(2024-06) WFP in Haiti: Information Booklet, June 2024

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets June 2024 Table of Content Executive summary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ June 2024 1 Engagement with the Haitian government _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 Emergency response _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 Policy and social protection activities _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 School meals programme and its transition to home-grown school meals_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 Support Access to Market for Smallholder Farmers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 Resilience activities _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 Climate action_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 Micro-insurance activities_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10 Nutrition activities_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 Contingency stock _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 Supply chain and logistics _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 Thanks to WFP’s partners_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 Executive Summary WFP has been working in Haiti since 1969, providing humanitarian assistance during emergencies and implementing 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. The latest IPC analysis (March to June 2024) found that close to 5 million people in Haiti are acutely food insecure (IPC3+), or half of the analysed population, compared to 44% in the previous analysis. Of those, about 1.65 million are in the emergency phase (IPC 4). This is the highest ever recorded, placing Haiti as the world's third highest in terms of the percentage of its population facing acute food insecurity. In addition to the food security crisis, over 580,000 people are internally displaced due to armed group violence, with 185,000 in Port-au-Prince. Haiti is also exposed to natural hazards, worsened by climate change, such as flooding, landslides and droughts. WFP, in partnership with the government, is implementing its new Country Strategic Plan 20242028 (CSP) with a budget of USD 1.5 billion, approved in late 2023. In the first year, 50% of planned programmes are slated to promote resilience and Haiti's development. This percentage will grow over time as beneficiaries shift from emergency assistance to long-term initiatives. Since late February, armed groups have coordinated attacks on key infrastructure, especially in the Portau-Prince metropolitan area, including hospitals and schools, leading to blockades at the main airport, seaport, and critical roadways in the capital, severely restricting movement and exacerbating shortages of fuel and essential supplies. This has resulted in a 27% increase in the cost of the food basket since January. WFP has been scaling up its operations, maintained access thanks to local partners' engagement and decentralized its supply chain by procuring supplies locally to respond to the crisis. This has enabled In partnership with: WFP to reach close to 129,000 internally displaced people with more than 1.3 million hot meals in 95 sites in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. As of June 2024, WFP supported 1.4 million people in Haiti in 2024, with over 1.3 million hot meals, 4,840 mt of food and USD 17.2 million of cash-based transfers. WFP also bought USD 2 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 2.35 million people in 2024, and needs USD 75.3 million to be able REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI June 2024 to implement its operations in the next 6 months (July – December 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 meals programme and facilitate ownership. In line well-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 local economy and significantly reducing WFP’s environmental footprint. WFP is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Logistics Natural Resources and Rural Development, Sector to facilitate coordination and 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 adverse impacts 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 to and 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 scale-up nature-based solutions to reduce the of 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- transfers and associated services to governments based participatory planning tools. and partners. WFP is working to establish government-to-person payments systems (G2P) for REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI programme by 2030, contributing to boosting the support. For example, the DGPC and WFP co-lead the information sharing. In partnership with : locally source all the food for its school meals social protection through end-to-end technical assistance, payments 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 Insurance Facility (CCRIF) as part of its support to WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (Ministry of integrating anticipatory actions into the social Social Affairs and Labour’s Information System), a protection’s disaster risk management system and social registry developed in 2013 which is the only disaster risk finance layering. comprehensive social registry in the country, with more than 658,566 households registered. June 2024 2 Emergency Response in Haiti WFP Following the latest security crisis, WFP in provides unconditional food and cash assistance collaboration with local partners ramped up its to vulnerable households and ensures contingency emergency response, stocks and preparedness measures are put in unconditional food place to respond to shocks. WFP's emergency decentralization of its supply chain to mitigate response is conducted in collaboration with the the risk of facing roadblocks, and relying on Haitian government. This includes partnerships local production to shorten the supply chain. Through its emergency programmes, with the Directorate for Civil Protection for the distribution receives of hot support meals. from Additionally, the WFP Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which funds the Fund for Economic and Social Assistance. FAES contributes to emergency social assistance by providing hot meals and cash distributions. cash included assistance, As of June 2024, WFP has distributed over 1.3 million hot meals to people displaced by armed group violence in 95 sites of the Portau-Prince metropolitan zone. In addition, WFP has also distributed over 75,000 hot meals to individuals affected by deportations and repatriations in the North-East and Center Half the population in Haiti (5 million people) is acutely food insecure and in need of food In partnership with : which and assistance. WFP assists beneficiaires with in-kind and cash-based transfers and hot meals The 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. departments. Since the beginning of the year, WFP has assisted over 464,000 people with 2,583 mt of food, 1.4 million hot meals and USD 2.5 million of cash-based transfers. In 2024, WFP aims to reach 1.5 million people with its emergency operations, with 15,400 mt of food and USD 80.6 million in cash transfers. The security situation in Haiti following the beginning of the complex crisis in September 2022 has worsened over the years, and led to this year intensified crisis, with a peak of violence and insecurity since March. Accessing beneficiaries has remained a continuous challenge. WFP is increasing the digitalization of its emergency response, with 66% of it done through digital cash responses, compared to 10% for other humanitarian actors on average in Haiti. IPC evolution from 2021 to 2024 IPC 3+ : 4.3 million people IPC 4: 1.3 million people June 2024 IPC 3+ : 4.7 million people IPC 4: 1.7 million people IPC 3+ : 4.35 million people IPC 4: 1.4 million people IPC 3+ : 5 million people IPC 4: 1.65 million people 3 Policy and Social Protection activities in Haiti Social protection programmes are the set of The programme will also improve health and policies and programmes aimed at preventing or nutrition protecting all people against poverty, vulnerability, promote financial inclusion. and social exclusion throughout their lifecycles, with a particular emphasis towards vulnerable the households and Moving forward, WFP and its partners will continue to WFP supported the Government of Haiti in the build inclusive Government to People institutional capacity of the government, which will development of the National Social Protection take over the management of the Klere Chimen and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June programme (ASPIRE project’s name in Creole) in 2020, and of its Action Plan adopted in October the next two years. WFP’s work has centered 2023. around building digital public infrastructure for systems (G2P) in Haiti, while strengthening the This policy provides the institutional for future social protection all initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has been working with the Government on a roadmap for its gradual implementation. WFP also supported the more inclusive social protection in Haiti. As of June 2024, WFP has successfully supported the Ministry of Social Affairs in delivering the development of the National School Feeding Policy. ASPIRE programme, resulting in the delivery of WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (the Ministry contributing to families meeting their food needs of Social Affairs and Labour’s Information System), and healthy diets. Despite common perceptions a social registry developed in 2013 used to assess that Haiti is a predominantly cash-based society, vulnerability assistance WFP has sped up assistance delivery through e- programmes. This year, an additional 48,273 wallets. Since its implementation, the proportion households have been included in the SIMAST, of Klere Chimen safety net recipients receiving making the total number of households registered transfers digitally climbed from 3% (May 2022) to 658,566 (28% of the population). WFP aims to 80 % (May 2024). and target social include an additional 95,000 households and expand the geographical coverage of the SIMAST, including for internally displaced people, therefore supporting the Government’s goal to reach 40% of the total population registered in it by 2025. WFP also supports the assessments of feasibility of using data collection methodologies on innovation to support the expansion, including the use of non- 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. cash-based WFP transfers supports to establishing 125,000 people, shock-responsive social protection by assisting the Ministry and the Directorate for Civil Protection in adopting a framework and early warning system. This involves utilizing the social protection system to provide emergency assistance before (Anticipatory Action) or after a shock. ASPIRE operations Haiti—June 2024 traditional data sources (ex. cellular data). June 2024 for groups. framework In partnership with : outcomes 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 sites, 35 are schools. Despite this, as of June where 50% of the population needs urgent 2024, the WFP’s school meals programme food assistance, a daily meal at school is a provided meals to 447,000 schoolchildren, simple way to ensure children receive at with a total of 3,192 metric tons of food. The least one nutritious meal every day. School school meals programme is also reactive to meals help keep children in school, and shocks, as WFP distributes take-home rations improve their graduation rate, so that they to students when schools close due to become healthy, productive adults, contributing external factors. to their country’s development, and breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger, malnutrition and poverty. The In partnership with : vision School Feeding Policy and Strategy (PSNAS), which aims to strengthen local procurement Government, through the Ministry of National and management, and governance of the Education and Vocational Trainings is to ensure sector. The PSNAS aims to use only locally all schoolchildren have access to the nutritious produced food for school canteens in Haiti by food they need to be able to learn, through the 2030. WFP supports this objective, and is provision balanced transitioning from a traditional school meals complementary diet in schools, prepared with programme, which uses mostly imported almost exclusively locally produced food and goods, to a home-grown school meals respecting nutritional standards so that hunger programme, through which all the goods is not a barrier to education. The overall (except oil) are locally sourced. a goal healthy of the and objectives are: (i) the provision of quality food services; (ii) supporting the local economy and local food production; (iii) the development of good governance participatory mechanisms; management and and (iv) community ownership. June 2024 Vocational Training in updating the National Haitian of and WFP supported the Ministry of Education and 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. So far in 2024, out of the total Due to a spike in armed group violence in late 447,000 children who received school meals, February 2024, schools in the Port-au-Prince 220,130 children received 1,895.5 mt of food metropolitan area had to intermittently close, through and out of the 85 internally displaced people programme in 6 departments. the Home-Grown School Meals 5 WFP works with 170 OPAs (Organisations de WFP is also sensitive to the environmental impact Producteurs Agricoles) and their 20,000 members, to of its programmes. In 2022, the Clean Cooking source food from smallholder farmers. As of May project introduced heat retention bags (HRB), gas 2024, 1,895.5 mt of local products were bought, stoves and clean cooking trainings to school cooks. worth USD 2 million. The HRB is a non-electric slow cooker developed for WFP also provides support to the OPAs, helping them improve the quality of their products, subsidizing the set-up of processing facilities and providing them with quality control equipment. In partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, 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. Additionally, schools are used 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 literacy training, as well as guidance on water, sanitation and hygiene practices, the establishment of hand-washing stations people cooking over open fires. WFP trained its staff, cooperating partners, school cooks and communities around the country, explaining how to combine HRBs with any energy source (firewood, charcoal, gas stoves etc) to cook traditional recipes. HRBs decrease energy costs by up to 70 percent for recipes prepared in schools and improve the health of cooks by decreasing indoor pollution in closed spaces by 60 percent. Furthermore, HRB are made from recycled plastic, diverting waste from landfills and reducing environmental pollution. As of May 2024, the WFP has distributed 300 HeatRetention Bags (HRBs) to 300 cooks and 350 HRBs to schools in six regions this year. The initiative aims to distribute a total of 1,150 HRBs to schools and 350 HRBs to cooks by the end of the 2024 school year. and the construction and rehabilitation of latrines in the Grand’Anse, Nord and Nord-Est departments. June 2024 6 Support Access to Market for Smallholder Farmers WFP's support to small holder farmers aims to In 2023, WFP purchased 4,340 MT of food worth foster sustainable development by enhancing USD 8.4 million directly from smallholder farmers local via its HGSM (3,945 MT), traditional school feeding ecosystems and the capacities of smallholders, youth, and women. Targeting areas with agricultural opportunities, Support Access to Market for Smallholder Farmers (SAMS) activities are dedicated to reinforcing aggregation, transformation, and organizational capacities of local producers’ associations to promote sustainable market access. As of June 2024, SAMS has integrated more than 170 OPAs from the departments of Artibonite, Nord, Centre, Nippes, Sud and Grand’Anse enhancing the capabilities and providing regular and sustainable market access to their members, representing around 20,000 smallholder farmers systems, SAMS (51% women). These producers’ members and transformative links associations have been supported with storage between rural producers and urban and peri- and quality control materials such as: palettes, urban businesses. This approach is essential in humidity meters and small trucks for transport, reducing Haiti's structural inequalities, increasing including technical trainings on agri-business, post the availability of locally produced food, and -harvest handling, and infrastructure. Women's reducing environmental degradation and reliance participation in OPAs supporting HGSM was on monitored Through strengthened strategically external food creates markets. By enhancing these connections, smallholder farmers gain improved resilience against climate-related risks and natural disasters, elevating their production capacities and market access, including integration into the Home-Grown School Meal Programme (HGSM). In alignment with the Ministry of Agriculture’s rural development priorities, the goal is to integrate rural communities financially and create opportunities for these food-insecure groups. conducted two workshops with 60 stakeholders including agricultural producer from selection through yearly assessments. As of 2024, WFP's local purchases engaged 4,050 smallholder farmers full-time. This local procurement strategy also created full-time food processing jobs for over 1,000 people annually. By September 2024, WFP is planning to integrate new OPAs for three additional departments (Nord-Est, Nord-Ouest, and Sud-Est), thus covering In 2023, WFP and local government bodies In partnership with : (297.6 MT), and emergency programs (97.4 MT). organizations (OPA) members, school representatives and local officials to boost sales capacities, align food supplies with school requirements, and enhance the entire country, except for one department, with local purchases. All producers will continue receiving capacity strengthening support whether in material and inputs distributions, food transformation equipment and infrastructure, storage capacities or organizational support. market access and production quality, crucial for the REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI June 2024 SAMS initiatives' sustainability and effectiveness. 7 Resilience Activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s high exposure to rapid-onset rehabilitation of rural roads, installation of shocks and stressors resulting from natural potable water abduction points and shock- hazards, as well as socio-political and economic related solutions such as micro-insurance. instability, WFP is working to reinforce the resilience of 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. 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 community resilience. WFP delivers complementary activities in the same zones, prioritizing a gender and nutrition-sensitive approach with a social behavioral communication change lens. people through its resilience activities. In 2024, WFP aims to reach 250,000 people, funding and construction or rehabilitation conducted through the programme. the design, delivery and documentation for 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. Since the Grand'Anse beginning of department, the year, in the construction of cubic meters has been completed to improve access to water. Additionally, 550 meters of concrete strips have been installed on critical access permitting. rural tracks linking communities to essential WFP invests in three main pillars: strengthening agricultural areas, a health center, and a rural the local through disaster risk market. Forage plots have also been set up on reduction and environmental-related solutions, sloping lands to feed livestock during the lean reinforcing local periods and to prevent soil erosion. through socio-economic ecosystem agriculture community-led conservation activities, and soil and livestock and water providing comprehensive support to actors throughout the food value chain, including agricultural inputs, June 2024 cash remuneration in exchange for taking part in community cisterns with a capacity of 180 As of June 2024, WFP supported around 97,000 In partnership with : income for participants who receive conditional- Throughout The asset creation and livelihood programme and Resilience activities also provide a source of In the services South, three such as schools, fishponds have been constructed and put into operation, and four production/transformation businesses have been livestock, and technical and financial assistance. established, benefiting 400 women. In parallel, WFP’s resilience projects enable access to seeds, 900 meters of drinking water pipelines basic social services, stimulate market dynamics have been rehabilitated, and five water points and contribute to conflict-reduction through the have been constructed or rehabilitated. 1,050 beneficiaries received 2.9 tons of food 8 Climate Action in Haiti Amongst the world's most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change and • environmental degradation, Haiti is the third most impacted country in the world by extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, tropical storms and droughts, between 2000 - 2019. Around 96 percent of Haitians WFP is preparing for an expected very active cyclone according to the World Bank. Climate change season, and will build on the success of 2023 by adversely impacts lives and livelihoods, increases strengthening its anticipatory action approach (AA) competition for resources and exacerbates drivers of and expanding its microinsurance programme, while insecurity. At the same time, existing insecurity limits launching climate information services to support the capacity of the country and its people to adapt climate-adaptive decision making for smallholder and respond to climate change, magnifying its farmers. impact, especially on the most vulnerable people. WFP continues its close collaboration with the General WFP developed a Climate Action Strategy in line Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC) to disseminate with its Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028. The early warnings and alerts in case of extreme strategy embeds climate action as a cross-cutting weather events and expands its operational capacity dimension throughout all of WFP operations in Haiti to act ahead of climate disasters, through the to food integration of AA within the shock responsive social systems. WFP’s climate action work is coordinated protection framework. This will allow social protection with the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of programme not only to react but also to act ahead to Agriculture, protect development gains. support vulnerable Natural communities Resources and and Rural Finance. Its Climate Action Strategy is aligned with the National Adaptation Plan, National Climate Change Policy and Agricultural Development Policy. WFP also supported Haiti’s Hydro-meteorology Unit to rehabilitate the weather station at Cap Haitian airport, which will contribute to strengthen the national network of weather observations—more WFP is committed to addressing climate change as stations will be rehabilitated in the coming months. one of the root causes of food insecurity in the WFP also launched the delivery of climate information country by : (i) anticipating shocks before they turn into disasters; (ii) restoring degraded ecosystems and supporting vulnerable communities to develop diversified, sustainable and shock-resilient livelihoods; (iii) protecting the most vulnerable households and; (iv) transforming communities and food systems with innovations for climate, nature and people. Through its climate action, WFP aims to change the lives of 2 million people over 5 years. to smallholder farmers. In partnership with the University of Reading (UK), WFP started a set of cascade trainings on the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture approach which combines historical climate data and participatory planning methods to help communities make informed agricultural choices based on seasonal forecasts. Trained staff of the Departmental Directorate of Agriculture and cooperating partners In 2023 and 2024, WFP implemented this strategy will replicate the training with the members of the through an integrated package of assistance: farmers associations that supply the home-grown • June 2024 17,000 smallholder farmers benefitted from weather-indexed micro-insurance payouts in Grand’Anse. live under the threat of at least two of these risks Development and Ministry of Economy and In partnership with : • 18,575 people were supported with anticipatory cash transfers in Grand’Anse, as an expansion of shock responsive social protection ahead of the rainfall. 550,000 people in 5 departments received early warning messages ahead of heavy rains mid-November 2023. school feeding programme in three departments (Grand'Anse, Nord, Sud). 9 Micro-Insurance Activities in Haiti In October 2022, WFP Haiti, in partnership with local The coverage aims to improve the resilience of insurer, Alternative Insurance Company (AIC), farmer households and their cropping activity technical service provider Weather Risk through a risk transfer mechanism on one hand, Management Solutions (WRMS), and international and reinforce the livelihood of social protection reinsurance company Scor Re, launched an index- beneficiaries on the other. based micro-insurance covering productive activities of smallholder farmers. This program provides protection against two major climate risks: It allows participants to protect their productive investments, better reduce their vulnerability when excess rainfall and rainfall deficit. faced with risks such as excess rain and rain deficit, In total, 10,565 households (52,825 people) in and well designed financial risk mitigation tools Grand’Anse, South, Nippes and Artibonite are within their households and communities. while understanding and adopting the use of new insured for the 2023-24 cropping and hurricane seasons. The households who joined the microinsurance 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. WFP’s goal is to cover 70,055 people at the end of the 2024 hurricane season. As of June 2024, claims pay-out for excess rainfall To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and reduce their exposure to climate-related risks in the Grand’Anse provided participants with the selected agricultural insurance 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. 2022 (Pilot) 2023- 2024 (Scale-up) 2024 Aug-Dec (Planned) 2025 (Planned) 4,990 households (51% women) 10,565 households: - 9,465 farmers - 1,200 social protection beneficiaries (SSP) (51% women) 11,515 households: - 9,365 farmers -2,150 SSP (51% women) 11,857 households: -6,361 farmers -3,004 resilience beneficiaries -2,150 SSP (51% women) promoting productivity and securing livelihood that 2 departments, 11 communes 4 departments, 21 communes 6 departments, 29 communes 6 departments, 29 communes are Average yearly Premium $ 91.98 USD and $40 USD registered during the month of May triggered payouts for 5,570 households (27,850 people). The payouts are expected to take place in July. The objectives of risk financing actions in Haiti are to: (i) design micro-insurance products that are integrated In partnerships with : department, cooperatives easily in resilience scalable; (ii) building introduce strategies insurance components that can be linked to other financial services and tools (formal and informal); (iii) guarantee a critical mass through a smart subsidy approach, schemes; aggregation (iv) complement and distribution other WFP Haiti interventions aiming at reinforcing smallholder farmers’ capacities involved in the home-grown * USD 91.98 USD 45-55 Excess rain & rain deficit Excess rain & rain deficit wind speed Excess rain & rain deficit wind speed Excess rain & rain deficit * wind speed USD 900 sum insured USD 900 USD 400 USD 900 USD 400 USD 900 USD 450-600 USD 396,126 Claims payout school feeding programme and livelihood and social protection programmes. June 2024 10 Nutrition Activities in Haiti WFP is committed to addressing the ongoing WFP is further integrating nutrition in its school- malnutrition crisis in Haiti, highlighted by the based programmes, ensuring that school meals stagnant rate of acute malnutrition at 7.2 percent, cover at least 40% of the daily required energy and as reported in the 2023 SMART survey. In some nutrients. Through the LENDI project, a SBCC municipalities, malnutrition rates range from 20 to program operational in 50 schools in Artibonite and 30 percent. The IPC Acute Malnutrition assessment involving 7,500 students, their parents, and the projects that nearly 277,000 children aged 6 to 59 community, WFP promotes good hygiene, nutrition, months will be affected between December 2023 and gender equality. These interventions are part of and November 2024, with 125,000 children suffering the WFP-UNICEF Joint Plan, supporting the Ministry of from severe acute malnutrition. In response, WFP Health and Population to comprehensively address has been integrating nutrition-sensitive approaches the nutrition crisis in Haiti. into its broader humanitarian efforts. Over 10,000 meals adapted for infants and young children have been distributed in 2024 across 91 internally displaced people’s (IDP) sites as of June. An emergency Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program has also been launched in IDP sites within the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. This programme provides specialized nutritious foods, nutrition counselling, screening, and referral services through mobile clinics supported by UNICEF and IOM, ensuring malnutrition management and primary healthcare support. As of June 10,997 children have been reached. To enhance food security and prevent malnutrition among pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBWG) and children aged 6-23 months, WFP launched a specific top-up value to general food assistance for vulnerable households in areas hosting populations categorized as facing emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC4+), including REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI June 2024 internally social protection programme ASPIRE, implemented in partnerships with the government (please read more in the policy factsheet) also includes a nutrition, health, and hygiene SBCC strategy. It has engaged 262,264 PBWG and caregivers of children under 5 in community-based activities, including over 2,800 home visits and more than 3,000 community gatherings. One safety net has integrated cash transfers for preventive health and nutrition activities, benefiting 1,789 households with children under 2 years and PBWG through soft conditionality measures. Across these activities, community Health Workers (CHW) also screened 59,829 children aged 6-59 months and referred 1,934 of them for malnutrition treatment. They also involved 7,363 people in community mobilization for nutrition activities and sensitization to nutrition. WFP continues to advance research and So far 4,950 households development efforts, including a qualitative study to with PBWG and/or children under 2 years old identify barriers and opportunities to integrate the were reached, to ensure they can afford the needs of People Living with HIV into social protection necessary nutritious diet to prevent malnutrition. in WFP aims to reach an additional 17,000 households. interventions with UNAIDS partners and the Ministry Accompanied by Social and Behaviour Change of Health. WFP also supports updating the national Communication (SBCC) and nutritional screening for protocol early detection and referral, this approach ensures malnutrition in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and access to diverse and nutritious diets. WFP is other partners, aligning with the global action plan distributing this top-up in coordination with the on child wasting and the new WHO guidelines. displaced households. In partnership with : 2,340 The Ministry of Health and Population and its partners. Haiti, providing for critical preventing insights and for future treating acute 11 Contingency stock in Haiti The contingency stock is a key tool that and commercial transporters for main WFP uses to ensure that crisis-affected road routes. populations in Haiti can meet their basic food needs in times of crisis. In 2024, a total of 6,880 mt of In-kind Having commodities commodities provided by USAID/BHA available in country allows WFP to helped replenish the contingency stock, pre-positioned respond to sudden-onset disasters and crises to meet the needs of affected populations quickly and effectively, while additional assistance is planned and prepared for in later weeks, if required. A total 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. As of end of May, over 2,500 MT have been distributed to households for emergency support. To distribute the emergency rations, WFP utilizes its commercial transporters In partnership with : and WFP has put in place Food Supplier Agreements worth USD 4.2 million to swiftly trigger food purchases with support from internal funding mechanisms. WFP solely triggers the local option if and when needed. This allows 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 in 2022, 650 mt of food were stored in the Dominican Republic. This stock has now been moved to Cap Haitian, to respond to the latest security crisis that started in late February. and often its WFP self-managed fleet of trucks (25 all-terrain 4x4 trucks) to access the most difficult secondary and tertiary roads, its cooperating partners, June 2024 12 Supply Chain and Logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are As of May 2024, 9 partners have used key to delivering WFP’s humanitarian the maritime service this year, allowing assistance in the fastest, most efficient the passage of 350 mt of commodities in and cost-effective way possible. WFP’s 8 voyages to the south and north of Haiti. humanitarian logistics coordination and service support to humanitarian and development organisations in country is also essential. This role is realized through (i) the Logistics Sector coordination which is co-led by the Directorate for Civil Protection and WFP; (ii) on-demand logistics services; and (iii) preparedness capacity WFP has 4 warehouses in Port au Prince, Cap Haitian and the hurricane—proof Miragoane warehouse which covers the southern peninsula, totalling 22,500 mt storage capacity, which can also be used by partners. WFP also has 6,170 mt of mobile storage capacities and different strengthening for the national disaster risk equipment, such as trucks, ready to be management system. deployed in case of emergency. In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, and access to a To maritime especially after February, the WFP supply solution to power its own tackle the security challenges, the chain strategy emphasized storing ample humanitarian community, including other prepositioned stocks at strategic locations UN and diversifying transport methods. WFP operations, as agencies, entities well NGOs through as support and government on-demand service continuously updated information on Supply provision. Chain needs and logistical capacities, fostering collaboration with In partnership with : As of May 2024, 32 requests for on- UN agencies, NGOs, government bodies, demand services were received from 13 and partners to enhance flexibility and partners, including storage, transport, and coordinate efforts effectively. Additionally, fuel. WFP expanded its logistics capacity in Cap Through fuel provision, WFP distributed 72,077 liters to 8 partners. Additionally, WFP contracted a maritime service with a local company to support the humanitarian community to circumvent armed group controlled areas. June 2024 Haitian, utilizing a mix of transport options including inland and maritime routes, to overcome infrastructure and security constraints, ensuring the timely delivery of essentials items, such as food commodities. 13 The 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 evacuations and transporting humanitarian cargo such as medical lifesaving equipment. Key figures 2023 2024 Flights 1,698 499 Number of passengers 16,146 3,622 Partners supported 140 142 Cargo 128,983 17,451 Destinations 20+ 20+ With port and road access severely limited, Following the late February security crisis, especially since the complex crisis started in UNHAS implemented several key strategies September 2022 and the latest security crisis to ensure the continuity of operations and that started in late February, the UNHAS air the relocation of staff in and out of the services are crucial for all humanitarian country as needed by the fast evolving organizations to have a safe, reliable and situation. The increased needs of the timely means of transport in the country and humanitarian led to the acquisition of the keep to additional aircraft fixed wing (CASA 212- facing 200) which strengthened UNHAS capacity difficulties in accessing their livelihoods or to respond. The aircrafts were relocated in get vital supplies. UNHAS also implemented Cap-Haitian as their base, and flights to the partial cost recovery modality for all the Dominican Republic (Barahona and partners in 2023. La Isabela) as well as Providenciales were providing vulnerable immediate populations who support are UNHAS currently operates one Sikorsky S-61 set up helicopter and a fixed wing to support humanitarian response efforts in Haiti. June 2024 14 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 2024 15