(2024-11) Le PAM en Haïti : Bulletin d'information, novembre 2024

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets November 2024 Table of Content Executive summary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 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 November 2024 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 the 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, enable the humanitarian community to reach people in need, often in the most hard-to-reach areas. The latest IPC analysis (September 2024 – February 2025) reveals that 5.4 million people in Haiti, or half of the population, are acutely food insecure (IPC3+), compared to 4.9 million people in the previous analysis, marking the worst figures since the 2010 earthquake. Of these, 2 million are in the emergency phase (IPC 4), a 42% increase from August 2023, with 15 regions classified as IPC 4, up from five a year ago. Additionally, 6,000 people in Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) sites are facing catastrophic food insecurity (IPC 5), the first occurrence since September 2022 and only the second in the region’s history. In addition to the food security crisis, over 700,000 people are internally displaced due to armed group violence as of September 2024, more than a threefold increase compared to August 2023. Of these, 173,000 are located in Port-au-Prince with the majority of them (63%) residing in sites. 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 2024-2028 with an overall 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. In parallel, despite the formation of a new government and the arrival of the non-UN multinational security support mission first troops in June 2024, the security situation in Haiti remains volatile. The country continues to deal with the aftermath of the March-June crisis, during which armed groups attacked key infrastructure—hospitals, schools, and blockaded the airport, seaport, and critical roadways in Port-au-Prince. WFP continues scaling up operations, ensuring access through local partnerships and In partnership with: decentralizing its supply chain with local procurement. As of November 2024, WFP supported 1.55 million people across its programmes in Haiti, including through the distribution of 2.2 million hot meals, USD 36.7 million in cash-based transfers, and 9,121 metric tons (MT) of food. WFP also bought USD 11.3 million worth of locally produced food from smallholder farmers, which aligns with the government’s policy and WFP’s new CSP. REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI The country office aims to reach 2.35 million people in 2024 and needs USD 186.8 million to implement its operations in the next 12 months (November 2024 – October 2025). November 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. After well-established contributing to its update in 2024, WFP seeks to partnerships with key state support the implementation of the National School 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 contributing to boost the local economy and significantly reduce WFP’s environmental footprint. WFP is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Logistics Natural Resources and Rural Development, with Sector to facilitate coordination and which it signed a Memorandum of Understanding in WFP contributes to collective efforts to increase access to national social protection systems that safeguard and foster Haitians' ability to meet their needs including food security, nutrition, and other essentials, while limiting exposure to risks and reducing the adverse impacts of shocks. WFP supported the Government of Haiti in the development of the National Social Protection and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June 2020, and April 2023, to support smallholder productivity and climate change adaptation through various initiatives, such as the delivery of last-mile climate services via Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture or scaling up parametric microinsurance against extreme weather events. This additionally serves as an entry point for financial literacy and the promotion of savings and credit groups. its Action Plan, adopted in October 2023. This policy With provides the institutional framework for all social supporting advocacy effort to increase the availability protection initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has of, and access to, climate financing in Haiti, given its supported enhancements to the coverage and fragile quality of national social protection programming, collaboration through the Ministry context of and aims Environment, complex to scale WFP emergency. up is This nature-based the solutions to reduce the impacts of climate risks and Ministry of Social Affairs and the Fund for build climate resilience, leveraging WFP’s asset Economic and Social Assistance, by providing on- creation demand cash transfers and associated services to planning tools. an established partnership with national and decentralized institutions, and partners. WFP is working to establish government-to-person REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI all the food for its school meals programme by 2030, support. For example, the DGPC and WFP co-lead the information sharing among responding partners. In partnership with : Meals Policy and Strategy as it aims to locally source payment systems (G2P) for social protection through end-to-end technical assistance, payments, and insurance services for national programmes. and community-based participatory WFP also plans to enhance its collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to enable inclusive macro-insurance Haitians via the coverage Caribbean to reach 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 713,685 households registered. November 2024 2 Emergency Response in Haiti As part of emergency response programmes, WFP cash assistance, the decentralization of its supply provides unconditional food and cash assistance to chain to mitigate the risk of facing roadblocks, and vulnerable households and ensures contingency relying on local production to shorten the supply stocks and preparedness measures are put in place chain. to respond to shocks. These programmes are conducted in collaboration with the Haitian government, including the Directorate for Civil Protection and the Fund for Economic and Social Assistance, whose longstanding partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank ensures large scale provision of emergency social assistance via cash distributions and the provision of hot meals as needed. million hot meals to people displaced by armed group violence in 102 sites of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. WFP also put in place a largescale distribution in Cite Soleil, a hard-to-reach area classified as IPC4, delivering in-kind commodities to over 19,000 households. In addition, with an increased rate of deportation announced by the Dominican Republic, WFP has also distributed over Half the population in Haiti (5.4 million people) is 160,000 hot meals to individuals affected by acutely food insecure and in need of food assistance. deportations and repatriations in the North-East WFP assists beneficiaries with in-kind and cash-based and Center departments. 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. The In partnership with : As of November 2024, WFP has distributed over 2 security situation in As part of its IDP response, WFP has already transitioned over 100,000 IDPs from receiving hot meals to receiving cash-based transfers and will pursue their integration into a temporary safety Haiti following the net, extending assistance over of a 6-month period beginning of the complex crisis in September 2022 to help households cover a portion of their basic has worsened over the years, and led to this year's needs (USD 88 per month) as they seek to relocate intensified deterioration, with a peak of violence and to more stable settings and re-establish livelihoods. insecurity during the period of March–June, which led to the closure of the main airport and seaport in Portau-Prince. Despite some security improvement in the country, following government and the installation of the new the arrival the non-UN of multinational support mission first troops, access continues to be a challenge affecting WFP operations on the ground. As of November, WFP assisted over 700,000 people with 5,725 MT of food, 2.2 million hot meals, and USD 10.8 million in cash-based transfers through its emergency response. In 2024, WFP aims to reach 1.5 million people, with 15,400 mt of food and USD 80.6 million in cash transfers. WFP is also increasing the digitalization of its Following this security crisis, WFP, in collaboration with local partners, ramped up its emergency response, which included unconditional food and emergency response, with 71% of transfers 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 November 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+ : 5.4 million people IPC 4: 2 million people IPC 5: 6,000 people 3 Policy and Social Protection activities in Haiti WFP has played a critical role in supporting the successfully delivered social cash transfers to over Government of Haiti in the development and 134,000 people, contributing to families meeting implementation of its National Social Protection their food needs and healthy diets. and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June 2020, and its Action Plan adopted in October 2023. This policy provides the institutional framework for all social protection initiatives, with its gradual implementation supported by a longstanding partnership between the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the World Bank, ensuring a more resilient and structured social protection system. A key area of WFP’s support has been the SIMAST, a social registry developed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in 2013 to assess vulnerability and target social assistance programmes. This year, an additional 76,925 households were registered, bringing the total to 713,685 households - 29% of the population. WFP, with funding from several donors, aims to further expand SIMAST by including 95,000 more households and increasing its geographical coverage, particularly to reach internally displaced people. This expansion will help the Government to meet its goal of registering 40% of the population by 2025. WFP also supports assessments on the feasibility of using innovative data collection methodologies, including the use of non-traditional data sources (ex. cellular data), to support this expansion. Both the NSPPP and the SIMAST are integral to the Increased Resilience), a nationally led social protection programme that began in 2021. WFP as a key implementing partner, supports this USD In partnership with : 75 million programme awarded by the World Bank and managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour. ASPIRE provides social cash transfers and accompanying measures to improve household health and nutrition outcomes while fostering financial inclusion. By November 2024, WFP has November 2024 rapid scale-up Although of mobile is often Haiti predominantly cash-based money transfers. perceived society, as WFP a has increased the proportion of digital cash transfers from 3% in May 2022 to 73% by September 2024, improving the speed and efficiency of assistance delivery. In addition to cash transfers, WFP is working to strengthen institutional capacity to ensure the seamless transition of ASPIRE operations to full government management. This includes building a more resilient national system capable of social responding protection to shocks, through support to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and the Directorate for Civil Protection, by developing an early warning framework that enables emergency assistance before a shock (Anticipatory Action) and post-shock (please see the Climate Action factsheet for more information). Moving forward, WFP is expanding ASPIRE, targeting additional households in Haiti's South Department until 2027. WFP is also delivering social protection assistance to 101,400 vulnerable people identified as severely food insecure across the country, including internally displaced persons. ASPIRE operations Haiti—Nov 2024 ASPIRE programme (Adaptive Social Protection for A notable achievement under ASPIRE has been the 4 The School Meals Programme in Haiti and its Transition to Home-Grown School Meals School meals are a priority in Haiti: in a internally displaced people (IDP) sites, 38 country where half of the population needs are schools. Still, by the end of the school urgent food assistance, a daily meal at school year, is a simple way to ensure children receive at provided meals to 477,678 schoolchildren, least one nutritious meal every day. School with a total of 7,572 MT of food across all 10 meals help keep children in school, and departments. The school meals programme improve their graduation rate, so that they is also responsive to shocks, as WFP become distributes take-home rations to students healthy, productive adults, contributing to their country’s development, while breaking the intergenerational cycle of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. The In partnership with : vision and goal of the WFP’s school meals programme when schools close due to external factors. WFP supported the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in updating the National Haitian School Feeding Policy and Strategy Government, through the Ministry of National (PSNAS), which aims to strengthen local Education and Vocational Training, is to ensure procurement all schoolchildren have access to the nutritious governance of the sector. The PSNAS aims to food they need in order to be able to learn, use only locally produced food for school through the provision of a healthy and canteens in Haiti by 2030. WFP supports this balanced complementary diet in schools, objective prepared locally traditional school meals programme, which produced food and respecting nutritional uses mostly imported goods, to a home- standards so that hunger is not a barrier to grown school meals programme, through education. The overall objectives are: (i) the which all the goods (except oil and flour) are provision locally grown. with of almost quality exclusively food services; (ii) supporting the local economy and local food production; (iii) the development of good governance mechanisms; and (iv) participatory and and is management, transitioning and from a Through home-grown school meals, WFP supports (i) the Haitian economy through management and community ownership. local purchases; (ii) the diversification of Due to a spike in armed group violence in strengthening smallholder farmers’ access to March 2024, schools in the Port-au-Prince area markets. schoolchildren’s diet; and (iii) local farming by had to close intermittently, and of the 102 November 2024 5 At the end of the 2023-2024 school year, out of the calls for tenders, negotiation, and contracting to total 477,678 children who received school meals, improve access to markets (please see the 257,833 children received over 3,744 MT of food factsheet through the Home-Grown School Meals programme Smallholder Farmers for more information). in 10 departments, worth USD 7.16 million. on Support Access to Market for Additionally, schools are used as a platform to In recent years, the coverage of traditional school improve gender norms to promote the equality of meals provided by WFP has decreased nationwide, women and men as well as girls and boys. Other making grown complementary activities include literacy training, Procurement Program for School Meals”, which rose guidance on water, sanitation, and hygiene from 28% of schools in the 2021-2022 school year to practices, the establishment of hand-washing 54% in 2023-2024. As a result, the target set for the stations, and the construction and rehabilitation of 2024-2025 school year aims to reach a total of latrines in the Grand’Anse, Nord, and Nord-Est 495,000 school children, 70% of whom will benefit departments. way for the “Locally from school meals based on local procurement. For the school year 2024-2025, WFP will offer WFP works with over 170 OPAs (Organisations de financial compensation to around 4,000 cooks Producteurs Agricoles) and their 20,000 members in 9 preparing the meals of school children, with 475 departments to source food from smallholder HTG per day (USD 3.6). Cooks being in their vast farmers. At the end of the 2023/2024 school year, majority women, WFP aims to fight negative 4,759 MT of local products were procured, worth stereotypes about women with this initiative. WFP USD 9.15 million (3,744 MT for HGSF, 1,025 MT for will also provide them with training on good traditional school feeding). For the 2024-2025 school hygiene practice as well as nutrition, so that they year, WFP aims to source a total of 9,700 MT of local can apply them in their daily work. products. 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 training on storage and grain conservation, quality control, and reduction of post-harvest losses. Finally, WFP provides training on responding to November 2024 6 Support Access to Market for Smallholder Farmers WFP's support to smallholder farmers aims to foster recently sustainable enhancing the capabilities and providing regular and development by enhancing local Nord-Est, youth, and women. Targeting areas with agricultural representing around 20,000 smallholder farmers opportunities, Market (51% women). These producers’ members and Support (SAMS) activities are dedicated to reinforcing associations have been supported with storage and aggregation, quality control materials such as pallets, humidity capacities transformation, of local and producers’ organizational associations to to their Sud-Est, sustainable Agricultural access and ecosystems and the capacities of smallholders, Smalholder market Nort-Ouest members, meters, and small trucks for transport, in addition to technical training on agri-business, post-harvest promote sustainable market access. handling, and infrastructure. Women's participation Through strengthened food systems, SAMS activities strategically creates transformative links between rural producers and urban and selection through yearly assessments. peri-urban businesses. This approach is essential for reducing As of October 2024, WFP's local purchases involved Haiti's the 4,050 smallholder farmers full-time. This local availability of locally produced food, and reducing procurement strategy also created full-time food environmental degradation and reliance on external processing jobs for over 1,000 people annually. markets. structural By inequalities, enhancing increasing 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 In partnership with : in OPAs supporting HGSM was monitored from For the new school year 2024-2025, WFP has integrated new OPAs from 3 departments, the NordEst, Nord-Ouest and Sud-Est, into its SAMS programmes, and has now partner OPAs in all departments except one. These new OPAs have already made their first deliveries to canteens for the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year. Analyses are underway to identify the technical and operational groups. needs of these new partner OPAs by the end of 2024, So far in 2024, WFP purchased 4,034 MT of food Next year, technical training on good agricultural worth USD 11.3 million directly from smallholder practices, farmers via its HGSM (1,906 MT worth USD 6.2 management, etc. will be put in place. Depending on million), traditional school feeding (650 MT worth resources, WFP will also provide the necessary USD 1.2 million), and emergency programs (1,487 MT agricultural infrastructures or equipment to improve worth USD 3.8 million). the supply chain for schools, as well as the As of October to inform an action plan that will begin in early 2025. 2024, SAMS has integrated more post-harvest management, financial production capacities of OPAs both in terms of quantity and quality (rotary cultivators, water than 170 OPAs from the departments of Artibonite, pumping systems, mills, aggregation centers, storage Nord, Centre, Nippes, Sud, Grand’Anse, and more equipment, etc.) REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI November 2024 7 Resilience Activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s high exposure to rapid-onset shocks Throughout and stressors resulting from natural hazards, as well documentation for the scale-up of its resilience as socio-political and economic instability, WFP is programming, WFP adopts the Three-Pronged working to reinforce the resilience of Haitians approach to guarantee that programmes are through livelihood planned to bring together various actors through a programmes. WFP works in partnership with the participatory process and respond to local Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and needs, thereby boosting community ownership Rural Development in alignment with its Agricultural and acceptance of climate adaptation and risk Development Plan. management measures. The asset creation and livelihood programme aim to As support asset creation and 2024, WFP delivery, and completed the most vulnerable areas of Haiti by mitigating, adapting, and capacity of 180 cubic meters to improve access to recovering from seasonal shocks and recurring water in the Grand'Anse department. Additionally, hazards, while also working to improve their long- 550 meters of concrete strips have been installed term food security, livelihoods, and community on critical rural tracks linking communities to resilience. WFP delivers complementary activities in essential socio-economic services such as schools, the same areas, prioritizing a gender and nutrition- agricultural areas, a health center, and a rural sensitive market. Forage plots have also been set up on communities approach in with some a of social the behavioral sloping lands to feed livestock during the lean As of November 2024, WFP has supported over WFP invests in three main pillars: strengthening the local ecosystem through disaster risk reduction and environmental-related solutions, reinforcing local agriculture and livestock through community-led soil and water conservation activities, and providing comprehensive support to actors throughout the food value chain, including agricultural inputs, livestock, and technical and financial assistance. WFP’s resilience projects enable access to basic social services, stimulate market dynamics, and contribute to conflict reduction through periods and to prevent soil erosion. In 96,000 people through its resilience activities. the rehabilitation of rural roads, installation of potable water abstraction points, and shock-related solutions receive conditional cash remuneration in exchange for participating in construction or rehabilitation work conducted through the programme. the South, three fishponds have been constructed and put into operation, and four production/transformation businesses have been established, benefiting 400 women. In parallel, 1,050 beneficiaries received 2.9 tons of food seeds, 900 meters of drinking water pipelines have been rehabilitated, and five water points have been constructed or rehabilitated. In the communes of Roche-à-Bateau, Coteaux, Port -à-Piment, Chardonnières, Limbé, and Ouanaminthe, WFP has achieved the following under the creation and rehabilitation of assets (soil, water, and natural resource conservation): • 3,592 households (17,960 beneficiaries) participated in asset creation and livelihood rehabilitation activities. • 5.94 km of ravines were treated with antierosion structures. • 7.3 km of dirt roads and agricultural tracks were rehabilitated. • • 1.076 km of irrigation canals were restored. such as micro-insurance. Resilience activities also provide a source of income for participants who November 2024 October design, construction of community cisterns with a communication change lens. In partnership with : of the Over 5,900 fruit and forest tree seedlings were planted across intervention communes. 8 Climate Action in Haiti Amongst the world's most vulnerable countries to 600,000 beneficiaries with anticipatory cash the impacts of climate change and environmental transfer and early warning messages ahead of degradation, Haiti is the third most impacted cyclones or heavy rainfall to mitigate their impact on country in the world by extreme weather events, vulnerable populations. The country-wide plan such as hurricanes, tropical storms, and droughts, needs approximately USD 15 million, but only USD 7 between 2000 - 2019. Around 96 percent of Haitians million have already been secured, leaving an live under the threat of at least two of these risks important gap should a major hurricane hit the according to the World Bank. Climate change country. WFP Haiti is collaborating with national adversely impacts lives and livelihoods, increases partners and international organizations to monitor competition for resources, and exacerbates drivers these forecasts and implement the approved of insecurity. At the same time, existing insecurity activities if activation occurs. limits the capacity of the country and its people to adapt and respond to climate change, magnifying its impact, especially on the most vulnerable people. General WFP developed a Climate Action Strategy in line extreme weather events and is expanding its with its Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028. The operational capacity to act ahead of climate strategy embeds climate action as a cross-cutting disasters, through the integration of AA within the dimension throughout all of WFP operations in Haiti shock-responsive social protection framework. This to support vulnerable communities and food will allow social protection programme not only to systems. WFP’s climate action work is coordinated react but also to act ahead to protect development with the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of gains. Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, and Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its Climate Action Strategy is aligned with the National Adaptation Plan, National Climate Change Policy, and Agricultural Development Policy. In partnership with : WFP continues its close collaboration with the 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 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 Directorate of Civil Protection to disseminate early warnings and alerts in case of WFP also supported Haiti’s Hydro-meteorology Unit in rehabilitating the weather station at Cap Haitian airport, which will contribute to strengthening the national network of weather observations. Earlier in 2024, WFP launched the delivery of climate information to smallholder farmers. In partnership with the University of Reading (UK), and the Haiti’s Hydro-meteorology Unit, 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 change the lives of 2 million people over 5 years. forecasts. WFP prepared for an expected very active cyclone are replicating the training with 3,500 farmers, season, and building on the success of 2023, the country office approved the 2024-2025 Anticipatory Action Plan (AAP), which enables WFP to assist up to November 2024 Trained staff of the Departmental Directorate of Agriculture and cooperating partners members of the associations that supply the homegrown school feeding programme in the Grand'Anse, Nord and Sud departments. 9 Micro-Insurance Activities in Haiti In October 2022, WFP Haiti, in partnership with the through a smart subsidy approach, aggregation and local insurer Alternative Insurance Company (AIC), distribution schemes; (iv) complement other WFP technical Haiti interventions aimed at reinforcing smallholder service provider Weather Risk Management Solutions (WRMS), and international farmers’ reinsurance company Scor Re, launched an index- protection programmes. based micro-insurance covering productive activities of smallholder farmers. This program provides protection against two major climate risks: excess rainfall and rainfall deficit. capacities, and The coverage aims to livelihood and social improve the climate resilience of farmer households and their cropping activity through a risk transfer mechanism on one hand and reinforce the livelihood of social In total, 9,597 households (47,985 people) in protection beneficiaries on the other. It allows Grand’Anse, South, and Nippes are insured during participants to protect their productive investments, the 2024 cycle for cropping and hurricane and better reduce their vulnerability to risks such as seasons. The households enrolled in the micro- excess rain and rain deficit while understanding and insurance programme include 1,050 (5,250 people) adopting the use of new and well-designed financial resilience asset-creation activities beneficiaries in risk transfer mechanisms within their households the South, 1,200 households (6,000 people) and communities. benefiting from the ASPIRE project in Grand’Anse (please see policy factsheet), while the remaining are members of organized larger networks and federation of agricultural cooperatives of smallholder farmers. WFP’s goal is to cover 70,055 people at the end of the 2025 hurricane season. To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and reduce their exposure to climate-related risks in the Grand’Anse and Nippes, the selected cooperatives and organisations provide agricultural insurance participants with technical assistance and knowledge, risk mitigation, and financial education training. In the South department, support includes As of September 2024, over 375,000 USD in the implementation of environmental protection claims pay-out was registered following both activities, through asset creation and rehabilitation. excess rainfall and rain deficit events in all three 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) are to: (i) design micro-insurance products that are 2 departments, 11 communes 4 departments, 21 communes 6 departments, 29 communes 6 departments, *29 communes integrated Average yearly Premium $ 91.98 USD and $40 USD 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 covered departments. The indemnity payments represent a 49% claims ratio for this microinsurance project. Over 6,900 households In partnerships with : (34,820 people) have received at least one micro insurance payout between January—August 2024. The objectives of risk financing actions in Haiti into resilience-building strategies promoting productivity and securing livelihoods that are easily scalable; (ii) creating better entry points to introduce insurance components that can be integrated with other financial services and tools (formal and informal); (iii) guarantee scale November 2024 USD 375,000 Claims payout 10 Nutrition Activities in Haiti WFP ongoing WFP is further integrating nutrition in its school-based malnutrition crisis in Haiti, highlighted by the stagnant is committed to addressing the programmes, ensuring that school meals cover at rate of acute malnutrition at 7.2 percent, as least 40% of the daily required energy and nutrients. reported in the 2023 SMART survey. In some Through municipalities, malnutrition rates range from 20 to 30 operational in 50 schools in Artibonite and involving percent. The IPC Acute Malnutrition assessment 7,500 students, their parents, and the community, projects that nearly 277,000 children aged 6 to 59 WFP promotes good hygiene, nutrition, and gender months will be affected between December 2023 and equality. These interventions are part of the WFP- November 2024, with 125,000 children suffering from UNICEF Joint Plan, supporting the Ministry of Health severe acute malnutrition. In response, WFP has been and Population to comprehensively address the integrating nutrition-sensitive approaches into its nutrition crisis in Haiti. broader humanitarian efforts. The protection a SBCC programme program ASPIRE, implemented in partnership with the government (please read more in the policy factsheet) also includes distributed across 91 internally displaced people’s a nutrition, health, and hygiene SBCC strategy. It has (IDP) sites. An emergency Blanket Supplementary engaged 262,264 PBWG and caregivers of children Feeding Programme has also been launched in IDP under 5 in community-based activities, including over sites within the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. 2,800 home visits and more than 3,000 community This programme provides specialized nutritious foods, gatherings. One safety net has integrated cash nutrition counseling, screening, and referral services transfers for preventive health and nutrition activities, through mobile clinics supported by UNICEF and IOM, benefiting 1,789 households with children under 2 ensuring malnutrition management and primary years and PBWG through soft conditionality measures. Across these activities, Community Health Workers nutritional supplement, have been distributed. also screened 54,386 children aged 6-59 months and To enhance food security and prevent malnutrition They also raised awareness among 162,000 people, among pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBWG) including 3,385 pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children aged 6-23 months, WFP launched a about nutrition, infant feeding (ANJE) and nutrition- specific top-up value to general food assistance for and hygiene-related diseases such as cholera and vulnerable households in areas hosting populations typhoid etc. referred 5,298 categorized as facing emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC4+), including displaced households. 2,340 internally As part of this emergency intervention, over 16,000 households with PBWG and/or children under 2 years old were reached, to ensure they can afford the necessary nutritious diet to prevent malnutrition. Accompanied by Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and nutritional screening for early detection and referral, this approach ensures access to diverse and nutritious diets. WFP is distributing this top-up in coordination November 2024 project, adapted for infants and young children have been have been reached and 6.3 MT of Plumpy Doz, a REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI social LENDI From January to September 2024, 12,180 meals healthcare support. As of September 4,000 children In partnership with : the with the Ministry of Health and its partners. of them for malnutrition treatment. WFP continues to advance research and development efforts, including a qualitative study to identify barriers and opportunities to integrate the needs of People Living with HIV into social protection in Haiti, providing critical insights for future interventions with UNAIDS partners and the Ministry of Health. WFP also supports updating preventing and the treating national protocol for acute malnutrition in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and other partners, aligning with the global action plan on child wasting and the new WHO guidelines. 11 Contingency stock in Haiti The contingency stock is a key tool that WFP (25 all-terrain 4x4 trucks) to access the most uses difficult secondary and tertiary roads, as to ensure that crisis-affected populations in Haiti can meet their basic well food needs in times of crisis. Having pre- commercial transporters for main road positioned commodities available in the routes. country allows WFP to respond to suddenonset 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. 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. to the March-June 2024 security crisis, which led to port and airport closures as well as the airspace closure with the Dominican Republic. As of the end of October, over In partnership with : cooperating partners, and In 2024, a total of 6,880 MT of in-kind commodities helped replenish the contingency stock. Out of the 6,880 MT, WFP prepositioned 1,100 MT at each of its three warehouses across the country, in Port-au- have 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 when needed. This allows the stock to be more agile and save costs. The contingency stock was used to respond MT its Prince and Northern and Southern areas. A total of 3,971 mt contingency stock allows 7,725 as been distributed to Following the looting of WFP warehouses in Haiti in 2022, 650 MT of food was stored in the Dominican Republic. The stock was fully moved to Cap Haitian, in the North of Haiti, for preposition and distribution to households for emergency support in 2024, respond to the latest security crisis of March using a mix of contingency and regular stock. as WFP quickly expanded its To distribute the emergency rations, WFP -June 2024, port and logistics operations in Cap Haitian. utilizes its commercial transporters and often its WFP self-managed fleet of trucks November 2024 12 Supply Chain and Logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are key to WFP has 4 warehouses in Port-au-Prince, Cap delivering WFP’s humanitarian assistance in the Haitian, and fastest, most efficient, and cost-effective way warehouse which covers the southern peninsula, possible. WFP’s humanitarian logistics coordination totaling 22,500 mt storage capacity, which can also and service support and be used by partners. In response to the worsening security situation early this year, WFP expanded its essential. This role is realized through (i) the Logistics port and logsitics operations in Cap Haitien, by Sector coordination which is co-led by the Directorate expanding its storage space with an additional for Civil Protection (DGPC) and WFP; (ii) on-demand 2,500 MT capacity, additional surge logistics staff logistics services; and (iii) preparedness capacity and by facilitating the port operations. WFP also strengthening has 6,170 mt of mobile storage capacities and the humanitarian national disaster risk management system. various equipment, such as its trucks, ready to be In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, and access to a maritime deployed in case of emergency. solution to power its operations, as well as support To tackle the security challenges impacting port the humanitarian community, including other UN operations and last-mile distribution, especially agencies, NGOs, and government entities through on- during and after the March-June crisis, WFP’s demand service provision. supply As of October 2024, over thirty requests for ondemand services were received from 19 partners, including the provisions of storage space, transport services, and fuel. Through fuel provision, WFP distributed partners. 143,000 liters to over 10 Additionally, total of 36 Service Level Agreements were signed this year with partners. Moreover, WFP contracted a maritime service with a local company to support the humanitarian community in circumventing armed group-controlled areas. So far this year, 9 partners have used the maritime service, allowing the passage of over 350 mt In partnership with : Miragoane development organizations in the country are also for to the hurricane proof of commodities in 12 maritime voyages to the south and north of Haiti. This represents the first recent use of this maritime service to the northern area of the country to support the humanitarian community, chain adopted an agile strategy, emphasizing storing ample prepositioned stocks at strategic locations, diversifying transport methods, enhancing engagement with logistics service provider and increasing local procurement from 77% in 2023 to 87% in the first half of 2024. WFP continuously updated information on Supply Chain needs and logistical capacities, fostering collaboration with UN agencies, NGOs, government bodies, and partners to enhance flexibility and coordinate efforts effectively. WFP also expanded its logistics capacity in Cap Haitian, utilizing a mix of transport options including inland and maritime routes, to overcome infrastructure and security constraints, ensuring the timely delivery of essential items, such as food commodities. due to the worsening security along the routes in that WFP facilitated an airbridge from Panama to allow region. for uninterrupted aid delivery, and continued its capacity-building work with the DPGC on hub rehabilitation and other preparedness projects. November 2024 13 The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Operating in Haiti since November 2019, the Key figures 2023 2024 United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Flights 1,698 1,126 (UNHAS) supports the humanitarian and Number of passengers 16,146 8,780 development community to reach and assist the most vulnerable populations in remote Partners supported 140 142 areas, in addition to providing evacuations Cargo 128,983 48,206 and transporting humanitarian cargo such as Destinations 20+ 20+ medical lifesaving equipment. With port and road access severely limited, especially since the complex crisis started in September 2022 and the latest security crisis of March-June 2024, the UNHAS air services are crucial for all humanitarian organizations to have a safe, reliable and timely means of transport in the country and keep providing vulnerable immediate populations who support are to facing difficulties in accessing their livelihoods or get vital supplies. UNHAS also implemented the partial cost recovery modality for all partners in 2023. Following the March-June security crisis, UNHAS implemented several key strategies to ensure the continuity of operations and facilitate the relocation of staff as required by the rapidly evolving situation. The increased humanitarian needs prompted the acquisition of an additional fixed-wing aircraft, enhancing response capacity. The UNHAS' aircraft were temporarily relocated to Cap-Haitian as their base, with flights established to the Dominican Republic (Barahona and La Isabela) and Providenciales. In May, the fleet was returned to Port-au-Prince, and all necessary preparations were made for the hurricane season. In October, a new aircraft was introduced, offering better cost efficiency. UNHAS currently operates one Sikorsky S-61 helicopter and a fixed wing to support humanitarian response efforts in Haiti. November 2024 14 Thanks to the generous support from our partners REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI Contact: Wanja Kaaria, Country Director of WFP in Haiti wanja.kaaria@wfp.org November 2024 Raphaël Guévin-Nicoloff, Head of External Relations and Reporting, WFP Haiti raphael.guevinnicoloff@wfp.org Further information: Haiti | World Food Programme (wfp.org) 15