WFP VAM Market Monitoring, December 2024: Haiti

This WFP VAM Market Monitoring bulletin covers November 2024. At the national level the average cost of the food basket rose only slightly, by 5 gourdes to 26,390 gourdes, but in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area it climbed 6 percent to 27,842 gourdes as a security crisis fueled by widespread unrest in certain sectors severely disrupted market operations. Following the change of government, waves of violence significantly disrupted markets, and nearly 80 percent of households in the metropolitan area faced periods when access to markets was restricted due to security concerns.

Nearly half the departments recorded price increases: 11 percent in Centre, 5 percent each in South-East and Artibonite, and 2 percent in North-West, while South (-3%), Nippes (-2%), and North and Grand'Anse (-1% each) saw decreases. Sugar (+4%) and vegetable oil (+1%) prices rose, primarily in the Western, South-East and Artibonite departments, and beans were frequently reported as scarce despite stable prices, especially in Grand'Anse and the South-East. The survey drew on face-to-face interviews with 502 traders across 58 markets in all ten departments, following the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative methodology used by the Cash Transfer Working Group (GTTM).