 8.6 through a participatory process and respond to million were distributed. In addition, 52,825 local people In partnership with : WFP invests in three main pillars: The local benefit from WFP's micro-insurance coverage (see factsheet on micro-insurance for more details). needs, therefore boosting community ownership and acceptance of climate adaptation and risk management measures. Assets created/rehabilitated in 2023 (as of December) 6 78 km of rural roads rehabilitated 52.5 km of irrigation canals rehabilitated to enhance agricultural land 937 hectares of land rehabilitated or benefitting from irrigation infrastructure 92 km of drainage canals and flood protection dykes built or rehabilitated February 2024 7 Micro-insurance activities in Haiti In October 2022, WFP Haiti, in partnership with local The coverage aims to improve the resilience of farmer insurer, Alternative Insurance Company (AIC), technical households and their cropping activity through a risk service provider Weather Risk Management Solutions transfer mechanism on one hand, and reinforce (WRMS), and international reinsurance company Scor Re, livelihood of social protection beneficiaries on the other. launched It an index-based micro-insurance pilot allows participants to protect their the productive covering productive activities of smallholder farmers for investments, better reduce their vulnerability when faced the duration of one year. This program provides with risks such as excess rain and rain deficit, while protection against two major climate risks: excess understanding and adopting the use of new and well rainfall and rainfall deficit. designed financial risk mitigation tools within their households and communities. In total, 10,565 households (52,825 people) in Grand’Anse, South, Nippes and Artibonite are insured for the 2023-24 cropping and hurricane seasons. The households who joined the micro-insurance programme in 2023 included 1,050 (5,250 people) benefiting from asset-creation activities in the South, 1,200 households (6,000 people) benefiting from the ASPIRE project in Grand Anse (please see policy factsheet), while the remaining were part of a larger network of smallholder farmers and a federation of agricultural cooperatives. To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and reduce their exposure to climate-related risks in the Grand’Anse department, the selected cooperatives provided agricultural insurance participants with technical assistance and knowledge, risk mitigation and financial education. In the South department, support includes the implementation of environmental protection activities, such as soil and water conservation works and reforestation activities. Claims pay-out for both excess rainfall and rain deficit were triggered for some 3,574 households (17,870 people) the last quarter of 2023, and were delivered in January 2024. WFP’s goal is to cover 70,055 people at the end of the 2024 hurricane season. The objectives of risk financing actions in Haiti are to: (i) design microinsurance products that are integrated in resilience building strategies promoting productivity and securing livelihood that are easily scalable; (ii) introduce insurance components that can be linked to other financial services and tools (formal and informal); (iii) guarantee a critical mass through a smart In partnerships with : subsidy approach, aggregation and distribution schemes; (iv) complement other WFP Haiti interventions aiming at reinforcing smallholder farmers’ capacities * * involved in the home-grown school feeding programme and livelihood and social protection programmes ; and (v) explore integration with macro level solutions - such as the coverage of The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility - and Forecast Based Financing (FbF). February 2024 *USD 40 average value of yearly premium for USD 500 average yearly value of sum insured for ASPIRE beneficiaries 8 Climate action in Haiti Amongst the world's most vulnerable countries to and supporting vulnerable communities to develop impacts environmental diversified, sustainable and shock-resilient livelihoods; degradation, Haiti is the third most impacted country (iii) protecting the most vulnerable households and; in the world by extreme weather events, such as (iv) transforming communities and food systems hurricanes, tropical storms and droughts, between with innovations for climate, nature and people. of climate change and 2000 - 2019. Around 96 percent of Haitians live under the threat of at least two of these risks according to Through its climate action, WFP aims to change the the World Bank. Climate change adversely impacts lives of 2 million people over 5 years. WFP will lives and livelihoods, increases competition for partner resources and exacerbates drivers of insecurity. At coordination platforms around adaptation to climate the same time, existing insecurity limits the capacity change, enhance resilient and inclusive food systems of the country and its people to adapt and respond to for sustainable local production, promote gender- climate change, magnifying its impact, especially on transformative approaches and support national the most vulnerable people, such as women and institutions and Haitian civil society to unlock and children. mobilize traditional and innovative climate financing. with relevant stakeholders to revive WFP’s climate action work is coordinated with the Ministry of environment, Ministry of agriculture, natural resources and rural development and Ministry of economy and finance. Its Climate Action Strategy is aligned with the National Adaptation Plan, the National Climate Change Policy (PNCC 2019-2030) and country's Agricultural Development Policy (2010 - 2025). In partnership with : WFP developed a Climate Action Strategy in line with its Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028. The strategy embeds climate action as a cross-cutting dimension throughout all of WFP operations in Haiti to support vulnerable communities and food systems. WFP strengthens its programmes to better address climate variability and extreme weather events, as well as long-term climate change aiming to support at risk populations to better adapt, prepare and respond to the increasing climate risk. WFP is committed to addressing climate change as one of the root causes of food insecurity in the country by : (i) anticipating shocks before they turn into disasters; (ii) restoring degraded ecosystems February 2024 9 Contingency stock in Haiti The contingency stock is a key tool that These WFP uses to ensure that crisis-affected through local suppliers and WFP has put populations in Haiti can meet their in place Food Supplier Agreements to basic food needs in times of crisis. be able to swiftly trigger food purchases Having commodities with support from Canada and internal available in country allows WFP to funding mechanism, worth USD 1.5 respond to sudden-onset disasters and million. pre-positioned crises to meet the needs of affected populations quickly and effectively, while additional assistance is planned and prepared for in later weeks, if required. Fully stocked, the 3,971 mt contingency stock allows WFP to feed up to 300,000 people 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 represents 81% (1,693 Kcals per person/ day) of daily caloric needs. purchases were contracted WFP will solely trigger the local option if and when needed. This will allow the stock to be more agile and save costs. Some funding gaps remain to fully reach the 3.971 mt. Following the looting of WFP warehouses in Haiti, 650 mt of food are stored in the Dominican Republic as a mitigation measure. Percentage of locally vs internationally purchased food for the contingency stock 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 In partnership with : cooperating partners, and commercial transporters for main road routes. In-kind commodities provided by USAID/ BHA helped replenish the majority of the contingency stock, while 1,728 mt were locally purchased. February 2024 Locally purchased Internationally purchased 10 Supply chain and logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are key three-month service suspension due to the to complex crisis that started in September delivering WFP’s humanitarian assistance in the fastest, most efficient 2022, and cost-effective way possible. WFP’s transport humanitarian service logistics support to WFP resumed services the offered maritime to coordination and humanitarian community. In 2023, humanitarian and partners have used the the 27 maritime development organisation in country is also service, allowing the passage 2,668 MT of essential. This role is realized through the commodities in 132 voyages to the south Logistics Sector coordination which is co-led and north of Haiti. by the Directorate for Civil Protection and WFP, on-demand logistics services and As part of its prepositioning strategy, WFP preparedness capacity strengthening for the set up a logistics corridor national Dominican Republic, to facilitate quick system of disaster risks management system. with the dispatch of humanitarian aid by land and sea in support of its emergency response. A In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, 1 helicopter total of 650 mt of contingency stock are and access to a maritime solution to power currently stored in the Dominican Republic its own operations, as well as to the bounded warehouse. WFP is also assessing humanitarian community, including other other UN agencies, NGOs and government entities comprehensive response, if required. logistics solutions to enable a through on-demand service provision. In 2023, 218 requests were received from 36 WFP has 4 warehouses in Port au Prince, partners, including storage, transport and Cap Haitian and the hurricane—proof fuel. Through fuel provision, WFP distributed Miragoane warehouse which covers the 255,273 liters to 14 partners. southern peninsula, totalling 22,500 mt storage capacity, which can also be used by In partnership with : WFP contracted a maritime service with a partners. WFP also has 6,170 mt of mobile local company to support the humanitarian storage community to circumvent armed group equipment, such as trucks, ready to be controlled areas. After a deployed in case of emergency. February 2024 capacities and different 11 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 1,698 (UNHAS) supports the humanitarian and Number of passengers 12,836 16,146 development community to reach and assist the most vulnerable populations in remote Partners supported 152 140 areas, in addition to providing evacuations Cargo 218,364 128,983 and transporting humanitarian cargo such as Destinations 53 20+ medical lifesaving equipment. With port and road access severely limited, UNHAS currently operates one Sikorsky S- especially since the complex crisis started in 61 helicopter to support humanitarian September 2022, the UNHAS air services response efforts in Haiti. As part of are absolutely crucial for all humanitarian capacity-building initiatives, UNHAS has organizations to have a safe, reliable and made significant efforts to train partners in timely means of transport in the country and the keep to strengthen the crucial Airfield Focal Point facing network. These efforts include training providing vulnerable immediate populations who support are new Booking Hub system and difficulties in accessing their livelihoods or sessions get vital supplies. UNHAS also implemented fundamentals, safety, and security for the partial cost recovery modality for all UNHAS operations. covering basic aviation partners in 2023. February 2024 12 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) February 2024 13