WFP in Haiti: Information Booklet, June 2024

This edition of WFP's Information Booklet covers developments to June 2024. The latest IPC analysis, for March to June 2024, found close to 5 million people acutely food insecure (IPC Phase 3+), half the analyzed population and up from 44 percent, with about 1.65 million in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), the highest figure ever recorded and placing Haiti third worldwide by share of population in acute food insecurity. More than 580,000 people were internally displaced, 185,000 of them in Port-au-Prince. Since late February 2024, armed groups have coordinated attacks on hospitals, schools and other infrastructure, blockading the capital's main airport, seaport and critical roadways and driving a 27 percent rise in the cost of the food basket since January.

WFP scaled up its emergency response, decentralizing procurement to shorten and diversify its supply chain, and reached close to 129,000 internally displaced people with more than 1.3 million hot meals across 95 sites in the metropolitan area. As of June 2024, WFP had supported 1.4 million people in 2024 with 1.3 million hot meals, 4,840 mt of food and USD 17.2 million in cash-based transfers, and purchased USD 2 million of food from smallholder farmers. Other figures reported include 658,566 households registered in SIMAST (28 percent of the population); 125,000 people reached with ASPIRE cash transfers, with digital delivery rising from 3 percent in May 2022 to 80 percent in May 2024; 447,000 schoolchildren fed through the school meals program, of whom 220,130 received home-grown, locally sourced meals in six departments; 97,000 people supported through resilience activities against a 250,000 target; and malnutrition holding at a stagnant 7.2 percent nationally (2023 SMART survey), with the IPC Acute Malnutrition assessment projecting 277,000 affected children aged 6-59 months between December 2023 and November 2024, of whom 125,000 with severe acute malnutrition. The office's 2024 goal is 2.35 million people, and it needs USD 75.3 million to operate through December 2024.