(2025-03) PAM an Ayiti: Bwochi Enfòmasyon, mas 2025

WFP in Haiti |Information Booklet An overview of WFP Haiti’s activities, achievements and targets March 2025 Table of Content Executive summary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ March 2025 1 Engagement with the Haitian government _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 Emergency response & short term assistance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 Social protection systems strengthening _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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 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 facilitates the implementation of flagship national programmes such as the home-grown school meals, supporting and strengthening the Government of Haiti's implementation capacity as well as its development of key policies. 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 1 million people are internally displaced due to armed group violence as of December 2024, which represents 9% of the Haitian population, and more than a threefold increase compared to December 2023. Of these, 261,000 are located 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 2024-2028 with an overall budget of USD 1.5 billion, approved in late 2023, balancing lifesaving emergency response activities with the promotion of resilience and development initiatives overtime. 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 latest peaks in violence, in November, triggered the closure of the capital’s airport and a U.S federal aviation association’s ban on flights to the country, except Cap Haitian. WFP continues scaling up operations, ensuring access through local partnerships and decentralizing its supply chain with local procurement. UNHAS also remains a lifeline, allowing movement in and out of Port-au-Prince for In partnership with: humanitarians since November, and until commercial airlines resume flight to the capital. In 2024, WFP supported 2 million people across its programmes in Haiti, including through the distribution of 3.2 million hot meals, USD 54 million injected in the Haitian economy (USD 34.5 million of cash-based transfers across its programmes, and USD 14.4 million worth of food bough from smallholder farmers for school meals and emergency programmes), and 12,604 metric tons (MT) of food. REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI The country office needs USD 51.2 million to continue implementing its operations for the next 6 months (March – August 2025). March 2025 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 expand the scale and improve the quality of the Goals and National Development Goals through national school meals programme, in line with well-established authorities' priorities. After contributing to its update partnerships with key state in 2024, WFP seeks to support the implementation of 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 support. For example, the DGPC and WFP co-lead the Logistics Sector to facilitate coordination and information sharing among responding partners. 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 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 policy provides the institutional framework for all social protection initiatives. Since its adoption, WFP has REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI March 2025 programme by 2030, contributing to boost the local economy and significantly reduce WFP’s environmental footprint. In February 2025, WFP also supported the government in signing the National Commitment Declaration of the School Meals WFP is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, with which it signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 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 also serves as an entry point for financial literacy and the promotion of savings and credit groups. supported enhancements to the coverage and With quality of national social protection programming, supporting advocacy effort to increase the availability through of, and access to, climate financing in Haiti, given its an established partnership with the the Ministry demand cash transfers and associated services to solutions to reduce the impacts of climate risks and national and decentralized institutions, and partners. build climate resilience, leveraging WFP’s asset WFP is working to establish government-to-person creation payment systems (G2P) for social protection through planning tools. to scale emergency. is collaboration aims complex WFP Economic and Social Assistance, by providing on- and and Environment, fragile insurance services for national programmes. context of Ministry of Social Affairs and the Fund for end-to-end technical assistance, payments, and In partnership with : aims to locally source all the food for its school meals Coalition (SMC), after joining the coalition in 2022. WFP contributes to collective efforts to increase supported the National School Meals Policy and Strategy as it up community-based This nature-based participatory WFP also plans to enhance its collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to enable WFP is equally supporting the SIMAST (Ministry of inclusive macro-insurance Social Affairs and Labour’s Information System), a Haitians via social registry developed in 2013 which is the only Insurance Facility (CCRIF) as part of its support to comprehensive social registry in the country, with integrating anticipatory actions into the social 761,131 households registered. protection’s disaster risk management system and the coverage Caribbean to reach Catastrophe Risk disaster risk finance layering. 2 Emergency Response & Short Term Assistance in Haiti As part of emergency response programmes, WFP by the government-led project “Expansion of provides unconditional food and cash assistance to Social Safety Nets for Vulnerable Populations”. vulnerable households and ensures contingency This marks the third such consecutive FAES stocks and preparedness measures are put in place programme to respond to shocks. These programmes are implementation, amounting to USD 109 million conducted initiative, 42,977 households (214,885 people) are Protection and the Fund for Economic and Social set to receive four critical cash transfers of USD 100 Assistance (FAES), whose longstanding partnership each to strengthen their food security across five with the Inter-American Development Bank ensures departments. Additionally, under this project FAES large scale provision of emergency social assistance supported the distribution of 335,622 hot meals to via cash distributions and the provision of hot meals 23,973 displace people across four sites during the as needed. peak of the November crisis. Half the population in Haiti (5.4 million people) is In 2024, WFP distributed 2.9 million hot meals to acutely food insecure and in need of food assistance. over 180,906 people displaced by armed group WFP assists beneficiaries with in-kind and cash-based violence transfers and hot meals. The transfers aim to cover metropolitan area. In addition, with the increased around 70 percent of the improved food basket, rate of deportation announced by the Dominican while the food rations are calculated to meet a Republic, WFP distributed hot meals to 172,779 household’s needs for one month. individuals In partnership with : in Haiti the supports (leveraging IDB financing). As part of this latest situation with WFP Haitian security collaboration which government, including the Directorate for Civil The in for following the in 156 sites affected of by the Port-au-Prince deportations and repatriations in the North-East and Center. beginning of the complex crisis in September 2022 As part of the IDP response, WFP has transitioned has worsened over the years, with a peak of violence around 46,500 IDPs from receiving hot meals to and insecurity between March–June 2024 and since receiving cash-based transfers in 2024 and is November 2024, leading to the temporary closures of pursuing their integration into temporary extended the main airport and seaport in Port-au-Prince. assistance to help households cover a portion of Despite some security improvement, following the their essential food needs (USD 88 monthly) as they installation of the new government and the arrival of seek to relocate to more stable settings and the non-UN multinational support mission first livelihoods. In 2024, 20,235 IDPs were included in troops, access continues to be a challenge affecting this targeted initiative. operations on the ground. Following this security crisis, WFP, in collaboration with local partners, ramped up the emergency response, which included unconditional food and cash assistance, the decentralization of its supply chain to mitigate the risk of facing roadblocks, and relying on local production to shorten the supply chain. In 2024, WFP assisted 1.15 million people with 9,009 WFP is also increasing the digitalization of the emergency response, with 76% of transfers done through digital cash responses, 7 times the average achieved by other humanitarian actors in Haiti. IPC evolution between 2021 and 2025 IPC 3+ : 4.3 million people IPC 4: 1.3 million people IPC 3+ : 5.4 million people IPC 4: 2 million people IPC 5: 6,000 people MT of food, 3.2 million hot meals, and USD 16.4 million in cash-based transfers through its emergency response, helping strengthen national response capacities. This was made possible in part 3 March 2025 3 Social Protection Systems Strengthening in Haiti WFP has played a critical role in supporting the Grand'Anse. ASPIRE provides social cash transfers Government of Haiti in the development and and implementation of its National Social Protection household health and nutrition outcomes while and Promotion Policy (NSPPP), adopted in June fostering financial inclusion. In 2024, WFP has 2020, and its Action Plan adopted in October 2023. successfully delivered social cash transfers to This policy and action plan provide the institutional nearly 160,000 people monthly across its safety framework for social protection initiatives. Their net gradual a ASPIRE, contributing to families meeting their food longstanding partnership between the Ministry of needs and healthy diets. This also includes 20,235 Social Affairs and Labour, the Economic and Social internally displaced people who were integrated Assistance Fund (FAES), the World Bank, the IDB into WFP’s social safety net programmes after and having received hot meals as a first emergency implementation others, ensuring is a supported more resilient by and including to improve 110,000 through response. The SIMAST, a social registry developed by the A notable achievement under Klere Chimen has Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour in 2013 to been assess vulnerability and target social assistance transfers. Although Haiti is often perceived as a programmes, represents a key component of predominantly unified social protection efforts. This year, an increased the proportion of digital cash transfers additional 134,810 households were registered, from 3% in May 2022 to 76% in 2024, improving bringing the total to 761,131 households - 33% of the speed and efficiency of assistance delivery. from several partners, including FAES, the World Bank and the IDB, among others, aims to further expand SIMAST by including around 126,000 more households in 2025 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 conducts feasibility assessments on the use of innovative data collection methodologies, including the use of non-traditional data sources (ex. cellular data), to support this the rapid scale-up cash-based of mobile society, money WFP has 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 providing 12 trainings to 40 MAST staff, as well as technical assistance to develop a Management and Information System for MAST to operate its social protection programmes and, building a more resilient national social protection system capable of responding to shocks, through support to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour expansion. and the Directorate for Civil Protection, by Both the NSPPP and the SIMAST are integral to the enables emergency assistance before a shock Klere Chimen, a nationally led social protection (Anticipatory Action) and post-shock (please see programme that began in 2021. Assisting its roll the Climate Action factsheet for more information). out and expansion across several initiatives, WFP supports the implementation of a USD 75 million World Bank financed programme called ASPIRE, managed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, with a focus on the Klere Chimen branch in March 2025 programmes, measures structured social protection system. the population. WFP, thanks to combined funding In partnership with : accompanying developing an early warning framework that In 2025, WFP is expanding Klere Chimen with the financial support of the Swiss Cooperation, targeting 1,873 households in Haiti's South Department until 2027. 4 The School Meals Programme in Haiti and its Transition to Home-Grown School Meals School meals are a priority in Haiti: in a 134 internally displaced people (IDP) sites, country where half of the population needs 45 are schools. Still, so far for the 2024- urgent food assistance, a daily meal at school 2025 school year, WFP’s school meals is a simple way to ensure children receive at programme least one nutritious meal every day. School schoolchildren across all 10 departments. meals help keep children in school, and The improve their graduation rate, so that they responsive to shocks, as WFP distributes become take-home rations to students when schools 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 programme 528,000 is also close due to external factors. WFP supported the signature of the the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training Government, through the Ministry of National Policy and Strategy (PSNAS), which aims to Education and Vocational Training, is to ensure strengthen all schoolchildren have access to the nutritious management, and governance of the sector. food they need in order to be able to learn, The PSNAS aims to use only locally produced through the provision of a healthy and food for school canteens in Haiti by 2030. balanced complementary diet in schools, WFP prepared locally transitioning from a traditional school meals produced food and respecting nutritional programme, which uses mostly imported standards so that hunger is not a barrier to goods, to a home-grown school meals education. The overall objectives are: (i) the programme, through which all the goods provision (except oil and flour) are locally grown. of quality the to in updating the National School Feeding almost of meals meals Haitian with goal school provided exclusively food services; (ii) supporting the local economy and local food production; (iii) the development of good governance mechanisms; and (iv) participatory local supports procurement this objective and and is j In February 2025, WFP also supported the government in signing the National management and community ownership. Commitment Declaration of the School Meals Due to a spike in armed group violence since 2022. Coalition (SMC), after joining the coalition in March 2024, schools in the Port-au-Prince area had to close intermittently, and of the current March 2025 5 Through home-grown school meals, WFP supports (i) Finally, WFP provides training on responding to the Haitian economy through local purchases; (ii) the calls for tenders, negotiation, and contracting to diversification of schoolchildren’s diet; and (iii) local improve access to markets (please see the farming by strengthening smallholder farmers’ access factsheet to markets. Smallholder Farmers for more information). In recent years, the coverage of traditional school Additionally, schools are used as a platform to meals provided by WFP has decreased nationwide, improve gender norms to promote the equality of making grown women and men as well as girls and boys. Other Procurement Program for School Meals”, which rose complementary activities include literacy training, from 28% of schools in the 2021-2022 school year to guidance on water, sanitation, and hygiene 54% in 2023-2024. As a result, the target set for the practices, the establishment of hand-washing 2024-2025 school year aims to reach 70% of school stations, and the construction and rehabilitation of meals based on local procurement, and WFP is in latrines in the Grand’Anse, Nord, and Nord-Est line with this target, with 364,320 school children departments. way for the “Locally benefitting from the home-grown school meals so on Support Access to Market for far. For the school year 2024-2025, WFP started to offer WFP works with over 247 OPAs (Organisations de preparing the meals of school children, with 475 Producteurs Agricoles) and their 23,500 members in 9 HTG per day (USD 3.6). Cooks being in their vast departments to source food from smallholder majority women, WFP aims to fight negative farmers. In 2024, 5,567 MT of local products were stereotypes about women with this initiative. WFP procured, worth USD 10.4 million (4,554 MT for will also provide them with training on good home-grown school feeding, 1,013 MT for traditional hygiene practice as well as nutrition, so that they school feeding). For the 2024-2025 school year, WFP can apply them in their daily work. financial compensation to around 4,000 cooks aims to source a total of 9,700 MT of local 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. March 2025 6 Support Access to Market for Smallholder Farmers WFP’s Smallholder Agricultural Market Support To improve supply chain efficiency and production (SAMS) programme aims to strengthen local food capacity, WFP has conducted technical training on systems, agricultural good access management, enhance development, and sustainable expand market for literacy for OPAs members. In 2024, WFP also provided more than aggregation, 2,000 pieces of equipment (pallets, processing units processing, and organizational capacities of local etc) and small transport trucks to enhance storage, producers’ associations (OPAs), SAMS fosters resilient quality and inclusive value chains that generate economic Additionally, 24 agricultural infrastructures, including opportunities for agricultural communities. aggregation By strategically reinforcing linking buyers, Haitian including producers school to meal programmes, SAMS contributes to food security, building, SAMS aligns mill structures, and school meal supply chains, WFP, in infrastructure coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, is inclusion, and investing in key agricultural value chains to enhance with the capacity- Ministry of smallholder farmers with the tools to increase enhance centers, capacity. Through Agriculture’s rural development priorities, equipping production, transformation meals and emergency food procurement. local financial and supply chain operations for home-grown school Beyond economies. control, warehouses, were established to strengthen local reduced reliance on external markets, and stronger development, commercialization, and market resilience, increase local food production, and strengthen food security. In the Centre department, WFP has developed a withstand climate-related shocks. cassava value chain strategy in collaboration with In 2024, WFP purchased 7,111 MT of food worth USD multiplication plots, improve post-harvest processing 14.4 million directly from smallholder farmers for its facilities, and integrate cassava-based products into school meals a school meal programmes. This initiative enhances significant increase from 4,340 MT (USD 8.4 million) productivity, reduces post-harvest losses, improves in 2023. These purchases were made through 247 transformation technologies, and expands market OPAs opportunities in some of Haiti’s driest areas. across and emergency local actors and launched a project to establish operations, every department except one (Ouest), facilitating sustainable market access for March 2025 financial post-harvest empowerment. structured REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI and practices, smallholder farmers, with a strong focus on women’s By In partnership with : agricultural over 30,000 producers, of whom 51% are women. In the Artibonite department, WFP has completed a For the 2024-2025 school year, WFP expanded its and investment priorities for rice, sorghum, and salt. SAMS partnerships to include new OPAs from Nord- The findings will be endorsed by the Ministry of Est, Nord-Ouest, and Sud-Est. To ensure effective Agriculture, integration, an assessment of the technical and among national and development actors. operational needs of these OPAs is underway, value chain analysis identifying major bottlenecks facilitating a coordinated response informing an action plan for 2025. In the Nord-Est department, WFP has partnered with WFP’s local procurement strategy has demonstrated snacks, distributed through school meal and health a multiplier effect. In 2024, approximately 6,630 programmes nationwide. This initiative promotes smallholder farmers were engaged full-time good agricultural practices to reduce aflatoxin through local purchases. This strategy also created contamination in 10 communities, with plans to scale over 1,630 full-time food processing jobs annually, to 10 additional communities in 2025, targeting at boosting employment in agricultural communities. least 75% locally sourced peanuts. MFK to localize peanut production for Vita Mamba 7 Resilience Activities in Haiti Due to Haiti’s high exposure to rapid-onset shocks participants and stressors resulting from natural hazards, as well remuneration in exchange for participating in as socio-political and economic instability, WFP is construction or rehabilitation work conducted working to reinforce the resilience of Haitians through the programme. through asset creation and livelihood programmes. WFP works in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development in alignment with its Agricultural Development Plan. Throughout who receive the conditional design, delivery, cash and documentation for the scale-up of its resilience programming, WFP adopts the Three-Pronged approach to guarantee that programmes are planned to bring together various actors through The asset creation and livelihood programme aim to a participatory process and respond to local support communities in some of the most needs, thereby boosting community ownership vulnerable areas of Haiti by mitigating, adapting, and acceptance of climate adaptation and risk and recovering from seasonal shocks and recurring management measures. hazards, while also working to improve their longterm food security, livelihoods, and community resilience. WFP delivers complementary activities in the same areas, prioritizing a gender and nutritionsensitive approach with a social behavioral WFP’s approach includes creating community assets in five main areas, and in 2024 WFP achieved the following: • services, including the rehabilitation of over communication change lens. 31 kilometers of roads. In 2024, 19,970 people participated in WFP’s rehabilitation projects and received USD 4.8 • people in total). community-led soil and water • Soil conservation, including planting over 50,000 trees to reduce erosion risk. conservation activities, and providing comprehensive support to Facilitating access to water, which includes points. and environmental-related solutions, reinforcing through for and installing infrastructure at 19 water the local ecosystem through disaster risk reduction livestock production, constructing rainwater harvesting systems WFP invests in three main pillars: strengthening and agricultural of irrigation channels. • agriculture Boosting example, by rehabilitating over 16 kilometers million benefitting them and their families (99,850 local Improving access to markets and basic • Preventing lowland flooding, achieved actors throughout the food value chain, including through the installation of dry stone walls in agricultural inputs, livestock, and technical and hillside ravines. financial assistance. In partnership with : WFP’s resilience projects enable access to basic social services, stimulate market dynamics, and contribute to conflict reduction through the rehabilitation of rural roads, installation of potable water abstraction solutions such as points, and shock-related micro-insurance. Resilience activities also provide a source of income for March 2025 Remote Monitoring from space (AIMS) confirmed that 90% of the 35 assets analysed are still visible and maintained (some since 2018). An in depth analysis showed that 23 out of 35 assets were found to have significant improvements in vegetation condition, and 9 were maintained. Only three assets deteriorated in this period. 8 Climate Action in Haiti Amongst the world's most vulnerable countries to Action Plan (AAP), which enables WFP to assist up to the impacts of climate change and environmental 600,000 beneficiaries with anticipatory cash degradation, Haiti is the third most impacted transfer and early warning messages ahead of country in the world by extreme weather events, cyclones or heavy rainfall to mitigate their impact on such as hurricanes, tropical storms, and droughts, vulnerable populations. WFP Haiti is collaborating between 2000 - 2019. Around 96 percent of Haitians with live under the threat of at least two of these risks organizations to monitor these forecasts and according to the World Bank. Climate change implement the approved activities if activation adversely impacts lives and livelihoods, increases occurs. competition for resources, and exacerbates drivers of insecurity. At the same time, existing insecurity limits the capacity of the country and its people to adapt and respond to climate change, magnifying its and international WFP continues its close collaboration with the General Directorate of Civil Protection to disseminate early warnings and alerts in case of extreme weather events, and is expanding its WFP developed a Climate Action Strategy in line disasters through the integration of Anticipatory with its Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028. The Action within the shock-responsive social protection strategy embeds climate action as a cross-cutting framework. dimension throughout all of WFP operations in Haiti programme not only to react but also to act ahead to support vulnerable communities and food to protect development gains. with the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development, and Ministry of Economy and Finance. Its Climate Action Strategy is aligned with the National Adaptation Plan, National Climate Change Policy, and Agricultural Development Policy. 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 operational capacity to act ahead of climate This will allow social protection 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 forecasts. Trained staff of the Departmental Directorate of Agriculture and cooperating partners change the lives of 2 million people over 5 years. replicated the training with 3,500 farmers, members WFP prepared for an expected very active cyclone school feeding programme in the Grand'Anse, Nord season, and building on the success of 2023, the country office approved the 2024-2025 Anticipatory March 2025 partners impact, especially on the most vulnerable people. systems. WFP’s climate action work is coordinated In partnership with : national of the associations that supply the home-grown and Sud departments. 9 Micro-Insurance Activities in Haiti In October 2022, WFP Haiti, in partnership with The objectives of risk financing actions in Haiti the local insurer Alternative Insurance Company are to: (i) design micro-insurance products that (AIC), technical service provider Weather Risk are integrated into resilience-building strategies Management and promoting productivity and securing livelihoods international reinsurance company Scor Re, that are easily scalable; (ii) creating better entry launched micro-insurance points to introduce insurance components that covering productive activities of smallholder can be integrated with other financial services and farmers. This programme provides protection tools (formal and informal); (iii) guarantee scale against two major climate risks: excess rainfall through a smart subsidy approach, aggregation and rainfall deficit. and distribution schemes; (iv) complement other Solutions an (WRMS), index-based WFP Haiti interventions aimed at reinforcing In total, 8,397 households (41,985 people) in smallholder farmers’ capacities, and livelihood Grand’Anse, South and Nippes and social protection programmes. were insured during the 2024 cycle for cropping and hurricane seasons. Based on feedback from The coverage aims to improve the climate beneficiaries in Artibonite, WFP suspended the resilience of micro-insurance coverage and with its partners cropping activity decided The mechanism on one hand and reinforce the households enrolled in the micro-insurance livelihood of social protection beneficiaries on programme people) the other. It allows participants to protect their resilience asset-creation activities beneficiaries productive investments, and better reduce their in the South, 1,200 households (6,000 people) vulnerability to risks such as excess rain and rain benefiting in deficit while understanding and adopting the use protection of new and well-designed financial risk transfer to re-design include from product. 1,050 the Grand’Anse (please the (5,250 ASPIRE see project social factsheet), while the remaining are members of mechanisms organized larger networks and federation of communities. agricultural cooperatives of farmer households through within their a and risk their transfer households and smallholder To help build farmers’ adaptive capacity and farmers. reduce their exposure to climate-related risks In partnerships with : In 2024, over 375,000 USD in claims pay-out in the Grand’Anse and Nippes, the selected was registered following both excess rainfall cooperatives and rain deficit events in all three covered agricultural insurance participants with technical departments. The payments assistance and knowledge, risk mitigation, and represent 32% for financial a microinsurance March 2025 indemnity claims project. ratio 6,900 this and education organisations training. In provide the South households department, support includes the implementation (34,820 people) have received at least one of environmental protection activities, through micro insurance payout in 2024. asset creation and rehabilitation. 10 Nutrition Activities in Haiti WFP is committed to addressing the ongoing cover at least 40% of the daily required energy and malnutrition crisis in Haiti, highlighted by the stagnant nutrients. Through the LENDI project, a SBCC program rate of acute malnutrition at 7.2 percent, as operational in 50 schools in Artibonite and involving reported in the 2023 SMART survey. In some 7,500 students, their parents, and the community, municipalities, malnutrition rates range from 20 to 30 WFP promotes good hygiene, nutrition, and gender percent. The IPC Acute Malnutrition assessment equality. These interventions are part of the WFP- projects that nearly 277,000 children aged 6 to 59 UNICEF Joint Plan, supporting the Ministry of Health months will be affected between December 2023 and and Population to comprehensively address the November 2024, with 125,000 children suffering from nutrition crisis in Haiti. severe acute malnutrition. In response, WFP has been integrating nutrition-sensitive approaches into its broader humanitarian efforts. social factsheet) implemented in young children have been distributed in internally nutrition, health, and hygiene SBCC strategy. This displaced people’s (IDP) sites. An emergency Blanket strategy engaged PBWG and caregivers of children Supplementary Feeding Programme has also been under 5 in community-based activities, including over launched in malnutrition hot spots, including IDP sites 35,900 home visits, 890 community gatherings and within the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. This 32,427 parents club participatory training. One of the programme provides specialized nutritious foods, safety net integrated cash transfers for preventive nutrition counseling, screening, and referral services health and nutrition activities benefited 1,783 through mobile clinics supported by UNICEF and IOM, households with children aged 6-24 months and ensuring malnutrition management and primary PBWG through soft conditionality measures related to healthcare support. In 2024, 3,040 children were health and nutrition. and 21.5 metric tons of specialized Across these activities, Community Health Workers distributed, including 14.9 mt for 2,030 IDPs. also screened 85,821 children aged 6-59 months and To enhance food security and prevent malnutrition They also raised awareness among 206,031 people, among pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBWG) including pregnant and breastfeeding women, about and children aged 6-23 months, WFP launched a nutrition, infant feeding (ANJE) and nutrition- and specific top-up value to general food assistance in hygiene-related diseases such as cholera and typhoid. referred 8,786 of them for malnutrition treatment. areas hosting populations categorized as facing emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC4+), reaching 17,109 vulnerable households (including 10,091 IDP households) in 2024. 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 March 2025 protection partnership with the government, also include a formulated food to prevent acute malnutrition were REPUBLIQUE D'HAÏTI safety net programmes (please read more in the In 2024, 261,000 meals adapted for infants and reached In partnership with : The social protection programme ASPIRE, and other 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 the national protocol for with the Ministry of Health and its partners. preventing and treating acute malnutrition in WFP is further integrating nutrition in its school- aligning with the global action plan on child wasting based programmes, ensuring that school meals and the new WHO guidelines. collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and other partners, 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. A total of 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. The contingency stock was used to respond 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 2024 over 9,009 MT have been distributed to households for emergency support in 2024, using a mix of In partnership with : contingency and regular stock. To distribute the emergency rations, WFP as its 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 in three of its warehouses across the country, in Port-auPrince and Northern and Southern areas. 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. 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 respond to the latest security crisis of March -June 2024, as WFP quickly expanded its port and logistics operations in Cap Haitian. utilizes its commercial transporters and often its WFP self-managed fleet of trucks March 2025 12 Supply Chain and Logistics in Haiti Supply Chain and Logistics capacities are key to be used by partners. In response to the worsening delivering WFP’s humanitarian assistance in the security situation early this year, WFP expanded its fastest, most efficient, and cost-effective way port and logsitics operations in Cap Haitien, by possible. WFP’s humanitarian logistics coordination expanding its storage space with an additional and and 2,500 mt capacity, additional surge logistics staff development organizations in the country are also service support to humanitarian and by facilitating the port operations. WFP also essential. This role is realized through (i) the Logistics has 6,170 mt of mobile storage capacities and Sector coordination which is co-led by the Directorate various equipment, such as its trucks, ready to be for Civil Protection (DGPC) and WFP; (ii) on-demand deployed in case of emergency. logistics services; and (iii) preparedness capacity strengthening for the national disaster risk management system. In Haiti, WFP has 25 trucks, and access to a maritime supply solution to power its operations, as well as support emphasizing storing ample prepositioned stocks at the humanitarian community, including other UN strategic locations, diversifying transport methods, agencies, NGOs, and government entities through on- enhancing demand service provision. provider and increasing local procurement from were received from 23 partners, including the provisions of storage space, transport services, and fuel. Through fuel provision, WFP distributed 155,000 liters to 13 partners. Additionally, in total 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. In 2024, 19 partners have used the maritime service, allowing the passage of over 1,400 mt of commodities in 21 maritime voyages to the south chain adopted engagement an with agile strategy, logistics service 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. and north of Haiti. This represents the first recent use To address the impacts of the partial closure of the of this maritime service to the northern area of the country, WFP resumed in February 2025 the country to support the humanitarian community, due humanitarian cargo flights from Panama to Haiti to the worsening security along the routes in that to allow for uninterrupted aid delivery, carrying 21 region. mt of medicines, vaccines, and medical supplies for WFP has 4 warehouses in Port-au-Prince, Cap Haitian, and the hurricane proof Miragoane warehouse which covers the southern peninsula, totaling 22,500 mt storage capacity, which can also March 2025 operations and last-mile distribution, especially during and after the March-June crisis, WFP’s In 2024, over 55 requests for on-demand services In partnership with : To tackle the security challenges impacting port eight humanitarian organizations in its first flight. WFP also continued its capacity-building work with the DPGC on hub rehabilitation and other preparedness projects. 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 1,450 (UNHAS) supports the humanitarian and Number of passengers 16,146 11,490 development community to reach and assist the most vulnerable populations in remote Partners supported 140 157 areas, in addition to providing evacuations Cargo (kg) 128,983 52,980 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 crises of March-June 2024 and since November, 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 immediate support to vulnerable populations who are facing difficulties in accessing their livelihoods or get vital supplies. UNHAS also implemented the partial cost modality for all partners in 2023. recovery Following the March-June and November security crises, several key UNHAS strategies implemented 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 UNHAS' response capacity. The aircrafts were temporarily relocated to Cap-Haitian as their base in March, with flights established to the Dominican Republic (Barahona and La Isabela) and Providenciales. After being returned to Port-au-Prince in May, the fleet was moved November back to Cap following Haitian armed in groups shooting of 3 commercial airplanes above the Haitian capital. 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. March 2025 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 March 2025 Raphaël Guévin-Nicoloff, Head of External Relations and Reporting, WFP Haiti raphael.guevinnicoloff@wfp.org Further information: Haiti | World Food Programme (wfp.org) 15